I get the vibe “lefty memes” is a misnomer, and an actual progressive like me won’t be accepted here, so I’ve never tried posting anything in here yet - but everywhere else I’ve posted this so far has hated it, so I’m trying here now.
I made this meme because I noticed parallels in how Republicans and Democrats coordinate to block access to guns and vaccines, violating my rights and putting me and my loved ones in senseless danger.
I’m not quite ready to give up on finding a community where people like this meme. I know it’s actually one of my most well-crafted ones yet, no matter what some people say.
Image text (Morpheus meme format, repurposed to represent US uniparty politics, not blindly misused without understanding it as some commenters keep saying)
Red pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about vaccines decide who can get what vaccines
Blue pill:
Let people who pretend to know nothing about guns decide who can get what guns
Red pill:
Let the weapon industry dictate gun policy
Blue pill:
Let big pharma dictate vaccine policy
I get the vibe “lefty memes” is a misnomer, and an actual progressive like me won’t be accepted here
lmao you sound like a dork
Hey now that’s pretty rude, haven’t you considered that its very very hard being The One True Leftist?
Dork, communist, terrorist, conservative, “enlightened centrist”
There are many titles for my kind in a world where people just use words at random with no meaning
yeah ok “actual progressive”. you keep it up and I’m gonna strain my eyes from rolling them so hard lmao
Progressive and communist seem like more meaningful words to describe me with than dork or terrorist, but I welcome them all as long as you’re too busy calling me names to do more “productive” oppression work against me
I get your point and it’s not a bad one, I just believe that despite how well crafted the meme is, people reject it because that’s not how the Matrix reference works at all
I would be pleasantly surprised if, after figuring out a way to remake the same meme from a more fitting template, it found more acceptance
Try it out I suppose, but be aware of the connotations of the templates you use
I just can’t think of a template that would be better for this. Maybe I should just try a template that’s more directly fitting, even if it doesn’t seem “better” to me, in case I’m just reading the situation wrong
it gives enlightened centrist vibe, maybe that’s why
Definitely enlightened but I’d also definitely say I’m extremist, not centrist
if you have to tell people that you’re enlightened, you ain’t
also why have you picked vaccines in particular. maybe you wanted to express something else more clearly? there’s no money in vaccines to such degree that western pharma companies don’t want to research them, and bulk of (non-mRNA) vaccines are made in Serum Institute of India, they make this stuff for half of the world if not more. this thing is cheeaap, and because it’s a preventive one and done you can take it on your own terms, you’re not under time pressure to get it so you can shop around to get it cheaply. you can’t nickel and dime people on vaccines
now if you do want to nickel and dime a patient, you’d need something that they’re gonna need forever and jack up prices or just keep them high from day one, like with antiretrovirals or what purdue pharma did or like with daraprim. and then there’s entirely another very american problem of insurance leech layer. taking a very charitable look at it maybe you want to say a thing about availability of american healthcare in general, less charitably, and more likely, you sound like a libertarian antivaxxer
If you have to tell people you’re enlightened, you ain’t.
Incorrect.
You then spent the rest of the comment building up to calling me an antivaxxer, while you block my access to vaccines.
I’m glad I skimmed your comment instead of reading it, but still, what a waste of time
