Saturday, January 23, 2021

Bernie meme goes offline in the East Village

The ubiquitous bemittened Bernie meme is now a wheatpaste... as seen above on 13th Street at Avenue A... and here on Bleecker and the Bowery...
... and outside Overthrow, the boxing gym on Bleecker near the Bowery... Bernie is wearing boxing gloves instead of hand-knitted mittens...
Art by @zui_nyc
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11 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 9:15 AM

    That is just great - what a riot!!!

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  2. AndyJanuary 23, 2021 at 10:29 AM

    Meh

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 11:03 AM

    No idea what people find so hilarious still. I’ve seen ~2 funny memes from it.

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    1. WJanuary 24, 2021 at 4:17 AM

      The arbitrary quality of it and seeing it in so many contexts

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  4. Beacon, NYJanuary 23, 2021 at 11:16 AM

    Another guy who seems to be strongly against American governmental policies.

    Sitting Bernie!

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 2:38 PM

    shut out again...

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 23, 2021 at 3:33 PM

    That was fast what's next, "Banksy" version ?

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  7. Eden BeeJanuary 23, 2021 at 3:59 PM

    Needs more Coooooooooooool.....

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  8. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2021 at 4:01 PM


    Bernie is an icon of real grassroots power working within the system to change it, that's why you are seeing his image everywhere.

    Without him exerting his considerable influence on the Democratic Party, we would still be in the grip of morally bankrupt Reaganomics for the foreseeable, if not outright Trumpian fascism.

    We all owe him a debt of our gratitude and, to me at least, that's what the meme represents.

    Viva Bernie!

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  9. vermagicJanuary 24, 2021 at 8:26 PM

    It's just a whole lot of fun and he approves! But we must be wary of putting any ONE PERSON on a pedestal. This is not what Democracy is about. It's a form of fascism... if we haven't learned that over the past few weeks we are doomed. Love Bernie but he is not god. He'd be the first to admit that. Democracy is an act and a lifetime responsibility.

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  10. XTCJanuary 25, 2021 at 9:11 PM

    "The entire dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity."

    -Flaubert

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