Did the Income Tax Fund the Civil War?
Courtesy of Liberal and Proud of It, with over 8,000 likes and 4,000 shares. This meme is a jab at Bush and other neocons about not paying for the Iraq War. By bringing up the…
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355 Mass Shootings This Year?
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 28,000 likes and 23,000 shares. This meme claims that there have been 355 mass shootings this year in the US (as of December 3rd), an average of more than…
Are These Shooters All Democrats?
Courtesy of Thought Crime Resistance, where it received over 300 likes and 4,000 shares. Similar memes have been sporadically spread by some (though not many) voices on the right, including one by Ted Nugent that…
Guns and Kinder Eggs
Courtesy of Moms Demand Action. This is an older meme, so the amounts of likes and shares can’t be known exactly, but it’s likely in the hundreds of thousands for each. It shows a Kinder…
Was Steve Jobs the Son of a Syrian Refugee?
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 53,000 likes and 46,000 shares. This meme claims that Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian refugee. It links to this USA Today article in the comments, even…
Does Japan Forbid Islam?
Courtesy of Steve Reichert, with over 1,700 likes and 1,700 shares. This meme about Japan restricting Islam is false on almost every claim it makes, and some are real whoppers. It’s true that there aren’t a great…
Is Somalia Libertarian?
Courtesy of Real Truth Now. This meme has taken countless forms in social media, including this viral video. The “if you’re a libertarian why don’t you move to Somalia!” argument is used to show how…
Was Gas Cheaper Under Obama or Bush?
Courtesy of Occupy Democrats, with over 60,000 likes and 48,000 shares. Whatever one thinks of these two presidents (the MP dislikes both), this is pure propaganda. It takes a snapshot of gas at an inexpensive…
Iceland, an Atheist Utopia?
Courtesy of The Godless and Irreligious, with over 25,000 likes and 78,000 shares on Facebook. This meme tries to link Iceland’s apparent awesomeness with its adherence to atheism. In doing so, not only does it…
Corporate Subsidies and Fuzzy Math
Courtesy of Goldman Sachs are Financial Terrorists, with over 23,000 likes and 192,000 shares. It’s also been recently shared by more well known, and slightly more “respected” outlets like The Other 98%, with over 1…