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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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.

(edit: I don't mean this as a criticism of you in particular, @[email protected] ; on the contrary thank you for keeping us all up-to-date on the latest memes.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The connection is also absurd, hence absurdism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Ps comedy is subversion of the expected. Absurdism is 1 style. It's more of a call out. You can't kill an idea, but you can make fun of it. Prohibition of ideas just makes them enticing for many folks looking for another answer. See the pinned post on this sub.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29081831/

https://onion20.substack.com/p/20-years-ago-the-onion-covered-bushs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’re taking memes way too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

When does someone throw a shoe at Bush Jr?