system
A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
The fact I, a guy who has never owned a vehicle, clothes from anything other than a thrift store, and used cell phones in my life, **constantly** get to hear "mmm yet cell phone vuvuzula" proves that not everyone is as good about only using the argument correctly as you are.
gpt
Because I sometimes feel that the art of actually making arguments is lost, people just want to hurl memes, strawmen and fallacies at each other. This meme *does* have a point, a pretty good one, actually, but 99% of the time it's just used as a strawman to shut down discussion and critique from the right.

The origin of the meme comes, IIRC, from when OWS had its own Doreen moment when someone interviewed a protestor wearing very obvious commie memorabilia and asked about their ideal society. They responded predictably, one where personal property was abolished and something something state. The reporter then said "What about your iPhone?" And rather than making a nuanced point about how in a technologically driven society, you have to have the means to communicate at the level of the majority of society, or stating that nothing in the *philosophy* of Communism mandates poverty and bread lines, he made some braindead response of "oh well that's private property, not personal property, you can't have it." And of course the right-wing boomers (who at the time were much more libertarian as the Tea Party) had a goddamn field day with that.