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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] SeeMinusMinus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

seize the memes of production!

[–] zyratoxx@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 1 points 1 year ago

This is amazing, I love it!

[–] girl@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

all the capitalists downvoting this have no sense of humor

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a political statement, it's just a haha funny wordplay people

[–] adam_kadmon@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not an example of wordplay and it's definitely not funny

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The funny part is subjective, but how is it not wordplay? It's playing with phonetics with the second syllable of exercise sounding like seize, then connecting that to a phrase using that word

[–] adam_kadmon@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those two words aren't homophones: size and seize are pronounced very differently (and the second syllable of "exercise" is "er"). It wouldn't be funny even if there was wordplay involved: communists have killed millions of my and wife's people and set our countries back for generations to come.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The whole word isn't, just the third syllable of exercise (I misspoke but you knew what I meant) and the first of seize. If you don't find it funny that's fine, but I'm not justifying or making any claims about communists and if you don't like it you can just scroll past, or you can argue with one of the actual communists on the site.

[–] adam_kadmon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, the "size" in "exercise" is not pronounced the same as "seize" - if you're pronouncing them the same then you're mispronouncing one or both. It's /saɪz/ vs /siːz/, resp. And yeah, I'm going to try to move my account to a non-communist instance, seeing what can only be misguided teens and preteens praising these criminals has got real old. I set this account up 2+ years ago not realising this was a pro-Russian instance.

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not making a scientific paper off of it, the fact that /saɪz/ and /siːz/ when pronounced sound similarish was enough for the joke. The fact that you pulled out the dictionary is proof enough that you're taking this too seriously, lighen up its just a joke.

[–] adam_kadmon@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's just it, it wasn't a joke but rather particularly vile propaganda pushed onto a meme thread under the pretext of it being "just a joke".

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 0 points 1 year ago

How is this propaganda? My goal isn't to make anyone do anything but laugh

[–] dingus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] vynaaa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

If you don't rock and stone, you ain't comin' home!

[–] Ignacio@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I really like Carl Marx. Especially in that movie, Duck Soup. Amazing.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's a hell of a workout overthrowing the capitalist class

[–] gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

It's called re-volution, not just volution.

[–] tubaruco@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this place is turning into reverse facebook: instead of old men liking any post related to american patriotism, we're upvoting anything related to communism, and when you look at the comments, its the same response youd see on those facebook posts...

[–] xusontha@ls.buckodr.ink 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's just a play on words, I'm not trying to make a political statement