The point of the post is that if Trump had said that he wanted to kill every immigrant at gun point, there wouldn’t be any jokes or memes about it, because it’s a dangerous statement that would be taken seriously by anyone.

By making memes about him saying immigrants are eating dogs and cats, then we are “signaling” that what he said isn’t terrifyingly dangerous, we’re taking it as ridiculous and funny and not to be worried about. And that plays a role in normalizing all the stupid shit he has been saying.

As a disclaimer, Trump is a piece of shit and I am DEFINITELY NOT saying both sides are bad (I fucking hate that argument). But the argument in the post is a valid one. Of course there are also some upsides to the memes. First they are funny but they also cause those words to reach out to more people which hopefully has an effect in terms of voting against him

Firstly they don't hear your ridicule, but if they do they've been trained to believe that you're punching down on them

Only one I've seen was a mugshot of Alf, and if you're ever seen the show that shit is hilarious.

I don't think he was shown eating a cat on the show, but he talked about eating them, and he was literally a furry alien.

Yeah, people are dancing on TikTok to techno remixes of Trump saying that Haitians eat cats and dogs. People are normalizing it because they think it's funny.

No, he's saying racist shit about immigrants. It's worth ridicule, but it's not a joke...

The jokes are the counter narrative by showing how fucking stupid the racism is.

There's both humor and serious responses to this, both doing the same job of saying it's stupid lies. The alternative is to ignore it, which means it only circulates in the circles where it's meant to drum up real action instead of just a meme. Do you have another solution instead of countering it with how ridiculous it is?

What possible counter narrative could you have to "those people over there are eating cats!" that hasn't been said?

Its flagrantly wrong at a factual level, incredibly racist in a predictable way, and utterly stupid. All three of these points have been argued and repeated and made national headlines over and over again, counter to the evil things that are being said by the racists in the GOP.

What else is there? What "counter narrative" is missing?

and WAY too many of the "jokes" are just context-free memes that are only satirical if you ALREADY KNOW the fucking allegations are false! it's 2024, we should know better.

Define "counter-narrative". It's what you wanted, right? But you didn't. Instead you're blaming is for mocking absurd racist claims because ... checks notes ... other racists might or might not get violent.

And look, I've already read a handful of articles on the hoax just from whatever shows up in my subscriptions here or on RSS or whatever. People are addressing it head-on. That is happening, even if you don't see it. So, do you have any data to back up your claim.

RFK jr in shambles

You know, some of the best scholars are saying, and believe me folks, these people are saying, our numbers should be better folks, people are telling me, people are honestly saying to me that our numbers should be better, and I mean we have the, you know, we have the concept of a plan with the best people on it to get those numbers better folks.

Shout out to any one or two in oarticular?