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.
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, @fossilesque@mander.xyz ; on the contrary thank you for keeping us all up-to-date on the latest memes.)
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.
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.
Absurdism, of course.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/9-11-meme-gen-z-1235097749/
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-9-11-become-gen-z-favorite-internet-meme-joke-2024-9
These are from the last day.
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, @fossilesque@mander.xyz ; on the contrary thank you for keeping us all up-to-date on the latest memes.)
The connection is also absurd, hence absurdism.
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
You’re taking memes way too seriously.
That’s a great definition of science! Look at something in the world and take it way too seriously.
When does someone throw a shoe at Bush Jr?