CHRIS ROPER: We’ve slept through the alarm clock
The baddies are in the ascendancy in a nightmare from which, in the words of Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek, it’s too late to awake
10 April 2025 - 05:00
I’m sure you are familiar with the “Are we the baddies?” meme, which is customarily posted when a person who identifies with an ideology, cause or movement has a sudden realisation that what they are doing might in fact be morally compromised. Or, this being the internet, when a person has had that realisation foisted upon them by virtue of the meme.
The Gif shows British comedian David Mitchell, dressed in a Nazi uniform, saying: “Hans ... are we the baddies?”..
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