How did a Canadian cartoon character become an icon for America's right wing? - thestar.com
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  • 1 points johnjbreton

    Because the current administration likes to corrupt anything innocent, regardless of if they are on an island at the time.

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  • 49 points beefstewforyou

    I thought those posts were just shitposts making fun of the right. It’s very hard for me to tell the difference between right wing posts and parodies of them.

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    13 points One_Jellyfish3361

    Yeah, they're kinda too dumb for me to be able to truly tell them apart too.
    Edit: Forgot "me"...

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    12 points abookfulblockhead

    Poe’s Law in action

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  • 10 points Canuckhead

    Well the answer is Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted a Franklin meme with Franklin rocketing a drug boat with an RPG.

    And then they went viral.

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  • 26 points tbone7355

    They're stealing canadian culture thats how

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    1 points t0m0hawk

    Just start calling it Benjamin La Tortue and throw them off a bit. It was Benjamin before it was Franklin.

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    1 points tbone7355

    Alright then benjamins ours then and franklins a lost soul

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  • 18 points ChasseGalery

    It’s green, it looks like a Pepe frog…. But better quality.

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    8 points Krazy-Ag

    Hey, Portland Oregon took back the frog with the Portland Frog inflatable costumes dancing at the ICE protests.

    How can Canadians do the same for the turtle?

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  • 87 points rubendurango

    Because they have to get their unwashed toxic mits on everything. Nothing is sacred + they get off on “”doze peepull”” being upset. We’re expected to cope w/ living around the whims of ragebait addled, sentient shitposts in tailored suits.

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    1 points Armonasch

    That's part of the fascist playbook - glom onto any tradition, art, religion, iconography, folklore or story that's broadly identifiable, to try and insert their ideology into it.

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