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Collected Item: “The Pass Wars”

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The Pass Wars

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Instagram post

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This is an Instagram post by namastou. This post is partly in French, and it is a satire on Star Wars. The post references President Emanuel Macron, the current French president in the tags. It also uses the tag #plandemie, which is a French way of saying "plandemic", which is the belief that this pandemic was planned out by the rich in order to get richer and control their populace. They also say #liberté, or "liberty", possibly referring to their side being the side of freedom. #thegreatreset is another tag that is about the pandemic triggering a "great reset" where the rich have almost near control of the population through things like vaccine passports, which would limit freedom of movement if some refused to get the vaccine, thus creating discrimination between the vaccinated and unvaccinated.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

President Emanuel Macron, France, French, satire, Star Wars, The Great Reset, plandemic, conspiracy theory, vaccine passport, freedom, vaccine skepticism, pandemic skepticism, ASU, HST580

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

namastou

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2022-04-06
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