maybe im a sNoWfLaKe but i keep seeing libs throw “unelected african illegal immigrant” around regarding musk, thinking they’re “throwing it back at” conservatives or somehow proving them as hypocrites, as if conservatives even give a shit about their blatant hypocrisy. but to me it just reads like libs who have always wanted to say shit like that about immigrants but kept it in due to fear of social repercussions, and now they get to let loose on leon kums, kind of the same way they misgender caitlyn jenner, like “see THIS is how your fellow republicans talk about trans people”, as if jenner is ever gonna read their reddit post

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    Liberals are bad people, that’s all. They’re always looking for excuses to be bigoted assholes, and they think they’ve found their excuse because they didn’t get the election they wanted.

    I genuinely hope these fucks never win an election again, but sadly they probably will. This country is entirely fucked so long as the democrats are presented as the only alternative.

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    the truth is that most libs genuinely do believe the right wing “they’re just saying what everyone’s thinking”, they just add “but youre not supposed to say that”

    absolutely no work done to remove brainworms

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      Skr8 up. I had a friend who couldn’t comprehend that I wasn’t agreeing with some racist sentiment about immigrants and thought I was just virtue signaling

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        I think it’s useful in describing part of the dynamics with rhetorical dogwhistles, but it absolutely telling on oneself if one’s only issue with bigoted language is that they didn’t use the euphemism version.

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    They are trying to use RW logic and buzzwords to get them to abandon Musk but these people don’t have issues with “Africans”(as in anyone born in Africa) or “immigrants” these words just mean “not white”.

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    They only seem capable of falling back into xenophobia. They want to be brave Bush-era “patriot” republicans so fucking badly. They’ll be calling Elon a communist in no time (they are already starting with the “he’s an agent of the SeeeeSeeeePeeee”)

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      you’re totally right lol. i constantly see them going on about “elons ties to the chinese communist party”

      china isn’t even allowed to sell cars in america because elon needs a handout and can’t handle competition from actual competent manufacturers, yet libs think he’s in cahoots with china

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        They seem to forget that the reason they started all the “Seeseepee” stuff was because if they just said “the Chinese” it sounds racist and if they say “China” it undercuts their support of Taiwan being also-china.

        So now they’re actually starting to believe ties to China are unironically ties to the party. Which is slightly true in that it is the ruling party and the party and the government is heavily linked. But that isn’t what they are envisioning when they say it and it isn’t what people envision when they hear it.

        An astounding failure of accuracy in communication on display. The brain worms have brain worms.

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    Libs are always looking for excuses to be racist sexist homophobic ablest and otherwise. They really want to be allowed to so when they find an opportunity that lets them feel like it’s morally okay to be a reactionary shitbag you know they’re gonna

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    Libs are just as phobic as right wingers (redundant I know) but the only difference is libs are obsessed with optics. Libs never have a problem with the reality of oppression, they just don’t like the aesthetics. Just look at how ready they are to be homophobic to own Putin, trump, etc (it’s because he’s the homophobic one I swear!). Or jumping on calling Russians Orcs (not in a racist way though, it’s comparing them to lotr bad guys! (don’t read how Tolkien describes them in his private letters!)). They have no problem with being racist/homophobic/bigots, they just need an “acceptable” target.

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    They’ve been in the lab for years now trying to formulate a second joke beyond “haha gay sex” and the best they could come up with is just plain racism. Shit is unbearable.

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    Extremely…

    I know what they are trying to do, but still really icked out by it. Rightfully so because it’s an icky thing to say even ironically.