r/AskReddit • u/DrCompenomics • 12h ago

Who’s the best real-life example of “you either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain,” and what happened?

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u/Thanos_Stomps 9h ago

Fred Phelps shifted the culture that led to same sex marriage being upheld and legalized.

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u/northrupthebandgeek 7h ago

Makes me wonder if that was intentional: to make homophobia look as bad as possible so that people would reject it.

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u/Thanos_Stomps 6h ago

It’s my favorite conspiracy theory. It made conservatives not want to align with the people picketing soldiers’ funerals.

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u/AcrolloPeed 5h ago

I remember back in 2004 or 2005 they had his oldest daughter on Fox News and Sean Hannity was like “do you think it’s okay to protest soldier’s funerals?” and her response was “these soldiers are the pawns of an evil satanic pro-homo f*g-loving empire and they will burn in hell forever and we are here to proclaim God’s truth to American infidels and sodomite supporters” and I stg Sean had a BSOD moment.