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A Pretty Good Litmus Test for Politics meme example.

A Pretty Good Litmus Test for Politics

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A Pretty Good Litmus Test for Politics: Do You Regard These Men With Respect, or Disgust? is a catchphrase used in meme captions that's paired with photographs, GIFs and videos of men engaged in various activities, often for the purpose of parodying the original tweet. The parody format gained virality on Twitter in November 2022.

Origin

On November 18th, 2022, Twitter[1] user @erichhartmann posted a clip of two oil well workers operating machinery (originally posted by TikToker[2] @oilfeildoutlaw), captioning it, "This video is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard these men with respect, or disgust?" The post gained over 1,700 retweets and 16,500 likes in four days (shown below).


Spread

The tweet inspired parodies in the following days as users combined the caption with images and videos of people and characters engaged in various activities. For example, on November 20th, 2022, Twitter[3] user @ViceApologist posted a clip from the 2017 film Kong: The Skull Island that gained over 3.6 million views, 3,000 retweets and 47,300 likes in two days (shown below).


More memes using the caption were posted on Twitter and other sites, including Reddit. On November 20th, Redditor SirGiedonOfnirReal posted a meme that gained over 850 upvotes in the /r/shittydarksouls[4] subreddit (shown below, left). Also that day, Twitter[5] user @SouthernAtlas posted a historic photo of The Clinton 12 paired with a version of the caption. The tweet gained over 170 retweets and 1,800 likes in two days (shown below, right).


This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard this man with respect, or disgust? Pass Atlas @SouthernAtlas This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics. Which men do you regard with respect and which with disgust? MAIN ST. HARDWARE CO 8:28 PM Nov 20, 2022. Twitter for iPhone ... LIFE

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Chris Labarthe @chris_labarthe GIF This video is a pretty good litmus test for politics: do you regard these men with respect, or disgust? ... 6:40 PM Nov 19, 2022. Twitter for iPhone Covfefe The Lich @CovfefeTheLich Replying to @BillCorbett and @erichhartmann this video is a pretty good litmus test for politics. 6:29 AM Nov 20, 2022 Twitter Web App Ollie Oliver @Ollie_Cycles This image is a pretty good litmus test for politics. Do you regard these men with respect or with disgust? 19 * 6:45 PM Nov 21, 2022 Twitter for Android 111 mo
https://linktr.ee/boyzantium @SAMOYEDWAVE this video is a great litmus test for politics. do you like what you see. well so do i 7:28 PM . Nov 20, 2022 · Twitter for iPhone ... Dr. Jojo "Funk" McLovin #home22tuck @BigFunkyJ This video is a pretty good litmus test for politics: Do you view this man with admiration, or disgust? 3:46 PM - Nov 21, 2022 Twitter for Android CAMSTERS TEAMSTERS Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip Jun 24 Steven Crowder getting punched by a dripped out IBEW member at a rally against right to work in Michigan. ALT IBEW 310 13,789 Dripped Out Trade Unionists @UnionDrip 47K ↑ ... ... How you regard this picture is a pretty good litmus test for politics. 12:28 AM Nov 22, 2022. Twitter for iPhone

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