Memes

June 16, 2025 – June 22, 2025

This week’s memes

Meme 1:

Galle Urban (sic) Council

Context: The NPP secured control of the Galle Municipal Council allegedly with the support of an SLPP council member https://www.newswire.lk/2025/06/20/slpp-suspends-galle-councillor-for-supporting-npp/.

Meme 2:

Dude, that is what you call a deal

Meme 3:

Eww, shame on you madam commissioner…You bent the law and plotted to hold secret ballots to get the mayorship for the NPP at the government’s behest, didn’t you? But, what this government said [before] was that it would not influence public officials

Meme 4:

Meme 5:

Medawachchiya with the SLPP (securing power in councils)

Kolonnawa with an SJB member

Nuwara Eliya with Thondaman

Kurunegala with Bathiudeen

Haldummulla with Mano Ganesan

Colombo with independent groups

Batticaloa with Pillayan

Think about it; if Prabha (Prabhakaran) had been alive, council administrations would have been established with him as well

Meme 6:

Not even the Romans ever took such a beating…

Meme 7:

Row 1: Even if any country bombs Sri Lanka, they will not hide in bunkers…

Row 2: Northerners and Easterners

Row 3: The first thing they would do madam is to go stand at a petrol shed

Context: This meme seeks to assert that for the Tamil-speaking communities in the North and East bombings have been normalised, as they experienced similar events during the armed conflict. The meme suggests that the Tamil-speaking communities are more focused on securing fuel, especially given that the escalation of the conflict might cause fuel shortages and an increase in prices.

Meme 8:

Row 1: Old stocks that have not been sold are in the shop

Row 2: Drop a message on two WhatsApp groups saying that there is going to be a shortage of goods due to the Iran-Israel war

Meme 9:

Row 1: Sri Lanka – Iran and Israel must end the ‘war issue’ soon

Row 2: You should first solve the salt issue…

Meme 10:

Top: “Those who bomb hospitals, elderly women and children are cruel. Iran will bear the cost for this” – Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

Bottom: Sir, this is a mirror.