Show of hands anyone who truly expected differently from this miserable attempt at an administration or from the current occupant(s) of the oval office.
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I’m not a brain-rotted idiot, so, obviously, yes.
Please excuse me while I go bury my hand.
He should be arrested
Far too kind.
It would just be another photo op for merch and the White House Wall of Fame.
He was. Not for that. Didn't stick.
Somebody should propose something effective and realistic.
Have at it.
It's gotta be uncomfortable being a journalist on Truth Social who only has an account there specifically so they can capture screenshots of Trump's latest dogwhistle post to publish in articles.
And doesn't Truth Social require users to upload photos of their drivers licenses in order to sign up? Or am I thinking of Parler?
I dunno if that photo id requirement is TS or Parler, but I do know that ironically enough Truth Social is a self non-federated Mastodon instance.
TIL. Ew. Thanks, I hate it.
I guess that's part of the definition of Open Source, though. "No discrimination against fields of endeavor."
I think that should stop at Nazis. Like how the seeming paradox of how to have a tollerant society is that you cannot tolerate the intollerant.
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My head canon has the 'Greatest Generation' rising up from their graves ghost-like to attack the White House like a scene out of Peter Jackson's 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King' movie.
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(Assuming the Nazi claim is true and Trump wasn't just being his normal clueless self.)
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I suspect that this undead army would be happy with Trump's attack against the LGBTQ
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Pink triangle was reclaimed though. So IMO pink triangle with a cancel sign over it shouldn't be seen as nazi-level homophobia, just regular homophobia for Trump. Admittedly, Trump's a nazi, so...
I’m sorry, so you’re saying that using the hard R is fine because black people reclaimed the word?
Or would that be different?
love this guy. I always upvote nathan fillion.
You love him because he's Canadian all us good ones are. Except that Wayne Gretzky guy. Fuck him lol
Oh! I didn't know he was Canadian. Now I love him even -- well, tbh, exactly the same. But I hate Gretzky even more because he's Canadian that's for sure.
That is certainly different. Trump's not black. In contrast, "queer," pink triangle, and other reclaimed homophobic slurs are encouraged for general use. Try another slur instead as a counterargument please.
As an illustration of what I mean -- IMO it'd be much worse if he said "no fags" or something like that.
I’m not going to sit here and type out slurs. The long and the short of it is that just because something has been reclaimed, doesn’t mean it is always benign. Context is king.
Well yeah, this is obviously not benign. I don't want him saying "no queer people" even dressed up in the most polite language.
Edit: I would honestly be happier if he said it in the most abrasive, nazi, slur-riddled way possible and tore the mask off. Incrementalism is what he hides behind.
I think his actions speak far louder than symbols in articles he links.
Sometimes I wonder if this dude is an actual nazi or just a delusional wacko steeped in nazi ideology...
(jk they're the same thing)
I’m sure it’s not the first, and absolutely positive, that it isn’t the last time
You would think the GOP and right wing in the U.S. would have put the main culture war issue behind us after Barack Obama and the Roberts Supreme Court told them it's all good now... But here we are...