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minus-squareriodoro1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33·7 days agoPepe has been around when elon was still posing in a coat in front of a liberty sign.
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·7 days agoand the swastika is ancient. that doesn’t mean people using it in the West aren’t usually dickheads.
minus-squareriodoro1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 days agoD… did you just compare pepe to a swastika? Is everything ok?
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 days agoSeems like an apt comparison to me. The frog has been used by hard right extremist groups almost religiously, I say let it croak.
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 days agoyes, i did. and no, things are not ok. there’s way too many outright Nazis and they love this stupid frog
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoYeah its clearly more similar to the iron cross
minus-squareToxicWaste@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoThe nazi symbol is always drawn in one way (卐). while the religious symbol can be drawn any direction, i usually see it the other way around (卍). could be that religious users want to distance themselves from shaved morons…
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 days agomost of the people that use it hatefully don’t know that and don’t care. it’s used both ways for hate, makes it really hard to differentiate.
Pepe has been around when elon was still posing in a coat in front of a liberty sign.
and the swastika is ancient. that doesn’t mean people using it in the West aren’t usually dickheads.
D… did you just compare pepe to a swastika?
Is everything ok?
Seems like an apt comparison to me. The frog has been used by hard right extremist groups almost religiously, I say let it croak.
yes, i did. and no, things are not ok. there’s way too many outright Nazis and they love this stupid frog
Yeah its clearly more similar to the iron cross
The nazi symbol is always drawn in one way (卐). while the religious symbol can be drawn any direction, i usually see it the other way around (卍). could be that religious users want to distance themselves from shaved morons…
most of the people that use it hatefully don’t know that and don’t care. it’s used both ways for hate, makes it really hard to differentiate.