they hate a lot of us. Solidarity
Don’t go fucking dragging Nardwuar into this. He has paid his dues. HE IS TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT.
If he could get Trump to do the hip flip, we might be able to move past all of this (since Trump probably wouldn’t survive the attempt)
Shhh, that’s our thing.
I did not learn what they were recently, because unfortunately I was raised on 4chan. Once you have a certain part of your brain plugged into that shithole website, certain bits of information will just make themselves available to you through the ether. You absorb information by osmosis (Jones). I wish I couldn’t. Skin me alive.
It’s like gaining eldritch knowledge. It unlocks certain aspects of reality unseen before now, at the cost of some of your sanity, driving you mad with understanding. And everyone around you thinks you’ve lost your mind
Fuck, that is the most apt explanation, thank you.
We lost our innocence forever.
Yer a Warlock msage
I learned about the Groyper wars recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers
Thanks. Also interesting to read about the origin of Pepe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepe_the_Frog
Even though it is a well written, informative and comprehensive article, I still feel like I am losing braincells reading it. It is so incredibly stupid what some humans stoop to.
Same. At one point I found myself skimming words without taking them in and I had to stop.
I did learn one important thing from all of this though - there are more fractures and divisions among the far right than there appears. Ever-smaller factions fighting amongst each other is better than one coherent group fighting the rest of us.
The right always fights. It’s why fascist regimes eventually collapse. They eat their own.
Fuck, we invent some useless shit. I wonder what’ll be around in 50 years? Tea cosy wars? A disdain for people with attached ear lobes? A religion that proclaims the colour yellow to be heresy?
Careful what you say about yellow or they might come for you next.
THERE IS ONLY
greenAs a person with deuteranopia, I find your assertion offensive. Next you’ll be saying purple is a real colour that totally exists.
purple
Ayyyyy get out of here with that kind of language, that is so goddamn offensive.
You have angered the Roman Emperor prepare to lose your penis. If you are not in possession of a penis one will be assigned to you.
… gurple? green-purple?
Or…does it all more or less come across as something like brown?
Or gray?
Only in our dreams, brother/sister/NB sibling!
Can there be green without yellow?
Green is not a creative color
Don’t hug me I’m scared reference for anyone wondering
You overestimate progress in the field of bigotry. In 50 years they will hate (in no particular order) people who are:
- black
- brown
- jews
- asians
- gay (as umbrella term, come at me lesbians)
- genderfreaks (saying it as a genderfreak)
- overwheight
- neurodivergent
- religious minority
- homeless
So, pretty much the same as 50 years ago
Targeting Charlie Kirk
What the fuck?! Seems pretty relevant to look into re: the past week but no let’s blame it on leftists
It is very relevant yeah. They hated Kirk, and it very well may be that the shooter was a groyper
Fuentes himself was almost murdered last December by a guy who killed three other people and two dogs that day and ended up getting killed by the police. He went there specifically for Fuentes but I don’t think it was some foot soldier following orders. No idea if the guy was on the left but I kinda don’t really think he was.
Narduar! (music plays)
Narduar! (music plays)
Narduar! (music plays)You are perishthought and we must know, perishthought what does Ip Man mean to you?
Do do do lo do, do do!
Pepe went the way of the swastika, and it’s truly sad. 😭
Lmao no he didn’t, what?
Pepe is too general to be taken over by a group as a symbol. I hate when ppl just concede Pepe away like that. Fuck those normies (and ofc nazis as well).
Akin to “oh no, that nazi is eating freedom fries, has a USA tattoo, and is wearing a shirt - all of those things separately are now the undisputed universal symbols of Nazism!!”.
Seriously, people saying that about pepe here reminds me of conservatives saying video games are the problem. It’s like come on, I don’t think the 19 year old woman streaming stardew valley on twitch to 12 people and posting okayge in chat even knows what a 4chan is lol
Do not despair
Fun fact I have the exact type of pin as is on that hat. I actually have three of them, damn do I love surplus stores.
Be a lot cooler if you had a pin of Pepe wearing that pin.
Which dweeb was showing off his pin right before he was punched in the face? Also I will note I get them for free since I bought a great coat and an entrenchment tool and they just kinda wanted them gone.
I have the red star (no laurels). It came attached to a really warm hat at a thrift store.
I despise every new term for Nazis.
They’re just fuckin’ Nazis. Don’t spread their newsletters.
group names are just as important to them as nationalitys are to a nationalist or pronouns to most people
Ok, but nazi is just a newer, more specific term for fascist.
And it’s useful to have specific labels so you can understand when they’re fighting each-other, and perhaps encourage that.
If anyone’s feeling pretty hopeless about finding this out for the first time, I recommend this documentary about the cartoon frog’s creator sueing Alex Jones and trying to take back his ownership over Pepe from the white power weirdos. It’s very uplifting and the artist is a pretty likable guy.
I instantly dislike the guy.
Dang I didn’t know users did that on YouTube. I guess I can’t say I blame you, it’s a shitty thing to do
They don’t. It’s regional restriction.
Oh. That is what I used to assume. Was Zr0 just messing with me?
No, Zr0 made an uninformed assumption as well.
Probably had to do with the country copyright laws :/ I had personal videos blocked because they used music that in over country was free to use and in others wasn’t… or maybe he hates you in particular 🤷♀️
Oh, thanks for sharing this experience, because that makes totally sense to me. The error message is kind of misleading and gave me the impression the blocking was on purpose.
Documentary guy is a good guy after all.
Fuck Youtube and all the music industry.
Check if any invidious instance can play it, or NewPipe/PipePipe on android
Thank you my friend, what a good suggestion. Next thing would be to just use archive.org. However, for this I would need some help.
If you’re on desktop/laptop, FreeTube works pretty well too (has invidious functionality built in)
So the one thing about fascism, especially in its late stages, is that it tends to eat itself alive. When they run out of enemies, they create enemies.
This is not the late stages. This is not even the honeymoon.
According to the show and soon to be documentary, Cyberpunk 2077, it’s gonna get weird.
While I agree fascist tend to indulge in self harm via factionalism, I don’t think this is really that, nor is it late stage. We’re approaching the stage where the fascist shed their traditional conservative mask and start enforcing their real ideology over the traditional conservative party.
People forget that 4 years before the Nazi started their purge on greater German society during Kristallnacht they first purged and consolidated power in their own house during the night of the long knives.
This is it.
The “true believers” in neoliberal conservative values are useful to make the rightward march to increasingly reactionary politics seem proper and reasonable to anyone who isn’t paying attention.
But when shit is about to go down those same talking heads are a liability if they aren’t cool with barely contained barbarism.
late stage
You are far more optimistic than I, my friend.
I mean the government isn’t necessarily late stage but if the fascists are fighting over who’s the biggest fascist that means shit’s up.
Maybe, but authoritarian regimes do often purge their ranks, and it doesn’t always mean anything significant is going down.
I KNOW RIGHT???
And people were like “oh the killer carved UWU what’s this and Helldivers 2 memes on his bullets, that’s common in Groyper circles”
Bro are you talking aboutttttt, what do you mean???
I just find it absurd how these niche-in-a-niche-in-a-niche communities develop and how seemingly random bits of internet culture turn into dogwhistles inside, it reaches a point where I’m just like dude, our lizard brains can’t handle the internet. We just weren’t wired to work like this, there’s no wayseemingly random bits of internet culture turn into dogwhistles
My favorite thing is the neonazis wearing pleated khakis. Like, the only item of clothing even nerdier than that is lederhosen.
If this is gonna be a One Piece pirate flag kinda future, does that mean we can wear sailor slops?
We can only hope.
Pirates are in this year
My nephew is being sent to an evangelical school whose uniform is khakis and a choice of a red or blue polo shirt. Want to guess which color is social suicide?
Im no longer talking to that part of my family.
Do they all look like they work at Target?
No, these are expensive khakis.
I saw someone who described the murder as a shitpost and that scarily makes sense.
The world’s first shitpost murder. Insane.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/46016750
Here’s the link.
I’m a grown-ass, nearly 40 year-old family man, and I fucking know what “uwu” is. These idiots think they’re “exposing the conspiracy”, when in reality anyone who has spent more than 4 seconds researching any meme would immediately recognize it.
It’s this face. Like :) is a smile and xD is supposed to be somebody laughing so hard their eyes have squinted shut.
owo is the same face, but the eyes are open.
Edit: I have misread. You do understand it lmao
I always equated “XD” with Eric Cartman 😂
Edit: I have misread. You do understand it lmao
No worries!
I can’t even parse that as a face
It wasn’t even “uwu” meme
It was the “OwO what’s this?” Meme. Which makes it even weirder/funnier/messed up
I still don’t understand, but I learned one thing, when a meme seems to do not have a meaning, it’s fascists crap.
Those guys always miss humor totally.
Same difference. It’s used interchangeably.
eh, not really.
one is more a “uwu sowwy” the other is surprised/shocked/curious expression
What’s the difference? ELIA5 please, I don’t know if I have time to go down this rabbit hole myself.
One is a generic emoticon, while “OwO what’s this?” is an (in)famous meme from the furry fandom
I really, truly, with all of my being, feel that we are reaching the end limits of what the human mind is currently able to contend with. We are so overstimulated it’s insane. We literally need to evolve our physical bodies as a species to continue living as we are or we will literally die.
There is no limit. Things are really really bad? They can always get worse. Rock bottom is a flawed analogy.
The drill is mightier than the rock
Sorry man, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
And I have no idea if it’s ever getting better
I don’t even want to bring up brain chips, there’s plenty of people who already think they have them. Imagine the psychosis.
It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
Or maybe just not go on the internet so much?
Most people are addicted. It’s like you are saying “Just stop smoking cigarettes so often”
That’s a more reasonable suggestion than “evolve more lungs”
I’m not even sure anymore what this analogy is about but 🤣
exactly, hence why I will always promote research into lung alternatives that can better handle particulate matter and are easily replaceable
With cigarettes, we recognized that harm that they did and in response developed a series of regulations about where they could be used, who could use them when, how they could be advertised, warning labels that had to be applied, and taxes on them to discourage use and offset the societal harm. As result we get this:
…and this…
The internet is a tricky one on account of it absolutely having crossover with the first amendment, but there’s got to be a conversation about its effect on mental health and what if anything can be done in response.
Personally I am in favor of regulating the internet but the potential censorship concerns are a serious issue with actually doing it
now do meat and the leading causes of human death
Context? What’s the other faction? The first one is likely https://wiki.froth.zone/wiki/Groypers?lang=en but I dunno the second.
The other faction got shot in the neck.
They’re just losers who live online trying to outdo each other to hold the most extreme view points possible so they can stand out in their depressing little discord shitholes. It’s such a depressing reality I can’t even imagine it. No wonder they become mass shooters.
The two sides are racists who disagree regarding faith and whether Jewish people are their equals or not.
You’re also describing lemmy, except for the mass shooter part… for now. With the stochastic terrorism that dominates certain discussions (Gaza, Luigi, etc) it’s only a matter of time.
I’ve never felt the need to shift my opinions to please the crowd on lemmy. I mean if someone is really deep in certain communities that could happen, but that’s the loser part. Online chat groups shouldn’t become a focus of your identity.
Lemmy isn’t in the same realm as Groypers or neo-nazi cliques or any of that nonsense. Really?
I’m guessing “Gaza” here means “if you don’t support Israel you’re a nazi”.
Lemmygrad / .ml, baraag, the assorted far right instances
Losers that have the ear of the president. Fuentes less but he also been to Mar A Lago for lunch with Maga Pompous
Basically racists got mad Pepe got reco-opted by democratic protestors in Hong Kong so they decided to make their own frog to put racist shit on, this is how a decent chunk of America passes the time.
Wait till you read about the meme wars. This goes deeper than most people know.
I mean, most white people feel the same way. We learn about it and it’s like, wtf.
