• esadatari@lemmy.world
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          i’d honestly like to remember it but i also don’t want to say it. not only is it racist, it’s fucking stupid.

          like the people that say libtards or magats, we get it. you don’t wike the bad peeepow. you godda caw dem bawd names so you can feew gewd.

          this is just a more fucking racist version of the stupidest childish playground tacitics of name calling that both sides of the isles’ idiots can’t help but say.

          that being said, gravy seals and meal team 6 are great and hilarious. it’s just stupid shit like democRAT. oh ho ho! it’s got rat in it? MY FUCKING FIVE YEAR-OLD NIECE COMES UP WITH MORE CREATIVE INSULTS.

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      I just don’t know why he doesn’t just come out and say it. Who does he think he’s fooling?

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      Several others are one off. (Not too defend them, but to make a stupid point about words.)

      Bob Igger (his last name. Do not just Google his last name at work.) Digger Figger (actual word) Gigger (again an actual word)

      Anyway, this is boring.

      Edit: it has come to my attention that done people are actually doing the “rhymes with” thing with cruel intent. (Not here, but elsewhere.) Just thought I would, sadly, point that out. Leaving this because it doesn’t matter anyway.

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    Eh … I’m not convinced.

    We have an inexhaustible supply of real and unambiguous crimes and other offenses that we can pin on him.

    I think it unnecessarily muddies the water to even bother with something this ambiguous.

    The guy is on trial for RICO charges, and in all likelihood will see seeing a 5-year prison sentence for ORGANIZED CRIME in trying to overthrow a lawful election.

    Let’s just keep talking about that. And these fact that we have it on tape that he was asking the Georgia Secretary of State to “find” exactly the number of votes Trump needed to overturn the election he lost.

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      Yeah I agree. trump is racist AF, we don’t need to strain and stretch to make him racist even in the event that he isn’t being 100% racist.

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        The RICO charge carries a mandatory 5 years that can’t be pardoned and can’t be paroled. And RICO is stunningly easy to get a conviction on. It was built to catch mob bosses who directed activity but didn’t get their hands dirty.

        Until the RICO charge, I didn’t think he’d see prison either… but now… looks pretty good.

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          Unrealistic optimism aside, the chances of any of these cases getting to trial before the 2024 election are slim. Trump is a master of delay tactics, and even the prosecution seems willing to defer to him in ways that they wouldn’t do for any other defendant. Add 19 co-defendants to the mix and the chances of trial before the election drop like a rock.

          And prosecutors need to stop dog-piling the charges on. Not that he doesn’t deserve it. But every new set of charges lends credibility to the argument he makes saying “I have so many legal cases on my plate that I cannot adequately contribute to my own defense, therefore we need to delay this trial.” .

          And he’s 77 years old, living on a steady diet of big macs, and essentially already living on borrowed time. There’s the very real possibility he could simply drop dead of natural causes long before he’s ever in real danger of seeing the inside of a prison cell.

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            There’s the very real possibility he could simply drop dead of natural causes long before he’s ever in real danger of seeing the inside of a prison cell.

            We can only hope. . . .

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    I hate when people talk like this

    The fact that he’s introducing race into this prosecution surprises me, it’s disgusting, it’s textbook Donald Trump, but it comes as no surprise.

    So surprise or no?

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    I’m not sure Trump is bright enough to use a dog whistle. He’s more of a shoot them in the middle of 5th avenue guy.

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      Read the Georgia indictment, that dude was threatening people while sounding “crazy”, he’s not dumb.

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    Hah I thought it was for those that rigged (allegedly (falsely)) the election. A group of riggers. Who rig.

    How naive of me. This is worse

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      I caught on to the use of “riggers” when I noticed it was only black election workers that they were going after.

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      I’m having hard time believing it’s something other than just people who rig. Seems like the more likely explanation than him wanting to drop the most thinly veiled n-bomb possible and managing to make it clever too.

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    He’s obviously racist AF, but I doubt this is a dog whistle. Guy is too fucking stupid and impulsive to attribute some kind of intent to his word salad.

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      His word vomit is pulled from a very small bin of stuff that’s “worked” in the past. Now that he knows it works as a dog whistle, we’ll be hearing the word daily for the next 2 years, at least.

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        For one thing, I would never agree to be his assistant, therefore ranking me orders of magnitude higher in observational capability than his former assistant.

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    He is racist, but not clever in any way, I think he meant a made up word in his bullshit accusation, I don’t think he was trying to be racist here.

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      Someone else said it and he repeated it, or someone else wrote the tweet. It was absolutely intended to be racist.

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      Yall know rigger is a real word right? Like, I work with a group of people explicitly called riggers. They rig stuff up. Use cranes, chain falls, shit like that?

      Trump is using a dogwhistle though.

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        Yeah it’s also a common term in the bdsm community for people who like tying people up. But he definitely isn’t referring to them.

        Some people don’t get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to dog whistles.

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      They accuse one side of “They want to take your pickup truck. They want to rebuild your home. They want to take away your hamburgers.” - while on the other side, they themselves want to take nothing serious, just your freedom and democracy,

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    I live in a very protected part of the world. I once thought the N word was “No”, and that was why people hated it so much.