• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 days ago

    Just a bit of absurdism. Modern-day leftists often fight over the legacy of Marx, who was hugely influential; the joke here is that “IF MARX WAS HERE TODAY HE’D-” and instead of “be ‘x’ ideology” it’s “Enjoy a well-regarded classic game”

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        11 days ago

        No worries! Sometimes memes seem like they might have some more subtle joke to them, but no, in this case it’s just being silly.

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            11 days ago

            a cigar is just a cigar

            I have never heard this saying before, what the fuck could a cigar be? Did someone think it was a worm? a stick? a bomb??

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              it’s a reference to a (possibly apocryphal? i’m not very well educated) anecdote about sigmund freud. freud had a hypothesis that basically any phallic object in a dream represents an actual phallus because supposedly basically everything in the human psyche is connected to sex. someone pointed out his fondness of cigars and he replied with the quote, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”