PhilipTheBucket

Literally unreadable

More memes made or reposted by this guy:

Sure. Want to make one that has this level of polish, to demonstrate how easy it is? The subject matter can be how PhilipTheBucket is a big dummy.

when using the German word in an English language context it refers to the SS version specifically

I mean, not really. From the Wikipedia article:

In English, the term Totenkopf is commonly associated with 19th- and 20th-century German military use, particularly in Nazi Germany.

So yes, it means the Nazi one and also those other ones. (Inb4 we have an extended pointless argument about the meaning of the word "particularly.") In any case, regardless, BIAB was implying that there was no history of it outside of Naziism.

Thanks, this is interesting. Also, holy shit...

https://xcancel.com/orange_wink2/status/1982562697876221992#m

Person: Refuses to join the IDF and goes to jail

This guy: YEAH WHAT A FUCKIN ZIONIST TOOL FUCK THAT GUY

I didn't think it was possible to get worse than shitting on Bernie thinking he is pro-Israel, but apparently it is. This fuckin' guy should be studied.

I mean, IDK if it was great expense, but I do think it was done by either someone who decided to make this one fairly dumb point into a true labor of love to make the most polished meme I've seen all year for it (unlikely), or by someone who does a ton of graphic design (whether for memes or no) to the point that making stuff that looks polished like this isn't a big deal for them. The second seems more likely, although I guess who knows.

I am really curious where it came from. Tineye returns 0 results.

So the thing that brought me back to this to post it is this: Look at the production value on this meme. Speech bubbles drawn with a tablet, partial transparency, professional font but well-chosen so that it can be clear and readable but still condensed to take up minimal space. Look at the composition. Someone sat down with a tablet and made this up, and this wasn't their first time doing graphic design.

@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml Where did you find this meme? I am curious now

Edit: Also. You know what isn't professional about it? The English grammar. "Remind me" and "oriental" aren't phrasings that I think a native speaker would choose. Why is that part sloppy, when everything else is incredibly painstakingly polished? "Oriental" could maybe be a deliberately weird / wrong word choice as an offbeat joke, I guess, but why "remind me" instead of "reminds me" which is clearly what was intended?

I mean, they are very bad people. Like almost all of them.

A friend of a friend of mine worked in government (for a Democrat as it turns out), and she said that they're way worse than you think. Just on a personal level these horrifying caricatures of what a human should be, makes you want to take a shower after interacting with them type of thing. I don't think it's universally that way; I do think there are some people in Washington who are trying to do the right thing, but I cannot imagine that you can exist in an environment that corrupt and not have it do some level of damage to you (and drive away the people who are not cool with that level of evil). And the people who are comfortable successful creatures within that environment I think are pretty universally bad.

There is also this upsetting factor that I think a lot of the American voting populace are fine with that. Like I feel like if you tried to primary DWS by painting her as the objective monster that she is and what she did to the country, people would be fine with it and you'd go down in flames. Maybe things are changing now as the young progressives furious about their situation are getting involved in politics, but I think all of the old guard is unapologetically horrible and that's not likely to change for as long as they are the old guard.

Hey, that reminds me: Once we survive the current crisis and move the Democrats somewhere in the vicinity of a left-wing party or replace them, let's primary the fuck out of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I'm sort of irritated that she still has a job.

So I've said this before, and this is actually a perfect example: The tell for these people is how lazy the argument is.

This dude doesn't actually believe that this Reddit discussion about Punisher skulls under this particular picture is proof that Platner knew he had a Nazi tattoo. He doesn't even seem to be trying very hard to make you believe it. He's just... kind of "marking time," it seems like. Making words go together in the vague shape of an argument, with a lot of confident aggressive energy and leading to the conclusion that puts "Platner" and "Nazi" vaguely into the same landscape, and then moving on.

I have talked with people before who I disagree with (obviously) and even on Lemmy some people who I really strongly disagree with. Usually it's fine, we just talk. But the particular bizarro-world conversational flow of something like this exchange is very unique to a particular type of Lemmy interaction, and it always comes in conjunction with some very specific political messaging.

It was just the sheer fucking balls of the bland "That doesn't really answer my question" response lol

For other audiences, they are claiming that his Reddit comments expose him as a secret communist.

It's exactly the same as Kamala Harris. To some audiences, she was a corporate tool who was going to sell us out to big business and make immigration worse because she loved ICE. To other audiences, she was a horrible communist who was going to kill business in America with her communism and believed in open borders. And they both bought it.

Fortunately, if Lemmy is any indication I think this kind of stuff is becoming less effective. One of the problems about Platner is that unlike Kamala Harris, he actually seems like he has genuine very good sincere things to say about what he wants to do, which makes a lot of this stuff kind of fall at the first hurdle. Hopefully.

I mean they've still got time to refine the strategy for a while, I'm sure they'll keep workshopping it.