• modifier@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    I’m a huge fan of the original joke, but I actually feel like this is misinformation that could be bad for the campaign and I’m happy to respectfully discuss why I feel that way.

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      3 months ago

      I agree, a subtle reference like he did was funny but they should leave it at that, there’s more than enough substantial stuff to run on.

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      3 months ago

      I’m on board with you. It can seem easy to stoop to their level but disinformation tactics are harmful in the long term no matter who is using them.

      I’d rather talk about what a peice of shit he is than about something outright false and easily disproven.

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        3 months ago

        Nobody is stopping you from doing so.

        But remember to enjoy the lulz. I don’t think the couch meme in its own hurts the man … Everyone understands that the Internet goes wild with stuff. It’s his policies that make him dodgy as hell, but sometimes we gotta stop and appreciate the spectacle of it all.

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      3 months ago

      the right is filled with hypocrites lol. Y’all set the new standard when you were a-ok with Trump shitting on captured soldiers calling them losers, and all the thousands of lies he told. but one guy makes a joke online and you want to cry about it?

      that time has passed. We are going to swing that pendulum hard with every dirty trick you used on us.

      zero sympathy, bury these fascists under mounds of embarrassment.

      JD wears as much eyeliner as a 16 year old girl, there are so many things we can make fun of.

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      3 months ago

      We are in the post fact era. We’ve been trying facts since 2016 and they just bounce off them. Insults are the only thing that matter to them. That’s their language. We’re multilingual, they aren’t.

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      3 months ago

      Literally nobody is making it out to be real information. It’s a meme, and it’s hilarious precisely because of how it deconstructs the new absurdist zeitgeist while also intersecting with the “JD Vance is fucking weird” meme