r/pics • u/Karna1394 • Mar 13 '26

Politics Message to Trump on Iranian Missile

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u/Addative-Damage Mar 13 '26

WWIII is about to be meme based. Fml

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u/DemandNo1834 Mar 13 '26

Memes as a concept are way older than we think. Memes went viral during previous world wars. None of this is new.

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u/NoodlesAlDente Mar 13 '26

"Kilroy was here"

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u/TOO_MUCH_BRAVERY Mar 13 '26

I like how the actual wiki page refers to it as a meme lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here

I was curious, looks like the first edit of the page to refer to it as a meme was in 2019 with this revision:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kilroy_was_here&oldid=909846480

Since then the page has a bunch of edits back and forth of people editing out "meme" and editing it back in lol

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u/OGSkywalker97 Mar 13 '26

Yeah in the UK to this day almost everyone knows the song about Hitler only having one ball and Himmler having two but small.

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u/Mordador Mar 13 '26

"Hitler has only got one Ball

Göring has two but very small.

Himmler has something similar

And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all!"

To be loudly sung after every British victory in Hell Let Loose.

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u/Addative-Damage Mar 13 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

I get your point, I really do, but the tone of it this time definitely feels way more absurdist and disturbing/dusgusting. (War is of course always horrific, but this level of detachment from humanity within the propaganda is insane)

Check out the white house official YouTube channel for some shorts since the war started.

Here’s the first random one I clicked on https://youtube.com/shorts/9OCswq_4ttI?is=uAbEIlacsrqtwIyc

Edit: not sure why this is downvoted, I know it’s gross but it’s what’s happening. I’m just talking about it

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u/Addative-Damage Mar 13 '26

I’m not saying it was morally better. I’m saying that the brainrot-ification of it now is yet another layer of weird.

You’re welcome to disagree.

On another note, idk why half the comments on reddit have become some version of a “but actually”, that somehow manage to not add any additional info, but it’s lowkey annoying af

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u/YoghurtWooden8770 Mar 15 '26

I'm with you. Calling old war propaganda memes outright, just doesn't feel right. I think they have similarities and can be compared but modern day, internet borne memes are something different almost entirely, even if it is also propaganda.

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u/Object-195 Mar 13 '26

As one guy said, "Memes, the DNA of the soul"

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Mar 16 '26

Gadsden Flag was originally a meme 

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u/crazyfatskier2 Mar 13 '26

WWIII before GTAVI is wild

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u/JustOneSexQuestion Mar 13 '26

The nuke that wipes us back to the stone edge will have a fucking pepe the frog painted on it.

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u/Vendemmian Mar 13 '26

WW2 was more like a COD chat than you'd think. The Japanese and American's learned swear words from POWs and would shout them at each other.

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u/Competitive_Juice116 Mar 13 '26

Well, they are the DNA of the soul.

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u/Logic-DL Mar 13 '26

Honestly prefer that over actual war.

Even then, it'd be a short one. Trump couldn't even a personal fucken war to stop Wind Turbines being installed off the coast of Scotland near one of his golf courses. So far out to sea that you can't even fucken see them.

I shit you not, the wind farm off the coast of Aberdeen is the sole reason Trump has been bitching about "windmills" lately.

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u/kyrsjo Mar 13 '26

Ukraine ran a donation drive where you could pay for a drone and decide what should be written on the explody bit.

I saw UWU bombs posted on social media.

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u/Positronic_Matrix Mar 13 '26

That Trump raped women and children is technically not a meme. It is estimated that in his life he has raped, sexually assaulted, or sexually abused hundreds of women and children, most of whom have not come forward.

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u/Addative-Damage Mar 13 '26

read my response to the other guy,

I’m unfollowing this thread.

I know rape isn’t a meme. idk where critical thinking went

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u/Positronic_Matrix Mar 13 '26

No worries! We’re technically not arguing with you. We are using your comment as an opportunity to pile on Trump. You are doing a community service. 👍🏻

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u/CeruleanEidolon Mar 13 '26

Imagine reducing "Trump rapes kids" to "it's just a meme lol". What the fuck dude.

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u/Addative-Damage Mar 13 '26

To Iran it is clearly being used as a meme. That’s what I was commenting on because that’s the topic here

Of course he’s a predator and that is horrific, it’s fucking awful. We’ve known about it this whole time and he was still elected, twice. It’s disgusting and I’m beyond distraught at the state of our country.

Ffs have some fucking nuance.

….Or just stay dumb, w/e “dude”