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    why is this community putting babylon bee headlines on my front page

        • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Wait… So their version of a joke is to… Make a joke at their own expense because of how shitty Vance is?

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            They are more traditional right, not MAGA right. They make fun of the Republican party all the time.

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              I’m American, and me neither. It’s honestly still such a mystery to me that I do think about quite often.

              The best that I can come up with is that it’s a mixture of a culture of oppression through a cycle of psychological abuse that they’ve grown to be proud and belligerent to perpetuate, deeply profound ignorance, and a unique emphasis on faith and its taboo of critical thought; all amounting to a society with a stagnation of free will and progress.

              Of course, that is a amalgamation or conglomeration of a wide spectrum of archetypes of people, liberals and non Americans included. It’s a survival instinct and a cope in almost all cases.

              Finding people even conceptually aware of this earthly prison is rare, and finding a person with both an awareness and a plan to bring us above it AND the power to bring it to fruition AND the drive to do so… hasn’t happened yet.

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          They were pretty funny when they got started. They would openly roast Joel Osteen and all the Prosperity Gospel crap. Then they decided to wade into politics. And misogyny. So much misogyny.

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      Technically it’s a post of guy putting a Babylon Bee headline on someone else’s page, now screen shot to yours.

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    It took me 10 seconds to realize this was a joke, and another 10 to get the joke.

    I don’t like this timeline

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      It took me no seconds to get the joke, but 10 seconds to realize that it was a joke for real.

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      I wonder what brand of fucking big television the dalai lama has. 🤔

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    In light of the Dalai’s earlier pronouncement that his successor would be female, the administration has promised him immortality.

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      Nirvana does not care for the mortal body limitations. Enlightenment is universal.

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        Tell that to Buddhists, especially Tibetan Buddhists which explicitly discriminate against women and claim they will never reach enlightenment.

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          Exactly why they themselves haven’t reached enlightenment. Too concerned with being petty of others instead of untangling the self.

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    Have people forgot already the “suck my tongue” pedo shit this guy pulled out?

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      No, I definitely remember when the mainstream media jumped at the chance to smear one of the most peaceful spiritual figures alive, context be damned. They took a culturally unfamiliar moment and ran it through a Western lens to manufacture outrage. And look, they’re still collecting dividends on it!

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        No, I definitely remember when the mainstream media jumped at the chance

        He asked a child to suck his tongue, there’s no context the guy is a pedo

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          Yeah. Just like theatre guys tell others to “break a leg”. There’s no context. Every one of them is a psychopath for wishing harm.

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          there’s no context the guy is a pedo

          Wtf do you think context is?

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        It is a cultural difference slightly taken out of context. Albeit it is incredibly jarring for Americans and other European countries. He did issue an apology for it.

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          It is a cultural difference slightly taken out of context.

          Go on …

          This is a perfectly normal thing in Tibetan culture?

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            Sort of. According to residents who defended him they said it is a normal joke that elderly people to do children in Tibet.

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    By the way why the pope even accepted (he or someone of his entourage) to meet with JD Vance?

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    Dalai is finding himself some Necrotic damage resist gear first.

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    I dunno, if he keeps missing appointments like this it’ll reflect on his performance review

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    Flashbacks to Assassin’s Creed 2 where you fistfight with the Pope.