2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why I NEVER want to hear another word about BERNIE BROS on DU again [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)your point- and I'm being gracious, here, by calling it that- about frequency of usage is irrelevant. I suspect if you look through GD P and were to do a search on the term "stockholm syndrome", you would find that most of the posts containing the phrase are posts objecting to it. Certainly, they have a point on that, I would agree. Still, context matters.
But, whatever. "faux outrage"? It's a lame meme, and I will point out that it is such. It doesn't have anything like the cleverness of "weathervane", because weathervane has an actual piece of political observation -whether one agrees or not (better check the polls first!) - contained therein. OTOH, "bernie bros" is just about saying "all you sanders supporters are a bunch of doodbro poop-heads, derp!" which was- again, being generous- the intellectual valence of your post upthread that I responded to.
News Flash: I don't, actually, give a shit if people on teh interwebs want to call me (or anyone else) a "bernie bro". The case as to why it's exceedingly lame meme that makes the people using it look foolish, is made very effectively in this clip, which I will gladly post again.
Edited to add: the beauty of "wargle bargle", to my mind, is that it combines argle-bargle with "warrrrrghbbbbblllllll"