Ukraine tweets Simpsons gif to Russia, this is 2017

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Majine

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LINK of the sequence

Or just the gif:

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Turns out World War III is going to be fought with dank memes
 
I can see the new games.

Call of Memes: Modern Memefare / Memeops
Memefield
Agent 007: Memefall
Edge of Tomorrow 2 -> Meme of Tomorrow / Meme Die Repeat

All right, I need to stop...
 
I think the whole thread is worth checking out. Putin was trying to twist the history again and Russia account was trying to derail it. I'm glad Ukraine is stepping up its social media game, because let's be honest - reality doesn't matter anymore. :)
 
ItIsOkBro said:
war catalysts:
ww1 - assassination of franz ferdinand
ww2 - hitler declaring war on poland
ww3 - a dank meme on twitter
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Pakistan did threaten Israel with nuclear war over a fake news article the defense minister had read on twitter, so you could be right with this. We are in an era where people like Kim Jong-Un, Erdogan, Putin, Trump and Duterte are leaders of large countries. All are brash with thin egos. Just imagine Duterte calling Trump a son of a whore or tweeting out a picture of his tiny hands.
 
The best of times, the worst of times.

Air Zombie Meat said:
I'm sure there was a time when twitter threads weren't just a list of gifs.
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(Most) people finally learnt that trying to condense complicated issues into 140 characters makes them look like idiots and that simpsons gif threads are the true purpose of twitter.
 
Air Zombie Meat said:
With text? Anyway not complaining, I don't use twitter. Just seems like every time I check a twitter link these days it's mostly gifs and memes.
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Sadly, that seems to become the norm. People don't really have anything to add, but still want to post something to be seen I guess, and a funny picture does that.
 
So, is the picture of trees and the picture of a church part of the insults? They just look like random pictures.
 
Rest said:
So, is the picture of trees and the picture of a church part of the insults? They just look like random pictures.
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I'm not sure about the church but the implication I got about Moscow's picture is that "Moscow" didn't exist yet in 1051. Wikipedia says the city wasn't founded until the 1300s.
 
Id much rather prefer a simpsons gif over tWitter threads 1/12 that everyone seems entitled to do nowadays. I barely read your 140 characters; what makes you think I'll read ten or twelve of them? Sure I'll a read a journalists threaded tweets, but joe schmoe? Nah, dawg.
 
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So, is the picture of trees and the picture of a church part of the insults? They just look like random pictures.
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It stems from something Putin said:

Putin was in Paris on Monday, to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron. The meeting was awkward. Russian propaganda outlets backed Macron's opponent, far-right populist Marine Le Pen; hackers seemingly aligned with Russia hacked Macron's emails and dumped them publicly. Indeed, Macron specifically went after two Russian state-run media outlets, RT and Sputnik, in his comments, attacking them as "deceitful propaganda."

But for Ukrainians, the meeting was upsetting for a different reason. During Putin's opening remarks, he dated the French-Russian friendship back to the 11th century, specifically a French queen from eastern Europe named Anne. Putin described her as "Russian Ani," pointing to her a symbol of cooperation between the two countries.

Except Putin left something out. Anne is best known as Anne of Kiev — Kiev being both her hometown and the current capital of Ukraine (now spelled Kyiv).

At the time, Kiev was the capital of a country called Kievan Rus, which covered bits of territory from a number of different countries in the area (including contemporary Ukraine and Russia). By claiming Anne for Russia, Putin appeared to be claiming all of this shared history for Russia exclusively — and Ukrainians were not pleased.

"My dear French friends, Russian President Putin tried to mislead you today," Dmytro Shymkiv, a Ukrainian official who works on digital issues, wrote on Facebook shortly after the comments. "Moscow did not even [exist] by that time."

Ukraine's official Twitter account followed Shymkiv's line almost directly in its first post on Tuesday morning — trolling Putin by pointing out that Moscow didn't exist, so it doesn't make sense to call Anne Russian
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The church pic is in another Kievan Rus city that did end up in Russia.
 
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