I remember before it was general knowledge that literal neo-nazis were the chief purveyors of pepe memes, when we’d pass them around on tumblr like fucken clowns. Anyway, the Department Of Government Efficiency is absofuckinglutely named after the same meme as elron’s crypto rugpull “dogecoin.” It is. It is a massive “fuck you” to all the innocent summer children of internet foolery past, that hey, look, you helped this happen. This is always what it was about. Soft-pedaling the death of democracy.
The thought had crossed my mind the first time I saw a news article about it, but like so many things in the era of Fascist Deathclown AmeriKKKa, I didn’t even know whether to believe the article was real, or a joke. So it took a few days to sink in, days during which I may have posted a meme or two. Like earlier this week. I think, no more. Gonna figure out a different way to be on the internet, in my remaining time here.
No more memes. The nazis dug up that cheezburger cat and crucified him on the whitehouse lawn. Matt Furie’s frog ripped his skin off and sunk his carcass in a peat bog. Somebody once told me the shrek theme guys headlined a superspreader event in the heart of the pandemic. The doge is a government entity devoted to killing poor people through “austerity” policies. Any hope for gradual change to a better USA and a better world is triple fucking dead right now, and irony is the weapon that killed it.
Memes served a purpose for those of us who aren’t soulless nazi fucks, and not sure what we’ll replace them with. Well, I’m probably the only person in the world that is going to hew to this policy, so I’m not sure what I’ll replace them with. I’ll figure it out.
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You do whatever you need to do to keep your sanity. At a higher level it won’t work in the long run. Whatever you go into will either be a niche so small nobody notices or it will accumulate Nazis also. The far right is bad at creating society at large. Nobody wants to associate with them and they often have trouble associating with each other. Instead they worm their way into existing social movements and corrupt them from within. From the smallest like 4chan politics and memes to large groups like atheism and freethought. The smarter authoritarian types know what they are doing and do it intentionally. Joining any sort of social group to use it to spread their propaganda and recruit. The more common clueless ones just do it by accident.
this may not be the most carefully thought out thesis, but it was mostly an excuse for the creative writing in the third paragraph. plus i do think muks threw a tire iron thru my enjoyment of memes and i am going to try to stop using them.