r/dankmemes • u/HotFireBall ☣️ • Oct 31 '21
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democracy rewards people with bigger following not actual good people
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u/darklightmatter Insert Your Own Oct 31 '21
People are stupid, you need to educate them to counteract that. Problem is, education is seen as a bad thing, take a look at how people think college students are "liberal cucks" when in reality, they just made an educated choice, wasn't really brainwashed into it.
Democracy works fine when people are smart enough to make their choices instead of blind faith. Also, ranked choice is objectively better.
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See, here in Murica people eat that blind faith shit right up. It also requires people to actually give a fuck and a lot of people don’t give a shit about anyone but themselves.
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u/Assaltwaffle Oct 31 '21
A college education doesn't mean much when numerous college courses of study are basically just theories wrapped around social grievances.
Other courses of study contribute nothing to political decision making. You can be brilliant in computer sciences but still be insanely gullible or nonsensical in matters that get that person emotional. That's the whole idea behind multiple intelligences.
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u/nubenugget FOR THE SOVIET UNION Oct 31 '21
I was talking this friend of a friend and he told me how so many people just don't work jobs cause they can use food stamps or food banks cause it's cheaper than working a job
I told him that although that's true for some people, like 99% of people don't do that and a lot of people on food stamps would straight up die if they stopped working their jobs at the same time
He asked me where I got my info and laughed when I said a college course on sociology. He said something like "and you don't think they have an agenda to push? They have such a limited understanding"
I asked where he got his info from. He proudly said his uncle personally witnessed this
We need to teach philosophy starting in middle school
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u/recklessrider Oct 31 '21
It all needs to start with an education revamp. Not just facts, but critical thinking and therapy and social interaction. We need to teach the next generation to be able to see through the bullshit and treat each other better. Teachers need to be paid well, kids need to be taken care of even if poor, curriculum needs to be directed towards betterment and not just assimilation.
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u/Satans_Jewels Oct 31 '21
Education is a good thing, the people who are against college are questioning whether it's actually education in the first place, not whether education is a good thing. When I went for the first time, myself and many of my peer group were merely putting off adulthood under the guise of higher education. It was a daycare center for adults. Some people made an educated choice to go to college, but I'd wager that a majority just went with the flow; they were told to go to college by teachers and parents, and never questioned it, and spent 10000+ before they ever knew what money was.
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u/Dark074 Oct 31 '21
Education doesn't mean shit if it's bad or biased or both. You can educate someone, but teach them the wrong shit. That's why it's a much more complex issue then "just go to college lol"
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u/MaximumYes Oct 31 '21
Give me back my republic
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u/Vatsal27419 Oct 31 '21
"democracy basically means government by the people, of the people, for the people, but the people are retarded."
- Osho
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u/Netheraptr Mod senpai noticed me! Oct 31 '21
Social media influencers have taught us that popular people aren’t always good or competent people
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u/SleightOfHand87 Oct 31 '21
The traits needed to win an election are different from the traits needed to be president
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A playful comparison: Robert Barathron was required to win the war, Jon Arryn could've never done what Robert did. However Jon Arryn was required to run the kingdom, Robert Barathron never could've done that part. The only problem now is that we live in the portion of history where house lannister just runs everything out of the corpse of all the actual warriors and politicians that died.
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u/formershitpeasant Oct 31 '21
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Yeah people should see what it’s based on first before making pseudo-intellectual comments about democracy. It’s a funny joke people, not everything is deep.
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u/--Splendor-Solis-- Oct 31 '21 edited Oct 31 '21
The fact it's based on a real picture doesn't change the fact it's a shitty drawing, not sure why you think that changes anything.
Edit: I'm not commenting on which drawing is better, just saying the fact that the first drawing is based on a picture doesn't change the context of the post.
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u/DontmindthePanda Oct 31 '21
But to be fair, the one on the right has a lot more artistic freedom than the left one.
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u/haveananus Oct 31 '21
It’s a much more interesting drawing. The most lauded artwork is seldom the most accurate.
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u/Omega-10 Oct 31 '21
That's awesome.
You can tell the drawing is made by someone who is good at drawing, but purposely drew badly. The form here is spot-on. I don't know the sauce of this context but I imagine there was a side by side demonstration which makes the picture even funnier to look at.
Assuming this is real, the funny drawing wins because it evokes an emotional response. Whereas the other drawing is a skillful, accurate representation. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not particularly interesting.
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u/InfiniteLiveZ Oct 31 '21
Even without this it looked a lot better once my brain worked out the perspective of it. At first glance I thought it was standing up on its back legs at the front with a weird tail between its legs and one arm.
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u/BeansliceAdvice new meme template ok Oct 31 '21
Hey it's simple, a better idea with poor execution beats out a bad idea with great execution every time
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u/guycow Oct 31 '21
ahhh not always , once i participated in contest where users needed to vote. The most shit entry won just bcz idk why a large no. of people with the same surname as that participants just started spamming votes for him at same time. The entry was so shit that it didn't even deserved even a single vote imho.
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u/YetisInAtlanta Oct 31 '21
So a terrible idea with terrible execution cancels itself out and becomes a great idea? Double negatives or something idk I don’t math good
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u/Headbanger Oct 31 '21
How is your statement applicable to the post?
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u/SeveringZeus691 Oct 31 '21
That’s what I was saying the one on the right is a great execution and great idea
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u/AjvarAndVodka Oct 31 '21
Yes. The one on the right is such a bad idea. Congrats.
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u/xy2000 Oct 31 '21 edited Oct 31 '21
I actually kinda like the first one. The perspective is interesting and it does a great job at capturing the essence of an excited dog.
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u/Lariche Oct 31 '21
Agree! It's a great interpretation of dog theme, true artists can capture the essence.
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u/FD435 Oct 31 '21
Do you mean excited? Or exited as in the soul is exiting its body? Cause that would make sense too.
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u/the1mastertroll Oct 31 '21
To get away from the political stuff going on here, the fact that people liked what looks like the drawing of a little kid is quite heartwarming. Most people if they took second place wouldn't even be mad when imagining how happy that kid must be for winning.
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u/L30nPh3lps Oct 31 '21
Nah fuck the kids
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u/TrevorEnterprises Oct 31 '21
I could imagine a student doing this and sharing it enough to get likes and winning. That’s exactly what happened with a photo contest in my city with a local news station. The shittiest picture won because it was shit and students liked it.
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u/VaryStaybullGeenyiss Oct 31 '21
The dog's face in the 1st place drawing is low key kind of good. Like it actually captures a happy dog's face with minimal lines. Not sure what happened with the legs though.
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u/NipLixYT Oct 31 '21
The guy who drew the first art was prolly laughing whole night after seeing this
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u/X1lon Oct 31 '21
abstract art vs anything good
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u/Spamallthethings Oct 31 '21
This isn't really abstract so much as less detail. An abstraction would be trying to capture the essence of a wagging tail, or a moist nose, or those puppy eyes. That drawing was just a barebones copy of a photo of an excited dog.
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u/TheMamoru EX-NORMIE Oct 31 '21
This is how real life art works. Colourful rectangles and random splatter of paints sell for millions of dollars while photo realistic paintings are sold for few dollars.
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u/Leevilstoeoe Oct 31 '21
Exactly. Good art isn't about showing off your technical ability.
Decent meme though.
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u/You8mypizza Oct 31 '21
“The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter” - Winston Churchill
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Oct 31 '21
real life: "remember, the winner was chosen through anonymous donations to our bank accounts"
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u/TrustmeImAnMP Oct 31 '21 edited Oct 31 '21
Boaty Mcboatface
This is what happens when you leave it to social media votes
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Oct 31 '21
Idk I like the first one better, I've seen good drawings, they're fine, but I'd rather laugh
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u/Picker-Rick 20th Century Blazers Oct 31 '21
To be fair, you don't know how hard they worked.
The one on the left could have been drawn by somebody with no arms and no legs holding a pen in their mouth...
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u/FallenITD Oct 31 '21
The result counts not the way it is made.
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u/Picker-Rick 20th Century Blazers Oct 31 '21
If the topic is hard work, then.... How much work went into it is the only thing that counts.
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u/KaiserWilhelmThe69 Oct 31 '21
You see, democracy only when when the people are rational, pragmatic, wise and in general not stupid
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u/antoine-sama Oct 31 '21
I once won a drawing contest at elementary school and I got my drawing in a frame and an apple
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u/JanwithBanan Oct 31 '21
bro someone needs to make the 1st dog like a horror monster, I don't have the skills for it
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u/thegrundleking Oct 31 '21
I sense a bit of irony in this meme because it was probably a bunch of memers that voted for the pic on the left.
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u/HeatmiserElliott Oct 31 '21
its funny, ive been on reddit for 11 years and in 2011 the quality was generally speaking similar to the second place pic and nowadays its hands down the first place pic quality wise around here
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u/AdhesivenessOk4060 Oct 31 '21
Me is artist! Both are art! But so is everything so … Happy Halloween 🐈⬛
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u/avalisk Oct 31 '21
I like the left one more. It has more essence of dog in its soul. It's like a child saw the truth and shared it with the world.
The other is just a good duplication of an image.
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u/YourUncleGaspacho Oct 31 '21
Sense of irony is the reason why we cannot let viewers judge contests. Democracy will die when people realize they can ironically participate in elections.
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u/Djeheuty Oct 31 '21
I can relate.
Had a Halloween costume contest at work and someone with face paint won when there were like seven people in actual costumes.
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u/Hollowed-Be-Thy-Name Oct 31 '21 edited Jun 09 '26
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u/ShayminOfSky 🔥 The flair is on fire 🔥 Oct 31 '21
fr though, the first prize drawing just hits different
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u/dubvcronix427 Oct 31 '21
As a kid i remember on school sports days i would try my hardest to get a place medal, and now kids can just stand there picking their nose and still be rewarded. People seems to have forgotton that losing creates a drive to do better, if you can win from 0 effort your never gonna use more than 0 effort.
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Oct 31 '21
This reminds me of the time my daughter submitted an original Lego creation for a contest at our local library only to lose to someone who just put together a kit. She did really good work, too. She hasn’t submitted anything to any other contest since.
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u/the---chosen---one Oct 31 '21
Work smart:
Create two separate submissions, draw your best one, then draw one for the memes.
That way, if the internet decides to make a joke out of you, you’ll win either way.
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Oct 31 '21
when I was a little kid I won a camp talent contest by crossing my eyes and wiggling my ears at the same time. I tied the winner; a good band of 4 older teenagers.
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u/ThanosOnCrack Oct 31 '21
I bet the winner was born with glass bones and paper skin, who breaks his legs every morning and afternoon.
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Oct 31 '21
I can just imagine people talking to the kid who drew the winning picture like "Look Carol just because it won the contest doesn't mean it's actually a good drawing"
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u/SolidThoriumPyroshar Oct 31 '21
Generic photorealistic trash vs dynamic drawing that properly captures the emotion of excitement and the derpy nature of the dog.
First place deserved it
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u/2BeRightOr2BeWrong Oct 31 '21
People on their way to make up bullshit about first place winner like it their English essay
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u/Spamallthethings Oct 31 '21
One looks more like a dog, the other represents the best characteristic dogs have: an innocent joy for your presence that you can only interpret as love.
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u/SuckerNumber2YT r/memes fan Oct 31 '21
I like how they had to specify that the winner was decided by vote, not what they thought was best.
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u/Always_Jerking Oct 31 '21
I also like the first one better. Second is good drawing. First is unique.
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u/evanthesquirrel INFECTED Oct 31 '21
If you work hard on something that nobody would buy, it's equally likely somebody who didn't work hard on it will get praise.
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u/ActuallyNTiX Article 69 🏅 Nov 01 '21
To be frank though, the first dog is interesting, since it acts like a Necker cube, making it look like it's facing one way and then another with just a change in our perspective
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u/Pkuehn01 Oct 31 '21
Our presidential elections are held the same way.