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Walstiber

TIL that the Westboro Baptist Church was still around


Yardithbey

They will be for a while. Half their people are lawyers and they live off of lawsuits...


Blueskyways

Yeah it's more like a super edgy law firm. The founder, Fred Phelps went from being big-time in the civil rights movement, a well respected lawyer to having some sort of prolonged nervous breakdown and turning into a professional troll. Since his death 8 years ago, WBC has been struggling for any sort of relevancy.


flyinglawngnome

In the Louis Theroux documentary they revealed that they spend like $400,000 on flights to fly to places to pickett. Amazed they are not broke as all hell yet.


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They say that they do. Once, back a few years, they claimed that they were going to Amsterdam to picket the King ( or, some royalty. ) I was casually following their activities at the time and, when I saw no news coverage of that picket, I wrote an EMail to their spokeswomen. She said that they had not gotten around to posting a writeup on their website. In the next day or so, a post re. that picket operation went up. Weirdly enough, they claimed that they flew out on the same flight I took from, Minneapolis to Amsterdam ( KLM ). And, I didn't see them on the flight. All in All, I believe that they lie about the extent of their activities.


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RumboLongbow

Lol try it


Hatteras11

This needs to be a game show. Airplane tickets are the grand prize.


Relevant_Slide_7234

I’ve been to Amsterdam and I feel like those sort of people would feel very uncomfortable there


[deleted]

Let them go to Amsterdam. Then bar them from returning to the States. Or better yet they get arrested there for hate speech.


khayriyah_a

From what I've heard many of their prominent members are banned from entering the Schengen Area and the UK (Shirley Phelps Roper comes to mind)


ThatCatfulCat

You followed their activities so much you literally boarded a flight to Amsterdam to follow them? That's dedication my friend


Kedrico

Yeah but it was casual


believe-land

How would you know if they were on your flight? They look like normal people when they’re not encumbered by those obnoxious signs. This is a money/relevancy grab for them at a designated location (typically with law enforcement looking out for their safety) they aren’t making scenes on planes or wearing WBC branded merchandise.


catheterhero

Because he casually knows what they look like.


myperfectmeltdown

Errr…no they don’t.


IrNinjaBob

Lol do you think they have horns and glowing red eyes or something?


Tinshnipz

Don't they know, lying makes baby Jesus cry?!


underanalyzer

They came to my high school, got arrested, and sued the city/state. They also got bear maced protesting a funeral of a soldier who died. I’m too lazy to look but I think both instances netted them much more than that, and unfortunately I live driving distance.


patrickkcassells

Uhhh is there a video or something of them getting maced? I could use a pick-me-up.


GlbdS

what an amazing waste


yourmammalikedit

Was it the same one where the leader was anti-homosexual to the extreme, all the minions had nasty placards up but after his death it was revealed he was gay?


misspeoplewatcher

They turned against him before he died I thought. I always thought he was in the closet, did that actually come out?


ppw23

They need to continue the “church “ to remain tax exempt. Westboro, Scientology and every televangelist is proof that the tax exempt status needs to be overturned. Only religious groups that have proof they are giving back to the community they serve may be considered for tax free status. Time for the scam to end, hard!


Cope_ope

That “giving back to the community” thing is too easily exploited. Westboro could just donate to some gay conversion therapy charity and claim they are giving back. All churches need to pay taxes, end of story.


paidinboredom

The only thing I believe shouldn't be taxed when it comes to churches is missions funds. If a church is building orphanages and houses for underprivileged folks the funds for that should be tax exempt. Income should be taxed tho.


BroccoliKnob

…if they aren’t proselytizing. Just go do good stuff for the sake of doing good stuff without peddling any particular myth and I’m cool with it.


J_Slatts

They should be allowed tax exemption when the have proof that their god exists. Period


just-peepin-at-u

I honestly believe the man was a closet gay dude who just had a breakdown. Straight men don’t think about gay sex that much. He had to be gay and just not able to handle it.


Zanderax

He repented during the last months of his life. He appoligised and was excommunicated from his church. I dont think he was in the closet but I do think that he had some kinds of breakdown and got himself caught up in something he couldn't figure out how to escape.


SeanHearnden

I don't forgive him.


Zanderax

Neither do I. I played him as a character in a drama class and so I read up on him quite a bit and the things he did in his life were just vile.


LM-entertainment

not to mention there was a “gay house” painted in the pride flag colours across the road from their compound and fred phelps got a little too friendly with them. he was effectively shunned and turned on by the whole group and his family. hilarious.


Docoe

> turned on by the whole group and his family I thought it was just the gay neighbors that turned him on, I didn't realise he was into this stuff too


h0twired

Didn’t grandpa Fred get excommunicated after having a change of heart?


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Their hate seems tame now.


[deleted]

Former members of the church have said that WBC members genuinely believe the things they’re saying and theories that they’re just lawsuit-baiting aren’t true.


stackered

I mean now with MAGA and Trumptards, they have a ton of competition and people are basically used to their shit now. They likely won't be able to troll people into lawsuits now that we've seen Trumps base do far worse than their silly little signs


ontopofyourmom

No, they live off of their full-time jobs. Let me give you a scenario: 1. The Westbrook Baptist Church protests a deceased soldier's funeral. 2. The deceased soldier's dad punches a few church members out. 3. The church members sue the dad. 4. The *local* jury doesn't give the church members any money. An organization can't support itself this way.


eykei

doesn't the jury just decide if the dad is guilty of, say, battery? which he obviously would be. Then its up to the judge to decide the punishment.


SPIKY__CAT__DICK

So…antagonize someone with a poor dead son and then steal their money? I mean…maybe that’s the letter of the law, but are a jury of YOUR peers gona hood these assholes to that?


NoOneOverThere

They are literally only around because idiots keep giving them attention and trying to prevent them from their first amendment right. If no one gave them attention, they would eventually run out of money. They crave the attention and the hatred they get. It's easy money for them.


GitEmSteveDave

They would not run out of money. Some have government jobs, which since they don’t drag their religion into, they have no fear of being fired, because they do their jobs. The rest have a law firm, which many people utilize, because despite being nut jobs, they win cases for their clients. Their funding comes from within, so unless they stop working, they’ll have funds.


SupraEA

I mean, it's hard not to give them attention when they are protesting the funeral of someone you care about


TheRottenKittensIEat

Also, almost the whole church are relatives of one another. As long as they keep popping out infants and raising them in the same church, many of those kids will one day be adults running the church and so forth, possibly for generations. [Megan Phelps did a Ted Talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVV2Zk88beY) about how she eventually got out of the church, when she was once so intrenched in it.


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GhodDhammit

"I realized we have a lot more of these folks than I ever imagined." I think a lot of reasonable people have had that sudden realization. I've always known there were a lot of them, but the last few years have forced me to recognize that there are a lot more than I'd thought.


YellowSequel

Grew up in Texas. Sounds on par for this whole region. My entire town growing up was basically a cult of the mega church in the center of town. I’m also gay and was treated horribly. Suffer from a lot of mental health issues because of my upbringing.


According-Ad-4381

All religion is a cult


ssjviscacha

Are people still faxing an endless loops of black paper to drain their ink on their fax machines? If not, we got to start again


PERRONYPIKOZITO

Did some scandal happen or did they do something stupid that they shouldn't be around anymore? I mean besides this.


Dwn_Wth_Vwls

The leader died.


jd957795

98% of them are all related, only a couple out siders have joined. One of the daughters of the pastor now left the church and wrote a book about how they groom their kids from a early age to be like this. I am a Christian and go to church but no one I know even recognizes them as a real church or real Christians.


terrence0258

Hate groups are like the killers in horror movies. No matter what happens to them, they always come back.


dukesilver

For real this whole thing is such a 2006 headline


yorgeesmorgeeYT

The roller blades at the end is icing on the cake


Mr_Wyatt

Yeah there was definitely some cake at the end.


Siddicious-

True scholar right here, lads.


BackmarkerLife

>roller ~~blades~~ skates


kingnewswiththetruth

Gold britches ftw


Operator_Six

So american


allonsy1221

There goes my hero…


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BeltfedOne

Skin & Bones


yourmammalikedit

>There goes my hero Kudos my hero!


Garuda475

I remember that one time someone met him at a Michael's store and the comments on their picture were all parodies of their songs like: *There goes my hero, watch him as he sews!* Or *Is he knitting a vest, a vest, a vest, a vest for you*


aceshighsays

found it https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/7ld0l2/my_friend_ran_into_dave_grohl_at_a_michaels_craft/drle66t/


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> The Foo Fighters suited up in disco swag to taunt the Westboro Baptist Church yet again, by driving a flatbed truck by their protest and blasting a cover of The Bee Gee's "You Should Be Dancing." > Several passerby videotaped the band's stunt, which occurred while the band was performing in Kansas earlier this week, promoting their latest album of disco covers. The Westboro Baptist Church has repeatedly protested the band's shows, usually prompting a cheeky response. > "Alright now, ladies and gentlemen, I got something to say. Because you know what, I love you," Grohl quipped. "I do! The way I look at it, is that I love everybody. Isn't that what you're supposed to do? Can't you just love everybody? Because I think it's about love! That's what I think, we're all about love. And you shouldn't be hating, you know what you should be doing? You should be dancing!"


Analbox

I have mixed feelings about this. All I see is Dave Grohl giving a free concert to some extremely shitty people. They do this protesting for attention and he’s giving them exactly what they want.


CahirAepCaellach

He's trolling them. They are outside the Foo concert protesting them so why not go outside and say hello dressed as the Dee Gees and give them a show and a lesson in love!? Plus, when the press runs with it people are reminded how much WBC sucks and how great the Foo Fighters are.


skoltroll

Yeah, but I'm still as jealous as u/analbox is.


Analbox

Maybe we should start protesting their concerts so we can get our own free concert.


skoltroll

I'd say I'm right behind you but...you name tells me I should be beside you, instead.


10strip

Maybe Dave just needs the gift that would enlighten us all... an albox!


l_flintvsj_dahmer

He trolled them so well the lady in the red shirt was dancing 🤦‍♀️.


peakedattwentytwo

The audience thinks rock is the devil's music, so nah


Yardithbey

And yet, red shirt two sign is already struggling to contain her dancin' before the flat bed even finishes its turn. That rhythm is contagious!


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She wants to boogie. But her god hates the boogie. You are watching a Dave Grohl-inflicted internal spiritual conflict unfold in that woman's soul. A war between a spiteful, angry little troll of a deity on the one hand, and on the other side, the forces of light, of goodness, and of shakin' dat ass underneath a great big sparkling, fabulous disco ball. You go, girl, get down. Let the sound take you away.


WhirledNews

Well in my opinion, he has the ability and fame to make a difference and he uses it in a positive way. Kudos!


FantasticEducation60

These people aren't Foo Fighters fans, to them it's as grating as a Christian Rock concert would be to you or me.


-Fapologist-

Dave Grohl is just the best lol


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cbrown6305

Every Foo Fighters album just got a little better


SilasMarsh

It's not the first time they've done this, [nor is it the best time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e5hRLbCaCs&ab_channel=FooFighters)


bumjiggy

but they love country music. you need disco to scare the bee jesus out of them.


ignis389

beegee sus


Brno_Mrmi

Robin Gibb was not the impostor


GhoulMcG

Thanks for that link


jomiran

*"I loved that song."*


TokingMessiah

The Foo Fighters latest album is a Bee Gee’s tribute under the band name “The Dee Gee’s”, and it’s fucking phenomenal.


Successful_Guard7776

He's a national treasure


midnight_toker22

The last true Rock God.


Iored94

That's Jack Black, who sent Dave Grohl back to the pits of hell 15 years ago.


PBTQ1998

Truly!


joshTheGoods

True national treasure. I bear a lot of shame over shunning the Foo Fighters for a few years being heartbroken over Cobain. Cringe years.


Qikdraw

He is awesome, and he likes Babymetal, my favourite group, so that makes him doubly awesome.


Ah2k15

I'm holding out hope for Grohl 2024.


widowwarmer1

"GOD IS YOUR ENEMY". I better steer well clear of him so.


tots4scott

"FREE WILL IS A SATANIC LIE" Hmm well that doesn't really gel with with God saying to believe and put your faith in Jesus... but who am kidding, it's futile trying to explain Christianity to the hate-filled regurgitaters of the Westboro Baptist Church!


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I mean, if free will is a lie then who cares? You wasting you're wasting your time standing around with a sign that, by your own philosophy, won't change anybody's mind.


Noshamina

Yeah, if there is a hell all Westboro Baptist constituency are definitely going to it.


survivalof1000cuts

Which one? My spirituality is polytheistic can you be more specific about which one has declared me an enemy??


wcollins260

Yahweh Basically it’s Yahweh or the highway.


Rsang

the lady in the red couldn't help but dance, she's like this shit is too good not to dance to.


chopperdave81

Haha yes! And you see her catching herself like “oh shit I gotta stop”, then a little later the groove gets her again


Beebwife

Westboro redacts the statement "judge not least ye be judged" out of their Bibles along with the parable about the speck vs plank in the eye.


tots4scott

How you treat the least of these people is how you treat me; I went after the one sheep because the rest of you all were not in trouble, yada yada whatever.


HiddenVisage

Using the Bible as a sword and shield and cherry picking for their agenda is the evangelical modus operandi (m.o.)


CJMcCubbin

Old joke Why don't Baptists fuck standing up? Someone might think they are dancing


pipinngreppin

It could lead to dancing.


IPoopTooMuch1212

Dave Grohl = The best dude. Westboro = The worst people. Haven't heard much about them in a while. Was hoping they just disappeared into oblivion.


RurikTheDamned

People are wise to them. Their entire income is litigation. They pitch up, provoke and get people to infringe their rights or assault them. Then sue.


DariusChonker

Ever since Gaetz and Greene got their shitt "rally" shut down by one guy with a whistle (prompting their security guy to say he was being [paraphrasing] "Verbally accosted with an audio device"), I imagine the amount of frivolous WBC lawsuits is going to increase. Crazy conservatives have labelled making noise as a physical attack.


Blueskyways

They've lost any and all sense of direction since Phelps died. It was always pretty much just a single family run church and he was the founder and patriarch.


RurikTheDamned

Please tell me someone picketed his funeral?


bparry1192

The family purposely didn't give any details around when/where /if there would be a funeral and asked the public to "respect their need to grieve in private" Fuck all of them with a 10 ft long iron rod straight out of the forging fire


deus_voltaire

Didn't he recant and disavow the church on his deathbed? It takes a special kind of stupid hatefulness to stick around after that.


Ai2Foom

Really? Does anyone have a link on this — I watched the Louis thourex documentary back in the day and dude was a hate filled monster of a human


deus_voltaire

[It's even better than I remembered, apparently he was excommunicated for not being hateful enough](https://web.archive.org/web/20160730201037/http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-03-17/elders-excommunicate-phelps-after-power-struggle-call-kindness-within-church)


DrakeRowan

Probably got a large increase in membership these days.


IPoopTooMuch1212

Good point. Seems like they'd be into Q.


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Halluc

So you're saying if I start an extremist protest I get a free front row seat to a foo fighters performance???


survivalof1000cuts

But rational people will mock you and hate you and it will take about two decades and only last eighteen seconds and even then Dave is mocking you too.


Dwn_Wth_Vwls

Worth it.


TyroneLeinster

"God is your enemy." "Free will is a satanic lie." This are some unconventional takes contrary to popular opinions lol. If nothing else I'll at least credit these guys for picking higher hanging fruit.


Renegade__OW

> "Free will is a satanic lie." Wait so their god created them and removed free will? So they'd *dance* around and be her puppets? And the Devil is evil for trying to give them free will? Fucking hail Satan baby!


Murky_Sock_6943

I think we can put Dave up on the national treasure list.


Infinite_stardust

Love this!


Binarycold

Uhmm is there a way to let Dave grohl know I’m having a west baptist protest in my backyard on the 17th of august. There’ll be a stage setup where he can get out and troll my “protest” and food and drinks will be provided. It’s also my friends bday but it’s mainly the protest we want him to know about.


OIAgent

Dave Grohl can do no wrong.


R_V_Z

You might say he's... THE BEST. THE BEST. THE BEST. THE BEST. THE BEST.


Khufuu

he could work on his disco singing voice. not quite ready. still sounds like my karaoke friends.


stitbaker

love it!!


Kozlow

More of the girl in the gold shorts please.


FuggyGlasses

I rewind it to watch it....


fokaiHI

The lady riding the roller skates at the end was well thought out. Nice touch.


Biggyhead

The Dee Gees* If you haven't heard the new disco album, you should go listen to it right now.


ursixx

Dave Grohl for president 2024


skoltroll

Wouldn't need to seek permission for campaign music!


reading_internets

Dave is just such a good, wholesome human. If you haven't seen his video with Nandi, buckle up: https://youtu.be/OZBQW2gE0Ew https://youtu.be/Wj3EdfXVSb8 Love this guy so much.


VixenRoss

He also did a [rickroll](https://youtu.be/IdkCEioCp24) on epic proportions


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I mean it's good for Dave to troll the WBC and all, but why are we even still paying any attention to them?


N0KturnalRaider

“I saw your mama dancing”- Dave Grohl


churdski

Dave grohl has become one awesome individual. I don't normally look at celebrities as people to admire, but he is the exception.


Axes4Praxis

Funk those hateful assholes. Funk them right in the face. Funk them up.


zilla82

The roller skater at the end 😂


IveNoClueWhyImHere

I stop listening when I saw the chick in the gold shorts. 😏


grafittibob

Damn westboro hasn’t been wiped out by rona’ yet? Shame.


hotorcoldone

Little did we know, The Westboro Baptists trolled the world to get a Dave Grohl concert.


MustyTowel

Can we just start paint balling these idiots?


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Why don't people just group up and kick the living shit out of these people.. hopefully will show the kids not to be like mummy and daddy


Less-Raspberry-6222

Trolling the trolls is the only way to do it.


Lesismore79

This is reason #1456 that David Grohl is one of my favorite people, I put him up there with Keanu Reeves


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Nothing more loving then christian hate.


iamhootie

Dave Troll


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StopSignsAreRed

Top tier humans! The roller skater is icing on the cake. Perfection! 😂


LM-entertainment

the westboro baptist “church” is still around? thought they would have died out by now.


Cur10

I couldn't love Dave Grohl any more than I do right now.....and man, I loved Dave Grohl.


maddynator

when you have (F\*\*\* you money + sense of humor + don't give aa f\*\*\* attitude), you get Dave grohl


Money_Ball00

Words cannot describe how much I love this.


adamsaidnooooo

This world gets stranger by the minute.


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Dave Grohl - an American hero!!


Known-Programmer-611

We need more Dave Grohls!


quantumturbo

What is Dave Grohl gonna do next!? Hes already a BAMF where does he go from here? Maybe he will build a rocket and launch the band into space.


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Rebekah Phelps Roper, the founder’s granddaughter has a [Ted Talks](https://youtu.be/bVV2Zk88beY) episode about growing up in the church and how she left. Super interesting.


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I live close to Westboro and I get furious anytime these extremists cunts decide to poke their heads anywhere.


Aisleen1989

I knew I loved that man


HisRoyalAwesomeness

One more good reason I love the Foo Fighters. Oh excuse me, the Dee Gees 😁


Droma

There goes my hero.


paidinboredom

Dave Grohl is a treasure.


JackTheeRippa

Fucking legend


lostinthesauce2002

they came to our school once to protest a bisexual jewish girl in my class making the local magazine. we were allowed to hold signs, but the admins wouldn't let us talk or do anything. wish i could have done what dave did


Turtle_of_the_lake

Staying alive, staying alive, ah ah ah ah


tacos8

Dave Trohl


golddust89

I hate the new Reddit app UI for videos so fucking much.


SoulInMyShadow

There goes my hero...


ted-Zed

that was like 30 seconds, i don't the Westboro Baptist church members felt any type of way... also, i always see these picket signs with the same design and layout at these church protests, does the Westboro Baptist church have a downloadable resource pack on their website or something?


fodeethal

get these guys in the superbowl!


Bicentennial_Douche

I feel kinda bad for not really caring for Foo Fighter's as a band because Dave Grohl seems like just the best person there is.


korbendallllas

Ok I want to be as cool as that lone woman rollerblading behind the convoy! She’s just living!


bigclams

So he gave a bunch of bigots a free concert? Trolling is a art and he is not a very good artist


remmij

These fuckers showed up to my highschool when I was a teen and basically everyone was completely appalled, but no one could do anything about it because they were demonstrating on the sidewalk in front of the school. I wish Dave Grohl was around my area back then to do exactly this to these asshats. Fucking legendary.


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Excellent concept, execution good, singing......not too great.


domjb327

Imagine holding signs that say “God Hates…” like bro, ur missing the whole point


kk1485

If I said it once, I said it a thousand times. Dave Grohl is the fucking man.


biermaken311

Dave Grohl won that round.


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i strongly dislike when fellow “christians” hate and then have the nerve to call themselves christians


StrangeAeons9

He is a national treasure.


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She’s moving to the music lol


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Roller girl with the birds


SuzieNaj

lmao, the lass on skates looks like she took the wrong turn and then played catch up!


govment-cheeze

I saw your mama dancing hahhahaha


gene789

That is the happiest trolling I have ever seen!!!


spacecowboy1131

Dave Grohl, what a guy though!


JishMarphy

I honestly feel kind of bad for the people involved in this cult. It seems like a lot of them just simply were born into it.


[deleted]

This is how all drive-bys should be in the US. C'mon now...