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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 79 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

I wonder what nerd wrote this

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably a herpetologist 🤷

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

wikiblame it ;)

(yes, that exists)

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months 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 🤷

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Love you too, snoogums.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

But your first link (!)

Apologues are fun though

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Makes you wonder about their obsession with pepe.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] MrFappy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months 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.

[–] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months 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

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You misspelled Klan.

KKKlan

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

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

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

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

And the problem is genetic, you say?

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is what you want to argue about?

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it -3 points 2 months ago

Did I stutter, my depressed friend?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 2 months 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.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months 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.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months 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.