Elections Have Consequences

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• paranoid@lemmy.world ⁨30⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I have a name that can be for boys or girls. For some reason, most people assume it’s a girl’s name and act accordingly.

  When I was a kid, my parents signed me up for basketball. Someone thought it was a mistake for a person with my name to be on the boys team and moved me to the girls team, without telling me or my parents. I will never forget the embarrassment when I showed up to the first practice. I quit on the spot and didn’t play basketball after that.

  I like specifying the pronouns.

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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I don’t mind the pronouns, but this shit is what created MAGA.

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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    I mean, mostly. The amount of right-wing fearmongering before Obama was elected was intense, and after he won, a large portion of the Republican party lost their goddamn minds, convinced it was the end of white people. This led to the Tea Party movement, which fed directly into MAGA.

    On a more personal level, Obama mercilessly roasted Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the notorious slumlord was so monumentally, volcanically pissed-off at being humiliated by a powerful Black man that he became determined to prove he was his better.

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  • luthis@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    No, MAGA would have latched on to anything. This is just one of their scapegoats, MAGA always existed.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      They didn’t latch onto anything, though. They latched into the things that got their base to turn out strong for bullshit candidates.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Not gonna lie, I saw this meme and thought, “You’re learning the wrong lesson!”

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  • cheers_queers@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    dont take the responsibility away from maga please. trump is president BECAUSE he knows they want someone who hates the same people they do. trump is a symptom, not the cause.

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    • spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      A symptom of…

      waits for noone to point out freedumb of speech that includes praising slavers and nazis

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  • trojanbark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Not even close. Reactionary movements grow when standards of living drop while costs simultaneously rise, especially if the shift is significant. Much of this is usually attributed to weakening energy inputs (or at least a rise in their cost), as energy is foundational to post-industrial societies. Organized movements will latch onto cultural issues like “pronouns” in an attempt to divert blame for the deterioration in living towards an easy exploitable marginal group so that elites avoid things like guillotines. “Pronouns being in emails” is merely incidental and is not even close to how a movement like MAGA started or rose.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  What if I haven’t got any pronouns? Anyone referring to me must use my full name.

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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  • LostCarcosan@lemmy.today ⁨27⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

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