• This is what I hate about the homunculi of twitter company personalities. “Hahaa, did you see the way Walmart clapped back at IBM?“ Humanizing vast, faceless companies puppeted by sociopathic business majors triggers every rage response that my body can muster. Please, shut the fuck up

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    Sorry beforehand for the intrusive politics, but it’s kind of unavoidable for me in this case.

    This is almost a textbook example of the Marxist concept of alienation. Once a brand takes over a meme, people are alienated from

    • the meme itself - because nobody wants to sound like an ad board
    • from the creative process behind the meme - because creating a new meme gets that sour taste in the mouth, as you feel that corporations might hijack it
    • from human nature and themselves - because memes are a form of self-expression
    • from each other - because memes are intrinsically social and it’s yet another social link being removed by the corporation hijacking the meme
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      5 months ago

      I swear I can find an applicable Marx excerpt for almost anything. His work has strengthened my anti-capitalist conversations a ton.

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    I went to my city’s pride parade 10 years ago and this past year, huge difference. Everything is commercial and expensive now and it’s just full of corporate floats

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      Why do people expect something to be funny forever? Most memes are barely funny in context. Then they are ironically funny, and then they find a place on Facebook where they spend eternity. Why are le rage comic not funny? People loved them. People who post memes now were like 4 when rage comics were cool.