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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Well, you could play it out a bit from there.

    If we tie it back to love of China and Uyghurs we could go with “If there’s a Uyghur genocide in China, then there’s also a Black genocide in America!”

    Or maybe “How do you pose a country should respond to violent separatism and terrorist attacks?”

    But then it all just pivots into Ukraine and Russia. First to accuse the other of serving Putin wins. (Or loses?)

    Which then provokes a call to separate genocides into ones using bombs and bullets and ones that aren’t.

    Which then circles on back to Palestine and Israel.

    For true ouroubos debatelording.







  • Given how ubiquitous Pepe is as a template for emotes in places like Twitch, I argue that Pepe was taken back by the gamers as a mascot.

    Now, because gamers are gamers I also don’t fault anyone having reactive doubts about usage of Pepe. But I don’t think those doubts are license to action without some burden of proof.

    Posting frogs itself means nothing. The content of the frogs means everything, including dogwhistles. He’s not a dogwhistle himself anymore, just with exceptions to that rule, like the specific groyper one.

    He has been granted the title of having reasonable innocent use, but he has not been extended the rank of not having problematic associations.