My son just sent me the following meme:
The owner of the National Enquirer plans to testify against Trump.
The ultimate irony: Donald Trump might be taken down by actual fake news.
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Here's how you copy an image off the intertubes to DU:
1. right click on the image
2. select "properties" at the bottom of that pop-up menu
3. copy the address (URL)
4. paste that into the message text box.
like so:
here's what that looks like before you post it (with an extra space to break the link):
https://media2.fdncms.com/stranger/imager/u/original/37055685/1544727796-visesia_fakatoufifita_and_fath_young_as_annie_and_timothy_mc. jpg
BTW, the phrase “get off my lawn” is a meme, with or without the internet. Richard Dawkins proposed the term “meme” in reference to the Greek word for memory (memesis). It was discussed as a broad biological process, not an internet thing (which at the time was barely a few experimental research labs phoning each other up on modems). The term “meme” first appeared in his book The Selfish Gene in 1976.
Dawkins also gave some credit to Darwin who first proposed the possibility of cultural evolution in The Origin of Species.
that was more of a Tweet.
Meme:
Why should we limit the comprehension of the masses? It just gives corporations and their think tanks the upper hand.
So maybe consider DU a thinktank for the masses. Please help educate people. Here’s how understanding memes can help everybody:
A meme can be passed along by any medium, from the web to radio to television to word-of-mouth to entire social rituals. Practicing the art (and repeating it) of union meetings, or neighborhood park clean up, or judging cases based on the US Constitution, or even community barbecues, embodies a memeplex (or meme complex) which passes the memes of a people’s culture on to the next generation. We mirror what we experience, especially if it’s pleasurable. The internet is increasingly controlled by corporations (and rogue states like Russia), so we must realize that the resistance, and the maintenance of a democratic society, must rely on deeper, more complex memes like our democratic rituals. It’s not merely an academic concern.
And remember the deplorables? They hate anything that smacks of higher learning – investigative journalism, college degrees, long sentences. We should make higher learning everybody’s business. It’s empowering and it’s emotionally expansive.
Do I hear an Amen*?
*that’s one beautiful meme right there!
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I think tRumps pecker problem is really small. I mean microscopic.
