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模倣子 Hug A Snitch
Modern Wisdom Video
The idea that “vigilantism” is universally bad may be suspect. The failure to express meaningful disapproval for failure to respect social principles that we all value means that those principles will atrophy. If nobody ever says “hey, stop that” and more importantly “yeah, I second what that guy said” (the “hug a snitch” factor).
The police can’t be everywhere, and indeed it would probably be bad if they were. Besides, they are implementing our social values by proxy.
It’s similar to the idea that “there aren’t enough tigers” ie, that if the idiots don’t walk off the cliff on their own, the tigers 🐅 (or officialdom) will never get around to eating them.
It’s a basic application of the law of externalities that the police (and the tigers) are always understaffed and overworked, so they need all the help they can get. On top of that, by helping an understaff police force, the public garners more control over what the police are focusing on.
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模倣子 chubby mermaids
Memetic Essay Index
Thanks for this. Mermaid stuff is always good. A lot to unpack here.
The dark bit may be that the well-insulated mermaids as depicted are considered non-skinny 🧜♀️ ie, walrus-like, compared to the emaciated “normal” one (Ariel from Disney). In fact, they are not “fat” (read “obese”), just not emaciated.
From a comedic deconstruction standpoint, the joke could work backwards as well.
1. Skinny mermaids 🧜♀️ are dumb
2. They freeze 🥶 to death ☠️
3. Chubby mermaids survive
4. They are normal
5. Kind of like walruses and other arctic 🐻❄️ animals
6. But chubby mermaids are nowhere near as chubby as walruses
6.1. (You might have to make the mermaids way fatter for the joke to work)
As opposed to:
1. Chubby mermaids 🧜♀️ are WTF
1.1. (Body shaming is acceptable, ha, ha)
2. Normal, familiar (skinny) mermaids 🧜♀️ freeze to death ☠️ 🥶 in front of walruses (for contrast)
2.1. They’re dumb, ridiculous
3. Being chubby is kind of okay, practical, in extreme situations
4. Being a little bit chubby is exactly the same as being a walrus (reënforce bias)
4.1. (Body shaming is okay, and funny)
So it’s an example of how the conservative narrative (chubby is bad) is reënforced by interrogation of established tropes (mermaids v. other sea animals, chubbiness v. blubber, walruses, whales being icons for obesity and also insulation). So the chubby mermaid 🧜♀️ is drawn into the orbit of the conservative narrative around chubbiness, further anchoring icons like walruses, whales, blubber, etc. as tools of fat-shaming, and legitimizing them. One legitimization is that it’s maybe okay to be fat in the arctic, but you’re still fat (like a walrus) and if you’re NOT in the arctic, then WTF fatty? Also, the magical attractiveness to do with the skinny mermaid, specifically red-haired Arièl, ie, idealized female beauty is further anchored to icons of frailty, weakness, frivolity, tragic demise, etc.
Does the joke only work because it opens with body-shaming and making it okay because it’s about mermaids 🧜♀️?
2024-01-15
Russian Joke русская шутка
почему заключение в гулаге учить русский язик?
что он может в адин день говорить по-русски свободна.
Link to same joke elsewhere
Link to other Russian Joke
模倣子 Chubby Mermaids
Memetic Index
Thanks for this. Mermaid stuff is always good. A lot to unpack here.
The dark bit may be that the well-insulated mermaids as depicted are considered non-skinny 🧜♀️ ie, walrus-like, compared to the emaciated “normal” one (Ariel from Disney).
From a comedic deconstruction standpoint, the joke could work backwards as well.
1. Skinny mermaids 🧜♀️ are dumb
2. They freeze 🥶 to death ☠️
3. Chubby mermaids survive
4. They are normal
5. Kind of like walruses and other arctic 🐻❄️ animals
6. But chubby mermaids are nowhere near as chubby as walruses
6.1. (You might have to make the mermaids way fatter for the joke to work)
As opposed to:
1. Chubby mermaids 🧜♀️ are WTF
1.1. (Body shaming is acceptable, ha, ha)
2. Normal, familiar (skinny) mermaids 🧜♀️ freeze to death ☠️ 🥶 in front of walruses (for contrast)
2.1. They’re dumb, ridiculous
3. Being chubby is kind of okay, practical, in extreme situations
4. Being a little bit chubby is exactly the same as being a walrus (reënforce bias)
4.1. (Body shaming is okay, and funny)
So it’s an example of how the conservative narrative (chubby is bad) is reënforced by interrogation of established tropes (mermaids v. other sea animals, chubbiness v. blubber, walruses, whales being icons for obesity and also insulation). So the chubby mermaid 🧜♀️ is drawn into the orbit of the conservative narrative around chubbiness, further anchoring icons like walruses, whales, blubber, etc. as tools of fat-shaming, and legitimizing them. One legitimization is that it’s maybe okay to be fat in the arctic, but you’re still fat (like a walrus) and if you’re NOT in the arctic, then WTF fatty? Also, the magical attractiveness to do with the skinny mermaid, specifically red-haired Arièl, ie, idealized female beauty is further anchored to icons of frailty, weakness, frivolity, tragic demise, etc.
Does the joke only work because it opens with body-shaming and making it okay because it’s about mermaids 🧜♀️?
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漫画 End-of-Month Submission Sketches
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There's a submission request in Spokane at the end of the month, and it would be cool to submit something, but I'm just too depressed and I can't seem to get any ideas or artwork out.
