Cher freaks out about Pepe the Frog, white supremacist symbol shared by Donald Trump Jr. - Polidicks

[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/cher-freaks-white-supremacist-symbol-pepe-frog-article-1.2796279[/url] [QUOTE]Cher freaks out about Pepe the Frog, white supremacist symbol shared by Donald Trump Jr.[/QUOTE]

Cher hates Trump ever since she got destroyed after insulting his hair: [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/268449053300383744?lang=en[/media]

I don't know if I should laugh or be sad about this.

I think it's amazing how people have turned one of the least inherently political things into something this big

[QUOTE=download;51068040]I don't know if I should laugh or be sad about this.[/QUOTE] i guess sad since memes are now as bad as the third reich

#notallpepes

[QUOTE=EddieLTU;51068047]i guess sad since memes are now as bad as the third reich[/QUOTE] To be fair, memes can be a vehicle for spreading political messages that the propagandists of the past would have never dreamed if, and the seemingly lighthearted and innocuous nature is a big part of the reason why. They're a great way the poisoning the well before conflicting views have a chance to get there. Remember "It's actually about ethics in Video Game Journalism"?

did this all start after that guy yelled "Pepe" at a Clinton Rally?

cher's twitter account is legendary [media]https://twitter.com/cher/status/541773513254641664[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/cher/status/194552615672102912[/media] [media]https://twitter.com/cher/status/236855826340532224[/media]

The normies have adopted Pepe. Oh fuck, is Poo Poo Pee Pee going to be a thing again?

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51068027]Cher hates Trump ever since she got destroyed after insulting his hair: [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/268449053300383744?lang=en[/media][/QUOTE] He's running for President he shouldn't be insulting old washed up celebrities

[QUOTE=Tobin;51068130]He's running for President he shouldn't be insulting old washed up celebrities[/QUOTE] 3:23 PM - 13 Nov 2012

First they came for the 4chan, and I did not speak out— Because I was not an anon. Then they came for the Pepe, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a memer. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;51068112]did this all start after that guy yelled "Pepe" at a Clinton Rally?[/QUOTE] yes

[QUOTE=Mingebox;51068102]To be fair, memes can a vehicle for spreading political messages that the propagandists of the past would have never dreamed if, and the seemingly lighthearted and innocuous nature is a big part of the reason why. They're a great way the poisoning the well before conflicting views have a chance to get there. Remember "It's actually about ethics in Video Game Journalism"?[/QUOTE] I have still yet to see more than a few fringe posts that could be considered "harassing" related to that "controversy". It was more-so something that a bunch of idiots started to whine about when anyone with a brain already knew that most gaming journalism websites suck. Are we seriously going to start calling out random people who shitpost as "white nationalists"? It seems more to be children trying to be ironic and (un)funny like they are with 9/11 jokes.

The news media once again fails to understand what shitposting is.

[QUOTE=The Baconator;51068112]did this all start after that guy yelled "Pepe" at a Clinton Rally?[/QUOTE] Yes [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6EvOdj5.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51068027]Cher hates Trump ever since she got destroyed after insulting his hair: [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/268449053300383744?lang=en[/media][/QUOTE] Straight up savage

[QUOTE=The Baconator;51068112]did this all start after that guy yelled "Pepe" at a Clinton Rally?[/QUOTE] Hillary and much of the media needed a way to target the Alt-right bogyman, with no real figure head they resorted on focusing against a cartoon frog. See Alinsky's Rules for Radical: [I]Rule 13 is “Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it, and polarise it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.[/I]

[QUOTE=Vasili;51068188]Hillary and much of the media needed a way to target the Alt-right bogyman, with no real figure head they resorted on focusing against a cartoon frog. See Alinsky's Rules for Radical: [I]Rule 13 is “Pick the target, freeze it, personalise it, and polarise it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.[/I][/QUOTE] The problem it backfired and made them look like idiots.

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;51068027]Cher hates Trump ever since she got destroyed after insulting his hair: [media]https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/268449053300383744?lang=en[/media][/QUOTE] Trump could have smashed his face against the keyboard and sent a random jumble of letters and you'd still hold up the tweet and say he destroyed her. Oh hey I destroyed you.

[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;51068061]I am more surprised to see AVGN's Shit Pickle there than the reaction of someone claiming that internet frogs are killing people of color Also how long will the media keep driving this narrative?[/QUOTE] They're still calling gamergate alt right misogyny, and Van Valkenberg is an honored guest at next year's Cannes, so take a wild guess.

[QUOTE=TheBloodyNine;51068223]Trump could have smashed his face against the keyboard and sent a random jumble of letters and you'd still hold up the tweet and say he destroyed her. Oh hey I destroyed you.[/QUOTE] But thats a good comeback tho.

[QUOTE=TheBloodyNine;51068223]Trump could have smashed his face against the keyboard and sent a random jumble of letters and you'd still hold up the tweet and say he destroyed her. Oh hey I destroyed you.[/QUOTE] Except it's an actual good comeback and saying that you destroyed him was just being dumb

[QUOTE=AaronM202;51068331]But thats a good comeback tho.[/QUOTE] It's not in any way. His hair is something he has control over. He can change his hair, buy a wig, dye it, shave it, etc. The style he chooses looks ridiculous, in some peoples' opinions, which they have a right to express. The consequences and aftermath over time of her plastic surgeries is not something she realistically has control over. She mocked his hair, so he devised an incredibly passive-aggressive slam intended to belittle her publicly about what she may very well be most insecure about. It's disproportionate and ugly. You destroy someone when you in a single move or post deconstruct their argument, leaving them with no ground to stand on and causing them to fold either by going silent or admitting their error. He just insulted her in a mean and passive-aggressive way unbefitting of a presidential candidate. He's a narcissistic mammonist with a mean-streak, who somehow has come to contain the potential to ignite everything ugly within our nation's public conscious in ways unthought of before the start of this election season. The level of rhetoric has fallen so low because he gives his opponents nothing reasonable to respond to and is quick to change of obfuscate the meaning of what he said after the fact to avoid blame. He has no positions to fight, because they are all TBD, after he is elected on faith. He's engineered a national distrust in the media for all of the wrong reasons, and raised a frightening level of resentment towards the very democratic processes which have (despite their problems) kept this country from blowing apart like the many atomic bombs it contains.

Trump's immature and insecure, what else is news? Actually, I wanted to point something out about this Pepe thing. Whatever it was before, the fact that major news media has now associated it with white supremacy means that it is now a white supremacist symbol, and will remain one, as far as the country, the rest of the world, and anyone who didn't spend an inordinate amount of time on 4chan is concerned. By reporting it as such, they made it so. And I can promise you that white supremacist groups on the internet and elsewhere, that had no idea what pepe was before this report, will now start using the symbol to identify themselves. That's unfortunate, but whatever. It's just some stupid meme.

[QUOTE=FreakyMe;51068469]It's not in any way. His hair is something he has control over. He can change his hair, buy a wig, dye it, shave it, etc. The style he chooses looks ridiculous, in some peoples' opinions, which they have a right to express. The consequences and aftermath over time of her plastic surgeries is not something she realistically has control over. She mocked his hair, so he devised an incredibly passive-aggressive slam intended to belittle her publicly about what she may very well be most insecure about. It's disproportionate and ugly. You destroy someone when you in a single move or post deconstruct their argument, leaving them with no ground to stand on and causing them to fold either by going silent or admitting their error. He just insulted her in a mean and passive-aggressive way unbefitting of a presidential candidate. He's a narcissistic mammonist with a mean-streak, who somehow has come to contain the potential to ignite everything ugly within our nation's public conscious in ways unthought of before the start of this election season. The level of rhetoric has fallen so low because he gives his opponents nothing reasonable to respond to and is quick to change of obfuscate the meaning of what he said after the fact to avoid blame. He has no positions to fight, because they are all TBD, after he is elected on faith. He's engineered a national distrust in the media for all of the wrong reasons, and raised a frightening level of resentment towards the very democratic processes which have (despite their problems) kept this country from blowing apart like the many atomic bombs it contains.[/QUOTE] Jeez dude it was just a childish comeback 4 years ago

[QUOTE=FreakyMe;51068469]It's not in any way. His hair is something he has control over. He can change his hair, buy a wig, dye it, shave it, etc. The style he chooses looks ridiculous, in some peoples' opinions, which they have a right to express. The consequences and aftermath over time of her plastic surgeries is not something she realistically has control over. She mocked his hair, so he devised an incredibly passive-aggressive slam intended to belittle her publicly about what she may very well be most insecure about. It's disproportionate and ugly. You destroy someone when you in a single move or post deconstruct their argument, leaving them with no ground to stand on and causing them to fold either by going silent or admitting their error. He just insulted her in a mean and passive-aggressive way unbefitting of a presidential candidate. He's a narcissistic mammonist with a mean-streak, who somehow has come to contain the potential to ignite everything ugly within our nation's public conscious in ways unthought of before the start of this election season. The level of rhetoric has fallen so low because he gives his opponents nothing reasonable to respond to and is quick to change of obfuscate the meaning of what he said after the fact to avoid blame. He has no positions to fight, because they are all TBD, after he is elected on faith. He's engineered a national distrust in the media for all of the wrong reasons, and raised a frightening level of resentment towards the very democratic processes which have (despite their problems) kept this country from blowing apart like the many atomic bombs it contains.[/QUOTE] Are you real? You're shifting the entire thing to make Trump look like a monster because(not saying he isn't, but not because of this) because someone insulted his look, so he insulted her back. And it was in 2012 so you can't pull the "presidential candidate" over and over. And the last paragraph is just lost. Hell your post is so thick with Trump hate I feel like I'm drowning. "He devised an incredibly passive-aggressive slam intended to belittle her publicly" Did you even read your own post?

[QUOTE=rampageturke 2;51068510]Jeez dude it was just a childish comeback 4 years ago[/QUOTE] A presidential candidate's last childish come-back should have been about the time they were a child, or shortly thereafter. It speaks volumes about his mentality because it is textbook-Trump. It's not an anomaly, it is his normal means by which he handles criticism. How his camp has handled the entire Pepe "scandal" is more evidence of this complete lack of diplomacy or willingness to find a middle ground. His entire campaign is based on this premise. As president he will be the subject of more domestic and international criticism than he has ever faced in his life. Do you want to gamble the fate of this country on his temper and ability to be diplomatic? I don't. One vapid comment to the wrong person about the relative attractiveness of their family members could start an international incident. I don't think he has the self control.

[QUOTE=archangel125;51068478]Trump's immature and insecure, what else is news? Actually, I wanted to point something out about this Pepe thing. Whatever it was before, the fact that major news media has now associated it with white supremacy means that it is now a white supremacist symbol, and will remain one, as far as the country, the rest of the world, and anyone who didn't spend an inordinate amount of time on 4chan is concerned. By reporting it as such, they made it so. And I can promise you that white supremacist groups on the internet and elsewhere, that had no idea what pepe was before this report, will now start using the symbol to identify themselves. That's unfortunate, but whatever. It's just some stupid meme.[/QUOTE] To me its the troll thats keeps going.