this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
275 points (96.3% liked)

Political Memes

5075 readers
3697 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
 
all 19 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago

Ronald Reagan? The actor?!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Help me out here, idk who this is.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’s Jodie Foster c.1981.

John Hinckley Jr.’s motivation for the attempted assassination was to impress Jodie Foster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Ronald_Reagan#Hinckley's_motivation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Someone shot the elderly Republican former actor with dementia? If I had a nickel!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's still kind of odd that it happened twice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the update Internet Explorer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That fresh fresh IE6 drop

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was a mass shooting. Nothing we Americans care about

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Multiple peasants die in mass shooting

Media: I sleep

One rich white politician gets shot at

Media: Real shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've got a bad case...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thats some high quality meme right there.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I disagreed with that one. He was legitimate. Awful, but legitimate.

Ah. Meeeemoriieeeeees

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He got policy advice from an astrologer, commited numerous war crimes, and is literally the source of most of America's problems from the last thirty years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True. But he actually believed that shit, and was at least not a demented sociopathic rapist. An asshole, a bigot, a racist, stupid, and an authoritarian. But not corrupt (Edit: not ludicrously corrupt, as trump is), not a colluder, would never attempt a coup, actually could read, cared about people sometimes.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll hold forth all day on how Reagan sucked. You downvoters don’t even know. BUT. I disagree with him being shot.

And Hinckley wasn’t even political. Just very incel, in a time before interwebs, trying to impress Jodie Foster.