Political Memes

Its funny that you are only sitting on a positive comment score because you prefaced your question with several paragraphs of self-flagellation, humbling yourself and accepting to being patronized

Is an honest conversation that foreign to you? Are you suggesting I need to wrap myself in bravado instead for some reason? I'm pretty comfortable in who I am with both my strengths and weaknesses. I'd like to encourage everyone to get to the place where they can be too.

It’s telling you that you must believe and acquiesce to those that have standpoint. So not “being quiet,” but actively swallowing whatever they throw at you as “truth” and following their political will

Slow down there a bit. You're deciding what I believe already when I hadn't even yet. You rush too quickly to judgment, apparently of the message and of me. I understand why. Simple pre-decided narratives are comfortable. However, we do ourselves a disservice if we don't test our values internally. If my values and beliefs stand the test of scrutiny, then they are defensible and valid . If they crumble when examined, then perhaps I need new values and beliefs.

The first step is to decode the message which was confusing to me. If you'll notice, on my reading came away with two distinct possible messages, and allowed for any number of others. That doesn't mean accepting its premise as fact or belief. It might later, but that isn't decided when one is still seeking to understand the premise of what is being said.

In the end, the original message was a shitpost joke instead of something with deeper meaning that I thought it might be. So it was right of me to seek understanding of the original message, instead of a rush to judgment.