The context of this story is even sadder than the headline suggests. The 50,000 incarcerated people who were given suffrage are actually those who have been in prison without actually having received their sentence yet. The total prisoner population in Mexico is over 232,000.
This came about only after two indigenous people were arrested and held in prison since 2002 while they were never told what they were arrested for in their native language (they didn’t speak Spanish). Apparently they were tortured too. All the time they never received sentencing so they were still technically innocent and were granted the right to vote in 2018.
Not a bad article, memes aren’t easy to write about.
In my view they’ve basically the modern version of the “old saying”. In days past, if grandma wanted to teach you a basic lesson about some basic life principle, she might say something like “what goes around comes around”.
You can imagine that had technology allowed, she might include an amusing pic and make that message the pic caption, just to add value and clarity.
Since a meme can communicate so much more with visuals in addition to words, we’ve branched out with them a lot. But in essence, they’re just iterations on the concept of maxims/proverbs/efficient communications of folk wisdom, with a general tendency towards humor.
As someone that has always enjoyed breaking down and analyzing the specific language of those old sayings, I get a lot of the same enjoyment from meme analysis.
Found pretty crazy that the inaugural game is going to be in Uruguay, it’s have something tk do with the first world’s cup? Also Paraguay and Argentina playing their first game as locals.
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