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Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I must be out of the loop. What’s with all of the Saddam Hussein location memes?
lgmjon64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I must be out of the loop. What’s with all of the Saddam Hussein location memes?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
It’s 9/11 and I drank a Monster too late.
Rolando@lemmy.world 10 months ago
so… I’m familiar with the meme, but connecting Saddam with 9/11 was a conservative take used to rush us into an unnecessary war, so… the intent of these memes is a little hard to interpret.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
rollingstone.com/…/9-11-meme-gen-z-1235097749/
businessinsider.com/how-9-11-become-gen-z-favorit…
These are from the last day.
Rolando@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s very interesting… because in these memes, anything can be absurd except for the Saddam-9/11 link; in this way they tacitly propagate the lie that Saddam was connected to 9/11.
Over the past 24 hours I’ve seen memes about the absurdity of saying that immigrants are eating pets in Ohio. But if conservatives wanted to counteract that, they’d adopt the Saddam-9/11-meme approach: propagate memes that similarly involve absurdities but that tacitly assume that immigrants do eat pets in Ohio.
Maybe I’m thinking too much like a scientist. There’s probably already a principle something like: To spread a harmful lie, hide it in a harmless lie.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 10 months ago
When does someone throw a shoe at Bush Jr?
Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ok. But why his location? Because the Obama administration said they buried him secretly. Thanks for the response.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Ask the lizards in charge.
Aqarius@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, it’s from a news graphic giving a detailed, annotated breakdown of the “compound” he was hiding in, the compound being an actual, literal hole in the ground, but presented as if explaining some piece of high-tech military hardware, with Saddam himself presented as if he were a component.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see. Thanks.
match@pawb.social 10 months ago
girl problems 😔