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[–] [email protected] 224 points 3 months ago (27 children)

omfg PLEASE let harris walz memes take off the way obama biden memes did

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Return to 2012: Obama Memes Edition.

Seriously, I really want to see that happen.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hetro-sectional had me in stitches and I shat myself violently when I got to Vladimir Futon.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

vladimir futon ^its such a weak joke and yet its also sensational fourth wall breaking surrealist avant garde humour colour me impressed^

[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 months ago

Vladimir Futon legit cracked me up.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Cmon guys, we can say 'fuck' on the internet!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

So yeah this used to drive me to the wall until I learned it's to bypass tiktok front page algorithms. It's a subversive use of self censorship to get the same message out.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yikes, I don't want no tiktok habits spilling into Lemmy.

Please, please don't

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Vladimir Futon is quite well done.

I'm still snickering at it. It's so many levels in one name

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I think I like "hetero-sectional" better.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'm a huge fan of the original joke, but I actually feel like this is misinformation that could be bad for the campaign and I'm happy to respectfully discuss why I feel that way.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"Misinformation" come on now, do you really think people are gonna see this and think that's an actual conversation?

It's an obvious meme, you can let your hair down and just enjoy it!

Same vibes:

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I know I seem like a massive stick in the mud but consider that there are people in this very thread struggling with what was really said and what wasn't. I fucking love the jokes and I love batting them among us but this image where it implies he's actually doing these more overt crass things is exactly the sort of image I'd expect my MAGA dad to share as proof of how satanic Walz is.

The stakes are high and memes are a big part of this election, moreso than in 2016 or 2020, and I know how fucking onlinechan that sounds but it's true, in a very mainstream way.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

If it wasn't this picture, your dad would find something entirely made up AND unfunny to share instead. It was never intended to change his mind and the odds are it wouldn't whether or not memes like this existed.

This is meant to get people who ARE reachable energized to vote through humor. And it's obviously working. The malaise everyone had with Biden has become hope!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I am not an American but I sure hope as hell he did say that stuff because it's hilarious (obviously I don't think this conversation actually happened but at least a politician who says "Vladimir Futon" feels more like a politician I can trust)

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think he's talking about how JD Vance (probably) didn't actually make sweet sweet love to his couch, enjoy its supple leather curves, or moan as the couch rattled.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I need memory erasing drugs, that CIA-grade shit please.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago

I agree, a subtle reference like he did was funny but they should leave it at that, there's more than enough substantial stuff to run on.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm on board with you. It can seem easy to stoop to their level but disinformation tactics are harmful in the long term no matter who is using them.

I'd rather talk about what a peice of shit he is than about something outright false and easily disproven.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Nobody is stopping you from doing so.

But remember to enjoy the lulz. I don't think the couch meme in its own hurts the man ... Everyone understands that the Internet goes wild with stuff. It's his policies that make him dodgy as hell, but sometimes we gotta stop and appreciate the spectacle of it all.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Kamalamania is about to run wild on ya, brother!

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This dude is the guy everyone pretended Bernie was. I still love Bernie and am glad for his politics but Walz has a kind of dad charisma you can't replicate

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

??? Maybe Bernie’s supporters cared about his policies more than his lack of dad charisma lmao

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

He mobilized the national guard against protesters. I still like him, but Bernie is better. Bernie is too old now though. We fucked up and don't deserve him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Mobilizing the national guard against protestors is a really strong way to put him only sending the guard after buildings had burned down, looting had occurred, and the Mayor requested it.

Here's a quote from Walz at the time.

As Governor, I will always defend the right to protest. It is how we express pain, process tragedy, and create change. That is why I'm answering our local leaders' request for Minnesota National Guard to protect the peaceful demonstrators, neighbors, and small businesses in Minnesota.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

this is the perfect response to protests where a handful are violent and destructive. not spraying crowds with pepper spray so Trump can hold a bible upside-down for a photo.

Right wingers always pretend like left wingers want violence to occur at protests. Lock up the people who commit crimes, leave everyone else alone

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Dude's the perfect attack dog. Love it!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

quality Dem presidential race meme, it was been a while

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Wait, did he actually say all that? 😂

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For you and anyone else who missed it:

"And I gotta tell ya; I can't wait to debate this guy," Walz continued, before pausing for dramatic effect. "That's if he's willing to get off the couch and show up. "See what I did there?"

The crowd was roaring. I'm not sure if he really paused for dramatic effect. They wouldn't have heard him if he had said it right away. But either way, it was very funny.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It looked to me like he paused for dramatic effect, and then had to keep paused because the crowd took it as a "cheer moment".

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

He made a couch joke. It wasn't explicit, though.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Good job. You made this joke funny.

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