Is anyone else here enjoying today's weaponized social media post?

[needledriver]

As I type this it's up to 156 recs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029218058

Ferfucksake people, I don't know anyone who advocates for over-the-counter sales of fully automatic weapons, but somebody thought it would make a cute meme to conflate rat-a-tat with the right to buy a tactical styled sporting rifle.

Never mind that (as one comment pointed out) when the 2nd Amendment was written the "arms" that "the People" had a right to "keep and bear" were identical to the state of the art arms that the military was using. You can't point this out to people or they start going all "argle bargle militia national guard the people obsolete". But I digress.

Tha Facebook feed from my right wing friends has gone silent on the subject of Trump and actual politics, but that hasn't stopped them from falling back on well worn right wing tropes; Hillary anything is always good for a slam, "rude outspoken" female Senators, vague and unprovable allegations of corruption, elitism, actual mockery of Democratic stupidity (sadly there is no lack of that). It's like the Right Wing Noise Machine - having no real way to excuse or explain away their disastrous Presidency - has decided that they need to keep selling their base on how unhappy they should be with the Left so they don't spend too much time looking at their own sorry mess.

It got me to wondering. It's not like I have never seen Right Wing memes find their way onto the Greatest page before. That shit is insidious.

So, did someone on the Left, filled with hurt and outrage about the "epidemic of gun violence" in the US, create this meme?

Or did someone from a Right Wing think tank make this meme and create it to look like a Left Wing effort? No, I mean this seriously! Look at it. A Founding Father dropping F-bombs. A completely hyperbolic logical extreme straw man argument about "13.3 goddamn bullets per second", all calculated to generate righteous outrage about something that isn't a problem! No one has shot up a school, bar, or church with a machine gun!!!

Making people get all ragey about shit that simply isn't true is a classic Right Wing move. It works with their deplorable, stupid base. Why not try it out on the Lefties and see if any of them will bite? Then we can point to them and say, once again, and with some validity, the Left is coming for your guns!

For that matter, how many to these "recs" are from real DU members, and how many are from the legion of paid trolls kept around to skew the emotional atmosphere around here. That meme simply isn't worth the kind of attention it is getting, so I suspect it is being "pushed".