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I don't know if the Babylon Bee are delusional enough that they didn't think their readers would take this personally, or if they wanted to distance themselves from their own reputation. Amazing how the majority of replies are former supporters blaming Jews. https://nitter.poast.org/TheBabylonBee/status/1772339418986168450

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[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Friendly fire is a favorite pastime of fascists.

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago
[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These are the articles the regular readers will share with libs so the libs think Babylon Bee is a centrist parody site. It's like a gateway drug that is incredibly unfun

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like it’s also like I said in another thread. White supremacists have no intention of making lower class white lives better, they either make fun of them because they’re embarrassed of them or they don’t talk about them because if a white utopia ever existed they’d be the ones doing all the work. In conclusion white supremacy is a failed ideology from the jump.

[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I'll add that leave it to Babylon Bee to make fun of a group of people in a reactionary way - people can't control who their parents are. Maybe this is just to signal to the Nazis that they need to get back to doing pure incest to qualify

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah... the Hans Kristian Graebener method?

[–] Melonius@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

The "same guy that made those nazi comics and lives in Spring Texas" method

[–] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Making a play for the libs who have decided Jon Stewart is a tankie for criticising Biden?

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That or they genuinely hate the subsection of their followers that fit this stereotype

Conservative hatred is an all consuming ouroboros

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

This feels like the "respectable" (i.e. concerned about optics) right wingers clashing with the online weirdos

[–] EllenKelly@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

nazis are just using it as a way talk about inbreeding in other groups.. thanks for the nitter link!

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 year ago
[–] CoolYori@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kind of looks like a caveman version of Linus Tech Tips

[–] buh@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

LinuSS TeKKK Tip$

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

So their genes aren't pure enough, says the Babylon Bee hitler-detector

[–] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For extra context:

Managing Editor of @TheBabylonBee:

https://twitter.com/JoelWBerry/status/1619345167093473281

Question: Did they really reuse this lame joke? Twice. With years in between? Yeah.

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1772339418986168450

https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/904022507069612032