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• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    rollingstone.com/…/9-11-meme-gen-z-1235097749/

    businessinsider.com/how-9-11-become-gen-z-favorit…

    These are from the last day.

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    • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The connection is also absurd, hence a absurdism.

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Ps comedy is subversion of the expected.

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      • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You’re taking memes way too seriously.

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  • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When does someone throw a shoe at Bush Jr?

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• match@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  girl problems 😔

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• Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Ok. But why his location? Because the Obama administration said they buried him secretly. Thanks for the response.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ask the lizards in charge.

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  • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • Professorozone@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I see. Thanks.

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