Meme scholar Aidan Walker described it as an “ironic dog whistle”—material that is plainly anti-Semitic, but stylized and self-referential enough that users can deny belief while still spreading the narrative.
Thing that worries me is that they can just ban all this off of social media later and pivot into mass surveillance industrial complex. I can see people overwhelmingly supporting it too, because they think the phone is what turned their kids into little Nazis. That’s what will be on everyone’s minds.
And if this doesn’t work out, then of course all the indoctrinated kids can become violent enforcers of the empire. It’s a win/win either way for them. As long as capitalism doesn’t become threatened it’s always a win.
Thing that worries me is that they can just ban all this off of social media later and pivot into mass surveillance industrial complex. I can see people overwhelmingly supporting it too, because they think the phone is what turned their kids into little Nazis. That’s what will be on everyone’s minds.
And if this doesn’t work out, then of course all the indoctrinated kids can become violent enforcers of the empire. It’s a win/win either way for them. As long as capitalism doesn’t become threatened it’s always a win.