I question sometimes that there’s something I’m not getting when I see people do the internet thing of like “when we have the power, we will do XYZ violence [but it’s presented like a meme]” and this kind of thing gets upvoted. With very few exceptions, this kind of humor puts me on guard rather than amusing me and makes me more distrustful of the sort of people who are posting it and upvoting it. It makes me think the person thinks violence is funny (which means they’d have more in common with fash than communists), they think revolution is funny (which implies they either don’t understand the seriousness of revolution or don’t care about liberation), or they are actually serious and think violence is just this thing you do via a violence button when revolution happens with some toggle switches on who it’s done to.

It’s the kind of internet-centric posting that I think would alarm most people who don’t spend a lot of time on the internet because they would assume it’s completely unironic and serious. I try to take it with a grain of salt as being some level of weird internet irony attempted humor speak, but I also know that irony poisoning is a thing. I am also torn because I don’t want to be like “grr don’t you make jokes!” (Hell, I love to make jokes myself, even if it doesn’t show a lot here.) But at the same time, it’s like, humor carries ideology with it.

Edit: I’m having a deja vu moment like I’ve talked about this before. But I’m not sure. My brain is at least half fried right now.