The Tucker-Putin interview is only a day in the past and devolves already in an absolute failure for Putin and his lesser minions in the West. I have already made my initial statement that the distorted history lesson of Eastern Europe was an absolute blunder. The attention span of the regular social media screamer from the right (and left) cannot exceed the length of a 3-minute tik tok video. Neither can their average meme-IQ last a text longer than 280 characters.
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But it is not only that. As you can see in the reposted text, it is even in Russian social media space where people are rather dismayed about the trajectory of this interview. Some even correctly assess that Putin's obsession of history - or better his distortion of thereof - is rather contrary to the intended goals. Putin is very much trapped in in his deluded world and then makes decisions as before February 24 for a full scale invasion which even many in his circle call ludacris.
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Nothing good for Putin and his followers. Putin incessant behaviour in distorting history and reality devolved into an own goal. Claiming that it was Poland and not Hitler who forced WW2 to happen is even for the hardcore follower a tough pill to swallow. Everyone understands that this is only the notion of a madman, and if this kind of argument is used on nowadays Ukraine as Putin did, then anyone can do the math how "sound" Putin's arguments are when it comes to Ukraine.
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However, Tucker and Putin achieved something. They created a new meme template which is flooding the social media channels, in other words, the exact opposite what both wanted to achieve. They and especially Tucker in hindsight will realize that his followers react to this far better. But I'm sure that they did not expect to be at the receiving end of this after the interview.
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@davoloid
Not from russia, but pretty good: https://mastodon.social/@charlotteclymer/111904318711178547
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@davoloid
Some reactions from russia: https://agora.echelon.pl/notice/AeiNJDHoYeLbxXqD44
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@older @Tendar Interesting point about memes is that when they work well they share an idea that crosses cultural boundaries and languages. In fact a well known meme helps illustrate ideas from a foreign culture. So someone can post a meme about, e.g. Finland, and it will translate.
Strikes me that Russian culture is still very insular and isolated (has been for centuries, which is part of their core problems) and this is reflected in their memes.
Memes about an asset and his boss
@davoloid @Tendar
here are a couple