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In Dutch/Belgian news there seems to be a recent trend of giving figures of the 'enemy' dumb nicknames.

Saw a video about a Chinese arms dealer, who was called 'The Chinese Ghost'. A while ago I saw a video about a Russian arms dealer, called 'Death' (yes really, that's it). Saw some other videos on other people, with guys called 'The Monster of [forgotthename], The Butcher, The Brains' or whatever.

It's just proper weird. Like, these people aren't propably even named like that. And it's always in between quotation marks. Just seems like lazy writing.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I don't typically engage with mainstream German media, but a state funded radio station was on in the car yesterday. Of course they were talking bs about the whole Wagner situation, and couldn't stop referring to Lukashenko as the "Belarusian power holder" (Machtinhaber).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

You gotta give the journalists some slack - coming up with silly nicknames for national enemies cuts through the monotony of a day of rewording press releases from the ministry of foreign affairs.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

donald trump, no matter how much i despise him, he has the best stupid nicknames for his opponents. like, Ron DeSanctimonious and Meatball Ron are genuinely humorous

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

well, i sometimes call reactionary parties stupid nicknames like calling the AfD "Asshats for Discrimination"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'm from the US.....so yes absolutely they do