What would you do if you found out your son or daughter was a homo sapien?

[Snake Plissken]

This Russian troll would disown them





Here’s what Russia’s 2020 disinformation operations look like, according to two experts on social media and propaganda.



https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/russia-troll-2020-election-interference-twitter-916482/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Hahahahaha! Seriously?

[lapfog_1]

2. I always thought she was an alien

so now you are telling me she was just crazy.

[napi21]

3. Homo sapians means "HUMAN". What am I missing her?

Just guessing, the conservative Christians thought it meant homosexual. Dunces.

[Snake Plissken]

5. It's actually a pretty good article explaining how the Russian trolls are trying to gain followers

They're targeting various groups to gain followers before they start injecting their camapiagn propaganda, this one here doesn't have a as good of a command of the English language as the others do.

[teach1st]

4. Fact checkers seem to think it's bogus

https://www.facebook.com/TheAtheistAdvocate/photos/a.126561567389326.11059.122675341111282/984548181590656/?type=3&comment_id=1030649756980498&reply_comment_id=1036858606359613&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D

The original meme is a caricature, based on the fact that many conservative Christians think about homosexuals in a negative way. The statistics are exaggerated, much in the same way a caricature of a portrait is an exaggeration of one's facial features.

However, there is this, from Bored Panda:

Jimmy Kimmel Asks People If Homo Sapiens Should Be Saved, And The Answers Show The Level Of Stupidity

[Snake Plissken]

6. It's a post form an actual Russian troll twitter account that was shut down

They're trying to gain followers before they begin their massive propaganda operation for Trump, this one obviously failed, but not all of them will.

[teach1st]

9. Thanks! Explained at the link in this post.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212730812

[dewsgirl]

8. I always enjoy bored panda. I always completely forget

it exists until someone links to it. I have no idea why.

[Marie Marie]

17. Me too. Always enjoy the links, say to myself I'm going to

check it out but always forget.

[dewsgirl]

18. It's weird, I even save it in my bookmarks. I always plan on

going back, seems to be the only site I do that with.

[dewsgirl]

7. LOL, I read it this morning. But also completely sad, 55 percent

felt that way. 😔

[reACTIONary]

11. And its not true...

... Its an urban legend that was being propogated by a Rusian disinformation campaign. The troll farm.

Read the linked Rolling Stone article, its pretty interesting.

[dewsgirl]

13. I thought it was true and they put the poll out, to

divide us further. There was a part about the left being outraged.

[reACTIONary]

14. Ah, I see....

..... turns out its a hoax all the way down.

[Journeyman]

10. Same thing I'd do if I discovered my sister had come out as a thespian . . .

[Pope George Ringo II]

12. I heard a rumour about that sister of yours.

They say that while at university, she openly matriculated.

[Journeyman]

15. And repeatedly masticated in the dining hall . . .

[CaptYossarian]

16. "Film at eleven."

[dewsgirl]

19. LOL😆

[Dr. Strange]

20. I had a cousin that claimed to be a thespian...

but I think it was all just an act.

[Heartstrings]

24. I see what you did there....

[smirkymonkey]

37. You can imagine my shock when I found out my sister was Lebanese

On her mother's side, of course.

[AdamGG]

21. This was in an Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen) sketch about 16 years ago

[Leith]

22. Easy to believe such a hoax because they really are that stupid

What would they think if they learned that the Earth's atmosphere is chock full of gaseous dihydrogen oxide and that every coastline in the world is saturated with it in liquid form?

[ck4829]

42. Yep, it's an example of what's known as the Tyson Zone

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If one person or group already has a history or doing or saying bizarre or stupid things, then that means any new story about them doing or saying bizarre or stupid things becomes more believable.

Conservative Christians entered the Tyson Zone a long time ago.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheTysonZone

[NickB79]

23. Jimmy Kimmel did something similar

People really are that stupid.

[keithbvadu2]

25. Those who feel strongly about it

Those who feel strongly about it

[dchill]

29. Benjamin Button.

[Zambero]

26. Or worse yet of the thespian variety

Some of them were even known to matriculate while in college!

[Rhiannon12866]

27. I would be alarmed if they were not!

[rainy]

28. What? Nooooooooooooo 😁

[dchill]

30. Most of these people are homoing their sapiens in private...

I'll wager.

[HeavyHemi]

31. Hungry man dinners

My mother used to yell at me for masticating too loudly at the dinner table.

[usaf-vet]

32. So we know that there are at least 550 totally ignorant a$$holes homo sapiens in the class.

I think their moms and dads should be very ashamed for having neglected the education of the offspring.

They are part of the problem.

[Beartracks]

33. "Russians know anger drives people to the polls, but disgust drives countries apart."

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[Salviati]

34. Please read the article before responding to the image in the OP

If you don't, then you're doing exactly what the russian trolls posting such things want you to do.

[Retrograde]

35. As long as they weren't thespians

not that I have anything against thespians, mind you - it's just a hard way to make a living.

[ck4829]

36. Disinformation? Russian trolls aren't causing division, they're revealing it

Conservative Christians DO disown gay children and kick them into homelessness.

We should be treating that like a societal failure rather than just a fabrication of Russian trolls.

The Russian government is a terrorist regime, don't get me wrong, but no Russian troll forced Dylann Roof to shoot people, forced James Alex Fields to drive his car into people protesting him and his ilk, or forced people to vote for a theocratic sexual predator to "own the libs"... that was all done with the free will by the "other side of the aisle".

[IronLionZion]

38. This appeals to self-righteous educated liberals

who want to feel disgust by looking down on conservative Christians as being stupid. The article is a good read, and everyone should be aware of these troll tactics. There are a lot of memes and tweets that make us feel good but are designed to divide us.

My fellow lefties like to skewer me for remaining connected on social media to Trumpster former friends, but it's a great way to keep an eye on the pure BS they share online. It's completely bonkers but it's designed to make them hate us more and more and feel smug about it.

[ck4829]

40. I don't know now. If that's designed to divide us, I don't want to see what not-divided looks like

Are we supposed to ignore that conservative Christians DO kick gay children out onto the street now because Russian trolls highlighted it?

Are we supposed to ignore that conservative Christians consistently supported the 2003 Iraq War because... reasons? Reasons like it was started by a Republican or... to bring about the "end times"?

We have this alt-right/far-right in the US today, they clearly value confederate statues and some made up America of the past that only exists in their imaginations far more than their fellow Americans or the real America of today. I'm not going to hold hands with them and have cuddle time with them to coddle them and treat their twisted ideology as valid as they are planning to stab me in the back just because a Russian troll is talking smack, sorry.

[muriel_volestrangler]

43. The troll's message wasn't about their attitude to LGBT; it was about their supposed stupidity

of not knowing "Homo sapiens" is the species name for humans. It's designed to get liberals saying "conservatives are dumb", and then conservatives saying "liberals despise us, and make up shit about us".

[IronLionZion]

44. Highlighting and amplifying the worst of any demographic appeals to bigots

because it validates the feelings of disgust towards that demographic.

An example of the other side's post would be to claim that gay liberals molest children. It makes them think being gay or liberal is associated with molesting children, when it doesn't. It just validates their hatred of gays and liberals, and makes them hate more. They do this all the time with immigrants, minorities, and Muslims to justify their bigotry.

They'll find the worst news stories and highlight the involvement of a type of person their audience doesn't like.

[Quackers]

39. I almost disowned my kids when I found out they were manufacturing

Dihydrogen monoxide in the kitchen. If that wasn’t bad enough, they were trying to sell it on the street corner. They even offered some of their “customers” the option of cutting it with lemon powder for extra kick. WTF is wrong with this generation?

[DBoon]

41. I'd say I'm a homo sapiens too