Tag: policy criticism

This is a 4-panel meme using the popular progressive clown makeup format to mock illogical, contradictory policy actions surrounding a conflict with Iran over a strait (misspelled as 'straight' in the image text). Each panel corresponds to one step of the clown applying makeup, paired with text describing increasingly absurd policy steps: 1) Claiming the purpose of fighting Iran is to open the strait, 2) Blockading the strait because Iran refuses to open it, 3) Declaring the strait is open while maintaining the blockade, 4) Announcing the strait is closed again because of the ongoing blockade. The meme uses the clown transformation to illustrate that the stated policy goals and actual actions are completely contradictory and nonsensical, painting the policy makers as clowns.

How the war regarding the Iran strait is going

This is a 4-panel meme using …

This is a 6-panel satirical comic. In panel 1, a blonde man in an orange tunic with a red headband looks through a telescope and informs another man that "the orange man has attacked our country", prompting a panicked reaction. In panel 2, the panicked man climbs onto a large wooden winch used to control a strait gate and yells to close the strait. In panel 3, the man reports that negotiators have agreed to a ceasefire, leaving the blonde man frustrated. In panel 4, the man on the winch yells to open the strait again. In panel 5, the blonde man uses his telescope again and reports that the orange man has begun to blockade the strait. In panel 6, the man on the winch gives the absurd, indecisive order to "close the strait a little!". The joke mocks inconsistent, weak, and contradictory policy responses to border security and international conflict situations.

Close the strait a little!

This is a 6-panel satirical c…

This is a 5-panel sarcastic meme. The top panel features a crudely drawn smug meme character wearing a hat that says 'thinking cap' (an ironic detail, as the character's proposed justification for destruction is absurd), pointing and speaking the line 'We need to destroy this because'. Adjacent to this speech bubble is text that reads 'Literally dumbest reason ever'. The four lower panels show real photographs of irreplaceable historic, cultural, and architectural sites being intentionally destroyed: a rock-cut ancient structure collapsing in a cloud of dust, a historic stone church being demolished by an excavator, an ancient archaeological ruin site being blown up with large smoke plumes rising, and a historic rock outcrop structure being destroyed by a Caterpillar branded excavator. The meme mocks and criticizes decision-makers who destroy culturally significant sites for trivial, unjustifiable, nonsensical reasons, expressing frustration at senseless, avoidable loss of heritage.

It's so painful in this day and age to see such needless destruction

This is a 5-panel sarcastic m…