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"tHeY rUiNeD sUpErMaN, mAkInG iT pOlItIcal"
(lemmy.world)
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Let us remember that the entire "The Donald" meme subreddit was entirely satirical when it was made back in the early days of his first campaign. It was people posting memes of Trump as the Emperor from the fascist human empire in Warhammer 40k. (Which is also an entire related topic on its own)
What happened pretty fast is people who didn't get it was satire started coming in absolutely LOVING the worship of the golden clown and started posting unironic memes of Trump riding tanks and carrying eagles and shit. They eventually drove out the people who were there for laughs and it became one of the largest subreddits and a huge chunk of his online support came from that subreddit before it was eventually banned for all the reasons you would expect.
I think we have vastly overestimated people's capability to discern media, we have vastly overestimated our population's capability to rationalize and reason things out. We have a massive segment of the population that has cognitive dissonance baked-in to their very being.
Seriously, I had a whole ass mental breakdown when I started realizing just how bad it is. Most people are on autopilot and just react to stimuli. No brain use. They're fucking CLAMS.