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Varanasi gouldii burrows (i.imgur.com)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I must be out of the loop. What's with all of the Saddam Hussein location memes?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's 9/11 and I drank a Monster too late.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

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, @[email protected] ; on the contrary thank you for keeping us all up-to-date on the latest memes.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The connection is also absurd, hence absurdism.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You’re taking memes way too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

That's a great definition of science! Look at something in the world and take it way too seriously.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

When does someone throw a shoe at Bush Jr?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

girl problems 😔

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Ok. But why his location? Because the Obama administration said they buried him secretly? Thanks for the response.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, it's from a news graphic giving a detailed, annotated breakdown of the "compound" he was hiding in, the compound being an actual, literal hole in the ground, but presented as if explaining some piece of high-tech military hardware, with Saddam himself presented as if he were a component.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I see. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Ask the lizards in charge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

According to the scale, this isn't really Saddam Hussein but just his mini-me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Mini suddam will make a duck very happy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Okay, but do rusty lizards actually build their burrows with a spiral like that? Cool as hell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Who monitors the monitor lizards?