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[–] [email protected] 240 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“A thing about campaigns is sometimes you just do things for the lolz,” Rob Flaherty, a deputy Biden campaign manager, wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, of the decision to join Truth Social.

This guy knows what's up.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Rob is right around my age and the millennial influence is obvious. The progressive millennials have always ran circles around their foolish republican counterparts. The memery and clowning on silly republican bullshit is effortless. When it comes to social media the right loses every time.

No clearer evidence of that then let’s go Brandon. A true honest to god meme that the right got handed naturally. They lost their shit and beat it to death. I literally saw some loser in head to toe let’s go Brandon clothes.

Of course it got co-opted into Dark Brandon and they ended up only improving bidens image.

I hate that we even have to talk about political meme strategies but here we are. And there’s no one better than the dead inside chronically suicidal for the lulz millennials to lead the change.

Let them clown on the right. They deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Brandon chant is proof that the right can't meme. The left literally out-memed their boomer humor at their own game. Lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree, but the right really isn’t good at processing humor or art. In their minds Let’s Go Brandon is still the epitome of satire. It’s playing chess with a pigeon.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

These are the same people that think attack helicopter is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw some douche in a pickup with a Let's Go Brandon banner on the rear window yesterday, It was accompanied by a chromed plastic 'FJB Edition' badge on the tailgate. Classy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw someone with a Proud Boys decal on the back window. Took everything I had not to call the FBI tipline going 75 down the highway.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I live in the heartland of the south and see trumped out cars everywhere. I’ve seen people with q anon stickers. One guy had like 15 ‘extreme maga’ magnetic decals just sort of slapped on the vehicle all around. Like what the fuck is even that. Even if you are convinced d trump is the savior that’s just.. unhinged behavior.

It’s such a perfect litmus of who is an idiot and who isn’t. If your dumbass took the time to slap a q anon sticker on your truck and keep it there all this time, you are extra Fucking special.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Not that they were all that hard to spot before, but I am grateful they basically announce their stupidity to those around them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately we have a Republican population here, so there are Trumpers about, but for the most part you can’t pick them out unless they start talking to you… but there’s this one lifted pickup truck with huge tires, decorated in Trump decals and flying multiple Trump flags, and most of the time when you see it, they’re hootin and hollerin about something that’s just different than what’s usual around here. It’s just the weirdest thing to see, people will stop and stare at it as it goes by and then will be frozen in place looking at each other for a few moments after it’s gone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Political memes are nothing new. "I like Ike" is as much a meme as dark Brandon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TIL!

The advertisement's memorable jingle turned "Ike for President" into a popular catchphrase; its final line was described by Paul Christiansen as a "party-transcending appeal to voters".[1] Adlai Stevenson II, Eisenhower's opponent, felt that the ad trivialized serious political issues and referred to it as the worst thing he ever heard. Eisenhower's organization planned to broadcast the advertisement five to six times every night during the final two weeks of the campaign in a few targeted areas. Eisenhower won the election in a landslide, though his campaign's advertising expert thought the ad made little difference. Time magazine later ranked "Ike for President" eighth in its list of the top ten campaign advertisements

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ike_for_President_(advertisement)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It goes even further back then that with "Tippecanoe and Tyler too". If I'm not mistaken, that was the first campaign slogan. "Tippecanoe" being William Henry Harrison.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, he really did say that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're about to start bringing Dark Brandon back!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Dark Brandon is the profile picture they used.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

He has to do the weed thing, then he gets to be Dank Brandon.

[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, he's here to fix the drain for the swamp

[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago

I bet they're daring the platform to ban them, so they can go "Hey ... you're not trying to silence your political rivals, are you?"

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!” - P. Venkman

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"It's true, your honor. This man has no dick."

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

-Stormy Daniels

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"I'm gonna send him a nice fruit basket. I'm gonna miss him."

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm interested to see if he gets banned from truth social.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think ToS said you can't criticize ol' Donnie D

So it'll be interesting

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If he gets banned it will be great for shutting down my dad when he pipes up about free speech

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Every little bit helps

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biden’s gotta be trolling him.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

That's exactly why they joined. They said "Converts welcome" and showed video clips of Trump being more of a dumbass than normal.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder if they'll be able to flag things as hate speech violations, and force the platform to take action against its own members..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

As in, flagging posts that aren't hate speech? Because I thought the hate was the point of the site.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ooh I like this. I mean, hypocrisy means nothing in that bizarro world but it'd still be nice to see.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Hahaha that's hilarious. Good move.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I hope the staffer running the account has a good therapist. It could be quite harmful to deal with that much stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I mean just imagine if even one person changes their vote to Democrat based on something they read on truth social, it would all be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Might as well have a little fun before it goes under.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder how many democrats use that platform.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

At least one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

What about Lemmy, though?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

👩‍🍳💋

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