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AmericaUnderSiege

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22. The destructive meme is still perpetuated, in quotes or not.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #21)

Mon Mar 3, 2025, 08:56 AM

Mar 2025

Wall off the meme and address its goal rather than its specifics. Then it's easy work.

If someone starts a conspiracy theory that a Senator boinked a walrus at a zoo, you do NOT say: "Senator Blank did not boink a walrus at the zoo! This walrus-boinking nonsense needs to stop immediately! No walruses have been boinked!"

The whole point is to get you to say a certain phrase, so don't say it. Some racist nutbars are using false terminology for the Gulf of Mexico. That's all that's happening.

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Correction: It's not about the Gulf of Mexico. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #20

Could be why they put the term in quotes BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #21

The destructive meme is still perpetuated, in quotes or not. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #22

True story but on a news radio report that I heard this morning BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #23

I remember "Freedom Fries." AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #24

Yup BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #25

And right on time, here we go! BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #26