• DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Funny as it is, he’s literally incapable of seeing fault in himself

    I understand his mind so much better, oddly enough, due to watching South Park and seeing the mental gymnastics Cartman’s mind uses to convince himself how he’s actually incredible and everyone loves him.

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      Yeah, Mr. Garrison may have played the role of Trump in South Park, but Trump is an actual Cartman.

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    Ronald McDonald is an asshole, but this is a bit extreme, he’s not a rapist or anything. Kinda mean.

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      The embassy in South Africa has been particularly good since the war started. Funny thing is that Iran always was very stale, buttoned up and intellectual in it’s communication before this war. Former president Khatami infamously referenced Alexis de Tocqueville’s classic work Democracy in America, remarking that it was a text he was “sure most Americans have read” in a CNN interview in 1998. Now they’ve realized that most Americans can barely read, so it’s been memes and Lego videos during this war, and they’ve demonstrated that they are better at braindead propaganda too. Quite impressive.

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        Iran has always been good at memes, they’ve just kept them in Farsi. But Gen Z speaks significantly better English than older generations so it’s easier to get the message across now.

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          Should’ve specified that I meant internationally. Unfortunately, I haven’t followed the internal stuff. Before this war, the international public diplomacy was very academic and formal as far as I’m aware. I guess it’s to be expected that the social media generations would excel at memes, Iranians tend to excel at most things they take seriously. That’s apparent even outside Iran, where Iranian minorities in the west are generally more ambitious in most areas compared to the majority of immigrant communities.