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> some terminally online people do speak in memes, those people aren't quoting doge in 2025.

You may be surprised to find out how incorrect this.

I can think of two popular conservative sites likely to quote Doge people off hand that do this. I read all news in order not be an insufferable ideologue. So again, off the top of my head, NotTheBee (I think affiliated to BabylonBee (conservative The Onion)) and Twitchy. Among YouTubers, I think Asmond Gold, and I’m sure others like Steven Crowder who himself is in a famous meme.

That said… yea, you are probably right.

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They are referring to the original doge meme of the dog, not the government initiative today. I guess "quote" isn't really the right word, more like "doing"

A reoccurring mistake in this thread. I blame Elon Musk and his boomer humer.

Aren't those sites primarily Russian bots tho?

Isn’t that just a synonym for conservative?

Not conservative but I used to love the meme before it was co-opted by musk, so I will occasionally use it as a "haha now you feel OLD" without thinking of its modern connotations.

Also I think it’s somehow important to not let fascism steal our cultural heritage, even if it’s just a meme.

In my country, far righters are displaying the country’s flag everywhere. Now you can’t display a French flag without being thought as a far right person. That’s honestly insufferable.

I know it’s less important with doge but still : before being a crypto it was just a picture of an overly innocent and enthusiastic dog. And even when it became a little crypto, it was totally assumed that it was a meme coin and wasn’t meant for speculation, the idea was that 1DOGE = 1DOGE only and people gifted them to other people who made nice contributions on the internet.

Musk broke all of this when it started to use it to do gigantic pumps and dumps using his own visibility on Twitter.

We don’t have to let fascism steal all the popular symbols / memes, because they will steal them anyway.

Lets see you try to recover the swastika from fascism ;)

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