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  • Wanted to look up the account and see for myself and apparently he’s parodying NFT bros. A bit disappointed…

    On March 29th, 2024, following the post’s virality, Twitter user @AdamBumas[6] was among many who reported that @vydamos’ post was not sincere and that he was poking fun at other NFT holders who were expressing anger at the plummeting value of their apes at the time.

    Who knew I’d find breaking news on Know Your Meme




  • DashboTreeFrog@discuss.onlinetoMemes@lemmy.mlYeee yee
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    4 months ago

    I might be wrong but I always associated hippies with left-leaning, liberal politics. And I’m not sure where the association between the left and the anti-vax movement came from but I know it was a thing that was frequently made fun of. I even remember catching a Simpson’s episode where they went somewhere and commented on how progressive/liberal it was (forget the specific word), then Marge asked a random woman if she vaccinated her kids and she responded “of course” then Marge said “and not TOO liberal”.

    Now that I think about it, maybe the political association of the original anti-vax movement was manufactured?


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    4 months ago

    The original anti-vax movement was always weird to me, the issue screams “muh freedums” so I always found it strange that it came from the left. I guess it goes into the same box as all the hippy dippy wellness stuff, which does have some things like meditation that turn out to have real benefits, but there are just some people who take to all that really strongly without evidence.

    Anti-intellectualism I always considered a right leaning thing, like, you always hear republicans saying universities are tools of left-wing indoctrination and not the other way around? But I suppose hippies had that “don’t trust the man” thing going on.

    Are hippies how people’s idea of the far left formed? My understanding is the whole hippy movement, while memorable, was quite short lived?


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    4 months ago

    This makes a lot of sense to me, the US has a good long history of being anti-communist so anything moving close to that has been villanized to the point that any kind of socialist idea faces push back and true leftist views go under-represented. It does feel like the overall movement in the US has been to the right though, but that could be my own recency bias.


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    4 months ago

    So communism so hard it swings back around into fascism, yeah, I suppose that would be “far-left”. This may be my own limited experience talking though but I don’t think that’s a popular world view? Especially not in the US from what I can tell. I know there’s a lot of talk of “tankies” on Lemmy (still not 100% sure I understand what a tanky is), but I have yet to actually have a conversation with a legitimate one IRL or online. Far-right extremists on the other hand you can run into multiple times a day, so I know which side I have more concerns about.