@tante@tldr.nettime.org"Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic."
(Original title: The rise of the troll state)
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@detondev@social.linux.pizzahe's one of gen z's memetic totems and brings joy and prosperity into every hearth and home his image is displayed in
@hex@kolektiva.socialThought Slime posted a video on Liberals and Charlie Kirk (linked in my post). It touched on a few ideas I've been wanting to explore more.
Why is it that, even though we talk "memes" going "viral" we are still talking about "Free Market of Ideas" as though ideas were inanimate objects we could handle and observe objectively? Perhaps that idea is it's own infection.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/memetic-effluent-and-the-wet-market-of-ideas
