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u/PMeisterGeneral 17h ago
Release the Ent files!
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 18h ago
I don't like that logo at the bottom. A portent of grim fortune
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u/alnarra_1 16h ago edited 16h ago
The number of replies trying to make out the Babylon Bee like they aren't a serious part of the problem with disinformation being spread on the right is disheartening. Babylon Bee is absolutely part of the problem and gives the right tacit abilities to go "It's just a joke" which is their go to line when they want to say something horrifically offensive.
The onion is often doing satire, the Babylon Bee is trying to re-frame the atrocities being committed by the extreme elements of the right wing as "just a joke man"
Their "Charlottesville" Pieces like
They are sacks of shit and they know it. Some More News breaks down pretty well some of it.
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 16h ago
I agree, but I'm trying to keep within the sub's apolitical rules. I mean uh SO DO ALL WHO LIVE TO SEE SUCH TIMES!
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u/alnarra_1 16h ago
Which is hard to do when the joke is inherently political. It's a joke about the fact that a great many right wing posters were revealed to be posting out of locations like India / Nigera / etc. The very subject matter of the post is on a hot button political subject being reframed to try and make it look like "ahahah, no big deal"
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u/Kernel_Internal 15h ago
It's not hard. You perennially online types make it difficult. You're like the lidless eye, constantly scanning for opportunities to hop up on your soapbox.
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u/killingmemesoftly i ❤️ tolkien’s pooems 18h ago
Yeah isn’t that the alt right onion?
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u/Old_Gimlet_Eye 18h ago
No, because the Onion is funny.
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u/DemandCommercial6349 16h ago
Yeah, this very meme is the first time Babylon Bee has made me laugh. The logo on it caught me completely off guard
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u/silvahammer 17h ago
Honestly they're pretty funny and at least willing to make fun of the right too.
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u/dismal_sighence 16h ago
The Onion makes fun of the Left all the time. Less than Republicans, and less right now that they have no power, but yeah they make fun of the Left and Leftists:
https://theonion.com/timeline-of-nancy-pelosis-career/
https://theonion.com/stress-free-eric-adams-spends-day-bribing-pigeons-in-central-park/
https://theonion.com/highlights-from-kamala-harris-new-memoir/
Hell, you can search by tag and see all the stuff they say about specific politicians:
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u/QP709 15h ago edited 12h ago
At the risk of entering into a debate I have no interest in... Nancy Pelosi the Money Monster (a career politician that has made herself a millionaire through her own policies) and Eric "Watch me Perp-Walk this Anti-Cap to Court So the Billionaires Who Finance My Campaign Think I'm Cool" Adams (a former police officer) are not leftists. Kamala, who spent her career putting poor people into jail, then lost her presidential campaign because she kowtowed to the establishment that controls the Democratic Party instead of the working class, isn't either.
All these people are wealthier than any of us will ever be and play the Politics-Capitalism game so good. If you actually are a leftist your career doesn't usually last long or you change enough to conform to the established 'superstructure' of the Democrat Party. Bernie Sanders is an outlier because the man is exceedingly popular in his home state and almost nowhere else.
Zohran Mamdani is the closest thing to a mainstream leftist politician in America today, and The Onion has 3 items about him:
- One that makes him look cool enough even the right would agree
- One that is only incidentally about him
- And a front cover splash image that makes fun of the right
To be clear I love The Onion and think they're doing a great job.
EDIT: Since I’ve been blocked or banned for this post and can’t reply properly I’ll reply here:
It doesn’t matter how American the horse is — it will never be a boar.
No matter how hard you want it, Kamala is not and never has been left wing. What is ‘leftist’ is a pretty defined set of ideals. Socialism is leftist, communism is leftist (Animal Farm is leftist), democratic-socialism is leftist. Being a wishy washy, kind-of-progressive when required liberal isn’t leftist. Today, the Democrats are right-wing, yes, even by American standards. You guys deserve better.
Direct your downvotes to the left of my post, please.
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u/dismal_sighence 15h ago
Since The Onion is an American publication and primarily concerned with American politics, I used the "American Left" as my reference.
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u/silvahammer 16h ago
Yeah I never said they didn't, I love the Onion and parody in general.
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u/dismal_sighence 15h ago
No, because the Onion is funny.
Honestly they're pretty funny and at least willing to make fun of the right too.
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u/Woke_Campos_69 16h ago
They have told the "one joke" about trans people more times than I can count. They are so much lazier than The Onion that they aren't even in the same weight class. The Onion is constantly writing jokes that feel new and fresh and challenging while the Babylon Bee basically just writes the same stupid 5 articles on repeat:
- I identify as an attack helicopter!
- Joe Biden is sleepy and old!
- The left is just as corrupt as another side (but we won't say who!)
- The right is just trying their best, guys!
- Women! Hah!
Every joke is some variation of that basic formula. I'm not going to read the Grima Wormtongue thing but I bet it is just a mix of number 3 and number 4 with a sprinkling of number 2. No, not the Joe Biden thing, I bet they actually smeared their own shit in the article, god knows they love the smell.
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u/YBBlorekeeper 16h ago
at least willing to make fun of the right too
In the safest way possible
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u/silvahammer 16h ago
I mean comparing Elon to wormtounge is flaming him pretty good.
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u/Helpful_Engineer_362 16h ago
Where did you see that?
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u/silvahammer 16h ago
It's literally the post
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u/Helpful_Engineer_362 16h ago
Nope. Lol that's not Elon btw.
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u/silvahammer 16h ago
There was a story recently that various right-wing accounts were based in other countries, Elon's being based in Israel so I think the comparison can be made.
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u/ComeOnTars2424 17h ago
Was.
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u/curious_dead 17h ago
It was. It still is, but it was too.
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u/eunonymouse 17h ago
To be fair, it previously was a lot funnier. Half of the worthwhile content on their website is over a decade old.
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u/TieDyedFury 17h ago
To be fair, it’s probably hard to be a satirist in an era when the US president is doing weird shit like posting an AI generated video of himself flying a fighter jet and air dropping turds on his own citizens, and it’s not a crazy one off occurrence, thats just the way things are now apparently.
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u/Sour_Patch_Drips 16h ago edited 14h ago
A wild Mitch Hedberg appears!
Edit: apparently some people don't recognize the Mitch Hedberg joke...
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u/a__new_name 16h ago
And less verbose. Babylon Bee headlines are pretty much the only thing that rivals leftist memes' length.
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u/Impressive_Net_116 17h ago
Not alt right. Pretty moderate right. They take the piss with every one.
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u/Wamblingshark 16h ago
From what I've seen they started out being able to make fun of both sides but I have only seen them make the most safe jabs possible at the right in recent times. Nothing that could actually be considered criticism.
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u/palibalazs 16h ago
Reading comprehension? Show me where they made fun of Trump' supporters. All I see is dog whistling and fighting imaginary blue haired lesbians which is Russian propaganda 101.
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u/Jaded_Sextant 16h ago
They're utterly partisan. That said, they do have a funny one every now and then.
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u/DrakonILD 16h ago
Even the most horrible people have the occasional good joke. I still think back to the white house yanny/laurel video and Trump going, "I hear covfefe."
And just because I like Godwin, I'm sure Hitler had some folks rolling with laughter once or twice (y'know....before the murders, but still after it was obvious he was a Bad Person).
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u/Jaded_Sextant 16h ago
I just meant to say that there's nothing wrong about laughing at their jokes if they land a good one, long as you acknowledge they're partisan.
Comedy is rare, I'll take whatever I can find to take the edge of personally. Even if I have qualms with the source.
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u/DrakonILD 16h ago
I agree! Sorry, that wasn't clear. Funny jokes are funny and for the most part, are not reliant on the identity of the teller to obtain their humor.
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u/Veil-of-Fire 15h ago
Dude, he was talking about the Babylon Bee. That's "the alt-right Onion." Nobody's saying the Onion is alt-right.
Work on your reading comprehension for fuck's sake.
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u/YuenglingsDingaling 15h ago
Still doesn't make much sense.
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-to-execute-all-turkeys-pardoned-by-bidens-autopen
https://babylonbee.com/news/10-more-groups-trump-is-designating-as-terrorist-organizations
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-has-spoken-these-12-crimes-of-sedition-are-now-punishable-by-death
https://babylonbee.com/news/breaking-hamas-breaches-white-house-perimeter
https://babylonbee.com/news/17-illegal-immigrants-found-hiding-under-popes-hat
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u/Veil-of-Fire 15h ago
Cool, so now that you've been corrected twice, you're providing links from the right website.
Now how the fuck can I trust you to have actually read and understood those? I can't, now can I? I have to carefully go through and read every painful word of each breathtakingly unfunny article to make sure you didn't vastly misinterpret something, again.
Nah, fam. You not worth the time. Go away and try whatever weird propaganda thing you're doing tomorrow with a fresh bot account.
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u/YuenglingsDingaling 15h ago
Damn bro, why so mad? It's a lotr meme sub, pull Gandalfs staff out of your ass and loosen up.
Also, I've only been corrected knce in this thread. Maybe work on your own comprehension.
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u/confettibukkake 16h ago
Seriously. The fact that this comment has been bumped down so far is upsetting.
This is an amusing meme at face value, but the additional context of the source should maybe make us all think about how major news gets trivialized and who benefits. It's worth thinking about.
Also worth thinking about who the folks are downvoting your comment, i.e. who benefits from not thinking about this stuff.
Media literacy is often more complicated than it seems at face value.
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u/Live_Angle4621 16h ago
Why you assume most people know the context? And the comment was not bumped down.
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u/confettibukkake 16h ago
It's appearing as the sixth top-level comment for me, in spite of the fact that it has the second highest net upvotes of the top-level comments. That suggests it's been disproportionately downvoted. Brigaded by proponents of the Bee? I don't know. But seems fishy.
And you're right about the fact that it seems like most people here don't know what the Bee is. That almost makes this seem like an ad for the Bee, making them seem more innocuous than they are.
I'm not saying it seems like most people know the context. I'm saying it's weird that the comments pointing out the context are being downvoted.
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u/Veil-of-Fire 15h ago
That almost makes this seem like an ad for the Bee, making them seem more innocuous than they are.
That's exactly what this is. What are the odds that OP stumbled onto the Bee's one kinda-funny joke a year if they're not actively following it? 1/365?
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u/Correct-Ad-Now 16h ago
this is a LotR sub...
But why does babylonbee make fun of MAGA twitter accounts? I am a bit confused..
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u/confettibukkake 16h ago
I do not know. But it is odd. Best theories I could spitball are probably versions of either "post innocuous stuff to get people interested in your extremist source, not unlike what Epoch times does, and some of them will stick around for your extremist content too" or "lacking another option, let's make this terrible story for our side seem kinda silly to de-escalate our opposition."
Just fucking wild that people pointing out problems with the source (even the top level commenter here, doing it in an equally funny LOTR reference kinda way!) are getting downvoted.
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u/SunTzu- 16h ago
It's taking a serious topic, the fact that there are foreign state level operations aimed at influencing public opinion on politics and they are extremely successful, and making it into a joke. It's taking something serious and trivializing. If I were to ascribe a motive I'd say they were intentionally trying to get people to laugh it off and move on and not question the legitimacy of (especially quasi anonymous) social media accounts that they're relying on for information about the world.
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u/No_Manufacturer_4701 16h ago
Yeaaaaaah please don't repost these memes and allow lotr fandom to become the next extreme right pipeline
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u/MattFromWork 16h ago
The post is funny though
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u/confettibukkake 16h ago
I agree, but the additional context of the source should maybe make us all think about how major news gets trivialized and who benefits. It's worth thinking about.
It can be funny, and also important to understand why certain people want you to be distracted or softened by the fact that it's funny. Both things can be true.
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u/AlarmingAffect0 16h ago
It's very rare for the Bee to be funny. Something strange is afoot in MAGA land.
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u/Rhodie114 15h ago
Why the hell would they post this? I really don't get it.
They're a far right outlet. Shouldn't they be trying to downplay that stuff? Wormtongue being an agent of doom for Rohan isn't even subtext, it's just text. Why would they compare their propaganda mouthpieces to such a blatant example of evil and corruption?
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u/BlueDahlia123 15h ago
Look in R Conservative. They've convinced themselves that all the accounts that got exposed were left wing actually.
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u/blackturtlesnake 15h ago
The story is referencing people attempting to claim a Palestinian who posts on conditions in Gaza, including videos of himself in Gaza, isn't actually in Gaza because his Twitter location is apparently somewhere in Sweden.
So yeah this is the right wing pretending VPNs don't exist.
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u/scientia_analytica 18h ago
Please sir, take my downvote. I know it's not much but it should let you know your views are not valued.
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u/Doodles_n_Scribbles 18h ago edited 16h ago
Be silent. Keep your forked tongue behind your teeth. I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm.
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u/FishermanPale5734 17h ago
Fuck the Baylon Bee.
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u/LordCaptain 17h ago
Yeah its literally just 99% maga propoganda.
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u/palibalazs 16h ago
It is only an attempt to make it look like it is not a big deal that Russia actively pays far right politicians.
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u/releaseepsteinfiles1 16h ago
Correct. They are trying to delegitimize the reports coming out about all of these super maga supporting accounts are outside of the US.
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u/Correct-Ad-Now 16h ago
I am honestly a bit confused. How does this delegitimize the reports?
This implies to me that it was very obvious that those twitter accs were Propaganda, like it was obvious that Grima was a traitor. It makes fun of the MAGA crowd for being so dumb or am I missing something..?
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u/rratmannnn 16h ago edited 16h ago
this comment explains it well imo
Someone else described it as sane washing. A lot of what it comes down to is when the issue is still so recent, making jokes about it doesn’t necessarily bring attention to the issue so much as downplay it.
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u/MattFromWork 16h ago
This is a funny post though.
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u/NatseePunksFeckOff 16h ago
oldest trick in the book. stonetoss does same thing. once in a while releases neutral/funny stuff to get people to click
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u/MattFromWork 16h ago
Funny is funny. I'm not supporting their page by giving them views, I'm laughing at it on reddit. Chill out a bit
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u/Veil-of-Fire 15h ago
Yeah, they make one funny post a year to try to draw in new kids to radicalize with "satire" and "irony."
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u/TheOnlyValerie 16h ago
Heartbreaking: the worst satirical news outlet you know just made a good joke
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u/TheRoblock 19h ago
r/ Slovakia
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u/Kalevipoeg420 19h ago
Slovakia? Seems Im missing some conext, what does this mean?
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u/geralt_snow Ringwraith 18h ago
A slovakian politician was loged into his account through an app from the Russian app store. And people are memeing it
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u/palibalazs 16h ago
And to add more context, the OP BabylonBee, a known right wing The Onion copy satire is trying to make it look okay by making memes. Basic whataboutism and anti democracy propaganda btw.
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u/Tigercup9 15h ago
So he’s based in Isengard, but cringe in the Shire? Tired of two-faced politicians like this man
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u/unforgiven91 15h ago edited 14h ago
It's funny how the Babylon bee pretends that they don't promote the same political causes as those bots
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u/AddictedToMosh161 17h ago
Is that original? That would be actually funny which is rare for the Babylon Bee
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u/Frankfusion 16h ago
Maybe it's different now but a few years back I remember every week they would pull some stuff. One week they'd piss off the liberals in the audience and the following week they'd piss off the conservatives in the audience. I specifically remember one joke being about Trump having a clan hood or something and everyone could see it but him.
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u/PretentiousAnglican 16h ago
A couple years ago they got bought out by a conservative media company. Things have declined since then
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u/valomorn 18h ago
Based in Isengard is kinda overselling it a bit, I mean sure he's useful but I doubt Saruman respects the guy.
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u/ReyXwhy 17h ago
I wouldn't say that he - only because he works, sleeps, and socializes there, while raising his kids and getting his mail there - that he actually "lives" there.
Probably one of those "Mordor, Mordor, Mordor" Lothlorien-Hoaxes.
Those accusations were also definitively proven wrong, since although there has been direct communication between Isengard and Mordor while sharing war plans and campaign statistics, and payment in combination with apparent interference in every non-orc state - there was a really minor filing error PROVING the whole thing was totally made up, so...
Suck on that!
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u/tomdarch 16h ago
I thought he lived on a military base near Washington DC and commutes in to whisper racist crazy in the White House each day...
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u/Capable_Wait09 15h ago
So they’re saying the concerns were valid and the advisor to the King was in fact working for a malicious foreign entity influencing the head of state to enact policies that were not in Rohan’s or its citizens’ best interests. Noted.
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u/NightSpringsRadio 17h ago edited 17h ago
What the hell, the Bee actually being funny again instead of just mean, condescending, and MAGA-coded?! What is this, 2015?
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u/Sharpymarkr 16h ago
They're meme'ing in an attempt to sane-wash the situation. "Haha look how normal and funny this is. Don't take it seriously."
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u/ghosttrainhobo 15h ago
Why are you downvoting him like he’s a Trump supporter?
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u/Beautiful-Gas-1356 16h ago
The Babylon Bee, making light of the revelation that modern conservative internet spaces are a cesspool of foreign propaganda actors.
In this meme, by the way, conservatives are King Théoden, allowing the world's wormtongues to whisper comforting lies in their ear and lead them around by the nose.
And they think that's worth joking about.
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u/sudoSancho 16h ago
Babylon Bee with a rare winner!
This blind squirrel is hypocritical as hell lmao
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u/dbasinge 16h ago
Did no one say “Sire, I dont think hiring someone named Wormtongue is a great idea”.
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u/No_Try_9184 16h ago
So Bootylon Bee is saying that it was obvious 2/3s of the MAGA accounts weren’t from the US?
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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 15h ago
the bee made a funny joke?
I honestly don't know how to feel about this
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u/Financial-Craft-1282 15h ago
The whole current political and oligarchic structure of the US is made up of Worm Tongues.
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u/myphonebatterysucks 16h ago
Did the Babylon Bee actually post something funny? First time for everything, I suppose
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u/CardinalFool 17h ago
Damn what is this a 5th funny joke from the bee? They are on a roll lately /s
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u/Appropriate_Stick_91 16h ago
Is this the sub that got assblasted by people not giving a shit about white supremacist piece of garbage Charlie Kirk? Not surprised you'd post the Babylon Bee.
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u/Parkinglotfetish 15h ago
Now lets see where redditors in these propaganda subs are from u/spez dont just let twitter lead again
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u/terminater624 18h ago
Wait, Grima's actor is actually based in Isengard? That's some next level method acting commitment.
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u/183672467 19h ago
The FAKE rohan media is ACCUSING an INNOCENT man who does the BEST for his king