Looking at the meme... You might think that... But in truth - I took someone else's meme (which used what I'm guessing was a direct quote from that well-know, African-American comedian) that I'd found somewhere on Imgflip (probably in the comments) - and recontextualized it into a statement about the darker aspects of human nature, as found on teh Interwebs.
Granted - under today's ToS and particularly the tight standards of MSMG - it wouldn't fly... But at the time I submitted it, it was approved. I guess we're going into the kinds of debates that the Supreme Court once did, about what's "obscenity". At the time, the standard was about weighing something called "Redeeming Social Value"... So certain books, like "Portnoy's Complaint", "Lady Chatterley's Lover", or "Tropic of Cancer", etc. - were deemed not to be 'obscene', because aside from the sex, they had artistic merit. I would argue that this was the case with this meme, as well.
Though it appears that it was 'unfeatured' back to "submitted in Fun" - even though when it was made, there were no streams, just Imgflip. And a Mod approved it back then... I guess SOMEONE must have found it and 'flagged' it... And now today's ToS and standards have censored a work of art, from the past. So I guess I must have you to thank for that negative addition to the historical continuity of Imgflip.
Not SOOO ridiculous, now. His 'bull in a China Shop' motif, was part of his brand. Similar in many ways to Heath Ledger's Joker.
Sometimes that was a good thing - like defunding the WHO, and making noises about NATO disbanding... But at the end of the day neither push was really successful or irreversible. Meanwhile in many other areas his orientation was profoundly damaging, like it was in the lives of Asylum Seekers and Refugees.
You're welcome! I spent some time, answering all of those deleted attempts at DNCIA 'Hasbarah' - so it's good if it can help people.
I spoke to norsegreen - and it turns out that it was just a random ex post facto rules enforcement... We worked it out, between us. I think the relevant rule for what belongs in a stream, should be the rules in place, at the time it was first featured in a given stream....
Stuff from before separation of the funny and the politics etc. Got stuck into "fun" randomly, it appears. Since most of my memes try to do both, some of my older memes get randomly unfeatured, because they were moved to "fun", and not politics, when the stream system was created. Then a Mod finds them, and retroactively declares them not 'fun' enough - so then they disappear, along with the historical timeline of pre-'streams' imgflip
