Over here telegram is mostly used by drug dealers and deplorables.

Furries keep the Internet running. Anger them at your peril.

I’m sorry that was a bit glib of me, allow me to elaborate.

I’m of the opinion that basically any version of this meme that is not misogynistic would not be recognized as a meme by a modern audience.

First of all, the meme does not exist in isolation, it remixes images, ideas, esthetics already in the meme ecosystem. The bare-chested black and white image is a clear callback to the chad and old school cool archetypes, both quintessentially masculine. In fact, I’m not sure there is an image that you could present to modern meme audiences that stars a women and would immediately say “uncompromising cool artist - gender neutral”. That is in and of itself in indicator or pervasive misogyny, but that’s not surprising because the misogyny is often overt.

Which is my second point. The “black and white bare chested man cool, women and twinks and gender-nonconforming people not cool” is not an accident of the image choice, it’s a feature. A lot of standard meme templates are just vectors to enforce the norms of patriarchy by shitting on “soy boys” and “simps” and other men deemed unworthy. The misogyny is baked into the format.

The third issue is that nostalgia memes are inherently misogynistic, even by meme standards. They aspire to RETVRN to the (often imagined) good old days when men were men and horses were horses and patriarchs traded women among themselves like cattle.

The medium is a message, and this medium really fights you when you try to transmit the gender neutral version of this message.

That said, I’d love to see a version of this meme with Bikini Kill as the top picture and commercial manly men losers as the bottom row. I just don’t think meme audiences would get it.

Is it?

Thinly veiled misogyny has entered the chat.

Yeah, that’s the main problem with matrix. Not that all clients are dumpster fire UX built to scare off normies.

he is immune from some of his actions of his job function when acting within the purview of his official function.

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WHAT ACTIONS? WHAT ACTIONS MOTHERFUCKER?

My good friends Xenon and Samarium.

SMRs are DOA. They have been “the next big thing” for decades now. They need to shit or get off the pot.

DARVO

You have a higher chance of getting killed by bees or lightning than dying from a “mass shooting”.

I’m glad you cleared your self-imposed goal posts.

EDIT: oh no! You didn’t! You were lying and hoping no one would notice! Nice job.

Most gun violence is gang related.

Sorry, couldn’t hear you over the sound of your dog whistle.

It’s not the guns

It’s the guns.

I didn’t realize you spoke for all the idiots.

Makes sense.

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You got us. We’re pushing the nefarious narrative of *checks notes* helping you idiots not get shot.

It would seriously stretch the meaning of the word “simultaneously”, but yeah, sure.

Actual degrees or American fantasy units?

He works really really hard ;)

I’m almost 50 years old and I’ve never used a check in my entire life.

What is this old timey bullshit? Why not a burlap sack of fucking pieces of eight?