Let's brainstorm in the comments

Okay so...

In my opinion, Sloth makes the best looking memes, so I think he should do most of the campaign ads. We should make our own too, though.

We can make some repost chains. I know, it's annoying but it's kind of effective. We can put stuff in it like: Repost for LGBTQ+ rights, ignore for fascists. But we shouldn't do too much of this because it's annoying.

Has anyone else realized me and Sugas are the first members of the LGBTQ+ community to run for office?

No kidding? That’s awesome!

OP did say he was bisexual so count him too. Beez had gay parents, but wasn’t LGBTQ himself, I believe.

I’m flattered, hah. I will say you have the sickest announcement temps though, like of the whole stream. They’re dank af! Haha. Make use of them. Doesn’t even matter all that much what you say. Just get your name out there — every N.E.R.D. candidate, I want to see at least one post a day for PRESIDENTS.

Repost chains: agreed 100% with your comments on effectiveness, but that we ought not to overuse them. When we do it, make sure EVERY N.E.R.D. candidate and hopefully every Party member too participates. Remind them we’re here, and we stand for freedom and against bigotry.

A bad example of a campaign ad would be the Pepe Party ads. They're just cringy, especially the tampon gun memes. The tampon gun memes were just utter cringe.

Although, a type of Pepe party ad I did like were the Tsuyu (Froppy) ads. If you don't know, Tsu is a character from the popular anime, My Hero Academia. In the MHA universe, most people are born with superpowers called "Quirks" and Tsu's quirk allows her to have the abilities of a frog, which is why she was used in Pepe party ads.

Well, I'd like to make a spin-off of that type of ad, but with another character. The main character of MHA is Izuku Midoriya (nicknamed/hero name: Deku). Why?

1. He is my favorite character (lol)
2. He is a nerd.
3. Deku was born quirkless and was given a quirk by All Might and with hard work and training, became the greatest hero in the world. Which is pretty trivial to most people but to me, it represents our journey from a small party with only Sloth as a member to a massive party that has done many beneficial things for the server.

So most of my ads would be Deku themed.

Sugas can make Suga themed ads too if she wants.

Here’s a big one that we, and liberals generally, need to do a better job of: communicating our commitment to freedom.

Liberals are historically very committed to freedom. Our country (speaking of America, with apologies to our many international members) was founded on it, and it’s been passed on throughout the years in our political and cultural tradition. Consider the “Four Freedoms” of Norman Rockwell, which subtly communicates the message that freedom depends to an extent on equality. You can’t have freedom without life, essentially — the things necessary for living, like food and healthcare. You can’t have one without the other. I did this meme for PRESIDENTS stream based on these paintings.

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The idea that American liberals are opposed to freedom and liberty in principle is insane, and yet we hear it, over and over and over again.

One of the most effective attacks by conservatives is that we’re all trigger-happy censors who can’t tolerate any competing opinion. Now, obviously that isn’t true or we wouldn’t be on Imgflip in the first place. It’s a pretty right-skewed site most of the time. You’d go crazy within a couple hours if you couldn’t stand being exposed to conservative opinions. Much of the PRESIDENTS community is conservative or libertarian. Same, we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t comfortable interacting with them.

So let’s highlight our points of agreement with them.

When we advocate for LGBTQ rights, for instance, emphasize the fact we’re fighting for their liberty to speak freely and equally to others.

Hmm, like you guys said, repost chains. Should we focus on our platform? So we let people know what we want.
Also, Jemy and Sloth (And Randomness, if you're reading this), what is our stance on attack ads? Sloth IMO, makes the best attack ads. He doesn't explicitly attack the other party, nor explicity criticise their beliefs.
He mostly just shadows what they're doing wrong. I suggest leaving attack ads to him. He also makes em stand out quite a bit (I've never seen someone use Kylie Minogue so consistently before).

Attack ads are good but imho they shouldn’t be the only thing we make.

Yeah! It makes us look tacky

Why thank you. Never really sat down and thought about my "attack ad" method before. But yeah. I try to be more subtle and indirect. For instance: I made a couple of memes tonight about the impeachment that highlight what we stand for as a Party, but also implicitly criticize what we stand against: homophobia and authoritarianism.

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I certainly stay away from the Pepe Party mode of spamming lots of disgusting memes about RUP. It can backfire and make yourself look disgusting. Example from tonight:

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I actually upvoted that one since I'm simply so fed up with RUP/"AUP" at this point, but I don't think a meme like that is going to change anyone's mind that isn't already convinced.

Pepe Party bombed last cycle, despite working harder and making probably more ads than any Party. It's worth considering why.

I've been transitioning away from Kylie and toward sloths (this meme above is actually Kylie blowing a kiss with a sloth sticker on top, lol). I still pull out Kylie every now and then for good ol' times sake. I find it exciting to simply use random images from around the internet as meme templates and see what I can do with them, even images you wouldn't typically think of as "memes." It's certainly more memorable than rinsing and repeating with the same old popular cliche memes like Distracted Boyfriend and Waiting Skeleton. Those do have their uses too, but I use them sparingly.

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