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Meme Manager needed... (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] dragThruGardenPlz@midwest.social 107 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] Klicnik@sh.itjust.works 43 points 5 months ago

You're hired.

[–] Klicnik@sh.itjust.works 96 points 5 months ago (3 children)

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago

By being the least worst candidate. Thank you FPTP voting

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

It's not about LOSING the young vote. Not voting is the default position for young people... Always has been (although each generation has gotten better about this)... The question is "how can I keep supporting genocide and still get young people to actually show up and vote?" And of course the answer is bully them relentlessly and never give them anything they ask for /s

[–] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 58 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] CursedByTheVoid@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago

[–] mojo_raisin@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I'm voting for Biden because I'm not dumb enough to think forfeiting my vote will help end the genocide, but if goldfish man wins and we become fascist, I will blame Joe Biden for throwing away our democracy in support of Israel.

[–] HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Same. The Republicans have been insulting anyone who doesn't stand with them on everything. They claim to be able to criticize Biden, but holy shit am I tired of being insulted for not agreeing with him on genocide. They just continue to push everyone away. So while I am also voting, a part of me doesn't blame those who are done and not bothering. They want everyone sit down, shut up, never expect to get anything we want, but then to also vote? Kind of fucked.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I am a career memesmith, just like my father, and his father before him. In fact, I still have one of grandpappys hand-carved memes from when he was a young shitposter. Back in thise days, you used to have to place your memes in store front windows if you wanted anyone to see them.

[–] Icalasari@fedia.io 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

If they got somebody clever, it could help mitigate damage (e.g. pointing out Trump's own worse record, the fact that the GoP basically plans to erase democracy if they win, how some things people wanted are constantly being blocked by the GoP)

Sure as hell won't help regain lost votes, though

To do that, Biden needs to stop supporting the genocide, or if unable to, make it clear exactly why he is unable to

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I mean it worked in 2020. Biden started the campaign with effectively a Republican slate of policy positions. Until the ratfucking on Sunday before super Tuesday, Bernie was running away with it.

To get Bernie's voters, Biden basically did a lift and shift of Bernie's entire policy platform. This got him the support of Bernie's massive grassroots movement, and is what won the election (and why we've seen such a progressive slate of domestic policies from Biden). At that time, Biden learned from the lesson that Hillary didn't: You can't shame voters into supporting you; you have to prioritize their issues.

Biden can do the same now. Its actually pretty easy to do so. He can come out strongly and say something like "While we still support our ally Israel, this genocide is wrong, and the extermination of a people is never an acceptable answer. Never again means never again, for any community"

And like you said, he can also just explain exactly why he is unable to do certain things. He can can just send some very strong signals.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Biden won in 2020 because Trump absolutely botched the national pandemic response. Now Biden is dealing with a recession on all but name, meteoric inflation, a war in Europe, and a genocide in Gaza. He obviously can't do much for the economy, but he has the deck stacked against him and is going to need the youth and muslim votes if he hopes to win in November. All he has really done for young voters is a few waves of student loan forgiveness. Nothing he does will win over "moderate" Republicans, so he needs to rally support from young voters.

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[–] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ratfucking on Sunday before super Tuesday

Ummm, what is this referring to?

[–] Krono@lemmy.today 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I believe this is referring to the famous Sunday meeting with all of the centrist candidates and former president Obama. This happened right after Bernie won the South Carolina primary.

As a result of that meeting, buttigieg dropped out and endorsed biden (He got Secretary of Transportation)

Klobuchar also dropped out and endorsed Biden. (She got Chairman of the Rules Committee)

Warren, also at the meeting, stayed in the race to split the left-leaning vote.

This backroom meeting was the turning point for the primaries. Previous to this meeting, Bernie had a solid lead. Afterwards, it was all Biden.

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

Biden isn't going to win by converting Trump voters. Anybody who still thinks Trump is the best choice for America is not going to change their mind at this point. They are lost causes.

Biden is going to win by breaking apathy and making people realize that he is incredibly limited (by the Republican-led House) on what he can do in Israel. The genocide is popular with both leading parties. It sucks. Get over it.

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[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

It's really weird that this octogenarian president is having trouble connecting with young voters 🤕

[–] oji@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

how-do-you-do-fellow-kids

[–] BallotOrTheBullet@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

This but unironically

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Hello fellow youths... Don't you just love totally not out of touch boomers?

[–] p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago (6 children)

How do you do fellow kids?

I need you to picture the meme, please. Errr... I still don't know how to put pics in the comments. Sooo..

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How does one become a "meme manager" for the president of the United States?

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

By making memes that old people would think young people liked.

[–] FRAnkly@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Literally desperate.

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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Ethnic cleansing is a meme, right?

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

Wendys social media person got goosebumps

[–] PenisWenisGenius@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Meh, seems to be working for the Trump trolls. Lemmy went from being anti Trump to pro Trump practically overnight and around the time the tankie memes started spamming in. Maybe the opposition should try this strategy.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I haven't seen any pro-Trump content making a big dent here (maybe that's just my experience).

Are you simply classifying any criticism of the sitting president as being automatically pro-trump?

Given your use of "tankie" I'm willing to bet that's what's really going on.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Hey, unpaid intern who is going to run Biden's meme campaign, here's a picture if you want to sneak a meme about our grandmas being squirters.!

Pic

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Memeger?

[–] thefrankring@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Never heard of that profession before.

If the US president needs one, must be pretty important lol

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Pretty much saying they need a new marketing manager while disrespecting said target demographic because "they only read memes."

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

BuT hE dOeSnT eVen KnoW abOUt tHe gEnOcIde.

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