member berries

A meta-analysis of the forces driving Donald Trump's election success, anthropomorphized as smiling grape-like fruits. Member berries represent insight by South Park's creators into the alt-right's ground game: an avalanche of references to 80s and 90s culture, noted for its repression of non-white, non-heterosexual elements, distract from the far right's contempt for the social progress achieved in the 2000s and 2010s and act as a buffer against confrontation by social progressives over the right's continued resistance. Member berries are especially powerful in the context of "family friendly" environs, such as community Facebook groups, IRC, and informally organized meetings, in that they focus the conversation on media that is likely to be less diverse in its presentation. Member berries remind the alt-right, the far-right, and the white center-right of ostensibly shared goals and create a climate of exclusion and discrimination against non-whites and non-heterosexuals. The very memory of less tolerant times is enough to create rage in the out-group, which feels invited or even obligated to act out in protest. The act outs in turn invite (or compel) "centrist" moderators to remove the excluded, thereby cutting the out-group off from the community and marginalizing its representation in debate. Once the white/hetero element is consolidated, hateful rhetoric is ratcheted up considerably and white nationalist themes become "normalized" in the group.

"'Member Chewbacca again?" "I 'member!" "'Member feeling safe? And no ISIS? 'Member when marriage was only between a man and a woman? 'Member Reagan?" "Oh yeah, I 'member!"

"Something wrong with these member berries!"

by tcaud November 26, 2016

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member of the circle

uMember of the circle (moc/c/circle)
Before this can be defined, we need to know the origins.
In one startrek episode there was a group called 'the circle' whose logo kept popping up everywhere. The circle are a group who reckon that only bajorans should be on bajor.
So if someone's a member of the circle, it means that they are really anti-immigration to the point where they might well be willing to build <country's> great wall, especially if there has been some past bad experience with people coming in and this stems from a slight to severe over-reaction to that past injustice.

Random person: *builds <country's> great wall.
Me: What are you doing?
RP: *starts lecturing me about immigration and how immigrants have no rights to be here and such.*
Me: You are such a member of the circle/You are such a circle/You are such a cm.

((DISCLAIMER: Random person does not represent my viewpoints - he merely represents the circle's beliefs.))

by Walking Talking Dictionary February 7, 2007

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Member McJones

a man of supreme sexual nature. A very urbane fucker that gets laid alot, without getting STDs or getting girls pregnant. A sex god in human form no less.

Dude, how awesome would it be to be a Member McJones?

by membermcjonesAWWWYEEAA December 22, 2010

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