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Would you like to speak with a manager of PoliticsTOO? Well: here I am, and I have no mod powers over these comments.

Would you like to speak with a manager of PoliticsTOO? Well: here I am, and I have no mod powers over these comments. | image tagged in politics,free speech,freedom of speech,imgflip mods,karen,karens | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
484 views 8 upvotes Made by Slobama 4 years ago in politics
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Kylie well yes, but actually no | image tagged in kylie well yes but actually no | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Neo-Nazi propaganda and commentary isn’t “dissent.”

Is it?
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See link in comments for a long-winded lesson. | image tagged in overton window how neo-nazis pollute political discourse | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
The question of how to respond to Neo-Nazis isn’t hypothetical. There are at least a couple of regular ImgFlip users who meet that definition. It’s not a term I toss around willy-nilly.

What sets them apart is their insistence upon violence and murdering Jews, Muslims, Mexicans, homosexuals, Democrats, etc. One time a more intelligent one pointedly didn’t explicitly call for murdering those kinds of people (even as he otherwise denigrated them) and thought he was being very clever and complying with TOS. But his general promotion of violence, his cheerful use of Hitler imagery and shouting out his “NatSoc” brothers who were allegedly millions strong all helped give him away.

I point out those kinds of folks to Mods and have helped get their accounts banned, though they are free to return under new accounts and if they behave themselves. As far as I know, that dude I talked about above did put down the Nazi propaganda firehose or just left ImgFlip.

Neo-Nazi discourse isn’t a valid part of the contest of ideas. They aren’t even close to being right. And they never will be. 80 years after the Holocaust, we don’t need to relitigate Hitler’s “ideas” every time some poor deluded soul gets a crush on him. We’ve seen where those “ideas” lead.

Giving Neo-Nazis a platform to air their hateful views only helps give them legitimacy. It shifts the Overton Window of permitted discourse in their favor. It drives away normal internet users.

They are not amenable to reason. And while we can try, it’s not our job to make them see the light. Experts in deradicalization agree that you’ll never convince them by arguing with them because they are drawn to the ideology for a different reason: a sense of displacement, a yearning for a new community. You need to fix the other things going on in their lives first.

In the meantime, the proper thing to do with Neo-Nazis is to ban them, and let them move on to infest some darker corner of the internet. Certainly far from a platform like this which is frequently visited by teens.

There are “free-speech zones” around the internet that seem happy to have them. Okay, fine. Though there have been mass-shootings linked to some of those websites. They’ll always find some way to congregate and spread their filth.

But it doesn’t have to be here. Certainly on PoliticsTOO, we have reached that judgment and the site Mods have also determined that Nazi propaganda is not suitable for ImgFlip as a whole.
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Bad Pun Kylie Minogue white | What do you call someone Who’s as hard on BLM and ANTIFA as they are soft on Neo-Nazis A crypto-fascist | image tagged in bad pun kylie minogue white | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
Sorry, couldn’t think of a pun
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better speech and education.
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“How hilarious that, when I served up an obvious softball mistake, Al Franken here didn't know it, and it took OlympianProduct to point it out...?

Now that's good eatin'!”

A) It’s not that funny because
B) Your ramblings are usually incoherent to begin with and
C) I picked up on the spirit of the unfunny thing you were trying to convey and know that in your fevered attempts to get your brain to connect to your sausage links, a synapse or ten misfired. Not to mention
D) You just don’t matter that much, fat boy, so it not surprising that
E) You equate this to food.
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Sweet, sweet Karen, you rely entirely too much on your crutches: weak accusations of projection (although the fact that it clearly irks you so much tells me I had you nailed to the wall six months ago), toothless dictations on “how things are,” ad hominem attaks on grammer, speling, etc., etc., etc.

Ultimately, you’re a speedbag.

Perhaps, judging by your gravitational disadvantages, it’s more of a heavy bag, but I digress. It’s interesting that you choose the methods you do, considering you are so frequently the breaker of your own rules.

That, in my or anyone else’s book, makes you a hypocrite. A slovenly, pathetic hypocrite, probably still living in mom’s basement (it’s still up for debate whether she’s stuffed in the attic or not) and that is why, despite your morbid obesity, you lack gravitas.

To use a phrase all-too-familiar with you: Thank you for taking the time to let me educate you.
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Two hundred words now constitutes a “manifesto” and is tl;dr?

You’re wrong. You’re a pussy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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“Every other comment you make is a reference to obesity, weight, eating, and the like.

If that's not classic projection, what is...?

You're a fat pig, Al, who hates himself (herself?), and projects your self-hatred onto people who dare disagree with you politically.

Own it.”

TL;dr
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“Truth hurts.”

It does, becaaaaaaauuuuuuussssse....

“Every other comment you make is a reference to obesity, weight, eating, and the like.”

Snared!

What happened to tl;dr? You’re a liar. A big, fat, probably-wheelchair-bound liar.
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Too busy stuffing your face?
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What do you think ought to be done with cat memes submitted to the dogs stream: Or, for that matter, dog memes submitted to the cats stream?
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Ducks the question, says “triggered” three times in a row

Gottem
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Bring it in
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You know Karen’s heated when she starts nitpicking grammar.
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Al Franken is from Minnesota, not Wisconsin.
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As if. There's only one band of people actively calling for martial law and civil war right now and they're all on your side.

No one on ImgFlip projects harder and more often than you.

No one.
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Eyyyy we can agree on something else today

I condemn the riots that occurred this summer and fall (link?) in the same way MLK condemned riots

And in the same way Biden and Harris condemned those riots!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2712ZA

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN25N344

I.e. taking care to distinguish them from those peacefully calling for change

We just keep finding things to agree on today
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Which solution sounds better to you?
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Well lookie who's gone now,,,

Wait, which MadKitten alt was that?
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Hugs
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A Kylie hater is just a Kylie lover who has not yet felt the true grace of the Kylie
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There's more grace in Jeffrey's toenail than there is in Kylie Minogue
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Big if true
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Is propaganda aligned with the current POTUS — the most powerful man on earth — “dissent” by any stretch of the imagination?

How so?
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Why did my pro-Trump gif get disapproved in PoliticsTOO?

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Feel free to submit that to https://imgflip.com/m/DonaldTrumpSUCKS or to the conservatives stream, I’ll approve it for both streams.
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Thafrig dolt disapproved that?

I've had issues with this lopsided sphincter of a stream since its beginnings:

🔘 The modding can be tryrannical, mods (not all of them, but I've witnessed issues with these 3: DJFox, AN0NYM0US, and Kamikaze) gloat on how dazzling their censor sword for hurt feelz is.

🔘 It's a safespace for memers who now can turn all ornery because they can without fear of getting butthurt by the even more ornery in the process.

🔘 It removed memers from the Politics stream. I've seen memes here recently with higher points than some on Politic's Front Page. They've could have been there. Also, I want laonsite back where he belongs tearing things up.
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I will commend you again for making a meme that is very...

meme

I thought it was fine for PoliticsTOO and certainly it would be welcome here as well imgflip.com/m/political_jokes
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I approved it lol so I dunno

Best I got for ya
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Hahahahahahahahahahah c’mon man!
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Bruh, for the sake of your "mental health", you should probably go back to your safe space.
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For the sake of your mental health, I prescribe you go cold-turkey off the
Right-wing dopium
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