Meme I don't understand

[sabotabby]

Can someone explain to me the thing where you take a politician's face and make it into the Joker? Comme ça:



Or:



I feel like this is an incomprehensible political statement. I mean, the Joker is clearly Chaotic Evil while most politicians are Lawful Evil (like Nixon said, if the president does it, it's not a crime) and also, the Joker is, well. Cool. Also, probably unconcerned with politics, and certainly not a socialist. Does this make the person holding the sign Batman? Are we all aware of Batman's class privilege and problematic politics?

It makes less sense than Guy Fawkes as an icon of 21st century rebelliousness. At least there's a paper trail there.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

I was just in a discussion where someone called Ron Paul a Fascist and I pointed out that extreme libertarianism is the opposite of fascism. He replied by saying that rightwing libertarians ARE fascists.

I think my next response was unkind. The words "read some fucking Orwell" were definitely used.

Ron Paul would make a good joker...

[sabotabby]

I could maybe buy Ron Paul as Chaotic Evil. Maybe.

Need a good "read some fucking Orwell" macro for all political discussions.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't so thoroughly sick of the quotes + picture memes, I would make some Orwell ones - complete with quotes about how calling everything Fascist diminishes the word.

I also brought up the best version of this which was when I was at Hillel and one of the people hanging out went "I got to get to Hebrew class. Hate it. The teacher is a Nazi."

[sabotabby]

"I got to get to Hebrew class. Hate it. The teacher is a Nazi."

In that case, I would assume that the person was being intentionally hilarious. Maybe I just have too much faith in humanity.

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Of course, that's second on the list of really dumb things that I remember years later. The first is still "I don't understand. If a woman puts a restraining order on you, why does she still expect child support?"

I assume that this guy was never going to compare himself to a knight.