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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

My mind is playing tricks on me, I keep seeing and unseeing a hair strand in his fingers.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fish + milK? Feel bad for his toilet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

I feel bad for his stomach, you know those mfers are swimming in that milk

[–] [email protected] 101 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can we please spread a rumor that nothing annoys leftists more than self-immolation?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I hate it when people embezzle money and post about it on social media in support of trump's ciminal cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

The most/only infuriating part of this is that he kinda looked like Elongated Muskrat at first glance.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

No eye contact? Milk? Asian food? Are these things people get upset about? Does this guy just have spicy tism? What is happening?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Right wingers think lactose intolerance is a leftist conspiracy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (2 children)

But the Asian food? I'm guessing something something cultural appropriation?

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's like watching a kid doing a thing that he, and only he, thinks would make you very angry. They're so deep in their propaganda cult hole that they have their own subterranean culture. You know, like molochs.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

What's wrong with the OK sign?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (11 children)

4 chan started a prank saying that the ok sign was actually spelling out "WP" meaning "white power".

The ADL and a bunch of news agencies bought it hook, line, and sinker. Pretty quickly scuba divers, anyone who has been a teenage boy in the past few decades, and really just anyone with a pulse and a brain cell pointed out how ridiculous it would be to believe that.

Some of the groups that got tricked (the ADL most notably) doubled down instead of admitting that they got got. They found like one fringe neo-nazi group that started doing it (probably after seeing it on 4 chan) and insisted "SeE? RaCiSt Dog whistle!".

There's nothing wrong with the "OK" sign. It's perfectly innocent.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A bunch of nazi's used it as a dog whistle and it got added to a database of hate symbols.

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-49837898

[–] [email protected] 53 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Why exactly are we giving Nazis the power to poison language, emojis, what have you for the rest of us again?

I think we should do the opposite. As soon as some symbol becomes a dog whistle, we should all rush to use it for it's original meaning as much as possible, thus preventing the dog from hearing the whistle where it's supposed to be used as such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I recently found out how they appropriated the hooked cross symbol. Now I’m streaming angry. I just finished sewing one onto the back of my Jean jacket, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because when someone uses a symbol while they do something shitty, they are associating that symbol with their shitty behaviors. Human brains are wired to identify paterns and associations for threat identification. That's why cops all dress differently than EMT's.

If your ex-girlfriend left you in a nasty break up, you might avoid her favorite restaurant, cry when you hear her favorite songs, or even get upset just seeing a similar car to the one she drove. You cant drown out a dog whistel, all you can do is point it out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right but if Nazis just started using the LGBTQ+ flag, that wouldn't be recognized.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

They tried that in Reddit back in 2019, and it failed. Frenworld tried taking rainbow flags to mean "A seperate place for every race" ahortly before they got banned.

Once a symbol has stuck, you cant shift it no matter how hard you try.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It was a hypothetical. Pick anything you want.

And anyways you proved my point, the "society" pushed back, ad discarded it, rather than allow it to be poisoned.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, symbols are just hard to change. Once they have a meaning associated to them, you can't take the meaning away. A pride flag is symbol, so ot means something. An ok hand gesture doesn't have much beyond "ok" to it, so it can quickly be taken over and poisoned.

A drop of poison in a glass will kill you, but a drop in an lake won't harm anyone.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's fine, detach from the flag and pick something else. It's the act of repulsion I'm clarifying. If a group chooses, a poisoner has no power, they are discarded.

"Ok" meant "ok" for many years. Society allowed it to be poisoned and that is lame.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Some random database was poisoned. Nobody in actual society cares.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Well the purpose of the hate list like this isn't "what symbols not to use" so much as, if a guy uses this and there's context to suggest it's a dogwhistle, this is what it means.

As a concrete example, If someone turns to a camera makes the ok gesture then punches a black guy that can be used as evidence in conjunction with a database like this to add a hate crime charge onto the assault charge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

Exactly this. Gasden Flag, same vibes, same weird arguments from people trying to take it back. Go ahead and try, I wish you well, but you're gonna look like a racist flying it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By that point, it's already been tainted and it's too hard to tell reality from satire from ignorance.

Nazis just love appropriating and poisoning symbols, and it all started with the swastika: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

In any normal circles, nazis are so irrelevant that you dont need to worry about ok signs or whatnot

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

This might give some info.

Oren Segal, director of the ADL's Center on Extremism, told NPR that for years on fringe online message boards such as 4chan and 8chan, the "OK" sign has been deployed in memes and other images promoting hate. Given the number of white supremacists who have adopted it, he said it can now carry a nefarious message.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I don't get it. What's the joke?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago

Righties can't make jokes; only hate.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 6 months ago (7 children)

He is owning the libs by drinking milk. Don't you know how leftists are trying to get milk banned? As a leftist this post made me so angry that spontaneously combusted and now I am dead/s

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

OK, I guess?

Now do ‘not looking you in the eye’…

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago

Autism I guess...

Idk, it's a little bit confusing cuz he's still not really looking at the camera "in the eyes"

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