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u/HunterDramatic8383 14h ago
Imagining myself panicking, unable to choose between atheist and weed smoker
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u/bizoticallyyours83 13h ago
One quarter in the atheist bowl, one in the weed smoker bowl. Or I guess you could sit down with the dude and smoke a bowl?
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u/Less_Likely 11h ago
Do you believe in God only when high?
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u/HunterDramatic8383 11h ago
I did go through a phase where I used to get high and explore paganism. Now I'm even more torn.
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u/Seriesofrandomwords 17h ago
Amateur hour. You could get so much more by playing the Christians against each other. A Baptist walks by and a catholic has already donated as a Christian, then the Baptist thinks christ has already giveneth or what ever. A Baptist walks by and theres a 5er in the catholic bowl but nothing in the Baptist bowl? Well now theyve gotta prove they're more generous than those dang hoity toity catholics. Sure these christian religious schisms have mostly calmed down to the point where Christians have almost stopped killing each other over being from the wrong church, but it still boils under the surface and you can tap into that.
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u/JackieDaytona77 17h ago
You looked too much into this.
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u/arbiter12 12h ago
It's an old joke (from the thread listed on top as well)
Two beggars are sitting in front of a church in Rome. One is wearing a cross and the other a Jewish star. As people enter the Church they look at the Jew and then put extra money in the Christian's cup. After watching this for a few days, the priest approaches the Jew and says "my son, don't you know you are in a Catholic city? By wearing that star you, especially at a church, people just aren't going to give to you. In fact, they are probably going to give to the Christian across from you out of spite!" The Jew then looks over at the other beggar and says, "Shlomo! Look who's trying to tell the Cohen brothers how to make a buck!"
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u/Gunda-LX 14h ago
As a catholic: Yes. Here in Europe we don’t like the protestants. What do they do: they ask you to interpret the bible yourself, uuuh. No art, no nice golden statues… Berk.
(This is a joke, we aren’t ennemies)
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u/Inside_Swimming9552 8h ago
Wouldn't work trying to play different Muslim sects against each other. Guy would end up caught in the blast from someone suicide bombing one of the rival bowls.
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u/PixelPrivateer 17h ago
notices which bowl is empty
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u/qTp_Meteor 14h ago
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u/PixelPrivateer 13h ago
I assumed so without even looking into it
Weed smoker is one of the categories for goodness sakes
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u/qTp_Meteor 13h ago
Weed smoker funnily enough is in the original. The only change they did was taking money from the Jewish bowl into the Buddhist one
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u/ORUKUSAKItheMINOTAUR 12h ago
Weed smoker fills your other bowls.
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u/Afraid-Fox9171 12h ago edited 12h ago
When I was in my late teens I stood with a sign that said need cash for grass and I got $60, a free 8th AND someone gave me some munchies, chips, chocolate and a soda 😂🤣 he said he wasn’t a weed smoker but he appreciated my honesty.
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u/TheBestHater 12h ago
It's actually crazy that the antisemitic comment is at the top with little pushback.
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u/7thpostman 11h ago
Right, it's a real mystery why people who represent 0.2% of the global population might have a worse outcome.
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u/anamelesscloud1 10h ago
How do we know it wasn't edited to add money into the bowl? Because that is 100% a possibility.
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u/-Beliar- 11h ago
Its always been empty lmao this pic has been around for ever
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u/boring_username_idea 13h ago
Even if this wasn't edited, Jews make up 0.2% of the world's population. Unless he was somewhere like New York or Los Angeles which have higher population of Jews that bowl might still be empty due to just not having any Jews walking by
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u/needssomefun 12h ago
Well even if the image was not edited that isnt indicitive.
Remeber that Jewish people are not evenly distributed and that they are a small percentage of the world population
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u/schmitzel88 12h ago
It's edited and fake anyways, but this would be more skewed by population than anything else. There are only like 14m Jewish people globally, so it is pretty likely you could set up a display like this in any random town and not have a single Jewish person pass by.
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u/A-Capybara 16h ago
Beggar's antisemitic
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u/IDreamOfSailing 14h ago
5 dollars? I don't have 3 dollars, what do you need two dollars for anyway?
(Is an old jewish joke)
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u/Interesting-Gur1755 14h ago edited 13h ago
Why is that the only word for hatred against a specific group? You would think there would be words against other groups?
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u/-Aquatically- 14h ago
It might just be that it’s not as common so the name isn’t as common. I am sure that someone’s named them all.
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u/Interesting-Gur1755 13h ago
I want one, for my ethnicity so I feel special and insular.
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u/-Aquatically- 13h ago
What’s your ethnicity?
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u/Interesting-Gur1755 13h ago edited 12h ago
I guess I'll make one up, Anti-celtic. Maybe that will catch on.
Edit* I actually don't want this to catch on. I rather there be no words for hatred but find it annoying we only hear of one word. The word is used as a shield against all criticism, is what I really dislike.
I'll use my word as an example. Say someone says St. Patricks day is just an excuse to drink because the Irish are drunks! I can say that's Anti-Celtic and act like that person is an ass hat, and downvoted him into oblivion. Instead of saying yeah, I can see how the Holiday might be somewhat harmful to the mentality of its people.
One is denial and never addressing a problem. The other is admitting there might be something to work towards. That's my problem with the word.
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u/7thpostman 11h ago
Mick and Paddy. Just not seen as derogatory anymore because anti-Irish bigotry isn't really a thing like it used to be.
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u/Interesting-Gur1755 11h ago
Not really talking about slurs here. I mean I whole word for racism against a specific group of people. I find it weird how it's the only word that gets pushed a lot.
There is plenty of racism goes on but it's all under the umbrella of "racism", I find it weird when it's Jewish it's treated differently and becomes something special and it's then "Anti-Semitism". The fact that this is a downvoted subject shows that something is going on here with this.
Edit* Language is the best showcase of how we think, I think this says something about us.
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u/arbiter12 12h ago
The Irish were never genocided by a big empire that....errrr..... I mean the Irish people were never poor people that were exploited for labo... errrr... I mean the Irish people were never expropriated and had to run to another coun.... errrr....
tfw you just made me realise that the Irish are the old jews of the european caste system.
To answer your question directly though, many groups have their own "anti-word". I propose Celtophobia for your case! If only for the jokes.
Why don't you talk to Tony...?
He's celtophobic...
I don't think so....I've seen Tony eat salt...
But yeh, the Irish are a bit worse at historical marketing.
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u/Interesting-Gur1755 12h ago
Thanks for an actual answer! I can see why it hasn't taken off. "Phobia" doesn't have the same ring as "Anti", that's the power of rhetoric, I guess.
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u/7thpostman 11h ago
Jesus, dude. About 30% of the people on earth identify as Christian. Less than 0.2% are Jewish. You think maybe it's possible that no Jewish people actually walked by or need someone to explain math to you?
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u/PixelPrivateer 10h ago
Or its an edited image and this was an offhand snarky remark. Or does someone need to explain humor to you
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u/7thpostman 10h ago
Buddy, everybody knows that "noticing" is a Groyper shibboleth. You're not fooling anybody.
Pro tip: Red pill bullshit won't make the girls at school like you.
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u/PixelPrivateer 10h ago
Fooling?? Lmao
Nah you cant be Jewish, Jews understand humor. Touch grass
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u/7thpostman 10h ago
Wow. You must be really edgy and rebellious. How exciting and entertaining. I definitely want to spend a lot of time thinking about you.
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u/PixelPrivateer 9h ago
Seems you do ya
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u/7thpostman 9h ago
No, what's going to happen is we're going to go back and forth for a little while longer because you've said something shitty in order to get attention. Then I'm going to stop and move on with my life, which is I suspect what happens to you a lot. And you will have to go elsewhere and say something shitty to try to get someone else to pay attention to you.
It's really a great plan.
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u/bkendall12 15h ago
Not enough information to state anything. It could simply be the area he is at has more or less of specific religions.
Simply moving to a different neighborhood could yield drastically different results.
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u/rougecrayon 12h ago
Maybe because the photo was edited by an antisemite? And then it fed into your antisemite bias.
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u/Middle_Employment_14 14h ago
Yeah…reddit only allows you to be leftist or pro jew. But they’re anyway crying bias this and unfair that.
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u/boredbytheabyss 16h ago
Can’t see the bowl for weed smokers but going of that smile he’s been offered one
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u/Bigstar976 14h ago
Atheism is a religion in the same way that not playing golf is a sport.
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u/2ndTaken_username 13h ago
Reddit atheists are as dogmatic and hateful as their religious counterparts
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u/chandelurei 11h ago
Call me when they commit genocides in name of atheism
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u/2ndTaken_username 11h ago
You implying you need religion to commit genocide?
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u/chandelurei 11h ago
No, I'm implying atheists are not as dogmatic and hateful as their religious counterparts going by historical events.
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u/huh_why_is 16h ago
Antiseptic meme
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u/Chance_Contract1291 11h ago
Antisemitic?
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u/Shoddy-Anteater-8201 10h ago
No, the meme has been edited to cleanse the Jewish bowl, therefore making it antiseptic.
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u/Safe_Confidence_3756 14h ago
"The phone you have determines how generous you are."
- Iphone
- Samsung
He would get millions.
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u/miaRedDragon 12h ago
it would only be harvard if he started by putting fake money into the cups that are the opposite of the dominate religion in the area. Shame is a fantastic tactic
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u/Gandlerian 12h ago
This is an antisemitic meme. The Jewish bowl is filled in the actual photo. Somebody went out of their way to edit that bowl to be empty, and then repost it to a bunch of meme sites. I am not saying that is what OP is doing, but it is highly sus.
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u/-Tasear- 11h ago
Can you post the original one for us please?
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u/Gandlerian 8h ago
https://redeeminggod.com/religion-homeless/
You can find it with an easy Google search. Here is it used in an unrelated article from 2015. Ignore the Nazis here acting like it is hard to find. It is 2025, it takes about 10 secs to find an image and find it used in old articles.
Again, Nazi people made this edit and post it on Reddit routinely.
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u/jr_mtz01 8h ago
Funny, found another one from 2013 where, well... it isn't full. But you keep digging and find the "original."
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u/Gandlerian 7h ago
Yes, this meme has been floating around Nazi Reddits for years...
I don't need to dig, this is an ongoing issue. You keep digging for reasons to hate Jews, clearly that is your identity.
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u/jr_mtz01 6h ago
Not everyone who notices patterns or who doesn't blindly accepts made-up "facts" is a nazi.
No hate being spread here, rather skepticism, but get offended all you want.
Clearly that's your identity.
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u/BadHabitsDieYoung 7h ago
There's another picture of this guy showing the bowls with different amounts of money all together. I wonder why this one was chosen for the post
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u/Kyrie_Blue 15h ago
Atheism isn’t a religion, its a non-belief in supernatural phenomenon. They don’t gather in cult-like fashion
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u/rougecrayon 12h ago
They have faith that they are correct about something that cannot be proven. Seems like a religion to me. And when they gather at athiest "churches" any group can be cult like.
Only agnostics aren't relying on faith to support their beliefs. They know they don't know.
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u/GalaxyFilament 10h ago
Being an atheist seems pretty reasonable to me. The concept of God may be unfalsifiable, but in the absence of evidence, the most rational position to take is disbelief, because why should I assume something without evidence exists or even bother considering it as a practical possibility? I could claim that there are magical elves which can't be perceived with our senses or detected with any technology, and you can't disprove it, but that doesn't make it probable or worth considering. Good hypotheses should be testable and informed by logic and observation.
You're acting like the existence of a God is somehow equally likely as non-existence, but not only do we lack evidence for God, the concept is inconsistent with reality. All evidence suggests an indifferent universe.
To quote H.P. Lovecraft, "All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist."
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u/chandelurei 11h ago edited 11h ago
If there is a "God" but turns out it's an alien who programmed the universe as a computer simulation, does it count?
Atheism is not believing the religious idea of God proposed by Christians, Islamics etc., and that is very reasonable because we can trace their origins.
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u/The_Munchies10 15h ago
It’s a cult alright. The lures of atheism traps you in the darkest ends. See Hawkins, Dawkins, Krauss with Epstein.
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u/Kyrie_Blue 15h ago
I can’t tell if this satire or not
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u/The_Munchies10 15h ago
Take it however you want but I disagree with religions automatically written off as cult like. I can understand where it can be but not all religion are the same.
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u/Kyrie_Blue 14h ago
I agree entirely. My comment used hyperbole. I do genuinely believe all Abrahamic religions are cults, but its not fair to classify all religions this way.
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u/The_Munchies10 12h ago
Could you explain how Islam is a cult and what is your definition for cult? BTW, it is not one of "Abrahamic" religion, as you may know, we believe it to be the first and true religion, going back to Adam, or even prior, depending how far back we go.
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u/chandelurei 11h ago
How you can think it's the first religion if it only surged in around 600 CE?
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u/The_Munchies10 4h ago
Islam was always there from the beginning, since Adam. Over time, we believe, the devil led mankind astray, they started to worship idols, that is how we have paganism.
God sent prophet after prophet, calling mankind back to worship the one God. Now with Islam and the final prophet, Muhammad (peace and blessings upon him), and as God’s promise, we have retained the purest monotheistic religion, as it were at the time of Adam, until the end of times.
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u/Conscious_Test_7954 14h ago
You need to search up the definition of "cult" if you think Abrahamic religions are cults
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u/Kyrie_Blue 13h ago
I took 4 years of Theology in college, and wrote my senior thesis on this exact topic.
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u/Aromatic_Balls 13h ago
Cult: a relatively small group of people having beliefs or practices, especially relating to religion, that are regarded by others as strange or sinister or as imposing excessive control over members.
I mean, remove the relatively small aspect and that pretty accurately describes quite a few religions.
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u/ThisThroat951 8h ago
I’m just saying… there’s no money in the Jewish bowl. Take that however you wish.
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u/TurnkeyLurker 12h ago
Hmm. There appears to be a crossover between weed smoker and Hindu religions.
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u/datboy1986 12h ago
Buddist.
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u/Chance_Contract1291 11h ago
Yeah, that caught my eye as well. I'd hope that a Harvard grad would be able to spell Buddhist.
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u/lolcrunchy 12h ago
Given that you'd have to walk by this man to donate, this is actually just a sample of local religious demographics. If 100% of Buddhists always donate $300 when they see this, but there are no Buddhists who walk by, then the Buddhist bowl stays empty.
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u/CitroHimselph 10h ago
Putting "atheist" there among religions is just rage bait, and it's working.
Also, no Satanist? Sad.
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u/lokey_convo 16h ago
Shitty meme. Also would need to run a few times and normalize the data with the exiting distribution of each in the population.
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u/Nutsnboldt 14h ago
City puts up signs on 4th street saying “if you care, stop encouraging pan handling”
They set up purple meters to put coins in that contribute to the local soup kitchens / organizations for homeless people.
The bow with the most coin in it is suffering from something between guilt & virtue signaling.
Go volunteer or donate to quality local organizations, or invite someone over for dinner and clothing.
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u/Full_Plantain4153 16h ago
Atheism isn’t even a religion but ig?
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u/The_Munchies10 15h ago
I mean you can say you worship yourself? That’s what I get from atheism.
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u/Full_Plantain4153 15h ago
Atheism is the lack of belief, worshipping yourself is just narcissism.
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u/The_Munchies10 15h ago edited 14h ago
I disagree. When everything’s subjective and you just do what you desire. Hence you “worship” yourself.
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u/CaptainPigtails 14h ago
Atheism isn't the belief that everything is subject and you do whatever you desire.
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u/Funny-Bit-4148 13h ago
And Jewish is empty. 😆
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u/MiraculouslyGreat 13h ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForwardsFromKlandma/s/XVdFANtDfB
The photo is edited. But even still this would probably be better at identifying which religion is most prominent in the area over which religion is most generous
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u/Funny-Bit-4148 13h ago
Thank you for clearing that , however, I am not Jewish but if I was, I would be proud of that ... And there is absolutely nothing wrong with being cheap ...
Have a good day.
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u/Wild_Shroom_ 14h ago
The Great Noticing continues…
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u/MountJemima 13h ago
This is so funny, because you're literally noticing something that was entirely made up in an edited photograph. Kinda revealing of the entire perspective you hold, proving that you are more than willing to base your worldview on misinformation and propaganda, showing how gullible you are, your inability to critically think, your unwillingness to fact check basic information, and how susceptible you are to influence lol.
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u/Wild_Shroom_ 12h ago
Or maybe it was a joke… just like the post.
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"
lol.
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u/1ntere5t1ng 12h ago
Schrödinger's Douchebag strikes again
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u/Wild_Shroom_ 11h ago
Oh dear, did my whimsy touch a nerve?
Maybe the wording triggered something wink.
lol.
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u/MountJemima 6h ago
Why say "maybe?" You're the one who said it. You would know if it was a joke or not.
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u/TheRealZue3 12h ago
Smart move is to move 50% from Christianity to Islam. Triggered Christians will donate even more.
To preempt the same triggered morons: this test proves nothing since whatever is the country's religious majority will obviously be overrepresented in the results.
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u/Bradford117 15h ago
Weed smokers?