• @octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    647 days ago

    How is it possible to be a member of the pre-civil-rights generation of white people and be so oblivious as to

    • DON A SHIRT that says in huge letters “Blacks for Trump”
    • Wear it in public
    • To an event ostensibly targeted to black people
    • Willingly pose for a picture wearing it with no black people in evidence except those laughing at you or giving you the side eye from a distance.
      • @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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        36 days ago

        But oh how they want to, and they’ll vote for the guy they think will make it so they can say it and have everybody think they’re cool again.

    • @StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml
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      297 days ago

      Lead poisoning is known to make people dumber and angrier. It seems the boomers got the bulk of the lead poisoning in America. To me, this explains the behavior you’re talking about 🤷. I have no other theories. I think they’re all just brain dead from lead poisoning dude.

      • TheMonkeyLord
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        66 days ago

        I have genuinely thought this for years.

        I originally thought that generational bullshit is stupid and, without any other influence, each generation is really the same as the last and the changes only really happen within the society itself. So I always thought it was stupid when people would say, “X generation is the dumbest!”

        But then I realized that Boomers were hit with both massively spread lead poisoning and swaths of radiation through especially Midwest America throughout their developmental periods that it is fair enough to say that, should there be such thing as the “Dumbest Generation,” it would likely be the Boomers

        • @CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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          25 days ago

          Plus, a lot of them got Covid without a vacchine and that disease attacks your nervous system and can shave of between 3 to 6 IQ points with each infection. So they are likely even dumber now than they were before Covid.

        • @Snowclone@lemmy.world
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          46 days ago

          In retail it’s always boomers losing their shit about almost nothing, and being 40 now, I recall the past 30 years pretty well, and there were also recipts with coupons, you had to pay cash and using a CC or Debit was a curtesy you couldn’t expect, banks gave you cards and pin numbers, but NOW they can’t handle it. At all.

  • Adderbox76
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    177 days ago

    Serious question;

    Am I over-thinking it to be skeeved out by the phrase “blacks” for Trump?

    It’s basically saying that their main defining characteristic as a group is their colour rather than anything about who they are culturally.

    It would be like a politician here in Canada courting the indigenous vote by holding a rally called “Reds for Pollieve” or something.

    I don’t see that really being talked about or mentioned and wonder am I just over-thinking it? Or is it just that it’s just one more fucked up thing that gets buried under a dozen other fucked up things…

    • @Animated_beans@lemmy.world
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      137 days ago

      You are right. Turning an adjective into a noun tends to make it more degrading because you’ve focused on the characteristic rather than the person. That’s why referring to people as “blacks” or “females” feels icky. It’s why we saw “deaf people” and not “the deafs” or “old people” and not “the olds.”

  • finley
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    1157 days ago

    In her dispatch on the event, Jane notes that Trump didn’t even bother to show up and instead spoke to attendees via telephone about his planned tax cuts for businesses.

    Lmao, asshole literally phoned it in

    • Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸
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      27 days ago

      You slightly misquoted the next line of the article, but that’s okay as I see it’s not part of the direct quote

    • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      There was a chance he might be in a room with black people. You think he was gonna risk showing up?

    • @mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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      planned tax cuts for businesses

      Well, at least Trump spoke about the key issues the black community face and showcased how his platform will enable them to have a better future.

      • finley
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        -57 days ago

        Trump lied an awful lot tonight. Sorry that you fell for it.

        • @mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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          77 days ago

          I was being sarcastic. Also, he didn’t even lie, he just talked about an unexpected topic as he isn’t “the biggest fan of black people.”

  • @yesman@lemmy.world
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    818 days ago

    Notice the event is named “Black Americans for Trump” and not “Blacks for Trump”. That’s awfully woke of them don’t you think?

  • @treadful@lemmy.zip
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    187 days ago

    “The roundtable setup featured Representative (and Trump V.P. wannabe) Byron Donalds, former Trump Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and Representative Wesley Hunt in attendance,” she writes. “The seats were positioned in a semi-arc facing a gaggle of cameras and sea of white people, and everyone looks abundantly unenthused to be there.”

    Where are the photos, man!?!

    • 555
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      37 days ago

      That would take a fraction of one brain.

      • Monkey With A Shell
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        147 days ago

        Something about ‘I had a test done and it says I’m .000025 % black’ would be my guess. Kind of like the folks that get all worked up about St. Patrick’s Day because some long lost relative once visited Ireland.

    • @suction@lemmy.world
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      No coincidence background “patriot” wears the Deutsche Reichsflagge (Black / White / Red) as a sweater?

      • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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        47 days ago

        So not Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, or even Trinidad and Tobago, it must be a flag from nearly a century ago, if you squint real hard, and ignore the extra stripes and the fact they’re vertical instead of horizontal. It certainly can’t be because of the esthetics of broad vertical stripes and that black and white go with anything, meaning you only have to coordinate with one color. Nah, that’s unreasonable.

              • @GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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                26 days ago

                I’m not speculating at all. I’m pointing our how much of a reach your speculation is. We can’t even be sure they’re there for Trump’s talk. That looks like a convention center, they could be there for something else. I tried to find the location this was taken, but I’m not finding it.

                • @suction@lemmy.world
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                  Well I happened to be there as a journalist from the EU and actually tried to interview this person because she caught my attention when she gave out free replicas of SS-Ehrenring rings to the other attendants. Just instead of the skull her rings had a small Trump head. She declined my interview request because, as she put it, I looked like I was “unwertes Leben”.

                  So you should be really careful with your speculation and probably stick to your manga and anime, dum-dum!