Microblog Memes @lemmy.world Optional @lemmy.world 1d ago

The Logic of Abusers

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So wake the fuck up and don't go to that Thanksgiving dinner if you don't feel like it!
- We skipped my wife's family.
- 👏
I mean, I guess it depends on what you mean by coexist?

Unless this is intended as a call to murder all unpleasant people I guess.
- It means exist in the same space, interact with regularly.
  
  Given that it is Thanksgiving in the US, after we just elected a corrupt rapist fascist who promises to destroy the economy, environment, etc., this is almost certainly about it being fine to not go to or not invite your insane QAnon/MAGA family friends to Thanksgiving.
- I assume it means what it always means?
  
  Have you ever seen someone use "coexist" to mean "not instantly murder someone" before?
  
  I know bars get lowered at record pace these days but have you ever seen it used that way?
  
  Yeah, absolutely. That's, like, the whole idea behind tolerance, right? The idea that you can find someone abhorrent but still accept that they have a right to continue existing?
  
  Tolerance as a concept is pretty central and integral to any functioning society.
  
  Lol yes yes I have.
  
  yes. all the time.
Then, how to avoid it? Most people who I know are fucked up, including me. Growing a thick skin is only thing you can do, or you can close yourself with increasingly smaller and smaller group of people falling into a depression.
This is why I avoid everyone.
It's just not legal to stone people for pissing off the immoral morality police. The talibangelicals are working on it.
Consider it a "crusade" as they're described by evangelical groups.
"Look at what you made me do!"

-my mom after violence.
Is she calling for the extermination or exiling of people she doesn't agree with, or is this a "get out of abusive relationships" argument?

Edit: she probably meant on a local level, and not as in society as a whole.
- You gotta get me your yoga instructor because wow, what a reach!
  
  It definitely means get out of abusive relationships lol.
Not a meme
- By its original definition, anything other than genetic information shared between people is a meme. The post is a meme. This comment is a meme. Whatever music you may be listening to in the background rn is a meme.
  
  Dawkins' definition of cultural meme is not the same as internet meme which is a picture that is funny, ironic or relateable. In fact, I don't think this even fits the definition of cultural meme - it's just a screenshot of random person's opinion. If everything is a meme then nothing is a meme.
It's called reality?

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