If anyone's curious, this is the meme that Doug Mackey was convicted for.
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Idk. It's not really a meme. It's a forged campaign communication complete with "paid for" notification at the bottom. There's a difference between humorously tweeting "hey liberals, dont forget to vote wrong" and actually forging campaign flyers.
If there had been any attempt at humor... a pop culture reference, a funny hillary picture, something... you could say it's an attempt at humor and therefore protected speech. But the fact that it looks like a serious forgery and there is a legal statement at the bottom takes it out of meme territory
Forgery in that sense requires the intent to defraud. He didn't purchase ads, didn't try to get wider coverage than his own subscribers on the platform, didn't make any changes to his account to hide the obvious anti Hillary position, and not a single "victim" was brought forward to testify.
Which is odd.. because.. you could get their phone numbers, right?
Total sham this was allowed.
With the rampant and egregious ballot harvesting, stuffing, machine fraud, and all that they've done during our "fair" elections, this meme pales in comparison. Of course, that's how things have been seen until now....crucify the innocent (or almost) and celebrate the corrupt; Arizona being a perfect example.
Well I'm not saying he should do hard time but I don't think you can use the term "meme" for this image either. Based on what I'm looking at, if I was a jury member I would assume whoever made this did so to trick democrats. If it had "democrats are so dumb they would believe this" or something like that on there, ok. Now it's a joke. Just sending it out there with no further context is a clear attempt to fool your democrat friends. You could try to pass it off as a prank, but "pranking" someone into missing an election is pretty much the definition of "election interference".
Agree, this is no meme,