When does someone throw a shoe at Bush Jr?
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Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months agoso… 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.
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 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 11 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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
The connection is also absurd, hence a absurdism.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Ps comedy is subversion of the expected.
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
You’re taking memes way too seriously.
Rolando@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s a great definition of science! Look at something in the world and take it way too seriously.