• prole
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    3 months ago

    It’s also just chock full of “watch words” for these people. It’s like a code that lets them feel like they have some kind of secret inside knowledge. They all repeat the same types of sayings, and methods of (attempting to) insult over and over.

    For example:

    The use of “Democrat party” is meant as a slight to the Democratic party. (https://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/the-democratic-or-democrat-party/)

    That’s about as subtle as they ever get, the rest are pretty obvious (using Obama’s middle name, calling center-right politicians, “Marxist” as a completely meaningless insult that they themselves can’t define, etc.)

    Turns out that’s all it takes to get 70 million+ Americans to literally worship a real life cartoon villain.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, I saw the “Democrat Party” thing - which, by the way, wayyyyy too many in the “liberal media” let them get away with. They should be correcting them all the time, or asking them if they don’t even know the name of the party.

      I also caught the full use of Obama’s name - another dog whistle for this bunch.