Franklin is a 7 year old Canadian turtle. Hes such an odd choice for the alt right to turn into a meme.
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  • 335 points shamwowj

    Yeah, Caillou would be much more on brand.

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    157 points DaBulbousWalrus

    "Mommy, I don't care if the police man is hurting Rosey! I need more juice!"

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    68 points FNAF_Movie

    Calliou, how dare you commit police brutality. You are grounded grounded grounded for 2727264892826 thousand years, go to your room.

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    21 points ProvidedCone

    I read this in Butters’ dads voice for no apparent reason

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    8 points MyFavoriteArm

    O O O O O O O O O O O O O O!!!!

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    1 points mrenyon

    Hypothetical.

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    7 points PablomentFanquedelic

    BET MEEEEEAAAAAAHHHM

    Wait, wrong annoying cartoon kid

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    12 points PablomentFanquedelic

    Or Harry Potter. I mean, the kid literally inherited a slave and became a cop.

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    12 points Fluid-Row8573

    Lmao

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  • 308 points pizzaheadbryan

    Yeah, I'd be pretty distressed reading the autopsy report of a man who asphyxiated under a government employee's knee too.

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    141 points TrashDaisy999

    According to conservatives thats how you help a person whose apparently dying of an overdose

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    39 points drLoveF

    Mmm, and Bobby commited suicide by emptying a chamber into the back of his skull.

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    14 points PablomentFanquedelic

    He ran into my knife ten times

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  • 152 points nickyfox13

    Franklin's publisher disavowed usage of this meme for fascist means. I am glad the publisher spoke out, but I'm sad it had to be said at all.

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    55 points theachevah

    This is akin to the podcaster neo-nazis who know the music they use is made by artists who hate their guts. By making the music associated to them, they win if they trigger you.

    It's all a grand political game of ragebaiting. That's the entire point.

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    8 points AnnaBanana52

    Example being most if not all eurodance songs now :/

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    12 points theachevah

    Their hatred for artistic integrity comes from their own creative lacking. It's why they steal and plunder from artists who hate their guts, because art itself is a statement. To neo-nazis, art is propaganda, because statements are propaganda, no matter how bewildering. It just needs to be catchy. So they use it as such. They rebrand it and twist it. And it's catchy.

    They parasitize off the catchiness of songs made by people who hate them because that is all that matters. Distilling their ideology into other people's art like an actual virus. It's purposeful.

    The same way they stole Nightcore from hatsune miku.

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    2 points Busy_Past_9951

    I'm sad about it too. Fascists are so mean.

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    2 points Busy_Past_9951

    It's so sad it's tragic really. Nobody else does mean stuff like they do. 

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  • 81 points Spainiswhite

    Franklin Learns about Charlie Kirks small ass face

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    24 points Horatio_Figg

    Franklin Performs Grief For Monetary And Political Gain

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    11 points Iceman6211

    Franklin gets someone fired over a Charlie Kirk meme

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    3 points CariamaCristata

    Franklin Learns about Erica Kirk's affair with Vance

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  • 67 points RainbowPhoenix1080

    Wierd that the political party who complains about politics in kids cartoons likes to put politics in kids cartoons.

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    35 points Fluid-Row8573

    Is not "politics" if they agree with it.

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    13 points FilmScoreConnoisseur

    I pointed this out to my dad and it visibly filled him with rage for a second. To his credit, he got control of himself almost immediately, much quicker than he would have when he was younger.

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    6 points FilmScoreConnoisseur

    It's revenge for all these cartoon characters telling them to be inclusive.

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    0 points Cap-ndash

    I figured the Reddit crowd would understand the difference between a published book and an internet meme. Then again, the left can't meme.

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  • 17 points Emergency-Friend6896

    Even if he had been under the influence of drugs, would this justify the brutality he was subjected to?

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    -3 points kaiz17

    He was a criminal btw

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  • 33 points dmonzel

    Nearly six years on and we're still seeing George Floyd memes. But say one negative word about Charlie Kirk and you're a horrible person. Makes sense.

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  • 16 points Prestigious_Ad6247

    Still no Kirk autopsy, just saying

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  • 10 points KitKitsAreBest

    Hate can't create, in can only warp and corrupt things that already exist.

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    4 points WhatDatDonut

    “The opposite of war isn’t peace. Its creation!”

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  • 7 points Ambitious_Ad_1615

    Yeah, he learned that the right latched on to the low traces of fent in his system, and that clearly having a knee on your neck for 7 minutes is completely harmless

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  • 11 points ZhalRonin

    not odd at all, co-opt cute thing to increase appeal. see: pepe, anime, etc

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    4 points XxBOOSIExFADExX

    I was about to say he's not too far from Pepe

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  • 15 points ProfessorGlaceon

    It's hard to tell if it's AI or not. It looks like it could have been drawn by a real person, but I have a hard time believing anyone would put this much effort into recreating the original art style just for this.

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    29 points THEpeterafro

    It is AI. Look at the paper the fox is holding. The top part chart has 3 slices but 4 colors in the legend and the bottom pie chart as 3 colors, with one being used for two slices, while having 6 colors in the legend

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    3 points BustNak

    And the table, you can see it's made from planks with face grain across the top, but don't see end grain on the edge.

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  • 6 points Stehlen27

    I think it's because turtles have built in safe spaces to go when they are attacked, and they wish they could do the same.

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  • 7 points kaktuszka

    Wow if that isn't my favourite book: Facts vs Narrative!

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  • 5 points CODMAN627

    What is with the right and their obsession with a freakin turtle

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  • 4 points Sagataw

    I've never trusted an autopsy report since Turnabout Sisters.

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    1 points original_name37

    Lmao I did a double take to check if I was in the AA sub for a second

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  • 3 points Electronic_Bad_5883

    "Wow, it explicitly says that the air to his windpipe was obstructed and his death wasn't because of an overdose! You mean Fox News lied about something?"

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  • 4 points TacoBMMonster

    If you read George Floyd's autopsy, it says his body was weakened from drug use, but if also says he was asphyxiated by Chauvin. If I got hit by a bus, my autopsy would mention my lack of an appendix. The right thinks his autopsy mentioning drug use means he died of a drug overdose because they're stupid.

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  • 4 points Mystic_Ervo

    They're SO obsessed with turning children to their side

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  • 4 points WhatDatDonut

    This is your friendly reminder that when people OD on fentanyl they just go to sleep and stop breathing. They don’t fight the cops.

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  • 3 points AverageFoxNewsViewer

    The first one performed by the cops?

    Or the second one performed by and a third party that said he died of asphyxiation?

    Or the third one where the cops "reviewed their initial findings" and changed their story to confirm he died of asphyxiation?

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  • 3 points lPHOENIXZEROl

    I dunno, seven year olds seem right up their alley.

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  • 3 points ParticularTonight643

    "CARDIOPULMONARY ARREST COMPLICATING LAW ENFORCEMENT SUBDUAL, RESTRAINT, AND NECK COMPRESSION"

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  • 5 points cmfred

    Because they are trying to lure in kids? Or kiddy diddlers?

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  • 3 points Temporary_Shirt_6236

    They're trolling us. That's fine, still not buying your shit, still not visiting.

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  • 4 points VanlalruataDE

    So that's why her name is Paulette Bourgeois

    /j

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  • 3 points wolfheadmusic

    It figures that these pedophiles would be desecrating children's books

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  • 2 points FilmScoreConnoisseur

    I never realized Franklin was Canadian, but it makes sense.

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  • 2 points Sea-Fold-6154

    And one of the authors is called bourgeois lmaoooo

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  • 2 points SlumberingSnorelax

    It’s an average reading level thing and honestly it’s still mostly aspirational for the majority of them.

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  • 2 points RattusNorvegicus9

    As a Canadian, I am begging that Americans don't turn my beloved Franklin into a right wing dogwhistle. 

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  • 2 points Mistr_man

    They do it because they think the juxtaposition is funny. They think what their doing is omgalulbased

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    2 points Mistr_man

    Oh and they are taunting canada. Very on base

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  • 2 points villianboy

    I think those reasons are exactly why they pick Franklin. Franklin stands for everything they hate, innocence, cooperation, Canada, friendship, etc. They want to twist a child's thing into something awful and hateful because to them that is funny, the idea of it reaching children is even better to them, and doubly so if it makes people upset

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  • 1 points Malay_Left_1922

    What is autopsy?

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    1 points TrashDaisy999

    When the Corner has to open a person up to discover cause of death.

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  • 1 points Large-Ad7436

    Its everywhere, I just seen one that was like dont divide 6 mill by 365, turns out it was a nazi dogwhistle. Go figure.

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    1 points 2mock2turtle

    16438.356164383561644

    Please explain.

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    2 points ParticularTonight643

    as already pointed out it's a dogwhistle, it's this thing where nazis claim that this many jews couldn't have died in the holocaust because it would be mathematically impossible for nazis to cremate this many in the span of 6 years

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  • 1 points 750Dinosaur

    What’s with the big x?

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    1 points Most-Alps-4982

    See rule 12 of this subreddit

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  • 1 points self-made_orphan

    what happens when the canadian right only knows how to imitate maga

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  • 1 points Cap-ndash

    Rule 5 says no bigotry but there are people making fun of the size of Charlie Kirk's face, and at anyone on the other side of the political spectrum. If someone made fun of George Floyd's face or called you guys the names you are calling conservatives, you'd for sure call it bigotry. I see that "no irony" isn't a rule though. Also, the fact this group is called "therightcan'tmeme" is hilarious because the left can't meme. Meming is about the only piece of "propaganda" the right does very well.

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  • 0 points AfterImportance8524

    Why are you triggered, commie?

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  • -1 points bk3dd

    how is this racism? purely facts turned into a meme

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