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The king of cringe (lemmy.wtf)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Guy Fawkes specifically

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

This Guy Fawkes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What? You mean the terrorist who was arrested for trying to blow up a house of parliament? What's problematic about that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Oh god, a neo-lib lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Do you know why he wanted to do it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He was a papist (i.e. a Catholic theocrat) who was fighting against the Protestant theocracy in England. He wanted to replace a Protestant theocracy with a Catholic theocracy.

That's about all I know. I'm not an expert or anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes which is not great lol

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you’re confusing the actual Guy Fawkes with the symbol of Guy Fawkes….
it means something quite different now

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

quite different

More like quite cringe tbh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

yeah ok, “steve from myspace”….
i’ll take your advice on what’s “cringe” or not….
honestly every time people use the word cringe in that way, i actually have the physical reaction of cringing….
cringe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You’re entitled to feel however you want 🤷‍♂️

Just take note that you are commenting on a post that has the word “cringe” in the title…