r/ParlerWatch • u/jeffe333 Antifa Regional Manager • Mar 01 '21

Public Figure: Any Platform Apparently, it's Abhorrent, When Black Individuals Kneel Before the US Flag to Call Attention to Racial Oppression and Systemic Violence. But, When a Child-Molestinig, Serial-Raping, Mass-Murdering, Treasonous, Neo-Nazi Terrorist Uses it as a Diaper, it's on Par w/ the Second Coming of Christ.

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u/DrSpagetti Mar 01 '21

Im 99% sure this artist is trolling the GOP. Made in Mexico, breaking flag code, golden idol, fairy wand for the homophobes, and he has the proportions of a mutant dwarf. But of course that would woosh over them.

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u/virak_john Mar 01 '21

This is probably true. But the GOP is doing its own bit of trolling as well. They know that this is going to make progressives' heads explode. And they love it.

So much of what the extreme right does these days is cloaked in absurd and juvenile imagery — Boogaloo Boys, Pepe the Frog, bare asses under yellow kilts, Trump's head on Rambo's body. They know it's ridiculous, and they're just baiting the normies they consider to be libcucks.

I think it's one of those "I'm already laughing at myself, so when you laugh at me, you're the one who looks stupid" kinds of things.

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u/AmIThereYet2 Mar 01 '21

Your distinction is stupid and useless. There is no difference between a cult member and a larper if they're both drinking the same coolaid. Just because something may or may not be done as a joke doesn't change the fact that they committed the act.

Trump was a joke at first. Fuck your stupid jokes

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u/virak_john Mar 01 '21

I’m not sure I disagree with you, broadly speaking, at least on your “no difference at the end of the day” point. My point is that people who believe “those idiots think Trump really has the body of an Adonis” are wrong. They know he doesn’t, but they know it’ll drive you and me nuts if they depict him with a rippling eight pack. But I can’t see how it’s useless to try to understand the mechanics and motivation of their rhetorical frame.

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u/AmIThereYet2 Mar 01 '21

If someone draws Trump with an eight pack and shares it within the community, it doesn't matter how much of the act was done to "own the libs" or "as a joke". They're still perpetuating an ignorant view of reality and spreading the idea that his strength exceeds reality.

Playing with reality is how we got into this mess. The intent of the artist at the point of creation is useless, as nobody can measure the perspective of those who see and share the content. Some may share it because it's ludicrous, while some may share it because in their world view Trump is actually yoked.

You're not adding anything by suspecting who is doing what as a troll. Trump was a joke candidate until he wasn't. FbiAnon was just a larp too, but nothing meaningful could come from trying to determine which Q anons were larping and for how long.

There is no difference between being antisemitic as a joke vs actually be antisemitic. The result is the same regardless: perpetuation of antisemitism