So the one thing about fascism, especially in its late stages, is that it tends to eat itself alive. When they run out of enemies, they create enemies.
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?”
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any more ironic
I don’t think I understand any of what’s being said here. Don’t know the term, don’t know the references being made in the post.
Yeah OP doesn’t explain. Have a look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers
TL:DR turbo racists who don’t find Trump or Kirk racist enough.
It’s about whether you hate Jewish people the right way or not. It has nothing to do with brown people as both groups equally hate them.
Kirk supports Israel and Fuentes and the groypers do not.
Kirk supports Israel and Fuentes and the groypers do not.
supported please.
Im sorry, what are you asking for?
I think they are asking you to use past tense even discussing attributes of the awful former human charlie kirk.
I see it as a light hearted joke, but with an undertone of “but seriously fuck that guy – sorry, former guy”
I’ve no idea what this means, but if they’re just racist PoS I don’t think I care about nuance.
Basically Kirk was MAGA, the shooter was from a group called ‘groypers’ led by Nick Fuentes. There’s an online meme ‘persona’ of sorts called Pepe, who I guess the groypers use as a mascot. Which is a shame as some of the Pepe content is pretty awesome. It’s the punisher skull shit all over again. Anyway, infighting between facist groups, groypers being the more extreme far right group, which I didn’t think was possible but here we are.
Is that like a grouper but with a South African accent?
Basically racists got mad Pepe got reco-opted by democratic protestors in Hong Kong so they decided to make their own frog to put racist shit on, this is how a decent chunk of America passes the time.
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.
It should be a war crime to explain to my mother what a groyper is, what “OWO” is and how to pronounce it.
Oh-woo-oh, obviously. Just imagine the cringe if your mom decides to joke with OwO and UwU to her friends, it’ll be worth it
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.”
Wait’ll you hear about that time Fuentes accidentally streamed himself watching gay porn. Or his date with a catboy!
Go on
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”.
Lol exactly the same here
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 wayI saw someone who described the murder as a shitpost and that scarily makes sense.
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.
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.
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.
Sorry man, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
And I have no idea if it’s ever getting better
I don’t even want to bring up brain chips, there’s plenty of people who already think they have them. Imagine the psychosis.
There is no limit. Things are really really bad? They can always get worse. Rock bottom is a flawed analogy.
The drill is mightier than the rock
Or maybe just not go on the internet so much?
Most people are addicted. It’s like you are saying “Just stop smoking cigarettes so often”
That’s a more reasonable suggestion than “evolve more lungs”
With cigarettes, we recognized that harm that they did and in response developed a series of regulations about where they could be used, who could use them when, how they could be advertised, warning labels that had to be applied, and taxes on them to discourage use and offset the societal harm. As result we get this:
…and this…
The internet is a tricky one on account of it absolutely having crossover with the first amendment, but there’s got to be a conversation about its effect on mental health and what if anything can be done in response.
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.
It wasn’t even “uwu” meme
It was the “OwO what’s this?” Meme. Which makes it even weirder/funnier/messed up
I still don’t understand, but I learned one thing, when a meme seems to do not have a meaning, it’s fascists crap.
Those guys always miss humor totally.
What’s the difference? ELIA5 please, I don’t know if I have time to go down this rabbit hole myself.
One is a generic emoticon, while “OwO what’s this?” is an (in)famous meme from the furry fandom
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
There’s not just 2
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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I instantly dislike the guy.
Check if any invidious instance can play it, or NewPipe/PipePipe on android
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 🤷♀️
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
I mean, most white people feel the same way. We learn about it and it’s like, wtf.
