• percent@infosec.pub
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    48 minutes ago

    Unpopular opinion: Memes like this just further divide the two sides.

    Obviously both sides have crazy, inhumane people on the fringes. But most normal people, regardless of political leaning, did not laugh about any of those three deaths.

  • ReHomed@lemmy.cafe
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    8 hours ago

    The right is so absurdly hypocritical, it’s amazing how a human can get that low

    The sad part is that there’s 77 million of them, and they own the government

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    8 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure it s because the call to violence rather than just saying we aren’t sad for him. Sadly some are so use to them that they don’t understand how problematic it s specially regarding the recent most discussed political assasination

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    7 hours ago

    Hypocrisy is just a tool the right uses. Calling them out on it is like point out that horses run faster than people only because they use all 4 legs. Well, duh.

  • Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    George Floyd and Trayvon Martin were ordinary citizens living their lives, whose deaths were linked to (and probably caused by) oppression and racism. They never wanted national attention, certainly not for this.

    Kirk was a propagandist whose speech contributed to the environment of political divisiveness, bigotry and intolerance. He was a public figure who thrived on the controversy caused by his hateful speech.

    I can’t upvote this meme, it feels like false equivalence (I agree with the sentiment, though, it just… they don’t care if they’re being hypocritical. That’s their game).

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      I don’t think that that equivalence matters here, or that they don’t care that they’re being hypocritical.

      We can still enjoy a meme about how they are hypocrites and how their stated beliefs crumble under the smallest pressure.

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      I get what you’re saying, but they would be even more gleeful if it was some left wing icon that got an unplanned tracheostoma.

      Imagine Gretta getting blasted. She’s not even a propagandists, but the closest I could think of off the cuff.

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        Dude, they fucking fantasize about offing Greta, it’s not even a rare thing amung these people

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        Sure but she didn’t, she’s not in the meme I’m critiqueing. I wouldn’t have that complaint about that situation. I’d have other complaints, if I wasn’t completely drowned in a bottle or something

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    This is how weak, fragile and cowardly the right … especially the far right are

    They love to make fun of everyone and everything no matter how horrendous, ugly and ignorant it makes them look and sound

    Yet they can’t stand and completely break down and cry whenever anyone stands up against them in the smallest ways.

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    He’s not even worth a meme to me. I thought he was a reddit thumb and too small face years ago and that was it.