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This meme is a collage of 10 headshots arranged in two rows. The top row consists of 5 mugshots of men, each labeled with their high number of prior arrests: 72 Arrests, 45 Arrests, 39 Arrests, 33 Arrests, and 17 Arrests respectively. The bottom row shows 5 headshots of people, each labeled with a violent crime committed against them: one person was set on fire, and the remaining four were murdered. Below the collage, large bold white text on a black background asks 'SHOULD THE JUDGES BE REMOVED?'. The meme makes an argument drawing a parallel to existing laws that hold bartenders legally responsible for harms caused by patrons they serve (such as drunk driving accidents), implying that judges who repeatedly release high-arrest count habitual offenders who then go on to commit violent felonies should face similar accountability, including possible removal from their positions.

If a bartender has to be legally responsible for behaviors of his clients, why not judges?

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This is a two-panel meme using the viral "Woman Yelling at a Cat" template to make a nuanced point about consent discourse. The left panel shows two cast members from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, with an enraged Taylor Armstrong screaming and pointing, labeled as "some* women:". The right panel shows the confused, unbothered Smudge the Cat sitting at a dinner table, labeled as "Me who said regretting a consent given in the past does not make it void:". A fine print disclaimer at the bottom clarifies that the statement does not mean consent cannot be withdrawn mid-activity, explicitly stating that people should stop if their partner says no during sexual activity. The meme humorously depicts an argument about distinguishing between regret for past consensual acts and non-consensual activity due to withdrawn consent.

There, I Fixed It: Consent Regret Meme

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This is a political quote meme featuring a head-and-shoulders shot of prominent American conservative economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell, an elderly Black man with curly gray hair, wire-rimmed glasses, wearing a light gray blazer over a dark sweater, light blue collared shirt, and purple patterned tie, seated against a solid black background. Large white text to the left of Sowell displays a statement attributed to him claiming that a greater number of white people were enslaved and brought to North Africa than Black people were enslaved and brought to the United States or its founding 13 colonies, and that the enslavement of white people continued in the Ottoman Empire for decades after the abolition of chattel slavery of Black people in the US. The meme is intended to counter arguments for monetary reparations to descendants of enslaved Black people in the United States.

Thomas Sowell Slavery Quote Meme Arguing Against US Slavery Reparations

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A Reddit meme featuring a debate about date formats, consisting of three user comments followed by an explanatory diagram. The top comment by Mary M. expresses frustration with the MM/DD/YY format, stating 'oh yeah and f**k the MM/DD/YY format'. Below, Adre argues 'DD/MM/YY format makes no sense', while Monke defends it with 'It does make sense'. The bottom section includes a visual comparison of three date format structures: 1) 'Majority of the world's countries' with a pyramid labeled 'Day' (top), 'Month' (middle), 'Year' (bottom); 2) 'China, Japan, Koron, Iran' (likely 'Korea' misspelled) with an inverted pyramid labeled 'Year' (top), 'Month' (middle), 'Day' (bottom); 3) 'USA' with an irregular shape labeled 'Month' (top), 'Day' (middle), 'Year' (bottom).

The GOAT has to be DD/MM/YY

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A screenshot of a social media interaction between two users debating whether common foods can be equated to drugs. The original post by 'fitemmajourney' lists foods (cheese, sugar, coffee, bananas) with comparisons to opioids, cocaine, stimulants, and serotonin boosters, accompanied by the caption 'Addiction is hiding in your fridge.' A reply from 'bethferacofitness' counters with a sarcastic argument: 'No one ever gave someone head in an alley for a block of cheese... Food is not a drug,' challenging the hyperbolic comparison.

Debate: Food as Drugs vs. Food is Not a Drug

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A screenshot of a social media conversation featuring three posts. The first post, from a user with a purple-blurred username and a simple avatar, claims, 'I don't know a woman alive that doesn't appreciate a fit guy in a pair of grey sweatpants' and has 74 upvotes. The second post, from a user with a red-blurred username and a blue avatar, responds, 'I'm a woman who is alive and isn't ever attracted to men in any context' with 27 upvotes. The third post, from the original purple username user, replies, 'Well, I don't know you so my point stands' and has 130 upvotes plus 2 awards. The layout includes typical social media elements like upvote/downvote counters, timestamps, and award indicators.

Woman Challenges Claim About Grey Sweatpants Attraction

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