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HOW DARE YOU!!! (slrpnk.net)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nothing they would understand. You go high enough and you’re pretty quickly over their heads and it has no effect. Remember this is a studied thing. Conservatives don’t grasp irony and sarcasm. It’s one of the reasons Steven Colbert quit the old show. They didn’t get it and it was having the opposite effect they intended.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    its still not an excuse. i have plenty of friends who think this whole thing is funny, and im just a little disappointed. like just because he's a piece of shit doesn't make it cool to make fun of a disability. she didn't call him "hot wheels" because of like a car collection or whatever, its obviously a reference to his disability.

    while its obviously not a slur in and of itself, if abbott called crockett something adjacent to a slur, im sure we would be up in arms.

    look, i think the dems should do more and fight dirty, but this isn't the way.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What does fighting dirty look like to you? Calling a douche who deserves to have a tree fall on him Governor Hot Wheel is pretty mild on the scale imo so what ISN'T too far?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    dirty fighting would be actually doing whatever they can to block and repeal everything trump is doing. gum up the gears in legal battles and shit. proactively undoing much of the gerrymandering. they could have claimed the election was stolen by false electors aligned with trumps agenda.

    in the past decade the republicans have shown great examples of obstructionism and propaganda campaigns.

    i just feel like making fun of a disability is beneath them. am i worried about greg abbott's feelings? fuck no. i care about disabled people reading the news and seeing ableist sentiment cheered on by "progressives". i just think its kinda fucked up so many people don't see it that way.

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