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[–] Throbbing_Banjo@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's literally a whole right-wing movement who picked their name because it rhymes with "Civil War Two."

But sure, calling attention to the very thing the right has been very loudly advocating for since at least 2008 is "predictive programming."

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lmao. It's a meme. Not a "movement". Those out of the know he is referring to "civil war 2, electric boogaloo"

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Memes and jokes have been used to disguise cultural movements, not just once, but always.

"Just joking" about wanting to kill you, before actually killing you, is not a new idea. There were always people who thought it was "just a joke", then the killing started.

If you are using those jokes and memes, you are helping those movements.

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yep! The_donald was one big meme fest in the beginning.

There's a whole political science research on it.

Starts as a joke. Some who don't get the joke join and get so loud, they push the jokesters away. Continues to grow and spiral.

Other examples: Earth is flat.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I'm waiting for birds aren't real to be replaced with actual looneytunes that believe 100% in it.

[–] FluorideMind@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I've been in this so called right wing movement. It's a bunch of larpers memeing.