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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This only works if the frog's brain has been removed. Which sadly only makes it even more apt.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Furthermore, a frog placed into already boiling water will die immediately, not jump out

I wonder what nerd wrote this

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably a herpetologist 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

I just started wondering about the linguistic link between herpetology and herpes and just learned a new word thanks to you

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

wikiblame it ;)

(yes, that exists)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's actually an apologue, but I know what you mean. Just thought I'd spread an interesting bit of knowledge I'd gained earlier today 🤷

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Love you too, snoogums.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

But your first link (!)

Apologues are fun though

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey man, don’t do frogs this dirty. Frogs are beautiful, unlike redcaps. Just look at his face:

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Makes you wonder about their obsession with pepe.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its honestly a shame that that meme somehow became the alt-right's collective fursona

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It is, but it's so apt at describing their poor misguided troll army. If I were a Russian propagandist I'd laugh everyday about how easy it is to pull marionette strings. With even an once of self reflection any poor sucker could pull themselves out of the pot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Don’t forget that the use of Pepe as well as the ok symbol were literally 4chan troll campaigns that the nazis took to like a duck to water. I remember the origin posts being posted to reddit and just watching it work in real time. It was quite surreal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I've not seen any far right pepe usage in literally years. But I have seen normal pepe usage being referred to as being far right.

Not accusing you of that, just anecdotally have not at all seen any kind of obsession

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

How is "build a wall!" the cold phase?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is what you want to argue about?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago

Did I stutter, my depressed friend?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because, “I’ll protect you from the dirty dangerous Mexicans,” is somehow the least racist thing Donald Trump has said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Sure but the point of the frog should be: be ware of normalizing those early apprently unharmful concepts because they lead down a path.

This is on full blast from the start.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because it's now official dem policy. Look for the other stages to be adopted as dem planks in the coming years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Obama built more miles of wall than Trump because of various compromises. That was a decade ago so I'm curious what constitutes it being official Dem policy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Exactly this. First it was illegals, then it was legal temporary, now it's bad genes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You misspelled Klan.

KKKlan

But hey, it's just a Trump rally, I do Nazi anything to worry about here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

My bad. But they did replace the grand wizard with a grand wizzer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Immigrants: https://www.history.com/news/trumps-grandparents

And the problem is genetic, you say?