• Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    Best case for shutting down the internet, imo. Bunch of people with internet poisoned brains in positions of power who would rather talk about an ape that died a decade ago than any problem facing a living human being today.

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      The internet is over, for now. Boomers and businesses killed it, until the next phase in human history.

  • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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    I usually try to read the article…and I’m left wondering what in the ever loving fuck I just read.

    CIA looking for alien blood lines on 23 and me….I can’t tell real life from tabloid shit any more

    As for Harambe, he was not a patriot. He was a beautiful animal that was shot despite being a gentle soul who did not hurt a fallen child. He did not care about human politics or Trumpian bullshit. Lovely being, yes. Martyr, maybe. Patriot, no.

  • Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    I prefer a meme-free white house, is that communism?

    We’re killing people overseas RIGHT NOW. We’re arming other countries doing the same thing RIGHT NOW. These aren’t joking matters. I won’t even get into the various financial problems we’re facing, whilst building a goddamn Octagon on WH the front lawn. If you don’t have something important to say, shut the fuck up white house.

    revolting brevity, Harambe would instinctively attack and dismember any of these clowns on sight.

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    So tired of having a White House that shit posts like a boomer trying to sound cool to 14 year olds

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    WTF even is this timeline?

    This post makes sense, though. None of these clowns would be on the White House if Harambe were still alive. Basic gratitude post.

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    Being a Veteran Of The Internet, I know to take screengrabs with a pinch of salt. I’ll do my due diligence, thank you!

    And, well, I wish I hadn’t. Because now I know this is real and oh my fucking god

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        Jesus christ … whichever 4chan incels were hired to run the U.S. web pages didn’t even blink twice at turning a meme into a governmental announcement.

        This is what it’s about - completely outrageous displays of circusry to distract from it becoming an absolutely, pants-shittingly embarrassing mockery of its former glory.

        The U.S is getting robbed blind and made to look like a buffoon simultaneously.

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          FYI, this is far from the first time they’ve done this since January 2025. This has been the new reality for like a year and a half now

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            I’m never on xitter but i checked the official White House page i believe three or four times last year: it was a wild experience each time.

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      They’re trying to make it uncool to remember Harambe.

      And I bet from now on people will call it a right-wing dogwhistle any time you mention his name…

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        It already was a right-wing dog whistle, it was popular among all groups but it was spread by white supremacist trolls.

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          Since when? Lot’s of people talked about Harambe. What is this nonsense about it being a right-wing dogwhistle?

          Once people decide something is a dogwhistle, then they start calling anyone who says it names like white supremacist or whatever. You’re pulling weight for the fascists by insinuating that anyone who talks about Harambe is a white supremacist. That’s clearly what their intention is, don’t enable their conquest of language and culture by giving credence to that.

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            It’s not a dog whistle so much as it was especially popular among racist 4chan type posters, that was the primary demographic who originally spread it and who the post is shouting out to. It became popular among all sorts of groups, I’m not saying anyone who references it was a nazi or something, a lot of memes used by the right are similar in this way. They will be something innocuous or co-opted from the left or other cultures like the swastika being an Eastern religious symbol. They use art and culture as a tool for their ends like this.

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    First it was the suicidal penguin and now Harambe?

    With all the money they’re pissing away, you would think they could at least hire somebody to design a better propaganda campaign aimed at convincing their base to lay down their lives for the dictator… Or did AI take that job too?