It's a little thing called fun. Doesn't have to be referring to the same topic to make a joke reference. In fact, it works better if it's from an unrelated domain
Also recognize it's a tired game of both ends of the political spectrum to convince people the other side is full of monsters who want to destroy them. Look at wartime propaganda. There's plenty of room to disagree with each other and be passionate about our convictions without involving that element.
If your response is, "no but really..", start reading from the top again.
Except if you're working class, then all bets are off. People can laugh at you, dismiss you as white trash, kill your livelihood and tell you to "learn to code" when businesses still getting huge tax cuts "outsource", and your local jobs die, and so on.
Again, start from the top.
If that's seriously true, then there's even less reason to consider this "a little thing called fun."
> Look at wartime propaganda.
Whether or not wartime propaganda is justified, war is not "a little thing called fun."
MAGA's are not good people, regardless of how scared they maybe of others.
Their fear makes them dangerous as they lack the emotional intelligence required to allow others to exist without their approval. Also, they are often well armed and have bene involved in many mass shootings.
Nobody thinks it's fun, except the people who wear the red hats.
People who aren't partisans one way or the other could not give less fucks.
But even bona fide leftists have used red hats ironically and in comic sketches ever since they appeared.
If anything, it's probably people who wear the red hats who would be "insulted" ("oh, you're making a mockery of our slogan!")
The author appears to be Canadian, so maybe he's just oblivious.
> But even bona fide leftists have used red hats ironically and in comic sketches ever since they appeared.
Of course. But the article author doesn't appear to be mocking the MAGA movement, just using an ill-advised expression and photo to make an unrelated point.
An author has to know their audience. Whether or not you personally believe that MAGA revulsion is "justified", it's a mistake to put off a large portion of one's audience, even if that was unintentional.
The author is just using it as a meme-template of "Make X great again", repurposing something considered tacky as a joke, as countless others have done. Obviously ironically, the same way people would use "Just say no" or other slogans ironically. In fact, it's pretty obvious they're anything but sympathetic to the original thing to use it jockingly like this.
It's time to stop being so negative to anything that's not sterile corporate speak, sanitized six ways from Sunday by HR and marketeers.
Just Say No was a largely ineffective advertising campaign from over 30 years ago.
MAGA is the slogan of the previous and possibly next POTUS. This is serious business, and there's a lot at stake. Perhaps democracy itself? I make jokes all the time, but I wouldn't casually joke about this.
And your conclusion is asinine. They love memeing the slogan.
If you do not look at Trump and his memetic strategy and see the rise of fascism in the USA, you have not been paying attention.
Of course that's also what everybody making a bad comparison would say. "I'm my case it's justified".
In fact, if Hitler was re-incarnated in the 21st century, something he would have added "my opponent is literary Hitler" to his playbook - dehumanizing the other side.
But of course those who do that only do it becaue they're "justified" in doing it.