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That speaks to my intent, I suppose.

Well, I fully expected and appreciate your reaction. The OP author, like a good deal of the opinion section on CNN, clearly fails to make a distinction on some critical aspects of between intent which makes the article something of a performance piece. Still, it is surprising how much of a nerve this struck, and it might be because I tend to see memes as something of a novelty rather than a integral linguistic device.

I was gong to blame VirtualSatyr, too.

So that's why catturd keeps popping up in my feed.

To be fair, CNN is pretty good about covering all of those social ills as well so it doesn’t seem like this is intended to be a distraction. I am surprised by the reaction though. I didn’t expect anyone would take it serious, but the idea of memes being stolen clearly struck a nerve.

Hell no. They might photoshop me into a celebrity sex video.

It’s a good ploy because it hits at a weak spot most people have: their sense of humor.

While that isn’t a particularly close vote, especially given it was for an unexpected (and bitterly disappointing) minority, I agree that anything is possible in a void left by McConnell.

The MAGA crowd is practically non-existent in the Senate, though. You’re two cycles away just to build a real MAGA caucus in the Senate.

I would think Lindsay Graham would be next in line.

No, personally. We’re both Trojan Marching Band trumpet alumni.

Why is it bullshit?

Who would that be?

He came to mind as soon as I saw that article, obviously. In general that's a valid counter criticism to the crusade against cultural appropriation. On the whole, it's not about just showing appreciation for various cultural contributions because we would all be hypocrites for playing a jazz. Rather, not doing what's necessary to "repay" in kind the people who contribute disproportionately to our culture leads to a wider set of valid issues that guys like cow fucker highlight. The article had one particular point that illustrates this: The thing is, sharing a Karen meme isn't cultural appropriation - even if it's somewhat unfair by disconnecting the image from the actual person, it's poking fun at a very specific type of personality. The crying Michael Jordan image might also fall into that category simply because Michael Jordan is such a universally known entity that the humor in it is widely recognized as specific to his cult of personality. In general, though, there's a very fine line when it comes to expressing memes that make black men and women appear to be comically exaggerated or buffoonish, especially when it comes to that meme being a representative of the target of humor. While it might mostly be an aside in the larger debate of how to properly give reparations to black people, it nonetheless embodies how white people have a propensity for cacheing cultural icons while simultaneously justifying the theft. To put it another way: no one (well, other than an out right white nationalists) is going to accuse a black person of profiting off a white person by sharing a Karen meme because he or she can't, but a white person can and does profit off of a "bumbling, happy-go-lucky simpleton" simply because of the inherent power differential.

What is "digital blackface?"

Did you know Herb Alpert and I have something in common?

I don't think he has a penis, unless he's, like, tucking or something.

The United States would not have withdrawn its nuclear weapons from Europe even if he hadn’t invaded Crimea. Our nukes are there for our NATO allies, who themselves do not want to deal with their own nuclear arsenal.

They’re not particularly big in their segment.

I mean not really. Candy bars are an entirely different beast for a myriad of reasons. They have preservatives designed to make the bar more portable, longer lasting, and less susceptible to heat. The chocolate itself is often used as a casing for whatever the bar’s center has in it, rather than being a centerpiece for the confection. The ingredients themselves are often of poorer quality. That’s been the case all along, but it’s been exacerbated since the latter half of the 20th century as chemically altered ingredients ( like HFCs) have caused additional health impacts without necessarily changing the taste.

Bro, ain’t nothing wrong with Hershey’s. No one buys an Ethel M chocolate for a snack.

It depends on your taste, of course, but a candy bar confectioner isn’t building depth into its chocolate like a more traditional confectioner like See’s, Helen Grace, or Godiva.

I was going to laugh but, shit… there’s like dead and missing.

That’s ‘cause you’re not “living in the moment.”

I sure did…