• Magician [he/him, they/them]
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      3011 months ago

      Like I get pointing and laughing at someone like trump-moist, but sometimes I feel it leans too close to an irony-poisoned indifference to the horrible things he says and propagates.

      I understand not caring in the grand scheme of things because it’s ultimately nothing new in the West, but it’s still rough when you want to talk to people about the blatant dog whistling.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]OP
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    “They never went after those that Rigged the Election,” Trump wrote. “They only went after those that fought to find the RIGGERS!”

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    Far more pathetic than just saying the actual slur

    Like they’re racist but they can’t even commit to being racist in a socially unacceptable way

    They have to be politically correct racist lmao

    • Barabas [he/him]
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      511 months ago

      It is like the let’s go Brandon shit, they think they’re so fucking clever.

      • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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        Unironically though. He was elected by a coalition of people who wanted to stop slavery immediately, and who wanted to stop it over time, but was way more moderate than they wanted.

        Remember, the south seceded because they assumed the country would eventually get around to banning slavery, not because they actually tried to.

        He consistently tried to find a middle ground, saying he’d be fine maintaining slavery if it meant the country stayed together, only freeing slaves only in confederate-occupied territories (until the political situation changed), trying to send them to Africa, etc.

    • trudge [comrade/them]
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      They actually like saying “Let’s Go Brandon” and " Rigger" more.
      It’s a secret codeword for them to show in-group affiliation. There’s no point to a dog whistle that is so transparent and blatant, but I never accused them of being intelligent.

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          Still functions as a uniform. Digital uniforms are powerful tools to create collective political engagement.

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      4chan: We’re gonna start using the OK handsign as a white power symbol

      Normal people: That’s fucking weird, stop being weird

      4chan: We just owned you so hard lmaoooo

      Normal people: jesse-wtf

  • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    3211 months ago

    I remember after Ahmaud Arbery was shot dead by those two vigilante pigs that they started calling black people “joggers” as a dog whistle.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3011 months ago

    Classic and tiresome bullying tactic: do something technically not against the rules to violate the spirit of the rules.

    I see this shit at schools all the time. debord-tired

          • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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            811 months ago

            It’s almost worse because Rig…Drone operators…in Shadowrun can do some cool stuff but the one thing you’ll get to do is drive. The ensuing meme is that nobody wants to play that class.

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                211 months ago

                ‘our plan is to explode all the computers’

                ‘bro i’m a decker thats my time to shine’

                ‘scratch that we are cutting the power to the entire neighborhood’

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2911 months ago

    Weren’t they using a synonym for stingy that was close to n-word+dly back during the Obama years? Americans just like racial slur edging.

  • VHS [he/him]
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    2311 months ago

    The chuds on T_D been doing this since 2020 (and not exactly subtly), seems like trump himself finally caught on?