• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Please explain what is offensive about mocking George W. Bush on 9/11. Why does that hurt you? All you can say is 9/11 made you an orphan. That sucks, but it doesn’t explain why you find mocking George W. Bush on 9/11 when he did something extremely stupid and unhelpful is offensive to you. What he did (or rather didn’t do) is the thing that should be offensive to you.

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      11 months ago

      I’ve already said this elsewhere but memes are not associated with the person, they are associated with the moment, concept, idea.

      Fuck George Bush — he’s a fucking mass murderer.

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        11 months ago

        Please present evidence that memes are not associated with the person. This sounds like something you just made up.

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              11 months ago

              Evidence:

              The vast majority of memes are related to niche personalities or even non-famous people or animals…

              And even those that are related to someone recognizable… it’s never someone learning about the deaths of 3000 people …

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                11 months ago

                So there are no memes that are about the people shown in the meme? That’s what you contend?

                And here you go defending George W. Bush again…

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                  11 months ago

                  your move here should have been:

                  This is just the Murderer Bush learning that the second plane struck. There was no body count at this point.

                  And that’s true.

                  Look. Bush is a murder, psychopath and incompetent.

                  This whole conversation has simply been about the tastelessness that someone who uses this moment as a format takes.

                  It’s as tasteless as using an image of a raping a woman and having the text be: Me winning the lottery.

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                    11 months ago

                    You didn’t answer my question.

                    Telling me what my “move” should have been did not answer my question.

                    I think the reason you didn’t answer the question is that you can’t support your claim, and thus can’t support the reason you’ve been so indignant and rude to everyone.