By David Futrelle
I‘m not normally a big fan of Russian troll farms. But this wondrous little NoFap meme from Russia’s infamous Internet Research Agency has me reconsidering my position.
Er, you totally can hold hands while masturbating. Don’t these people fact-check their fake memes?
In all seriousness, though, it is a little strange to live in a time in which the Russian government thinks it can gain some sort of advantage in world politics by … creating and disseminating fake NoFap memes. The even stranger thing is that they may be right.
Well, ,at least their memes are more inspired than the memes the NoFappers come up with on their own.
H/T — Chris Hayes on Twitter
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It’s not “distracting nonsense” though. It *directly* feeds into the divide between conservatives & liberals and widens it. Like water running through a tiny crack in a rock eventually splits it. It’s a constant wearing away at people, especially certain kinds of people, to make them angry and afraid and full of hate. Conservative politicians have been doing it for decades and the troll farms and their “nonsense” memes feed into and amplify dangerous, misguided and flat out stupid belief systems to keep people voting against their own best interests or even able to consider they might be wrong. Right now it’s this kind of nonsense, but guaranteed that closer to election time, there will be extreme anti-Democrat memes from these same accounts, who will by then be trusted as sources of “truth”.