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(45,639 posts)Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)I find the whole "Lets go Brandon" crap really dumb and juvenile. It's such a dumb way for them to say what they really want to say, but in code
Leith
(7,802 posts)when using plain speech would get them criticized.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Certain hate groups learned almost immediately how to evade twitter's filters that would otherwise get their tweet deleted or their account locked.
The stated rule - based on the enforcement filter - was that one could not say, for instance, " trans woman's name) is a MAN!".
But they could tweet, "this is just a man in a dress" and if flagged, the flagging would not survive the automated process b/c the specific words were not used in the specific pattern. I have no doubt this has become the standard throughout Republican/Christian Nationalist/ableist/sexist/racist communities on social media, and thus has become part of their language patterns. Perhaps even indicative of them.
Beartracks
(12,761 posts)Some of my H.S. Classmates on FB express their conservative displeasure like they were still in grade school.
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a "stupid poopoo," though I figure they both indicate the same level of development.
Hav
(5,969 posts)They found a new thing that's funny for them and that triggers the other side. It's one of those harmless things that can be easily ignored and it takes away half of their fun.
malaise
(267,823 posts)now they're making up rules to ensure that Democrats can't win elections and planning more coups after the first one failed.
Hav
(5,969 posts)with how unimportant the latest "Let's go Brandon" thing is. You are basically making my point. This is a distraction from the important topics. But it seems the right got what they wanted: Triggering the other side.
Traildogbob
(8,577 posts)Fly into the capital to stop an election on 2024.
PortTack
(32,606 posts)TNNurse
(6,911 posts)makes me question his judgement on everything.
Demobrat
(8,916 posts)willing to die for his/her cause. Willing for OTHER people to die, of course. But deliberately sacrifice themselves - oh hell to the no. Even the dead anti-vaxxers are dead of stupidity, not conviction.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Or that Trump & the Republican party said COVID is just the flu. That's not stupidity, as some of them are quite intelligent. It is greed, selfishness, and just plain evil. It's them deciding to take the GOP up on it's offer to give them permission to ignore social rules & traditions and sometimes even laws in return for their unquestioned devotion. Doesn't help that all this was piggy-backed onto American conservative Christian belief in being "chosen" and thus above the rest of humanity.
Demobrat
(8,916 posts)call it what you will, theyre not deliberately killing themselves to make a point.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)They willfully ignore that going unvaxxed may kill them.
Note the willfully part. In a way it very much is deliberate, they just don't believe it will happen to them.
It's highly irrational, but deliberate.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)they know their chances that it won't happen to them are pretty good, and the same for most in their community. Deliberate though overall irrational to extremely irrational.
Also, trumpists are a pretty common type of person. As we're seeing to our dismay. Otoh, someone who'd fly a plane into the ground, killing himself and everyone else to make a statement, would not be a normal, typical trumpist. As they've also been displaying so far.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and hierarchical society to belong to, to take the burdens of too much freedom and responsibility off their shoulders. Democracy and our democracy's liberal values have never suited most of them. Most don't feel equality at a gut level the way we do, quite the contrary, while it's among our strongest priniciples. But that doesn't mean many wouldn't die for the beliefs people like them have.
Also, I've read that the relationship between authoritarians and the leader they commit to is an interactive one. They choose and elevate him, and he both identifies and reflects back to them what they require from their leader and requires from them unquestioning loyalty and obedience to what he wants. And many would die for him.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Hav
(5,969 posts)I'm pretty sure that referred to those who equate "Let's go Brandon" to essentially terrorism. The replies seem to agree with the quoted tweet and not the tweet posted here that commented on it.