The meme is, as of Wednesday morning, still going strong. It hit a nerve—the same nerve, roughly, that had been hit by “binders full of women” and “such a nasty woman” before it.

They often feature heavily armed soldiers and serve to highlight, even in jokes, the tremendous destructive capacity of the armed forces. In turn, such memes have been turned into commercial ...

I wandered further, clicking through the links to Facebook pages like Sassy Socialist Memes and the Bernie Sanders Dank Meme Stash. The images made me laugh, partly because, like an infant ...

it becomes clearer how memes can be weaponized for political warfare. In 2016, Esquire magazine wrote that “Internet mockery was emerging as a legitimate political technique: shitposting.