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[–] 151 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

If anyone's feeling pretty hopeless about finding this out for the first time, I recommend this documentary about the cartoon frog's creator suing 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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 🤷‍♀️

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Check if any invidious instance can play it, or NewPipe/PipePipe on android

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They don’t. It’s regional restriction.

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

    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 way

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I saw someone who described the murder as a shitpost and that scarily makes sense.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Sorry man, but it's going to get worse before it gets better.

    And I have no idea if it's ever getting better

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    seemingly 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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It wasn't even "uwu" meme

    It was the "OwO what's this?" Meme. Which makes it even weirder/funnier/messed up

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 98 points 1 year ago (20 children)
  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Targeting Charlie Kirk

    What the fuck?! Seems pretty relevant to look into re: the past week but no let’s blame it on leftists

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Careful what you say about yellow or they might come for you next.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As a person with deuteranopia, I find your assertion offensive. Next you'll be saying purple is a real colour that totally exists.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 91 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My one consolation over finding out about this whole fight between different groups of fascists (besides the fact that the fascists are fighting each other, that's always a net positive) is that I can refer to it as gang violence.

    Kirk was killed in a turf war between his gang and a rival gang immediately after trying to downplay mass shootings by asking "with or without gang violence?"

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wasn't he saying something about "gang violence" literally the moment he got shot?

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  • His literal last words before being shot were answering the question of if he knew how many shootings there have been in the past 10 years (after blaming them on trans people one question before) with, "With or without gang violence?" Not even a second later he had a fountain of blood spurting from his neck.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yes you can. But nobody else will, especially not those in power, because we live in an extremely racist "culture."

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  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    From what I'm gathering, it seems like one group is more "traditionally" American racism... And the other group is more like WW2 Nazi racists?

    Either way, they're racists and not worth the oxygen they're consuming.

    Can I just continue to have incredible distain for all racism? Because I'd hate to be branded as a sympathizer to either group. They both sound horrible.

    The only surprising thing to me here is that racists hate eachother enough for this level of violence. I don't necessarily consider that a bad thing, I just thought they would... I dunno, bond over their mutual hatred of other races, rather than fight eachother over who is more racist.

    ... Not that I'm complaining. Having racists kill other racists makes it easier to fight against the groups that remain. Both groups of racists deserve to be put down. Not that I have the ability, capability, opportunity nor motivation to do that work myself..... I'm just not going to complain when one group kills the other, and the first group ends up in jail for life because of it. Honestly, that's an absolute win IMO.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Authoritarians, which are not unrelated to racism, if left alone, will start stripping rights from each other. In a spherical cow sense, they can't really bond with each other because they fundamentally hate other people, like as a concept. This is also sorta why their social media sites never take off.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I generally hate people. I don't want to be authoritative over anyone. I don't want the responsibility.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wonder if their hate is just a side effect of wanting to be superior over others. And that's what drives their base actions.

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  • More or less, yes. It's the satisfaction that comes from power.

    The main ingredients of fascism are fear (urgency) and a desire to reclaim a power once held, like in a birthright sense. A result of this is that the power they hold now is a result of the fear they've fostered, which means they quite literally cannot survive people becoming unafraid. There must always be a group of people to hate, even amongst each other, or the kingdom they've built vanishes.

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  • [+] 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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

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

    the normalization of nazi culture makes me want to fucking die

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    I didn't even know about the Groypers till Charlie Kirk was killed by one.

    I only knew Nick Fuentes as "That guy who tried to sue Antifa" and later "The Right Winger who disavowed Trump in 2024"

    Apparently there's controversy about him not "really" being an Incel because he had a girlfriend in high school, and he believes anything outside of being celibate is gay, because being affectionate with a woman is unmanly.... and I'm like...

    "This is too much even for me."

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I didn't even know about Charlie Kirk until Charlie Kirk was killed by a groyper. I knew there was some rightwing crank being mocked for having a tiny face on a huge head, but that was it. My main reaction after the shooting was "damn, that really is a tiny face".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I only learned about him when I was still on Reddit via people posting quotes on the 'whitepeopletwitter' subreddit. Between him, Steven Crowder, Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh being constantly posted there, I damn near lost my mind at the sheer combined idiocy of them all and had to unsub.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Wait'll you hear about that time Fuentes accidentally streamed himself watching gay porn. Or his date with a catboy!

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    Lots of info on Nick can be found on his RationalWiki entry. See the "Haggard's Law" section for info and links to sources about the things I mentioned.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm sorry to ask, but is there a source that isn't Rational Wiki?

    No no, I shouldn't let my own issues with the site get in the way of good faith reporting. I'll have a look at this when I can

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I know him as "that MAGA loser who's a fiercly proud incel and got caught with tabs of gay porn open on a stream".

    But to be honest I thought he had completely vanished into insignificance over the last 5 years. Sadly this appears incorrect.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [+] -23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

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

    I have a feeling the trial is going to be a cringe fest of internet memes. Lawyers explaining to the jury what 4chan and pepe is. The trial Charlie Kirk deserves.

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