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[–] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 131 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Perfect! This is perfection, nobody will ever make a better use of this meme format!

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

Nah the mitt romney one

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 86 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought the Babylon Bee would love Andrew Tate.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 112 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Apparently the thought of him being a Muslim is too much for them

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (28 children)

I had no idea he was Muslim.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 54 points 3 weeks ago

I assume he’s about as much a Muslim as trump is a Christian (ie only when it’s convenient, and he probably doesn’t know what all those words mean in that order, anyway)

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 27 points 3 weeks ago

He's probably about as Muslim as a brick with the word "Muslim" painted on it.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

He said he reverted in prison a few years ago but lately started dropping the act. Now that he is out of prison he will likely drop it.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

He reverted ig

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

He literally got into Islam for the misogyny.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

He became Muslim because of the misogyny and incels of the religion, he's in for the grift, much like Russel brand became "born again"

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I definitely get that vibe from that headline. It's not that the US reached out and said "touch not one hair on my precious scumbags", it's that they did it for someone who scumbags who also claim to be Muslim and fail the melanin deficiency test.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is there any one quality that more of the people surrounding Trump share than being serial sex abusers?

I can't think of one.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I think they all have to share their "special secret". If one of the group doesn't, they are a liability.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Undoubtedly sort of.

It's not so much "closet homosexuality" as that sexuality is a spectrum, which means that most people have some greater-than-zero amount of attraction to their same sex, which is a problem for desperately insecure bigots, and he's a desperately insecure bigot.

For the majority of people, the portion of their sexuality that's focused on their same sex is not significant enough to justify defining themselves as anything other than heterosexual - it just is, or possibly just was, a source of occasional thoughts or fantasies or, in some cases, experimentation. In fact, it's quite possible that, not particularly concerned about it, they've never even consciously realized that some portion of their sexual attention is drawn to their same sex.

However, for the "incel" personality type, like Tate, that amount greater-than-zero of attraction to their same sex can be a cause for overwhelming shame. It's not enough for them to be heterosexual overall - their insecurity and self-doubt and need to puff themselves up demands that they be 100% straight manly men. And they aren't. Never mind that that portion of their attention that's focused on their same sex is near certainly insignificant in and of itself - to them its mere existence is an existential threat to their already shaky self-images, so they feel a need to, and often do, put an outsized focus on stamping it down and making every effort to pretend it doesn't exist at all. Which ends up warping their personalities, and ironically enough making them even more focused on homosexuality than they would've been had they, as most people do, just not worried about it in the first place.

So yes, sort of.

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 52 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t understand if this is satire anymore.

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Reality hasbecome too hard to satirise.

[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 26 points 3 weeks ago

So they're all at least 5 months old? Must be bringing their girlfriends.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is not the onion, but Desantis might go after him. It could all be a stunt, of course.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/27/zero-tolerance-desantis-says-andrew-tate-is-not-welcome-in-florida-as-maga-celebrates-release/?in_brief=true

From the Miami Herald article:

But Tate’s claim that the Romanian case against him was dismissed in December isn’t true. While a Bucharest court ruled that the first criminal case could not proceed due to legal and procedural irregularities, the charges against the Tates remain in effect. What’s unclear is how further cases will proceed now that the Tates are back on American soil.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article301122934.html

[–] Nelots@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago

If he does, this will be the one and only time I ever root for that piece of shit. Desantis that is, not the other pos.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 28 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Watch the tate brothers become members of Trump's cabinet

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Head of the minister for women and gender equality, an obvious choice.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

What better position? Secretary of safety of women and children

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 points 3 weeks ago

That's too much. That's like putting an antivaxxer in charge of health!

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Ehh. They are rapey enough but don't you think they look well, a little on the brown side? Doesn't seem like there's any reason to compromise when there aren't DEI rules in place and there are plenty of rapey whites that are well qualified.

[–] DarthKaren@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Watch them become the new Epstein for the rich and powerful. tRUmp still has the jet iirc.

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

The title could also start as "Family values saved..."

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Did something change with the babylon bee? Sudden surge of actually decent content all of a sudden

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If you go to their site this is definitely the exception and not the rule. The rest of the articles today are bashing Zelensky.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right wingers are starting to act non/anti-christian more prominently from power, it seems. So Babylon bee has material from the right to make fun of. Or maybe not, it kind of always existed, now thinking.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Idk, I always felt that there was a conservative slant to the bee. It's never there 100% of the time, but it's kinda like if the Onion was written by a bunch of bootlickers.

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[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm not sure if it's widely known, but Tate started a political party in the UK called "BRUV" ("Britain Restoring Underlying Values"). The manifesto is all AI generated garbage. I'm unsure how that'll turn out as a refugee fleeing European justice.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean look at all the fake-ass christians infecting the world, is it so hard to believe that there are plenty of fake-ass muslims too? I was friends with a Palestinian/Jordanian guy and he told me it was commonplace in Jordan to have a group of men drinking tea at a cafe, except the tea pot was full of liquor. I don't know if it was meant to hide it from other people, hide it from god, or both.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

I mean. The only place to get alcohol past midnight in the Canadian town I grew up in was an all night tea house. But we were just trying to hide it from the cops.

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[–] 1SimpleTailor@startrek.website 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe Christianity wasn't misogynistic enough?

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

By the party of law and order

[–] PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Babylon Bee is garbage, don’t post this shit here.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Real news is more oniony than The Onion now. They ought to start doing super bland fake stories like “Cat Stuck in Tree, Saved by Local Fire Department.” Kind of like a form of eye bleach.

[–] B312@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Is he an actual Muslim? Or did he convert just to lessen the heat on him?

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

He converted before the fiasco

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