Making merica great, bald eagles, kid rock, 25¢ eggs, free diesel for their monster trucks, short bottom shorts on blondes, beer holders in car and no seatbelt laws taking their freedum.
he's an ableist asshole (after making remarks about how his new wife gave him a 'healthy and normal' baby, when his first child has special needs).
one of his co-stars was recently killed in a brutal, targeted, hate crime and the best he could come up with was a shitty instagram story (meaning it disappears after 12hrs) "Damn. RIP Jonathan. Always such a kind dude. He played Ken Hotate in Parks and was also in Mag 7. Sad to see. Prayers up. Hug your loved ones.”
and lastly he belongs to a shitty hollywood church cult.... sooooo take your pick for reasons why he is shitty and will no longer be welcome at the cool kids table
It's always impressive when the leopard is mid-face-eat, they acknowledge the face eating is happening, and they make sure to say they don't have regrets.
And he really did. He openly campaigned on it all, all the hate, vitriol and fascist points. He didn't hide any of it. Sure he played dumb about project 2025, but he spread all the talking points.
There is no better way to say this. It is exactly what you voted for. And we warned you hundreds of times, but what did y'all say? "The libruls are panicking lol" or something to that effect.
His cult will never turn on him, no matter what he does. He could walk up to one of them, stick a knife in their gut, and they'll humbly ask him to please stop twisting it, Mr. President, so I can vote for you again, sir.
So we've learned nothing. It's just that your people are currently being affected. Yet there are still no regrets. I think people need to get more used to being wrong. Eat some humble pie, and admit that you were wrong for the first time in your life.
If you voted for Trump then this is 100% what you specifically voted for. I’m tired of hearing this line, it’s bullshit. He was barking about literally everything he is doing the entire time, everyone else was pointing out that this is exactly what he was saying, if you genuinely didn’t think this is what he was all about the entire time then you are an idiot and the exact kind of tool they were asking you to be.
Not voting in 2020 would actually have been the optimal outcome for the country. Objectively, we would have been far, far better off if a large number of Democrats had stayed home in 2020, allowing Trump to get a second term then instead of now. Democrats focused on short-term expediency by forcing Biden through. They won the election in 2020, but at what a terrible price. Instead of a flailing second Trump term with Trump as a lame duck, Democrats gave Trump four more years to regroup, strategize, and come up with Project 2025. Democrats chose the cheap and easy solution in 2020, and every one of us is paying for it now.
Your strategy has some merit, but it fails in that it only considers short-term, rather than long-term thinking. Your victories end up temporary and ultimately Pyrrhic.
Voting for today's lesser of two evils only works if you're a goldfish with no memory of history.
Yes, they've tried for years. But they actually managed to properly plan it this time. Do you honestly believe there's no difference between Trump in 2024 and Trump in 2020? They have completely different cabinets. Hell, we would have had Pence as VP. The administration is run by entirely different people. They were a lot more careful about selecting for avowed loyalists this time. Trump winning in 2020 would have completely denied them this chance to reorganize. We would have objectively been much, much better off if a second Trump term came in 2020 than in 2024.
You have very little understanding of what is going on.
You know, there's no law of nature dictating that Trump had to get a second term. If people had voted democrat in 2024 and 2028, Trump would just not have had a second term.
There was such a law. Not a law of nature, but that's a silly high bar that you're imposing. It was widely predicted that Biden would fail to enact the changes needed to prevent a MAGA return. I remember thinking that would happen the day Biden won the election.
Your post outlines the type of thinking that so damns us. You view every election as a completely independent event, as if they have zero influence on one another. Biden was a milquetoast centrist. He governed that way his entire adult life. It was eminently predictable, and many predicated, that he would fail to stop MAGA. Maybe you didn't want to listen to those predictions, but that's failing on your part.
Your view is that voters are always to blame, and that if the party chooses a bad candidate, well the voters are still to blame. You expect voters to show up and vote D election after election after election, even if the party repeatedly fails to live up to its promises and betrays its voters time and time again.
Sorry. Objectively, the best outcome would have been if Trump won in 2020. A Trump victory in 2020 would have been much, much preferable to one in 2024.
But you view each election as an isolated event. Every election is the most important one in history, and we're never allowed to think strategically long term.
This short term thinking is why Republicans control the government. Republicans can think long term. Liberals like yourself can't.
MAGA voted for what they wanted: they are getting excellent representation. Their wildest political fantasies are being enacted right now. The people who didn't vote at all - especially those who pretended the democrats are somehow just as bad as the literal fascists currently in power - they just shrugged off their responsibilities as democratic citizens and let the country be ruined by a minority of racist shitheads. The election result wasn't 50/50, but closer to 33/33/33: one third of Americans wanted white christian fascism, one third adamantly did not, and one third said, "fascism, democracy - what's the difference?"
Voting to stop fascism is primordial and you cannot argue against that unless you are a fascist.
You make it sound like there was no choice between fascism and normalcy.
In fact, there was a choice to stop fascism but people decided not to vote because Israel.
And now Israel is better off and the genocide will be fulfilled.
With Harris, there would have been a status quo and a chance to stop the genocide. Trump and Israel are cut from the same cloth of fascism. So genocide on!!!!
Thanks protest non-voters, you couldn't have made it much worse for Palestine if you tried to.
Yes, I blame those who voted for trump and those who abstained. Those who abstained are worse in my opinion because they either willfully ignored fascism or are too stupid to realize what was going on.
We all have control over who we vote for and there is no excuse to ignore that fascism is live and awake.
and he even said, i campaigned on THIS, you voted for it. sometimes i wonder if trump thinks if his voters are really this stupid, i know said they are, but sometimes he must be disbelief sometimes.
Seriously, say what you will about the guy, he has stuck by his campaign promises. He lies about damn near everything, but vividly and unapologetically laid out his plans to everyone to a T. If you assumed he was lying about all of that too, you might be forgiven for that justified assumption, but... you are not forgiven for voting for a man who you cannot trust in any capacity, who is clearly a racist, fascist narcissist.
Ok, but why idiot girls? Why not idiot boys? Or idiot transgenders? They can all be idiots too, I think it's wrong to discriminate against the boys and transgenders who can be equally idiotic.
This is a perfect example of ignorance leading to being offended.
Latina specifically means those of the feminine persuasion. Latino would be the all encompassing term or the term for those of the masculine persuasion.
Rereading your comment in a heavily sarcastic tone, I can see what you were going for, but I am also unsurprised at it being misinterpreted. Sarcastic jokes are hard when there are people who say that kind of thing unironically
As someone mentioned, it's because Latinas rather than Latinos. Some people have used Latinx or something similar to denote both, but I saw some backlash on that and am not sure if it's preferee. Anyway, historically Latinos denotes either male or just general pop, kinda like mankind does in English.
Latinas on the other hand is specifically feminine, so it's like "mothers against drunk driving" type organizations, specifically named to signify that it's women. so they weren't being sexist, just responding to the specificity in like manner.
Speaking as a Mexican in Mexico, the Latinx backlash was from Latino-Americans. We use it quite a bit here, especially in the LGBT community by people being trans inclusive.
The reason is that we don't have the same historical hangups, and we also have a long history of trying to use gender neutral words and failing every time.
At one point in the 90s we were using Latin@ because of the web. Now the current gender neutral forms favored end in "e" as in Latine, but this has also been met with plenty of mockery and backlash.
So, please, use Latinx. It's fine, you can even pronounce it Latino or Latin-x if you want.
A published author I know used x to form gender neutral words in his recently published book and I found it amusing:
I was being sarcastic, sorry, I thought it was obvious by the tone. My fault.
Also, I want to for real (not sarcastic) thank this entire thread for the most "beat him with the book" ass whipping I have received since joining Lemmy. stuff I genuinely didn't know about the use of Latinx 's.
Anyway, can we leave my internet points in tact please, I may need them one day for a thing. Was really just trying to be funny with some sarcasm sprinkled in.
"But we belong to the special exclusive club of supporters who are protected from those actions, actions that mean we will be better off even if the majority of everyone else will be worse off!" To them, they can have their lack-of-empathy cake and eat it, too.
A while ago I was in a tram in Vienna. The tram has one very big station, where most people get off, and then just one more stop afterwards. We were just at that big station and everyone except me and an older woman stayed on the tram. As doors were closing, a younger woman outside the train shouted something in a language I didn't understand.
The older woman turned to me and said in very broken German "These foreigners... They always misbehave, make noise."
I was so close to asking her what about tge concept of foreigners she didn't understand.
I don't understand foreigners subscribing to anti-foreigner idology.
How could anyone have been alive in 2016-2020 and not know exactly what trump is?
I don’t buy these excuses. Do you hate the fascism you voted for? Fine. But we’re not having a real conversation unless you own that. You’re an adult, ffs.
Yeah, but GeNoCiDe JoE and KiLl Em AlL KaMaLa were literally in gaza gasing people, so I voted Jill Stein, who barely got more votes than a worm-brain antivaxxer who dropped out of the race to support trump.
Yes. Yes it is. It's exactly what you voted for. Everyone tried to warn you but you were too fucking focused on dumb, single issue voter shit. You got exactly what you voted for. Enjoy it!
Yep, my now canadian colleague changed after he got his citizenship. He then voted for the party that was going to block immigration. Like WTAF dude, it is how you just got here.
I’m more worried about thr government trampling on my rights.
Like maybe deciding that they just don't like 'your kind' and decide to strip away your legal status? I don't think there is any such thing as a 'legal immigrant' in their eyes. Maybe if you're white.
I'm of Irish and Scottish decent. I'm white. As fuck. Not AF. As fuck. I don't tan, I fucking burn, peel, and burn again. All the while, I suffer.
I'm from the south. Grew up in Texas, only been out of it for less than a year and still in the fucking south - so not much better.
Even I could tell... well, anyone, not to vote for Trump. "Oh, Trump likes _______" No, Trump likes Trump. End statement. End logic. End all.
Trump likes Trump.
If anyone thinks that Trump will put them, their group, or their issue, ahead of himself then they have refused to pay attention. Not that they haven't had the chance, they have willfully refused.
I was not able to vote. Moving from Texas to Arkansas, there was in issue with my registration, which in hind-sight sounds like "I'm lazy, have some voter suppression" because I didn't have a capital T branded on my forehead. I should have fought harder, but I was more worried about a roof over my head and food on the table. Fuck me for trying to survive and provide for my wife.
End statement: Not everyone who was unable to vote was lazy: Fuck all of you who say otherwise. Some of us could NOT vote, for whatever reason.
If it's any consolation, most of us not from the US know your system doesn't work for the people and deliberately makes it difficult for people like yourself to contribute to your country's democracy.
In my country, if you deliberately choose not to vote, you get fined.
I don’t think the problem quite amounts to Trump likes Trump. For me, the issue is obvious: this is reactionary policy that he and the Republicans have been quite clear about enacting. I am trying to be a bit more sympathetic because I get that people have been tricked, but I think Trump was very clear about doing this well in advance of the election.
What a goof. This is exactly who you voted for. You knew what he was going to do. He was very vocal and very public about it.
You still supported and voted for him.
I don't know how stupid you have to be to posthumously get mad that you got exactly what you supposedly wanted when you voted for it, just because it was what was clearly described, and not the rose colored picture you had in your mind of what things meant.
OP, would you mind swapping the URL and the body of your post (i.e. putting the article in the URL and the image in the body)? It's not violating any rules and so won't be removed, but it's a lot nicer to have a link to a high-quality article as the main content of the post instead of an image that's only substantiated if the user bothers to look in the comments. (That is, a user who doesn't want to interact with the comments and wants to use Lemmy strictly as a link aggregator should still get to read the article.)
History would make it clear who he is and what his intentions were. At this point we are fighting sheer stupidity. It's worth mentioning that pre-war Germany was exactly the same. How did that work out?
Human beings have shown over and over again throughout history that no matter their heritage, they’re just dumb and incapable of seeing it.
We have brilliant humans all over the world from varying backgrounds, but most of us (myself included in oh so many ways) are just pitifully incapable of getting any of this right.
We focus on what is in front of us and relevant in a moment, and when another human starts running and screaming, we all start running and screaming. We don’t stop to ask why because we don’t want to get eaten or left behind.
Someone else shows up and starts eating a little grass in the little stupid field, and the rest start looking for things to chase them off over. “Something ain’t right about his hat. It’s funny! Git eeeeem!”
Cubans in America have so completely been brainwashed. My mom is 71 and still thinks if she went home to visit, they'd arrest her for stepping on Cuban soil. Despite the fact that many of my cousins have gone back and come home safely. She left Cuba when she was 5.
My cousins and extended family have voted republican their whole lives despite being considered nothing more than "the help" by Republicans, as well as a convenient voting block that SHOULD be voting for their best interests, instead turning and holding Florida a perpetual red state.
Propaganda and misinformation from 64 years ago, the Bay of Pigs, associated Kennedy and the Dems as enemies of Cubans. None of my idiot people bother to look deeper to see that the congressional branch was held by the GOP at the time and pulled support from Kennedy, leaving the freedom fighters of that operation high and dry... (my grandma was so fond of reminding me that my cousin Abelardo was captured).
So, while I take your meaning fully, it is absurdists like this judge who have a voice on television that perpetuate this fear. Despite the Cubans thinking Dems are socialists and will turn our country into a dictatorship, they vote for people like Trump who actually are doing it.
Fuck the idiotic people of my heritage. We have good music, food, and butts, but no brains.
Hey man, I’m an Appalachian hillbilly. I’m right there with you. My people actually busted their asses to win union representation, fought and died for it, killed their opposition in the streets.
Nowadays they’re licking boots and voting roughly 90% for republicans who lie and tell them that coal can come back.
If their grandparents knew that they’d turned to suck the cocks of the coal bosses they’d rise from their graves and gun them down.
We’ve not only been left to rot, but actively participated in covering ourselves in shit and now we’re letting the maggots feast on our flesh.
I understand your frustration.
We have great music, great food, flat asses, and no brains.
I think the random human-rights-violating deportations should be more equally spread out among demographics. Middle-eastern and Latina/o people are too targeted, which doesn't seem fair. For instance, it should include more white people, and billionaires especially.
I loathe law-and-order rhetoric in any nation, but most certainly in America. Tough On Crime policies have led to the dumbest fucking things that have ever existed in the United States. People are voting for a serial liar and conman who will probably ship them off to Dijbouti or El Salvador just to stay away from someone who broke the law once, or who is likely to break the law. The lesson we should all learn is to stop going nuts over "crime waves". If the news claims that crime is "going through the roof" or that there is an "epidemic of crime", make sure to remember:
There are way, way bigger threats to public safety than a few gangbangers, for example tech companies, evangelicals, and Nazis.
Criminals are people too. They have hopes and dreams, motives, economic conditions, and opinions. Consider why someone is committing a murder or robbery, rather than assuming it's because of greed.
There are for-profit security forces and prisons that all benefit from fear of crime. The news will often blow crime out of proportion to satisfy their sponsors, and downplay authoritarianism likewise.
Police officers are often just as dangerous as criminals. It's better to think of crime as a situation that can be escalated and de-escalated (cops are notoriously bad at this) than as the result of Bad People who need Good People to stop them.
There are a lot of good resources for reading about crime in a productive way. Although I am not quite Anarchist, the Anarchist Library has a lot of thought-provoking material on what makes law just and unjust. There's a big difference between "murder is wrong because the Law says so" and "murder is wrong because killing people is wrong".
Some people are so evil that they need to be killed, i.e. Real Estate CEOs.
Making merica great, bald eagles, kid rock, 25¢ eggs, free diesel for their monster trucks, short bottom shorts on blondes, beer holders in car and no seatbelt laws taking their freedum.
That sorta thing.
lol but I’ve never heard of Latinas being into those things, well maybe cheap eggs…
Oh, they love their "performance vehicles" too
I personally have no problem with bald eagles, 25¢ eggs, and short bottom shorts on blondes.
Maybe Kamala should have used that as her platform.
I'll take one Chris Hemsworth in short-shorts, please!
Might as well stock up, get a couple while you're there, friend.
You know what? Your right, I'll take a Pine and an Evans too....
Fuck Chris Pratt tho, ain't nobody got time for that fucking piece of shit
Im out of the loop, what's the deal with Pratt?
he's an ableist asshole (after making remarks about how his new wife gave him a 'healthy and normal' baby, when his first child has special needs). one of his co-stars was recently killed in a brutal, targeted, hate crime and the best he could come up with was a shitty instagram story (meaning it disappears after 12hrs) "Damn. RIP Jonathan. Always such a kind dude. He played Ken Hotate in Parks and was also in Mag 7. Sad to see. Prayers up. Hug your loved ones.” and lastly he belongs to a shitty hollywood church cult.... sooooo take your pick for reasons why he is shitty and will no longer be welcome at the cool kids table
With you there. Ryan Gosling will do nicely as well.
This ain’t no Chris shop! Best I can do is a Liam
I mean thats only fair. Eye candy for all!
Frankly I've been trying to decide whether to choose Original Thor Chris or Fat Thor Chris. Both are delectable and Worthy
Yeah, could he have screamed "I hate latino immigrants and I want to get rid of them as inhumanely as possible" any louder?
"It's fake news", "it's taken out of context", "that's not what he meant", you get the gist.
LOL! YES! I remember hearing, "Maybe that's what he said, but that's not what he meant."
"He's just joking!"
Hurting other people. They thought they'd be the chosen ones.
They aren't capable of thinking at all.
the average voter on a macro scale is really stupid imo
Machismo
Racism
Given she’s Latina, banning abortion would be a safe bet.
Oh well then, I hope you burn in Hell. Or in Florida. Whichever.
Texas, too. (With Louisiana and Alabama on the fringe)
Why you would leave Mississippi out of that list, I have no idea. I mean, the state where the Emmett Till memorial gets repeatedly shot up?
Mississippi go and find yourself another country to be part of.
It's such a nice place except for like 3/4 of the people...
It's always impressive when the leopard is mid-face-eat, they acknowledge the face eating is happening, and they make sure to say they don't have regrets.
As a Jewish man I don't regret voting for Hitler I just think this whole Holocaust movement can be harmful.
There's a difference?
This is quite possibly the truest words that have ever come out of that creature.
He said a lot of conflicting things, people selected what they wanted to believe, and he's selecting what he wants to stand behind 😅
You can always rely on him being self-serving, xenophobic, and otherwise fickle.
Every day.
The most face-eaten of lepoard-eaten faces.
Damn, that's an actual quote.
About tariffs, but the point applies here as well...From the context, it seems he meant all the shit he's been doing...And he really did. He openly campaigned on it all, all the hate, vitriol and fascist points. He didn't hide any of it. Sure he played dumb about project 2025, but he spread all the talking points.
Damn. That's so much worse! Thank you for the context and quotes...
There is no better way to say this. It is exactly what you voted for. And we warned you hundreds of times, but what did y'all say? "The libruls are panicking lol" or something to that effect.
Well, better late than never.
Well...
His cult will never turn on him, no matter what he does. He could walk up to one of them, stick a knife in their gut, and they'll humbly ask him to please stop twisting it, Mr. President, so I can vote for you again, sir.
So we've learned nothing. It's just that your people are currently being affected. Yet there are still no regrets. I think people need to get more used to being wrong. Eat some humble pie, and admit that you were wrong for the first time in your life.
If you voted for Trump then this is 100% what you specifically voted for. I’m tired of hearing this line, it’s bullshit. He was barking about literally everything he is doing the entire time, everyone else was pointing out that this is exactly what he was saying, if you genuinely didn’t think this is what he was all about the entire time then you are an idiot and the exact kind of tool they were asking you to be.
Fuck every single person who voted for this.
Or didn't vote. Those people are even worse than maga in my opinion.
Yeah, not voting for any of the bad options is a lot worse than voting for the worst option.
I wouldn't say worse, but equally idiotic. Not voting doesn't absolve you from causing the result.
Not voting in 2020 would actually have been the optimal outcome for the country. Objectively, we would have been far, far better off if a large number of Democrats had stayed home in 2020, allowing Trump to get a second term then instead of now. Democrats focused on short-term expediency by forcing Biden through. They won the election in 2020, but at what a terrible price. Instead of a flailing second Trump term with Trump as a lame duck, Democrats gave Trump four more years to regroup, strategize, and come up with Project 2025. Democrats chose the cheap and easy solution in 2020, and every one of us is paying for it now.
Your strategy has some merit, but it fails in that it only considers short-term, rather than long-term thinking. Your victories end up temporary and ultimately Pyrrhic.
Voting for today's lesser of two evils only works if you're a goldfish with no memory of history.
Project 2025 is not from yesterday. Do you even know what the Heritage Foundation is?
This(project 2025) has been in the works for decades.
You have very little understanding of what is going on. You are the very goldfish you argue against.
Yes, they've tried for years. But they actually managed to properly plan it this time. Do you honestly believe there's no difference between Trump in 2024 and Trump in 2020? They have completely different cabinets. Hell, we would have had Pence as VP. The administration is run by entirely different people. They were a lot more careful about selecting for avowed loyalists this time. Trump winning in 2020 would have completely denied them this chance to reorganize. We would have objectively been much, much better off if a second Trump term came in 2020 than in 2024.
You have very little understanding of what is going on.
This time? And I'm the ignorant one. Hahahahhahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Have a great life and I hope you can avoid the hand of fascism.
You know, there's no law of nature dictating that Trump had to get a second term. If people had voted democrat in 2024 and 2028, Trump would just not have had a second term.
There was such a law. Not a law of nature, but that's a silly high bar that you're imposing. It was widely predicted that Biden would fail to enact the changes needed to prevent a MAGA return. I remember thinking that would happen the day Biden won the election.
Your post outlines the type of thinking that so damns us. You view every election as a completely independent event, as if they have zero influence on one another. Biden was a milquetoast centrist. He governed that way his entire adult life. It was eminently predictable, and many predicated, that he would fail to stop MAGA. Maybe you didn't want to listen to those predictions, but that's failing on your part.
Your view is that voters are always to blame, and that if the party chooses a bad candidate, well the voters are still to blame. You expect voters to show up and vote D election after election after election, even if the party repeatedly fails to live up to its promises and betrays its voters time and time again.
Sorry. Objectively, the best outcome would have been if Trump won in 2020. A Trump victory in 2020 would have been much, much preferable to one in 2024.
But you view each election as an isolated event. Every election is the most important one in history, and we're never allowed to think strategically long term.
This short term thinking is why Republicans control the government. Republicans can think long term. Liberals like yourself can't.
So this, the current situation, is the optimal outcome for you? Really?
You’re going to break your arms if you keep jerking yourself off that hard, you know?
You have poor reading comprehension.
You have poor situational understanding and garbage political takes.
MAGA voted for what they wanted: they are getting excellent representation. Their wildest political fantasies are being enacted right now. The people who didn't vote at all - especially those who pretended the democrats are somehow just as bad as the literal fascists currently in power - they just shrugged off their responsibilities as democratic citizens and let the country be ruined by a minority of racist shitheads. The election result wasn't 50/50, but closer to 33/33/33: one third of Americans wanted white christian fascism, one third adamantly did not, and one third said, "fascism, democracy - what's the difference?"
Voting to stop fascism is primordial and you cannot argue against that unless you are a fascist.
You make it sound like there was no choice between fascism and normalcy.
In fact, there was a choice to stop fascism but people decided not to vote because Israel.
And now Israel is better off and the genocide will be fulfilled.
With Harris, there would have been a status quo and a chance to stop the genocide. Trump and Israel are cut from the same cloth of fascism. So genocide on!!!!
Thanks protest non-voters, you couldn't have made it much worse for Palestine if you tried to.
Yes, I blame those who voted for trump and those who abstained. Those who abstained are worse in my opinion because they either willfully ignored fascism or are too stupid to realize what was going on.
We all have control over who we vote for and there is no excuse to ignore that fascism is live and awake.
This is exactly what you voted for. Did you completely ignore everything he said he was going to do?
and he even said, i campaigned on THIS, you voted for it. sometimes i wonder if trump thinks if his voters are really this stupid, i know said they are, but sometimes he must be disbelief sometimes.
Seriously, say what you will about the guy, he has stuck by his campaign promises. He lies about damn near everything, but vividly and unapologetically laid out his plans to everyone to a T. If you assumed he was lying about all of that too, you might be forgiven for that justified assumption, but... you are not forgiven for voting for a man who you cannot trust in any capacity, who is clearly a racist, fascist narcissist.
Trump doesn’t lie about what he wants to do.
He always lies about his accomplishments.
It is EXACTLY what you voted for, Leopard Bait.
I don't think the leopard can't eat anymore
Not spherical like a cow yet.
https://youtu.be/yltlJEdSAHw
"Latinas for Trump"
aka
The idiot girls club of America
Ok, but why idiot girls? Why not idiot boys? Or idiot transgenders? They can all be idiots too, I think it's wrong to discriminate against the boys and transgenders who can be equally idiotic.
This is a perfect example of ignorance leading to being offended.
Latina specifically means those of the feminine persuasion. Latino would be the all encompassing term or the term for those of the masculine persuasion.
Ok, I am neither ignorant nor offended. I was being sarcastic.
Anyway, maybe my fault for not including the /s at the end of my post, but I really thought the tone was good enough, sorry internet strangers
Also, I upvoted the comment I was making fun of, thought it was clear, but still, soz guys
Rereading your comment in a heavily sarcastic tone, I can see what you were going for, but I am also unsurprised at it being misinterpreted. Sarcastic jokes are hard when there are people who say that kind of thing unironically
Fair
That certainly wasn't sarcastic.
Maybe you could look up what the word Latina means.
Omg, didn't realise this was such a sensitive topic, read my other comments, I was being sarcastic... Faaaaaaq.
As someone mentioned, it's because Latinas rather than Latinos. Some people have used Latinx or something similar to denote both, but I saw some backlash on that and am not sure if it's preferee. Anyway, historically Latinos denotes either male or just general pop, kinda like mankind does in English.
Latinas on the other hand is specifically feminine, so it's like "mothers against drunk driving" type organizations, specifically named to signify that it's women. so they weren't being sexist, just responding to the specificity in like manner.
Speaking as a Mexican in Mexico, the Latinx backlash was from Latino-Americans. We use it quite a bit here, especially in the LGBT community by people being trans inclusive.
The reason is that we don't have the same historical hangups, and we also have a long history of trying to use gender neutral words and failing every time.
At one point in the 90s we were using Latin@ because of the web. Now the current gender neutral forms favored end in "e" as in Latine, but this has also been met with plenty of mockery and backlash.
So, please, use Latinx. It's fine, you can even pronounce it Latino or Latin-x if you want.
A published author I know used x to form gender neutral words in his recently published book and I found it amusing:
I was being sarcastic, sorry, I thought it was obvious by the tone. My fault.
Also, I want to for real (not sarcastic) thank this entire thread for the most "beat him with the book" ass whipping I have received since joining Lemmy. stuff I genuinely didn't know about the use of Latinx 's.
Anyway, can we leave my internet points in tact please, I may need them one day for a thing. Was really just trying to be funny with some sarcasm sprinkled in.
lol shameful
Thank you for being the only one who got the sarcasm...
And so the cycle continues.
Where did I put that meme....
AH HA!
Where is this from?
Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Rewatch it is. Thanks mate!
I save it for Halloween, not surprisingly
Oh yea what did you vote for? Trump deporting immigrants other than your community?
"'But we are hardworking people, unlike those other immigrants people don't like" 🤡
"But we belong to the special exclusive club of supporters who are protected from those actions, actions that mean we will be better off even if the majority of everyone else will be worse off!" To them, they can have their lack-of-empathy cake and eat it, too.
They struggle to understand xenophobia.
Thats surprisingly common.
A while ago I was in a tram in Vienna. The tram has one very big station, where most people get off, and then just one more stop afterwards. We were just at that big station and everyone except me and an older woman stayed on the tram. As doors were closing, a younger woman outside the train shouted something in a language I didn't understand.
The older woman turned to me and said in very broken German "These foreigners... They always misbehave, make noise."
I was so close to asking her what about tge concept of foreigners she didn't understand.
I don't understand foreigners subscribing to anti-foreigner idology.
It is, though.
How could anyone have been alive in 2016-2020 and not know exactly what trump is?
I don’t buy these excuses. Do you hate the fascism you voted for? Fine. But we’re not having a real conversation unless you own that. You’re an adult, ffs.
Yeah, but GeNoCiDe JoE and KiLl Em AlL KaMaLa were literally in gaza gasing people, so I voted Jill Stein, who barely got more votes than a worm-brain antivaxxer who dropped out of the race to support trump.
/s I did not vote for Stein.
If you voted for Trump. You should get deported.
I love this. Yes, he'd probably say that to "Latinas for Trump" too.
Bullshit. This is exactly what you wanted....for everyone else.
Which in that case.... You deserve it.
Yes. Yes it is. It's exactly what you voted for. Everyone tried to warn you but you were too fucking focused on dumb, single issue voter shit. You got exactly what you voted for. Enjoy it!
I am also very confused. They had 'Mass Deportation Now' signs, but she didn't think she was voting for this. Que ingenua!
cuban latinas, your not exempt from being an illegal immigrant, as part of the white supremecist gop.
I think we've learned its not so much about immigration/citizenship status, as it is so much about the skin hue.
Not really, Germans, Australian and French still got detained, and they were white as snow.
Those were just a few cases at the border, or did I miss cases of White people being picked up in big quantities at courts?
"No, we meant the other brown people!"
"No, no we meant just all the brown people after us."
Ladder pulling is a shockingly common trait among immigrants.
FTFY
Yep, my now canadian colleague changed after he got his citizenship. He then voted for the party that was going to block immigration. Like WTAF dude, it is how you just got here.
This is exactly what they voted for, but like a true trumpler voter, they're too stupid to realize it.
No one hates illegal immigrants more than legal immigrants.
Like maybe deciding that they just don't like 'your kind' and decide to strip away your legal status? I don't think there is any such thing as a 'legal immigrant' in their eyes. Maybe if you're white.
“Well, yeah, white people aren’t immigrants. That’s not how that works.”
This is an actual quote from a guy I know.
I'm of Irish and Scottish decent. I'm white. As fuck. Not AF. As fuck. I don't tan, I fucking burn, peel, and burn again. All the while, I suffer.
I'm from the south. Grew up in Texas, only been out of it for less than a year and still in the fucking south - so not much better.
Even I could tell... well, anyone, not to vote for Trump. "Oh, Trump likes _______" No, Trump likes Trump. End statement. End logic. End all.
Trump likes Trump.
If anyone thinks that Trump will put them, their group, or their issue, ahead of himself then they have refused to pay attention. Not that they haven't had the chance, they have willfully refused.
I was not able to vote. Moving from Texas to Arkansas, there was in issue with my registration, which in hind-sight sounds like "I'm lazy, have some voter suppression" because I didn't have a capital T branded on my forehead. I should have fought harder, but I was more worried about a roof over my head and food on the table. Fuck me for trying to survive and provide for my wife.
End statement: Not everyone who was unable to vote was lazy: Fuck all of you who say otherwise. Some of us could NOT vote, for whatever reason.
If it's any consolation, most of us not from the US know your system doesn't work for the people and deliberately makes it difficult for people like yourself to contribute to your country's democracy.
In my country, if you deliberately choose not to vote, you get fined.
I don’t think the problem quite amounts to Trump likes Trump. For me, the issue is obvious: this is reactionary policy that he and the Republicans have been quite clear about enacting. I am trying to be a bit more sympathetic because I get that people have been tricked, but I think Trump was very clear about doing this well in advance of the election.
What a goof. This is exactly who you voted for. You knew what he was going to do. He was very vocal and very public about it.
You still supported and voted for him.
I don't know how stupid you have to be to posthumously get mad that you got exactly what you supposedly wanted when you voted for it, just because it was what was clearly described, and not the rose colored picture you had in your mind of what things meant.
Get bent.
he got so annoyed, that he had to remind his dimwitted voters, thats whats tehy voted on,.
Yes it is, stupid.
INHUMANE! Trump was SUPPOSED to only go After GAY KIDS! NOT Brown People like ME!
Yes it is. You just thought you were the "good Jew"
Pick up a goddamn history book. There are no safe zones.
Dumb fucks.
I'm pretty sure that in the 1930's, there were groups called "Juden für Hitler" (Jews for Hitler) or similar appellations in Germany.
(Thats Kanye for anyone who somehow doesn't know yet)
Their slogan was "Der Leopard wird sicher nicht mein Gesicht fressen."
How the hell did we fuck up our education so bad that we allowed this to happen less than 100 years later?
OP, would you mind swapping the URL and the body of your post (i.e. putting the article in the URL and the image in the body)? It's not violating any rules and so won't be removed, but it's a lot nicer to have a link to a high-quality article as the main content of the post instead of an image that's only substantiated if the user bothers to look in the comments. (That is, a user who doesn't want to interact with the comments and wants to use Lemmy strictly as a link aggregator should still get to read the article.)
lol "Latinas for trump"
Sheep for the wolf
Lol. Lmao
History would make it clear who he is and what his intentions were. At this point we are fighting sheer stupidity. It's worth mentioning that pre-war Germany was exactly the same. How did that work out?
Unfortunately it's only because it directly impacts them, they're still morons. The name latinas for Trump may as well be "bunch of fucking idiots."
I never thought the leopards would eat my face.
So positive!
Man, what a catchy song... I wish my cubano neighbors would have been blasting your song instead of this one.
https://youtu.be/D2UfcJsRDkk
Fuck you for campaigning and voting for the orange shitler!
I hate the people of my heritage. Fucking morons.
Bro, it is all of us.
Human beings have shown over and over again throughout history that no matter their heritage, they’re just dumb and incapable of seeing it.
We have brilliant humans all over the world from varying backgrounds, but most of us (myself included in oh so many ways) are just pitifully incapable of getting any of this right.
We focus on what is in front of us and relevant in a moment, and when another human starts running and screaming, we all start running and screaming. We don’t stop to ask why because we don’t want to get eaten or left behind.
Someone else shows up and starts eating a little grass in the little stupid field, and the rest start looking for things to chase them off over. “Something ain’t right about his hat. It’s funny! Git eeeeem!”
Cubans in America have so completely been brainwashed. My mom is 71 and still thinks if she went home to visit, they'd arrest her for stepping on Cuban soil. Despite the fact that many of my cousins have gone back and come home safely. She left Cuba when she was 5.
My cousins and extended family have voted republican their whole lives despite being considered nothing more than "the help" by Republicans, as well as a convenient voting block that SHOULD be voting for their best interests, instead turning and holding Florida a perpetual red state.
Propaganda and misinformation from 64 years ago, the Bay of Pigs, associated Kennedy and the Dems as enemies of Cubans. None of my idiot people bother to look deeper to see that the congressional branch was held by the GOP at the time and pulled support from Kennedy, leaving the freedom fighters of that operation high and dry... (my grandma was so fond of reminding me that my cousin Abelardo was captured).
So, while I take your meaning fully, it is absurdists like this judge who have a voice on television that perpetuate this fear. Despite the Cubans thinking Dems are socialists and will turn our country into a dictatorship, they vote for people like Trump who actually are doing it.
Fuck the idiotic people of my heritage. We have good music, food, and butts, but no brains.
Hey man, I’m an Appalachian hillbilly. I’m right there with you. My people actually busted their asses to win union representation, fought and died for it, killed their opposition in the streets.
Nowadays they’re licking boots and voting roughly 90% for republicans who lie and tell them that coal can come back.
If their grandparents knew that they’d turned to suck the cocks of the coal bosses they’d rise from their graves and gun them down.
We’ve not only been left to rot, but actively participated in covering ourselves in shit and now we’re letting the maggots feast on our flesh.
I understand your frustration.
We have great music, great food, flat asses, and no brains.
The Leopardium Consummission Society hears an DGAF
Los leopardos se comieron mi cara
Ojalá se la hubieran comido. Parece que se la tragaron de un solo mordisco. 😅
Will Roaches for RAID chime in next?
This is what you voted for xd, smartasa
They're so much FYGM, and now comes the comeuppance.
trump warned them too, multiple times.
dumb bitch, it's exactly what you voted for.
you just didn't think you would have been on the deport list if you voted for him.
Sucked in, idiot!
Leopards, faces and delicious, words that come readily to mind.
I think the random human-rights-violating deportations should be more equally spread out among demographics. Middle-eastern and Latina/o people are too targeted, which doesn't seem fair. For instance, it should include more white people, and billionaires especially.
They're not voting for their best (interest)
I wonder if these people are seeing him as their president or as their guru.
Oh you thought he was actually conservative? That's what you get you religious chuckle fucks.
She looks like the Cuban final boss of Karens.
she did finally get into managment/politicians, the ultimate position of a karen in a hierarchy of karens.
"bUt iT's oNLy tHe dAnGeRoUs oNeS!"
I loathe law-and-order rhetoric in any nation, but most certainly in America. Tough On Crime policies have led to the dumbest fucking things that have ever existed in the United States. People are voting for a serial liar and conman who will probably ship them off to Dijbouti or El Salvador just to stay away from someone who broke the law once, or who is likely to break the law. The lesson we should all learn is to stop going nuts over "crime waves". If the news claims that crime is "going through the roof" or that there is an "epidemic of crime", make sure to remember:
Ackshully...