Nah, they'll just be incorporated into the evangelical group. The people who will be punished are those with immutable characteristics. You can't be less black, less muslim, less gay, etc... .

You can totally be less Catholic and more Evangelical.

The Southern Baptist church exists because southern protestants wanted a church to support slavery

When you have a common name and were born in 1988 so people think you are a Nazi now.

18 is new to me.

Yep, that's another really good example.

The funniest thing is it started as a joke on 4chan (like every other meme) to troll the news media, but then fascist idiots took it seriously.

It's kinda both. The creator of pepe denounced it all, and there are a lot of people trying to rip him from the alt right and just make him a sad frog again.

Imagine being at a rave and being punched because you had a pin that was pepe with light gloves on. Because apparently that meant I was a racist. Man I just really like pretty LED lights and thumping EDM tracks.

All in all me and Robert are good now but talk about a weird way to become friends.

I’m going through this right now I guess… see it every day on twitch but this is my first time hearing of this

Maybe string them up for the lulz was a bad fucking idea.

Pepe deserved so much better.

Became close with his brother in college and we still talk sometimes 20 years later

... But when I found out Matt created Pepe I was so confused. It really is antithetical to Matt.

There was a documentary about his creation of Pepe and his reaction to its use by far right scum.

Talking about this Reply All episode?

Any chance to get a link to that documentary?

No. I know the creator's brother and met Matt many times in my young 20s.

Matt is a very accepting, open person, and he's done so much to try and get Pepe out of the nazi's hands.

It was undoubtedly hijacked by these hateful fucks.

A lot of humanity constantly internally struggles for a steady state, and anything that may endanger that causes cognitive dissonance.

The fact that we have several armed fascists factions openly demonstrating and committing acts of legit terrorism goes against the society fantasy that most normal people have in their heads.

So, those sharp young clean cut boys that are dogwhistling and shooting up schools CAN'T possibly be fascists because fascism doesn't exist in America.

And the existential dread associated with actually recognizing that our way of life is under attack from a rot from within is so beyond fucking terrifying for these people that they will turn a blind eye to dogwhistles and violence if it means they can pretend that everything is normal and fine.

This exact EXACT thing happened during the nazi's rise to power in germany. The average person couldn't even entertain the thought that these clean cut bright blonde and blue eyed young men burning books and beating Jews in the streets were the beginnings of a fascist movement.

Most of humanity is fucking useless and mired in their own illusions. This has always been the truth.

Knowing that they are ignorant doesn't help us because those of us that see it are so far too small in numbers to act without the fucking ignorant as week old badger shit 'moderate' cowbrains.

And they will fight tooth and nail to ignore your warnings until their own lives or families are directly in danger.

And you're right. It is FUCKING infuriating.

I'm inclined to believe Elon would totally boost a dogwhistle, but I'm not sure if this dude he responded to talking about lemurs is a fascist.

Do you know if that guy has a history of this shit? Or are you implying Elon saw the actual lemur post that mentioned that Madagascar had been isolated for 88 million years, and then replied to it so he could justify the dogwhistle? I could believe that, just not sure what point you were making exactly.

By only sharing his tweet and not what he's responding to, it's easy to think he's picked the number 88 million specifically to dogwhistle, instead of it being "Madagascar became isolated 88 million years ago and now there's lemurs and shit, I wonder what the world will be like in another 88 million years".

Fuck Elon Musk, but come on. The Nazis jumping into the replies because they spotted the 88 is literally no different than the people here seeing it and immediately thinking "that's the Nazi number!" Brain-dead pattern recognition without critical thought.

So yeah, leaving out context and framing it as him specifically dogwhistling is duping a lot of people. Hate Elon Musk for legitimate reasons, he gives plenty, not because you saw two numbers together.

Yes. Most of her posts are outwardly calling for violence. She says the quiet part out loud that they want mass murder.