Can someone please explain the joke?
Just a bit of absurdism. Modern-day leftists often fight over the legacy of Marx, who was hugely influential; the joke here is that “IF MARX WAS HERE TODAY HE’D-” and instead of “be ‘x’ ideology” it’s “Enjoy a well-regarded classic game”
Ah, thank you stranger. I feel kind of dumb now lol.
No worries! Sometimes memes seem like they might have some more subtle joke to them, but no, in this case it’s just being silly.
Yeah, I also tend to over think shit. Sometime a cigar is just a cigar.
Okay but which great house does Marx join?
Edit: Trick question, he’d be an ashlander.
Honestly Marx pretty well approximates Nerevar.
Had all the power to make a positive impact on the world and then three asshole dictators drag his name through the mud long after his death.
…while he’s high on skooma in a hole somewhere
Stark, probably? 🤷
But which copotype would he be in Disco Elysium?
I remember some people on Twitter being mad when at the end of the game, the game told them that they were fascists. It’s funny to me because unless you were playing a total piece of shit, you always came out as a communist in this game.
He’s so me
what’s the original lol
Referencing Marx is any fashion is tankie behavior?
Just consider it a warning for everyone here, is all. Praising Marx unprompted is definitely leaning into dangerous territory.
You may need to get out more. Marx is the father of modern sociology, a debt even Max Weber acknowledged. “Marx wasn’t all bad” isn’t a hot take outside of anywhere that doesn’t hang a tattered, non-code compliant American flag from the front porch.
It’s not that everyone who appreciates Marx is wrong, no no no, it’s just a nearly universal belief among all of the worst examples of human beings which are unfortunately swarming all over lemmy in an attempt to radicalize people.
So avoid that shit whenever possible.
Surrendering Marx because shitheads use him as an aesthetic is like surrendering the American flag because shitheads use it as an aesthetic. All you do in doing so is lending power to your enemies for no good goddamn reason. Even less justified, really, since Marx has pretty clearly stated inclinations, while the US flag is far more abstract.
Especially silly when half of the tankies on here haven’t read enough Marx to fill a thimble, and regularly and blatantly contradict him.
If this were a sociology, philosophy, history, or similar academic community then sure…
but not making Marxist memes is the easiest fucking thing you can possibly do. Are you planning to tell me I’m being unfair to chastise you because you accidentally tripped, opened your laptop, and photo-edited this meme so it’s not really your fault for picking the subject matter?
No. I’m telling you that surrendering symbols to the opposition just means that the opposition then benefits from that symbol. Fuck that. It’s both cowardly and stupid. I’m not going to puss out of reposting memes with Marx just because some ML fucks think workers’ democracy is for squares.
I don’t know what a tankie is and at this point I’m afraid to ask.
A tankie is an authoritarian communist, the kind of folks who play apologist for the Soviet and Chinese regimes running over protesters with tanks. Hence the name.
cool not me then
I took a test once and it told me I was a filthy socialist.
It is my core belief that corporations need to be hit with big sticks regularly to keep them in check
Well, a lot of us here would put it more along the lines of “Corporations need to be run by workers, not investors”, but I think you’re pretty safe from tankieism with that view.
