Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 75,000 likes and 60,000 shares. This meme claims “victory” over the recent Army Corps of Engineers decision to deny easements over a small portion of the Dakota Access Pipeline…
Courtesy of Dan Arel, with over 47,000 likes and 37,000 retweets. It was also picked up by many Facebook pages, most notably Occupy Democrats, with over 84,000 likes and 45,000 shares. This meme claims that…
This meme lambasts Mitch McConnell and claims Social Security and Medicare are 100% funded by FICA taxes and don’t contribute to the debt. These are both wrong.
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 66,000 likes and 38,000 shares. This meme is a bit older, (published on January 15, 2016) but it’s still worth examining the economic record of Obama compared to Reagan,…
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 16,000 likes and 11,000 shares. Leaving aside the fact that this guy is holding a shotgun, which isn’t exactly “military-grade”, this meme raises an interesting historical question. Has the…
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 25,000 likes and 44,000 shares. This meme points to a litany of items that are supposedly examples of democratic socialism, and gives us an ultimatum. Choose democratic socialism, or…
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 8,000 likes and 3,400 shares. This meme tries to shoot down the argument that raising the minimum wage results in price increases, by pointing to Seattle and their $15/hr…
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 46,000 likes and 36,000 shares. This meme makes several claims about FDR and the Great Depression, some of which are either wrong or very misleading. We’ll break it down…
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats. The idea of democratic socialism has become quite popular recently, as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is a proud, self-described “democratic socialist”. Sanders and his supporters are quick to point out that…
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 48,000 likes and 46,000 shares. This meme manages to be false, misleading and snarky in its assessment, but we’ll focus only on the first two. Wrong Numbers As of…
