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Remember when everyone (including me) went nuts over Westboro Baptist Church? Look at the website url lmao (www.godhatesfags.com)
posted 183 days ago by Webspawner3 183 days ago by Webspawner3 +57 / -0
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– daberoniandcheese 33 points 183 days ago +33 / -0

I think the entire point of the WBC was to goad people into assaulting them so they could sue.

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– Vicious_snek6 14 points 183 days ago +14 / -0

Some ridiculous number of them, 70% of them or something, were lawyers, it was a clever con, absolutely.

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– BetterNameUnfound 23 points 183 days ago +23 / -0

Fred Phelps was a Democrat.

His entire family are Democrats.

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– KingLion7 15 points 183 days ago +15 / -0

Yeah, I am thinking the whole thing was a charade meant to provide a strawman for "conservative views."

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– MattTheBlack 10 points 183 days ago +10 / -0

Worse. It's a grift to sue people

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 16 points 183 days ago +16 / -0

WBC radiates controlled op aura.

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– TheModernDaVinci 27 points 183 days ago +27 / -0

As someone from the area who saw a lot of what didnt get to the news, it wasnt "controlled op". It was "grifting lawyers." The entire family were lawyers who used a ton of loopholes to create a "church" so they could avoid paying taxes, and then since they knew all of the laws they would deliberately goad people into attacking them and then sue those people sure in the knowledge they were going to win (this was how they made most of their money).

More than once they got caught on hidden cameras admitting that they didnt believe anything they were saying and it because they knew it was the quickest way to get people attakcing them, which made for easy lawsuits.

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– MattTheBlack 12 points 183 days ago +12 / -0

The head of the church was a famous civil rights lawyer. The whole gig is tricking people into violating their rights and suing them. It always shocks people when I tell them

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– ParadigmShift2070 2 points 183 days ago +2 / -0

Based?

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– SparkMandrill83 9 points 183 days ago +9 / -0

No

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 7 points 183 days ago +7 / -0

thoroughly, unequivocally, absolutely, perfectly, inarguably, observably the opposite of based.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 3 points 182 days ago +3 / -0

No. Gay and jewish (ironically)

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– BeefyBelisarius 2 points 182 days ago +2 / -0

They were only accidentally correct when they started claiming fags doom nations. And even worse, secretly don't even hate fags at all.

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– MLGS 1 point 182 days ago +1 / -0

How retarded are you?

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 3 points 182 days ago +3 / -0

And yet they were right about nearly everything.

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– SocraticMethod1 14 points 183 days ago +14 / -0

Just because the alphabet people were one of the ones that wrecked our culture, doesn't change the fact these guys were just attention seeking assholes throughout the years.

I put more stock in the Templars basically trying to be a church sanctioned PMC than all their 'protests'...

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 3 points 182 days ago +3 / -0

Only thing they completely missed the mark on was putting the 🏳‍🌈s above the 🧃 instead of the other way around

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– Adamrises 9 points 183 days ago +9 / -0

Back when they were relevant "fags" was offensive but not completely verboten to be said and you'd hear it in normie conversation at times with less "PC" people.

People really forget that all the "no no" words used to be just common parlance until as late as 2012. Nigger was the only one that was hard trouble on being used going back further, but you could say all the rest of the "slurs" just fine.

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– KeeperOfTheGate 7 points 183 days ago +7 / -0

Times have really changed.

My dear deceased grandmother used to talk about people “fagging off” (slacking off, not trying, being a wuss—you get it). The toughest woman I’ve ever met. Beaten by her alcoholic dad as a kid, raised her siblings when her mom died (she never graduated middle school even), raised kids of her own, and then raised two of her grandkids after the mom became a druggie. I never heard her complain one time and, the most amazing part, she kept a sense of humor until the day she died.

They don’t make them—men or women—like that any more.

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– Mpetey123 3 points 182 days ago +3 / -0

My mother blanches at the word nigger, my grandmother's mailman was the nigger who brought the mail.

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– Adamrises 4 points 182 days ago +4 / -0

My mother was a firm believer in black people and niggers not being congruent, well before Chris Rock made that distinction famous.

Which I still believe is the correct way to look at it, and if niggers were smarter they'd lean into that instead of needing to always be victims.

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– MLGS 3 points 182 days ago +3 / -0

You used to see Klan guys on Jerry Springer on broadcast TV.

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 2 points 182 days ago +2 / -0

And that family of Christian Identitarians who flat out named the jew and called for total racial segregation (portrayed as villains of course, no EL needed on Jerry himself)

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– PM-Melania-feet-pics 2 points 182 days ago +2 / -0

Even then, the fact it was "taboo" made it all the more exciting to say on Xbox Live.

Black gamers know full well the response to any squeaky-voiced suburban preteen using it was "You calling your own mom a nigger lover?"

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– JoePutin 3 points 183 days ago +3 / -0

Turns out they were right about everything

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– 5Cats 1 point 182 days ago +1 / -0

They always were a parody, puppets to parade in front of the cameras to discredit actual Christians. :/

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