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but seriously do you realize how insufferable you sound when you make an appeal to your own authority

Okay. I’ll concede that first point, and that conservatives fit the meme perfectly. I’m pretty sure the meme isn’t exclusively talking about conservatives, though. What about the second point?

yes. the irony is lost on you. it is… called satire. the author is making fun of the ridiculous state of the world by describing it as though it were normal, thus provoking outrage in the reader upon realizing that it is not.

also i’m not the person you replied to. and even if that person was an asshole, being an asshole would not make them a conservative.

you are just on a roll today, aren’t you?

“please demonstrate that you have any reading comprehension skills whatsoever”

“please stop being so mean to me”

STOP THIS IMMEDIATELY

Is that… would this be classified as Tiamat’s fursona?

Speaking of which, here’s the article in the post. Y’all know what to do.

Twilight Sparkle what have they done to you

EDIT: just looked up picture of thr MLP eye colors and eyelash patterns for comparison. My sincerest apologies, Applejack

I won’t dispute that there are some genuinely awful people masquerading as media critics on YouTube nowadays (coughcoughcriticaldrinkercoughnerdrotic), or that there is a chunk of the population who simply tune into their ragebait in search of opinions to plug into their brains. Those “media critics” could be comic book fans. I wouldn’t know, I don’t watch their channels. But if that were the sole driving force, why wasn’t there a conservative outcry when Nick Fury, who was white in some comics and black in others, was portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson in the MCU? I find it difficult to believe conservative talking heads would ever pass up an excuse to complain about something like that if there was any kernel of truth to it.

More importantly, why was there backlash against Ariel from people on the left who did not object to Miles Morales?

curious what you think that joke is

I’d pull up statistics on movie ticket sales versus comic book sales and point out that the movie outsold the comics by (conservatively) 200 to 1, but there’s no point bringing facts into an argument against a troll.

There aren’t many conservatives on Lemmy. Why bother talking about what they think?

Could this be because people don’t tend to get mad over things they don’t know exist? Naaaaah, must be racism. Anyone who disgagrees that racism is the most likely explanation thinks racism is fake.

What is it with leftists and making mountains out of molehills?

“Personally, I just want to chalk this up to racism so I can be upset about it”

Better than the reverse, I suppose

Personally I think a large part of the lack of outrage over the first four is that no one who watched the movies had heard of the source material. People who watch Marvel movies don’t tend to read the comics, but Ariel was a Disney movie (one of the most famous of all time) remade as another Disney movie.

please let this happen again i am SO upset i didn’t get to go

Where should Israel go back to then? What other land does it have claim to where it should stay?

Ah, right. Of course. You don’t think Israel should exist at all. Judging by this comment I’m guessing you don’t think the US should exist either, which means I don’t have to listen to you

Leftists often say that no one should have to justify their right to exist. Of course, they usually say it in regards to trans people and not cis white males, but they say it. And I kinda don’t want to justify my right to exist.

Ah, so even though they’re (trying to) occupy the exact same plot of land, Israel is “the west” (and therefore we’re obligated to hate it) and Palestine is not (and therefore we’re not). That makes sense now!

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