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There Is No Antimemetics Division (2018)

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728 points squircle | 2 comments | 12 Aug 24 13:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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agubelu ◴[12 Aug 24 15:24 UTC] No.41225501[source]▶
The concept of an antimeme has been living rent free in my head (which is quite ironic) ever since I first read this piece back then. Easily my favorite tale from the SCP universe.
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BiteCode_dev ◴[12 Aug 24 18:40 UTC] No.41227861[source]▶
I know right?

Then you start wondering if you, or anybody, have forgotten anything so important that it would shatter your world.

And would you ever know? Is there any way to ever know?

What if the past changes as much as the future?

What if that's the Mandela effect?

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1. lazyasciiart ◴[12 Aug 24 23:06 UTC] No.41230388[source]▶
There are people who have discovered that their parents lied about their baby stories and instead they were part of mass kidnappings/government schemes, like Liebensborn and the disappeared children in Argentina and Spain. Or more individual stories, like "My mom is actually my grandma". These days the professional advice is not to keep that secret from your adopted children precisely because the revelation itself can be much more damaging than the knowledge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_children_of_Francoism

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2. varjag ◴[14 Aug 24 18:14 UTC] No.41248943[source]▶
Most recent is the two kids of exchanged Russian spies who learned they are not Argentinians while on the plane to Moscow.