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"Libtard" said the scorpion (i.redd.it)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 11 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Not sure why you'd getting downvoted here but it's absolutely been used (a lot) to push racist ideas. I first heard it from an antisemite.

I think it's just a shit message - "people will betray you on surprising ways, trust no one"

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Isn’t the message that people will betray you in _un_surprising ways?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I never took it as bleakly as don't trust anyone.

    Frog knows the scorpion is untrustworthy but ignores his intuition and gets burnt for it. I take it as don't get involved with someone that would drag you down with them.

    For anyone trying to prove anything with it, it's a parable, so it's advice, not a research paper! 🐸

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Speaking of frog parables pretending to be research papers: the whole “a scientist did an experiment and if you boil water slowly enough the frog won’t jump out and just sits there until it dies”. It turns out that’s bullshit. The scientist was trying to figure out brain stuff, so he removed the brains from the frogs and they didn’t jump out when he boiled them. The frogs that still had their brains jumped out of the water around the same temperature as a person would step out of a too-hot shower (25°C).

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