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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.

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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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