A lesson the Democrats will learn.
No. Not policy. Memes. Yes. It all makes sense now.
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The controlled opposition will learn nothing. They’ve had the capability all along and have never used it. They don’t play for keeps. String the lot of them up and vote people in that will stand up to fascism.
Give me a video of a datacenter exploding and I’ll watch it.
i had lego batman. today’s kids have lego iran war💀
Interviewer:
"In your opinion, if anyone around the world wants to take their revenge on the assassination of Soleimani and intends to do it proportionately in the way they suggest — that we take one of theirs now that they’ve got one of ours — who should we consider to take out in the context of America?
Iranian Cleric Shahab Moradi:
“Think about it. Are we supposed to take out Spider-Man and SpongeBob? They don’t have any heroes. We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn’t have any heroes. All of their heroes are cartoon characters — they’re all fictional.”
They’re brilliant: using Lego to create violent short form cartoons. In a very “master-slave dialectic” way, it’s quite apparent that Americans know nothing about the world while the rest of the world understands us all too well.
Having now read the article, I will also add that this article is exactly emblematic of why Western elites simply do not get this stuff. They don’t even have language to describe it.
Describing these videos as “Trojan horses” is such a bad metaphor. Likewise all the fake-history and myth-making that being politically informative and entertaining are somehow left-wing phenomena invented by Jon Stewart.
People don’t engage with politics rationally, they do it emotionally. Most people engage with most things emotionally; thinking is hard and energy-intensive. Easily absorbed cartoons and entertainment are not “Trojan horses” because there is no secret message. This is the fundamental misunderstanding conservatives have about media: the messages aren’t secret, they are overt and obvious, you just aren’t trained to understand them.
Taking a media illiterate person and flinging complex jargon and symbols at them makes them feel stupid, so they reject it. Feeding them simple symbols (made for children) that speak in the language of simple emotions makes them feel like an insider who understands secrets. This feeling is so good that people start hunting for symbols in things with limited understanding of how to properly do so or experienced knowledge, so they start finding whatever their mind expects to find: demons, angels, enemies, government communist agents, whatever they’re afraid of.
Trump’s camp has become so insular they’ve forgotten that even media illiterate people understand things like not being able to afford food while the president posts a video of himself shifting on you.
My biggest shock with the Iran Lego vids is all of the truth. They’re right about corpulent america and her new fearful leader. Although, to be honest, even before her new fearful leader, most of the truth still applies.
One group of people is seeing none of the news or memes though: the iranian people
The Iranian video in this article is crap, the music doesn’t “slap” as the kids are saying these days.
The rap ones are pretty slick, this one was just saying people are going to become Islamic because Trump and Netanyahu suck.
The Erika one cracked me up. It says what we all thinking.
A Lego one? Do you have a link. I am loving them.
So I originally watched it from a link posted to Reddit but that was taken down. This guy plays the whole thing though.
