You're probably right in some cases, but I think it's more of a way of people dealing with their disbelief that it's come to this. There's a lot of ways to process the current insanity; dark humour is possibly the most accessible though.

Realistically there is absolutely nothing any of us can do to stop this. Anyone who isn't an arsehole is constantly appalled and sickened by the constant conflict created by the usual sad little psychopathic narcissists.

About all we have left is black humour expressed as memes. You can't stay constantly anxious about it or you go mad, and at this point humour is basically self-preservation.

Perhaps there is an element of that but I think many people are bracing for a repeat of the Iraq weapons of mass destruction scenario so they're starting early with using humor as a coping mechanism.

Many also feel that Israel's current government is a fascist genocidal regime that very likely will be the instigator of WW3. Which should be a lesson to humanity in general on fascism as those that face the greatest trauma (as they did in WW2) are often more open to the extremes of nationalism and ethnic cleansing.

Your final sentence has pretty much been american military policy for the last few decades.

Don't start a major global conflict and kill mostly brown people of a different culuture and religion and we will get away with it.

I feel like you're reading a lot into this and start with a false premise. Both war and WW3 can be bad, WW3 is just more memeable

What makes you sure it won't be WW3? I don't know enough to comment just asking for your perspective

Yeah buddy we got starving kids in our country that people don't care about. Take a moment and process that.

Why you ask because the rich assholes set up the system so nobody gets rich doing "the right thing".

Why does everyone need to be rich you ask?

So they can pay to not be effected by the failings of the "greatest country in the world" society.

I laugh at these memes because dark humor is my only way of coping.

It seems like there's nothing else I can do. I don't just care because it might negatively impact my life. Every time I look at the news (and for sure this is not just under Trump's America, it's been going on forever) more people are dying across the world in stupid wars because of stupid childish adults in power. And now our Antichrist President is stoking things up even more and even more people will die and it's only to fuel his ego and his rich friends' interests.

I vote, I speak up, I try to do my part and be the change and all, but what more am I going to do? I could stand in the middle of the street in front of the capital and scream how wrong this is but I'll just get written up as another ignorant millennial lunatic and in the meantime I've been working sustained 50-80 hour weeks with no improvement in sight and can still barely afford to eat. Can't change the government alone, especially not when there's rent to pay and I'm bloody exhausted.

It's another Six-day War with far more exciting weapons and a surprisingly feisty opponent. In the end, Israel always wins, mostly because it looks like Islamist regimes are shockingly bad at war. I mean Jesus fucking Christ, leaving your top scientists exposed?

That's a hell of a lot of projection, meme makers are usually highly regarded gnomes tasked with morale in factory lines of the pole and unfortunately most now freelancing because it was something with their genes not like racism but more like a mutation of sorts and this group specifically of gnomes are not fit for the usual gnome tasks which is why they are highly regarded because most gnomes wish they were in contact with computers and Internet but they can't be trusted with such

I'm actually hoping that this is another domino falling towards a world-ending ww3, this planet is fucked either way. Better to be vaporized instantly than to slowly be cooked to death over decades.