• autismdragon [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I’m aware of the existence of Russian “meme warfare” though I think its effect on politics in America is severely overstated.

      But uh, how is this meme that you’re complaining about a “Russian meme”. Or are you just under the delusion that all political memes are Russian or something? How is making fun of Desantis for the pudding thing something Russians would do?

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        I dont know for fact, but I treat any political meme like it might. This combined with it not being relevant to the discussion would make me prefer to just not have them at all

        I appreciate your comment though, it challenged assumptions without being egregious

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          I dont know for fact, but I treat any political meme like it might.

          I don’t really think this is a rational or particularly healthy stance to take on political memes. I can maybe understand if your stance was just “keep the worldnews posts serious”, though I’d disagree with that too. But saying that you’re trying to avoid Russian influence by avoiding memes is… idk. Doesn’t really make sense to me. Political memes aren’t inherently Russian.

          You also have to consider Russia’s like, motives here. I don’t really see a reason for them to want to make pudding jokes about DeSantis.

            • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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              I appreciate your concern, but can assure you I’m mentally healthy

              you totally might be, but the bare fact that you had to say this to someone today should probably prompt you to reflect a bit about all this friend

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                They’re mentally healthy for a westerner

                Which is so rabidly racist and xenophobic that they’re calling out random memes for being Russian as an insult

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                I’m gonna push back on this fam. It’s peak reddit-logo libshittery to internet diagnose someone with mental health problems as a way to “critique” their positions. We’re not about that shit.

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          So you refuse to use or enjoy ANY meme that is political? Because supposedly your countrymen are so stupid that they got swayed by foreign memes into voting for trump?

          That is a line of reasoning I guess.

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                  Sure, we can joke about this but consider, that if I or anybody I know thought like that we simply wouldn’t discuss politics at all. As that’s something that liberals and fascists also do.

                  So you’ve watched enough american media to believe that political memes are something that Russians do, and that they totally destroyed american democracy with those memes? Well, I’ve seen more than my fair share of NAFO and americans online making memes about how non westerners should all be genocided. That won’t keep me from making fun of a fascist like Ron DeSantis with a meme.

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          I dont know for fact, but I treat any political meme like it might. This combined with it not being relevant to the discussion would make me prefer to just not have them at all

          Bro first of all it dont really matter what you want. Second of all it dont think its really healthy to assume any political meme you see is of russian origin lol thats bizarre and incredibly weird

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      The 4chaner pretending their meme magic was invoking ancient gods seem like they have a closer conrction to reality than whoever wrote that. Unless im an idiot and its satire in wich case great bit.

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      US institutes could get their point across a lot better if they didn’t hide all their propaganda behind paywalls.

      All I can read is the first paragraph.