this post was submitted on 18 Oct 2023
1238 points (93.3% liked)

Political Memes

5419 readers
3661 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] fosforus@sopuli.xyz 75 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Those handclap emojis trigger the fuck out of me.

[–] Moc@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

👏 Don’t 👏 let 👏 that 👏 detract 👏 from 👏 the 👏 message.

[–] bullshitter@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Off topic but I read it as handicap emoji . I'm a boomer and use emoji and acronyms infrequently.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read it that way too. Our brains tend to guess the word and fill in the blanks based off of the first and last character of a word. I'm sure the length helped in this case too lol

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Handicap is a far more common word than handclap, so it was a good guess!

[–] Clanket@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The word boomer should be cancelled

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't think I am one. Born very early 80s.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] Clanket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Think I'm GenX

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's been around since 1963, good luck with that. It will fade into obscurity once the last of the boomers are gone.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

They make me think of that Stefon character from SNL.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

That's kind of the point. It's supposed to be attention grabbing, drawing attention to a point that is supposed to be implicitly agreed upon by everyone, except people don't agree with it because too many people are chasing clout or wealth.