X is a weapon of mass distraction. It is not a forum for debate, but rather a space where truthful information coexists with misinformation and the philandering inherited from acidboric media. But it is also where humor predominates, the most intelligent of which is, paradoxically, the absurd.
This week’s example: in the morning from Sunday to Monday, after the football match against Barça, @eleroddri attached a photo of himself in the mirror of the portal of his home wishing good night and the best for his team: “gabon eta aupa athletic” (sic), he writes.
-And?
-Eta means and in Basque.
– How and what?
– Like Gabon?
This is one of the conversations that is derived from the greeting. There are others with the same question: “Eta?” But the vast majority do not question it in reality. They play with the absurdity of the unintelligent to make a coin of the “Everything is ETA” mental frame, born from that “Did anyone think we wouldn’t dare?” d’Aznar in 1998, shortly after the raid on the newspaper Egin ordered by judge Garzón and summary 18/98.
Part of the right has understood that pointing fingers everywhere does not work. The New Generations of the PP, however, rang the bell when the lesson was taught. “But Bildu is not ETA”, they tweeted ironically together with a photo of the poster of the candidate Pello Otxandiano, where they indicate that the e of fdika (the change) snakes like the anagram of the terrorist band.
They had all kinds of answers: “CamisETA, pesETA… ojo cuidado”; “Anoeta”; “Ojo: The roulette of fortune”… The journalist @IbonPerezTV explains it to Ayuso, who bought the tweet of his youth: “The e of fdika comes from the Gothic e, which distinguished the representative identity of Euskadi. The Ertzaintza took her to their cars”.
Back to “gabon eta aupa athletic”. It is multifunctional. The self-acknowledged ignorance of a language can be a good ally when chewing the gum of humorous absurdity: “Senegal terra livre lives the barça” (@Marc_Lesan); “cameroon al qaeda puxa sporting” (@ivangorra_); “burkina faso isis viva el betis manque miss” (@offensiveprank); “south africa real madrid hala celta” (@ganezrccv); “somalia fc barcelona forza mágico español” (@JotaUveEle). And so many others in a telegraphic tone, under the formula African country terrorist band cheer. Everyone joins in pointing out “terrorists”, so that whoever can do it, whoever can contribute, should contribute.
