[Cog]

For those you don't know what frog memes are about. Some years ago 4chan trolls invented frog memes and the word Kek as a way to troll the left into thinking they we're racist. What started out as a joke caused the left to have a meltdown. 4chan did much the same thing with the a-ok hand sign that everyone uses which apparently is now a white power signal. Or so the left has convinced themselves.

All of which goes to show the gullibility of the left and their tendency to grab onto the idea that everything is about race.

When Kavanaugh ' clerk gave the ok sign during his testimony, the left over at democratic underground called her out for signaling white power. Those of us in the know about the history of frog memes and ok hand sign are laughing ourselves to death over it.

[Newfie]

Starting a thread about how we miss communicate through cultural memes or other measures.

Adding a post from another thread to kick it off.

[Cog]

Political memes were a powerful weapon and part of the election in 2016. The concept of using memes to both ridicule the opposition while firing up your base, is very useful. The right actually borrowed the concept of ridicule from leftist Alyinski's rules for radicals.

The point of a picture with text meme is to make a point without getting involved in long drawn out words that no one will read anyway.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', ' ')Some years ago 4chan trolls invented frog memes and the word Kek as a way to troll the left into thinking they we're racist.

[Newfie]

The problem is that you never truly understand how the meme will be interpreted. Like the OK sign or the V for Victory (or the Peace sign) which was widely misunderstood when Nixon used it in the 60’s.

What people frequenly forget is the first two letters in COmunnication. We often municate, we infrequently COmunicate.

[Newfie]

Had to look that up.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '4')chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images. There are boards dedicated to a variety of topics, from Japanese animation and culture to videogames, music, and photography. Users do not need to register an account before participating in the community. Feel free to click on a board below that interests you and jump right in!

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', ' ')Some years ago 4chan trolls invented frog memes and the word Kek as a way to troll the left into thinking they we're racist.

[dissident]

Collectively forgetting the a-ok hand gesture and turning it into some "white power" signal is truly Orwellian. The morons who engage in such PC revisionism are the real threat to democracy and not the "white power" fringe that has been disappearing consistently for the last few decades.

[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a') bunch of autistic trolls who will research you and wreck your life if you somehow offend their sense of justice

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a') bunch of autistic trolls who will research you and wreck your life if you somehow offend their sense of justice

[Cog]

By your definition Ibon, anyone who voted for Trump is a racist. Prove me wrong.

[Newfie]

Where the heck did you read that in what Ibon said?

[Newfie]

Ibon,
I think there is a lot of truth in what you just said. It’s a very hopeful stance.

Hopefully Trump will be something like a emetic, he will induce us to reject the poisons in our system, Left and Right.

Personally, and more so now than at election time, I believe Hillary to have been a very dangerous person to be President. Trump, no matter how bad forestalled that disaster. Perhaps we can, in the aftermath of this national hissy fit, find some room for decorum, discussion, compassion, and empathy.

Just maybe this is a test of your hypothesis that humanity will learn something in the bottle neck and improve thereafter.

[Cog]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'W')here the heck did you read that in what Ibon said?

[Newfie]

Well there is an awful lot in that post, let’s try to deal with just one thing...everyone who voted for a Trump is a racist.

At most he says his BASE consists of angry white voters. Whether or not that is true, and for sake of argument only let’s assume it is, I still don’t think your accusation holds up.

Angry white voters; two adjectives, one noun.
Angy .... about what? Most likely a lot of things. Including Hillaries various manipulations.
White .... means they share a skin tone, not that they are racist. But they voted against a White person as much as they voted for a White person. An argument can be made that the White Trump supporters share something in common that is not race based.

I think you are doing to Ibon what Dohboi tried to do to you. Yes there is a history where we have taken positions. But the point of discussion is to get folks to change positions. They will seldom come out and say “Gee I was totally wrong on xys.” Positions and attitudes morph over time. Allow that to happen and applauds it when it does. The other tactic may feel good, rubbing noses and all that, but it tends to get folks to ossify, to defend an old position that has become tenuous.

Finally, you may be right, why not ask Ibon if that is what he meant? In a way that’s what you did, just in a very confrontational manner.

[Ibon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cog', 'B')y your definition Ibon, anyone who voted for Trump is a racist. Prove me wrong.

[Cog]

I do not break bread with a domestic enemy, who have sworn to destroy the Republic. The issue will get settled with the left one way or the other. Perhaps peacefully by voting them down but with the left's tendency towards violence probably not.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')...angry white voters.....

[mmasters]