• NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    It goes to show that they know full well who their audience is. They are actively manipulating the stupid. “We’re trying desperately to appeal to the ‘school bad, football good’ morons. If only their pickup trucks could vote too.”

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    11 days ago

    “hey voters, remember when racism was OK? Yeah me too. Vote for me.”

    Guaranteed to work on us. I bet my dad loves this asshole.

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    12 days ago

    If you can learn how to pronounce all the Finnish, Polish, Czech, and Slovak last names in Michigan, names like this should be easy. There’s not even a bunch of silent consonants in there!

  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 days ago

    I mean when the only thing of value you have to offer to the job is a shorter name, what else would you advertise on?

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      11 days ago

      Well he’s a Republican. So he can advertise being, or at least supporting, felons, rapists, pedophiles, and traitors. That’ll get him staunch conservative support.

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        It’s upsetting that the race is close. People are having a tough time choosing between “health care for everyone” and “I want you to fucking die”.

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          11 days ago

          I voted Sunday in Talarico’s district, ostensibly for ppl who don’t literally want me dead. We’ll see how many actually get elected. Making massive assumptions based on clothing/hair the democrats are out in force for early voting

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    If you can say Benedict Cumberbach or Timothy Chalemet you can say his name. English has the sounds already there, you just don’t want to do it.

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    They’re even using their same old tired playbook from 20 years ago. Remind me again, did that work well against Barack Hussein Obama?

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      11 days ago

      Unfortunately, the racist playbook seems to be working really, really well for them right now. Let’s see if that starts changing in a couple weeks.

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      10 days ago

      This response is so telling. Bluesky is fucking AWASH in comments like, “ha! how can anyone be this dumb?” “Has anyone ever been stupider?” “HEY, they said A when yesterday they said B!” Americans still refuse to look at what the far right is doing right in their faces.

      This isn’t stupidity, it’s a intentional tactic. For MAGA, it’s a sycophancy test. The more absurd the claim, the more useful the test. Believing it or agreeing with it is so far from the point. It’s about ensuring the base continues to publicly demonstrate their willingness to abandon reality on command. “The more obvious bullshit we ask you to swallow or horrendous racism we can get you to defend, the more enthusiastically you will have to do it because you’d look SO WEAK choosing THIS spot to draw the line.”

      For the rest of you, it’s a demoralization tactic. They’re rubbing your nose in how ridiculous they can be and STILL be an electoral threat. They know their supporters won’t abandon them, and they know that their opponents will do little more than express outrage, call them stupid on social media, and move on. “We can say absolutely anything, no matter how absurd, and you still have no choice but to treat us like legitimate opposition. What the fuck are you going to do about it?”

      “The animals jump onto the solar panels and get fried,” Trump says. Not because he’s an idiot (which he IS, but that isn’t what’s on display here), but because the truth doesn’t matter when you’re not actually trying to convince anyone of anything. It isn’t about persuasion, it’s a demonstration of impunity. They’re showing everyone listening that they can make a mockery of reality, demand that their followers applaud, and force everyone else to spend their time arguing about whether the fucking animals are actually getting fried.

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    I’m more European than he is because all of my ancestors were traveling whores, apparently.

    That said, I’ve no difficulty pronouncing his name. If you can’t, that must make you one of the following; illiterate, lazy, stupid, or racist.

    Any one of these should disqualify somebody whose job is to work for the people.

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      That said, I’ve no difficulty pronouncing his name. If you can’t, that must make you one all of the following; illiterate, lazy, stupid, or and racist.

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        11 days ago

        Damn, I guess people with speech impediments are illiterate, lazy, stupid and racist. Nice ableism you got there.

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          Riiiiight. You know that’s not what I meant. A disability obviously doesn’t mean someone is illiterate, lazy, stupid and racist. Unless they look at the name and say “that person ain’t fucking white!” Then they’re stupid and racist…

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            10 days ago

            Then why would you use an unverifiable universal statement? This is how people with different abilities end up marginalized. One of my friends is a phonoaudiologist and their work is incredible, being able to communicate properly after an accident or being born with an impediment is in my opinion more imperative than being able to walk. I’m sorry if I came across as an asshole, but no one should feel invisible.