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2000s era anticapitalist art (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Shit was wild how it was all George Bu$h and McDonald's in Iraq with Ronald McDonald shitting on a kid and everyone was like yeah "ugh" or "I mean yeah, but cringe"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

In the late 2000s there was sort of a proto-meme factoid going around the internet that German has a word, Fremdschämen, that refers to second-hand embarrassment and commenters would say how useful that word was and would speculate what the English equivalent would be. The term cringe appeared a few years later.