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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This guy called a conservative radio show and listed names of punk bands.

“One of my main problems is… I’m a Republican in a fairly liberal area, sometimes I feel like everyone is just Against Me!,” Dobi began, talking to host Liz Gabert. “I feel like what we need to do is listen to what our Descendents told us. ’Cause in the past we Refused to live a Life Of Agony. I’m Sick Of It All. Im sick of people thinking we’re just a Minor Threat. Enough of that Fugazi. A lot of these people just got Bad Brains, that are Misfits that waive Black Flag and they’re practically Anti-Flag. I think we need to Converge and help the Youth Of Today because every time you blink, 182 kids, they go missing…”

Only vid I could find was from the guy on shitter, sorry

https://twitter.com/robdobi/status/1463568810288500737

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago

i cant believe they managed to get blink-182 in there bahahaha

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

I'm not into guys, but that dude is sorely tempting.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...they're gonna have to deal with the Fallout, Boy

That ending was way too good

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Omg they even got reel big fish in there

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Ok this is the pure essence of trolling

[–] [email protected] 118 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've met way too many people who think schools have litter boxes for furries, so nobody would question a dog playing basketball.

[–] Peppycito 61 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It was shared on here that that story stemmed from the fact that classrooms are keeping kitty litter handy so kids can shit in a bucket during school shooter lock down incidents.

Tiny bit of truth ÷ deflection x thing I hate = popular lie

[–] Ookami38 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hol up, that's a thing? Fuck, I almost wish it was just to appease the furries, the reality is so much more depressing.

[–] Peppycito 11 points 1 year ago

I think that's why the hate story works so well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

As a bonus it also deflects what would otherwise be a damning story about the gun violence problem.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The way you create a narrative is by saying something that's ninety percent true, omitting a bit of context, and sprinkling in one or two lies. That way, when it gets debunked, the firm believers will just say that it's close enough to the truth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People insist it happens in the UK, too, and we don't have school shootings, so wouldn't have that source for the claim.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Misinformation isn't constrained by geography. At least, not enough to keep stupid from spreading.

[–] Peppycito 3 points 1 year ago

Same where I am in Canada. I've heard it from several different sources.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, it doesn't say a dog can't play basketball in the rulebook, so why would anyone question it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They seriously haven't updated the rulebook? It's been a quarter century!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm going to start spreading this.

[–] sanpedropeddler 104 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It never ceases to amaze me that some of my relatives genuinely believe that's a real thing that happens regularly.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've heard so many people parrot the cat litterbox story, even though it was an obvious lie from the start.

And even if it were true, I can't imagine giving the slightest fuck about it.

[–] thewitchslayer 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Dude, yesrerday my fucking manager claimed that a local high school has a litterbox because a student identifies as a cat. It was almost bar for bar the same fake story that Joe Rogan was saying months ago! I had to tell the other coworker in the room at the time that I'm almost positive that it's not true and where the lie comes from.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's scary how many people parrot what they hear almost word for word with no thinking at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's what society is, it's not just them - we also tend to do this on some things. It's just a matter of realising that what society says may not be true after all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The place that came from is that one school started keeping a box in the closet just in case there was a school shooter and someone had to go to the bathroom while the school was locked down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah it’s because our country’s gun problem is so out of control that our schools need bunkers and since the cops are too scared to go in, they need to be prepared to stay locked down long enough to need to piss in cat litter.

This is what I said to the last right winger I hear parroting the cat litter bullshit. He changed to complaining about Hunter in the next breath.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

When propaganda is so effective it becomes the Mandela effect.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Even worse, in the cases where there are buckets with cat litter in a school, it's for active school shooter situations (about halfway down, where Columbine is mentioned).

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago

"I said it makes no difference to me but a dog can't play basketball, but the woke lib ref says there ain't no rule says a dog can't play."

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Air Bud was Disney I think so they probably don’t let their family watch.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Different time. Air bud came out in 97. This was well before "woke" was a thing conservatives thought they were afraid of. 9/11 didn't happen yet. America was a very different place and America loved Disney. This would have been watched by a lot of gen x, both on the early end as parents, and on the late end as children. Millennials have seen it for sure, myself being one of them. I think the odds are pretty high that someone would catch on sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'm genx and have never seen it. Nothing to do with Disney but my wife and I quit our movie theater jobs right before that cane out and it took years for me to be able to pay to watch movies again after that. Years of free movies, private showings, etc had spoiled us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Gen X was born before around 82, I think, so they were probably a bit old for Air Bud to be a childhood movie in 97. Definitely the older ones might have watched it with their kids, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's more so what I was meaning, my father's gen x from the early side and watched it with us as kids, including my older brother who's on the tail end of gen x. I guess it really does come down to proximity to millenials

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As a younger Gen X, my memory of Air Bud is a young cousin giving me a long-winded description of the movie at Thanksgiving, but I never actually watched it lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If only Disney and Fox Corporation had something in common

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to spread this rumour in conservative Facebook groups. They'd all fall for it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something something litter boxes

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got yelled at by my boss this morning for saying "we're in a province that just legislation in banning pronoun changes in schools without parental consent, does it seem likely there are litter boxes in schools". Fuck this province

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"our school outlawed children using nicknames, and there hasnt been one knife crime!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't have been able to go by Goku when I was a kid with law like that. What is this shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Albertan spotted

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even worse actually.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would take until Faux News aired the story and people started to make fun of them for it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Nah - if they were to even acknowledge it being fake they'd say "but it does happen in other schools"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

After the Supreme Court ruling declaring a dog, in fact, cannot play basketball.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed that Bleach7293 fun fact! Thank you for that

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