I hated Kirk as much as the next Lemmy user but I think he’s right to apologize. He parroted a technically-incorrect statement and the right thing to do is to acknowledge it. The world has become wayyyy too ok with “close enough” and “sounds true” attacks.

As soon as a rumor starts, a meme is “made” with every applicable template. I watched it happen real time in the comments of a now-deleted misinformation post about the Kirk shooting. Those memes are surely still circulating despite being proven false and 99% of people aren’t gonna fact check.

The title really sells it as “video you should not watch under any circumstances”

No one’s got a video of this?

I wish you’d go with a less obnoxious typeface/border for these

Ok I’m not saying he was a leftist but don’t act like it’s at all unlikely for a 22 year old leftist to live in a Mormon town lol

That’s like saying there’s no gay people in the deep south

The Bibi doth protest too much, methinks.

Politicians are still influenced by him but I’m talking about the public…and unfortunately those are two VERY different groups.

The man with a huge smile on his face as he handed Trump the white house has been an ex-politician for a decade and by irrelevant I meant he doesn’t affect public opinion anymore.

Like a corporation tweeting about Pride, it’s meaningless.

Yes, I do.

I’m not saying he should have come out in support of it, I think he should have said nothing. I’m tired of the useless formalities and he is irrelevant now.

I say this as someone who voted for him twice.

Can someone please shoot this meme template in the neck already? The Drake one, too.

Pick a better format that doesn’t feature this piece of shit’s face. Why are we still giving these fuckos any publicity

Lots of other reasons to not like the guy, too. Not that you need any

I can’t fathom anyone reading Obama’s boilerplate bullshit, for example, and having a positive reaction.

The left is going to be neutral or (more likely) angry about it. The right will still hate him so no benefit there either. Who is he tweeting for?

Why say anything at all when we’re all obviously so fuckin tired of words.

They’re absolutely still two different groups. Doesn’t matter if you’re interested in differentiating them lol

And just to be clear, they’re both shitty. But maga republicans are a powerful minority of the party so you’re basically saying that all rectangles are squares

They are definitely two distinct groups. Don’t let the media fool you, there is party division to exploit

If owner doesn’t fix problem they can’t sell.

This is incorrect. A bad inspection doesn’t prevent the sale, it’s to negotiate if issues are found.

I walked away from a purchase because it needed $40k in structural repairs…but the house I bought bad a few thousand in issues. Seller fixed some and I got a closing credit for others. Some stuff I just let go

“Meme culture” specifically made the Internet a worse place, the memes are just the weapon.

Meme communities aren’t about sharing memes, they’re just a numbers game. They all have the same unoriginal content but they’re in a race to have the most of it.

This encourages people to “make” more memes using the same template. The same joke over and over and over. Like if a tv show gets a cute character you will see the same 5 meme templates about it every single time.

Meme culture rewards repetition, not originality. It rewards spamming crappy edits of someone else’s joke to as many sites as possible. It fills the Internet with garbage, pushing away anything worth looking at. Memes are effectively Internet cancer

There’s no such thing as good billionaire but Pritzker has been a pretty solid governor and he openly hated trump before he got into politics. He’s one of the best governors in the country

Subreddits with strict rules were the best. Tight posting and commenting guidelines allowed them to avoid the homogenization that took over every major sub.

Memes have truly ruined the internet

good sketch on the subject