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How Memes Led to an Insurrection (not satire) (www.theatlantic.com)
posted 3 years ago by xleb2 3 years ago by xleb2 +21 / -0
How Memes Led to an Insurrection
A president who understood the power of memes was able to send thousands of people into battle against democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
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– realerfunction 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

there was no insurrection.

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– current_horror 22 points 3 years ago +22 / -0

I have yet to encounter a single lefty who can explain to me how an insurrection in the most armed country in the world somehow failed to bring any guns.

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– Assassin47 11 points 3 years ago +11 / -0

I wish there had at least been an attempted insurrection, but there wasn't even that.

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– xleb2 [S] 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

The 2020 election illustrated that social media could be turned against U.S. democracy when wielded by domestic political actors who understand how to use it to make their ideas go from the wires to the weeds. Trump was the first president to fully adopt meme wars as a campaign and governing strategy. He retweeted memes, amplified the voices of devoted meme warriors, adopted into his official campaign materials memes that had been workshopped on 4chan, and frequently behaved as a “general in the meme wars,”

Memes are killing democracy!

archived - https://archive.ph/hzVoZ

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– wuhan_2020_tour 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

It's amazing how the publication of complete gibberish in a major magazine is not even a noteworthy occurrence.

The most powerful warriors now face indictment, prison, bankruptcy, and loss of family and identity, but their ideas, carried into the bloodstream of our society through memes, persist: Learn to code. It’s about ethics in journalism. Race is real. It’s okay to be white. Critical race theory. Let’s go, Brandon. Blue Lives Matter. A deep state operates extralegally inside the U.S. government.

Where to even begin with this?

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– OldBullLee 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

The Atlantic is a shitrag shilling for globohomo.

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