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Imagine telling the original artist right after they finished it that in 113 years time people would be posting his/her creation in full color and high fidelity on a communications system that instantly made it accessible to anyone in the world. That would completely blow their mind.

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Now imagine also telling them the situation in the meme is the same or worse 113 years later and they will cry.

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Them: “What’s a meme?”

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You are not ready for this

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A joke reminding people of a shared experience. It gets really good in the internet age.

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Eh. Marx was pretty clear that it was a process, and worker rights have improved.

What they’d be upset about is everyone twiddling their thumbs while we kill the climate.

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Or put on a sly grin and sue OP for Future -Royalties

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“Wow, so with all that innovation things are better?”

“Look I don’t know how to tell you this but we definitely aren’t making the most of our new technology and medicine.”

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“Wow, so with all that innovation things are better?”

I mean… things are better, just not nearly as much as they should be.

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My partner’s father is a member of the canadian communist party and he has this framed and hung up in his house

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Well, they were likely called mimemes back then, but, yes, they still count. And holy crap is it still relevant.

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A classic

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Thank you! I recently saw a thumbnail of this in a Feral Historian video and I was hoping to find a copy.

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