I made this instead of doing homework.
You will sit on that payload Hana!! and you will enjoy it!! 😤
I just love drawing D.Va and 76 being cute :3
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If I were fictional, what kind of Discourse would I cause?
Ask meme!
…on the other hand, aren’t I kind of riding the line between fictional and real already?
Pictured: Tumblr user @argumate and an unknown species of flying creature that KEEPS DYING REPEATEDLY. SERIOUSLY WOULD SOMEONE AT LEAST THINK ABOUT PROTECTING THE HEALER FOR ONC-
discourse has stirred up re: the latest overwatch patch
OH MY GOD aaahahahaha
aaaaaaa expats were a mistake
aaaaaaa expats were a mistake
The only mainland Chinese guy I know certainly thinks so, what with them not contributing to the national redevelopment.
But setting that aside…
Does this mean Junkmei is confirmed?
Time Criminal Ask Meme
Red: Who is the most exciting person you’ve met in an alternate timeline?
Orange: What is your stance on time paradox duplicates?
Yellow: What is your opinion on the North American Union vs the Union of American States?
Green: Which China is the best China?
Blue: Least favorite alternate-timeline country?
Indigo: Most favorite alternate-timeline country?
Violet: What is the strangest fashion in <year>?
Ultraviolet: <write own question - para-symmetric questions only>
Memetic Immune Systems
To expand on that jargon-post…
We can model ideas and ideologies as existing in an environment of evolution, much like creatures (not a new idea - this is the basis of meme theory AFAIK).
In so doing, we can model them as having various components that suit different purposes, like viruses. Metaphorically.
There may be parts evolved to cause people to adopt the idea, parts to cause people to spread the idea, parts to prevent people from giving up on the idea, and so on.
If a human wants to stay aligned with the truth, they need to process and filter out harmful or dangerous idea complexes, because like viruses in nature, the only hard rules that prevent them from being too dangerous is that they don’t kill their hosts too quickly to spread.
And so humans reason about ideas, and have intuitions about bad ideas, and have various layers of defenses to protect themselves from bad ideas.
Now, if you’re making idea and don’t care that much about truth or whatever but want it to spread, what could you do to increase its chances of replication?
- Demand that it not be scrutinized (so more of it gets through and it isn’t rejected)
- Demand that it must be followed and copied EXACTLY (so more of it gets through)
- Demand to punish anyone that gives up on it
- Demand to punish anyone who doesn’t adopt it
Etc.
So, in the discussion of Bad Social Justice rhetoric, we sometimes see something come up about standpoint theory (or whatever the formal name is), the idea being that privileged people such as whites, men, white gay men, etc, cannot truly know the experiences of oppressed groups.
They must “sit down and listen”, to use the vocabulary.
Criticism of the ideology is then rejected (on the grounds that they cannot ever truly have the proper knowledge). The full content must be accepted, acted upon, and spread. No stopping to consider whether it’s healthy or safe or anything else.
The problem is that, like a rootkit that gets direct access to the core of a computer system, this leaves a giant, exploitable hole.
This is not the only group, ideology, or movement to do or have done this.
It’s way more common than it should be.
The sad part is, once that little ideology-huffing guy leaves my image like the Anon asked, it will one day end up as part of a boomerpost on Twitter, where the ideology label is replaced with “DEMOCRAT PROPAGNDA”.
Its true use as a memetic ordnance does intend the first panel as a key part of the payload, but it lacks the full subtext without the rest of it:
The idea that Liberal Democracy is the natural moral order of the universe enables the very imperialism that people complain about, fucks up the countries that could have been made into real liberal democracies by that very imperialism, and gets people killed.
Against truth, we spread this idea of liberal democracy and human rights as the end of history, the final triumph of the Enlightenment ideals that reshaped our civilizations, out of fear that to do otherwise would result in a war of all against all. But this, too, had its consequences.
The Iraq War has dispelled this, for some.
“A Gallup poll in June 2015 found that almost 70% of U.S. millennials would be willing to vote for a socialist presidential candidate. Even more shocking, a poll conducted before this year’s presidential election by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that barely half of millennials believe ‘Communism was or is a problem.’ The same poll found that a quarter of millennials hold favorable opinions of Vladimir Lenin, while 18% think favorably of Mao Zedong. More than 10% even have positive feelings about Joseph Stalin.”
Side effect of the Republicans calling everything to the Left of Thatcher “Socialism” tbh. It was bound to have consequences eventually.
