• FriedCheese@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    People here who don’t remember the thanks Obama meme is very sad.

    Anytime anything bad happened people would say “thanks Obama” then it got turned into a meme of people saying it when it didn’t even have anything to do with Obama.

    It got so popular that Obama himself made a meme.

    https://youtu.be/4IdzM1kmP_A?si=BjtCB_rfvoDr45I9

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Haha. Somehow I haven’t seen that before. Obama was a very likeable person.

      Edit: idk why I said “was”. He’s not dead. He is a likeable person.

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        11 months ago

        Eh, Obama oversaw the expansion of our national surveillance state apparatus, so…not everybody felt he was very likable.

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      11 months ago

      It’s not that people don’t remember the meme; it’s that this guy seems like he’s saying it unironically.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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            11 months ago

            I cannot overcome the laws of reality. All I can do is place faith in my fellow humans to rise above the need for /s tags. I figured the line about tipping doctors for writing prescriptions, and the use of a common meme were clear indications that I was being sarcastic. But I get your point, and there is a lot of crazy on the internet these days (always has been, but it’s even more common now).