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• Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨year⁩ ago

    The connection is also absurd, hence a absurdism.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ps comedy is subversion of the expected.

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  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re taking memes way too seriously.

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    • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a great definition of science! Look at something in the world and take it way too seriously.

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