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The Left Can't Meme - A philosophical look at the failure of left memes

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One way in which 'ironic' memes which are reactionary are, and have been combated by Leftists is by adding more layers of irony to them. Okay, for example, let's take the 'Jewish merchant' meme. Leftists might attempt to combat the ideological effect by subjecting this 'meme to ironic humor, thereby thinking they've made a superior transgression. This is not how one ought to correctly de-mystify and de-enchant the ideological effect of ironic humor, and expose it, because one endlessly gets entrapped in this cycle by abiding by its rules. We should draw our attention to the culture of leftypol, to 'leftist' memes, which are nothing more than opportunist and re-hashed Fascist propaganda with a Left aesthetic. For the first time people who call themselves Leftists are now the opportunists appropriating an aesthetic from Fascists (rather than the other way nd, as it always has been)! What Left-wing memes ultimately represent is the affirmation of the postmodern triumph over the modern emancipatory project They represent the assertion of one's lack of seriousness in their political identity, taking a distance from it, it represents their prostration before the true altars of seriousness which command their devotion 'at the end of the day

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