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[Dr. Benton Quest]

In a tweet sent out by the Russian embassy in the U.K. on Monday, Russia’s government called out British papers for encouraging Prime Minister Theresa May to stop President-elect Donald Trump from getting too cozy with Putin — and then it posted a picture of Pepe the Frog to back up its point.

Link to tweet

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Deny any links with Putin if old.

 

[| Praxis |]

Is this the same person as the Sonic twitter account?

 

[John Rabbit]

Black Mirror was supposed to be fiction though.

 

[Slayven]

at this point Russia is dancing in the endzone

 

[Exile20]

Amazing...

 

[Dr. Benton Quest]

Amazing...

I'll put this in the OP. Thanks.

 

[Fireblend]

This is politics now.

 

[Jme]

 

[Stinkles]

The Twitter thread is full of white nationalists arguing pepe is not a white nationalist symbol.

 

[5taquitos]

what is this world

 

[valkillmore]

This is politics now.

Fucking sick of it already

 

[Mr. Smiley]

yeah thats

thats just depressing

 

[WhateverItTakes]

Whoever would have thought that memes were to become an important part of international relations and shaping a more fractured sociopolitical environment across the world.

Fucking humanity man, you can't write it.

 

[Usobuko]

On one hand, it's a brilliant maneuver targeting the correct crowd successfully.

On the other hand, the prices to be paid are huge.

2016 really opened my eyes.

 

[Spy]

Why is it cool for everyone to be an internet troll nowadays?

 

[Codeblue]

Yeah, sorta done with all this. I liked it better when politicians pretended to have a semblance of dignity.

 

[CertifiedFP]

Launch the nukes, Barry. It's too late. Diplomacy has failed.

 

[GhostBed]

Political twitter wars.

What will be the official term for countries having political disputes over social media?

 

[Wilsongt]

The Russian UK twitter is run by children.

The alt-right is probably eating it up. Maybe they should emigrate to Russia if they love Putin so much.

 

[DukeLongfellow]

 

[Puck Beaverton]

We deserve extermination

 

[cyba89]

The next war will be a meme war. Memes will be the ultimate downfall of mankind.

 

[| Praxis |]

The third world war will be started on twitter and fought with memes.

Edit:

The next war will be a meme war. Memes will be the ultimate downfall of mankind.

Fuck sake, ninja'd

 

[LiK]

We really are the parody of ourselves now.

 

[digdug2k]

This is politics now.

This has been politics for a decade now. The news has literally been reporting stories that read like Junior High popularity contests. Even on here, right now, you see people talking about Obama's "legacy" rather than the actual health and well being of US citizens. Who the fuck cares about Obama's legacy. "Oh no, Obama might not be looked back on as a God in 100 years. The travesty!"

 

[liquidtmd]

Teresa May should retweet with the rage face meme

you see people talking about Obama's "legacy" rather than the actual health and well being of US citizens. Who the fuck cares about Obama's legacy.

Not all but with 'Obamas legacy' they could well be referring to the effects of Obama's measures and diplomacy towards initiatives relating to environmental and healthcare areas that look set to be ripped up.

Legacy does not equate just to 'how people perceive him'

 

[Exile20]

I am not even angry, I am actually laughing because I have no clue how to process this craziness.

 

[| Praxis |]

Teresa May should retweet with the rage face meme

She would illustrate it with a quill and send it via pigeon.

She would do all of this whilst sat on a handicapped, jobseeker immigrant.

 

[SaganIsGOAT]

I am not even angry, I am actually laughing because I have no clue how to process this craziness.

Lol same here 😂💁💁💁

 

[IAmAnAgnostic]

Why is it cool for everyone to be an internet troll nowadays?

Trump was elected the president of United States.

 

[Skyward Sheep]

Oh Pepe, how far you have fallen. It wasn't your fault, it was never meant to be this way...

 

[Syf]

What a time to be alive

 

[Ray Wonder]

This is actually fucking hilarious to me

Swear the world has turned into a big ass highschool, this can't be the embassy of a world super power tweeting this

 

[Madness]

The Twitter thread is full of white nationalists arguing pepe is not a white nationalist symbol.

Won't let Pepe be co-opted by them...

 

[Funky Papa]

Whoever would have thought that memes were to become an important part of international relations and shaping a more fractured sociopolitical environment across the world.

Fucking humanity man, you can't write it.

This is actually fucking hilarious to me

Swear the world has turned into a big ass highschool, this can't be the embassy of a world super power tweeting this

That moment when you realise that 2016 was the preamble to 2017 in more ways than one.

 

[Shmuppers]

What a time we live in, where memes are used in global politics

We need to start imposing meme sanctions

 

[Impotaku]

It's going to be memeageddon i tell ya.

 

[Brawly Likes to Brawl]

Imagine drawing a silly webcomic that barely makes any sense and then years later one of the characters from it became a political symbol.

 

[liquidtmd]

We've reached a point in culture and history where GAF are debating whether the Russian Embassy should lay off the memes.

Buckle up buckaroo

 

[John Rabbit]

Whoever would have thought that memes were to become an important part of international relations and shaping a more fractured sociopolitical environment across the world.

Fucking humanity man, you can't write it.

Twitter and memes are convenient, immediate, and relevant forms of communication for a gigantic population of the planet. It shouldn't really be a surprise at this point. A twitter account can communicate far more with a globally recognized image of poorly drawn, downtrodden frog than it could with a carefully worded 9-page press release.

 

[Neuromancer]

Feels bad, man.

 

[liquidtmd]

I look forward to sitting down with my grandchildren

"I fought with your father in the Political meme wars of '17. He was a good friend"

 

[E92 M3]

Pretty funny to see the pepe meme - always cracks me up. What a time to be alive, stupid internet memes being used for politcs.

I can't wait to see Russia use lolwut.jpg for a twitter response.

 

[theignoramus]

That Pepe imagery is genuinely fucking creepy. I see it as the new swastika and the different, monstrous versions have the kind of imagery that give kids nightmares.
Whoever created that shit & is trying to reclaim it: It's over, you lost, that meme is here for the duration of Trump and probably for years afters hes gone.

 

[TCRS]

😂👌

 

[Gnub]

Pepe pupu papa.

 

[TissueBox]

The Internet is the new frontier.

This is actually fucking hilarious to me

Swear the world has turned into a big ass highschool, this can't be the embassy of a world super power tweeting this

Pff high school never ends!

 

[One Eyed Willy]

Cold Twitter War?

 

[More Fun To Compute]

The British attitude of trust to the US has always been that you can depend on them to do the right thing after they have tried everything else. Russia not so much.

 

[Strike]

Political comedy shows are going to have their work cut out for them. That is if were all still around in the next few years.