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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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givesomefucks lemmy.world givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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#2 · Quote Reply

Very Aladeen...

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Ilovethebomb sh.itjust.works Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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#3 · Quote Reply

Honestly, there's worse ways he could be spending his time. Let's just leave him to it.

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Honestly, there's worse ways he could be spending his time. Let's just leave him to it.

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ALoafOfBread lemmy.ml ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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#5 · (edited) Quote Reply

New Mexico New America

New England New America

New York New America

New York (City) New America

New Hampshire New America

Edit: New Jersey New America

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#6 · Quote Reply

New Mexico New America New England New America New York New America New York (City) New America New Hampshire New America Edit: New Jersey New America

"You are HIV America"

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Buffalox lemmy.world Buffalox@lemmy.world
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New Mexico New America New England New America New York New America New York (City) New America New Hampshire New America Edit: New Jersey New America

America -> New America!!

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redbrick lemmy.world redbrick@lemmy.world
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Honestly, there's worse ways he could be spending his time. Let's just leave him to it.

under rated comment..

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HotsauceHurricane lemmy.world HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world
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K cant wait for him to rename mexico South America.

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cybervseas lemmy.world cybervseas@lemmy.world
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He's learned big tech companies will all do whatever he asks so why not.

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AFreeLarryHoover lemmy.world AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world
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New ‘Murica rolls off the tongue more 🇺🇸

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
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New Mexico New America New England New America New York New America New York (City) New America New Hampshire New America Edit: New Jersey New America

New Mexico New America Lesser Mexico

New England New America Lesser England

New York New America Lesser York

New York (City) New America Lesser York

New Hampshire New America Lesser Hampshire

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huppakee lemmy.world huppakee@lemmy.world
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K cant wait for him to rename mexico South America.

More likely he will rename South-America to Mexico+.

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Lost_My_Mind lemmy.world Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh......yeah, how about those epstein lists though?

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WhoIzDisIz lemmy.today WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.today
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New Mexico New America New England New America New York New America New York (City) New America New Hampshire New America Edit: New Jersey New America

Not touching Jersey, huh? Not sure I blame you.

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spittingimage lemmy.world spittingimage@lemmy.world
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#16 · Quote Reply

The guy has a history of not understanding how maps work.

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The guy has a history of not understanding how maps work.

Or how ANYTHING works, for that matter.

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vrek programming.dev vrek@programming.dev
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Not touching Jersey, huh? Not sure I blame you.

No, that one's fine since Trump is a fan of tax havens 😋

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heliotrope slrpnk.net heliotrope@slrpnk.net
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I could have sworn this was an Onion (or adjacent) article last week...

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stephen lazysoci.al stephen@lazysoci.al
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

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W. Pilecki piefed.social fratermus@piefed.social
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He's like someone's obnoxious 5-year-old in a movie theater that can't STFU

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Skanky lemmy.world Skanky@lemmy.world
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#22 · Quote Reply

More likely he will rename South-America to Mexico+.

Xico

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Vandals_handle lemmy.world Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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I like to poke bigots who dead name by agreeing, then instantly saying we should use Marion Morrison, not his woke gender conforming rename.

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village604 adultswim.fan village604@adultswim.fan
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#24 · Quote Reply

Honestly, there's worse ways he could be spending his time. Let's just leave him to it.

If it's that easy to change them, then changing it back once he croaks should be a breeze.

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adarza lemmy.ca adarza@lemmy.ca
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new mexico just got shaded a darker blue on every future political map.

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tal lemmy.today tal@lemmy.today
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone

The strategy has been attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump's former chief political strategist Steve Bannon.[4][5][6]

The strategy came to public light after Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that "The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit".[7] Trump adopted the strategy during the 2016 presidential election,[3][8] followed by other right-wing political figures such as Éric Zemmour and Elon Musk.[9][10][1][11]

That article should really reference the dead cat strategy. It's not the same thing exactly, but it's close. I don't think that Bannon likely deserves credit for originating the idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

The dead cat strategy, also known as deadcatting, is the political strategy of deliberately making a shocking announcement to divert media attention away from problems or failures in other areas.[1][2] The term is popularly associated with political strategist Lynton Crosby's work on the successful London mayoral campaigns of Boris Johnson.

In 2013, while he was mayor of London, Boris Johnson wrote a column for The Telegraph in which he described a political manoeuvre known as "throwing a dead cat on the table":

To understand what has happened in Europe in the last week, we must borrow from the rich and fruity vocabulary of Australian political analysis. Let us suppose you are losing an argument. The facts are overwhelmingly against you, and the more people focus on the reality the worse it is for you and your case. Your best bet in these circumstances is to perform a manoeuvre that a great campaigner describes as "throwing a dead cat on the table, mate".

That is because there is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a dead cat on the dining room table – and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted. That is true, but irrelevant. The key point, says my Australian friend, is that everyone will shout "Jeez, mate, there's a dead cat on the table!"; in other words they will be talking about the dead cat, the thing you want them to talk about, and they will not be talking about the issue that has been causing you so much grief.[3]

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psycotica0 lemmy.ca psycotica0@lemmy.ca
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I know, I know, he's fucking with us. But I just can't help marvel at how dumb this one is. Lake America, okay this is all America, but I guess that's a name a lake could have, in America.

But New America? New America is in fucking America. That would be like if New York was a small part of York! Call it New West or Taco Supreme or something, but New America is basically the stupidest thing to call a region of North America. It even shortens to NA! Jesus...

Anyway, I know it's meant to be stupid, I know. But it got me this time...

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#28 · Quote Reply

I like to poke bigots who dead name by agreeing, then instantly saying we should use Marion Morrison, not his woke gender conforming rename.

Nice 😁

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41 slrpnk.net greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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#29 · (edited) Quote Reply

I know, I know, he's fucking with us. But I just can't help marvel at how dumb this one is. Lake America, okay this is all America, but I guess that's a name a lake could have, in America. But New America? New America is in fucking America. That would be like if New York was a small part of York! Call it New West or Taco Supreme or something, but New America is basically the stupidest thing to ...

cmon man it's already too close to Idiocracy. We can't go naming places or people Taco Supreme or Beef Supreme lol

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41 slrpnk.net greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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The strategy has been attributed to U.S. President Donald Trump's former chief political strategist Steve Bannon.[4][5][6] The strategy came to public light after Bannon told Michael Lewis in 2018 that "The Democrats don't matter... The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit".[7] Trump adopted the strategy during the 2016 presidential election...

Thank you for staring this. I always kinda knew it was a distraction technique but I didn't know there was actual context for it.

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Possibly linux lemmy.zip possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip
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New Mexico New America New England New America New York New America New York (City) New America New Hampshire New America Edit: New Jersey New America

He only cares about places that have a population that is not mostly white

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Mac mander.xyz Mac@mander.xyz
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#32 · Quote Reply

Can someone shut this fucking guy up, pls

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switcheroo lemmy.world switcheroo@lemmy.world
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#33 · Quote Reply

That's crazy. I mean, he's in the trumpstein files (aka the Epstein files) more than god is in the Bible.

Let's not stop making a point about that. He's a child rapist.

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Mihies programming.dev Mihies@programming.dev
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#34 · Quote Reply

If it's that easy to change them, then changing it back once he croaks should be a breeze.

We should build an app for that - changing geographical names.

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Can someone shut this fucking guy up, pls

Preferably permanently

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phutatorius lemmy.zip phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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That's crazy. I mean, he's in the trumpstein files (aka the Epstein files) more than god is in the Bible. Let's not stop making a point about that. He's a child rapist.

He's also in the Epstein files more than Epstein.

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phutatorius lemmy.zip phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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I know, I know, he's fucking with us. But I just can't help marvel at how dumb this one is. Lake America, okay this is all America, but I guess that's a name a lake could have, in America. But New America? New America is in fucking America. That would be like if New York was a small part of York! Call it New West or Taco Supreme or something, but New America is basically the stupidest thing to ...

Pig Boy is just territorial marking, smearing his brainsharts onto everything he can.

A less insane Congress should pass a way rescinding the official naming of anything after a person who was alive when it was named. And while they're at it, nullifying every single other act that Trump did while in office.

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Scrubbles poptalk.scrubbles.tech scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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Pig Boy is just territorial marking, smearing his brainsharts onto everything he can. A less insane Congress should pass a way rescinding the official naming of anything after a person who was alive when it was named. And while they're at it, nullifying every single other act that Trump did while in office.

They should enshrine that only congress can rename something.

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lemmygarden lemmy.today lemmygarden@lemmy.today
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#39 · Quote Reply

Can someone shut this fucking guy up, pls

They keep missing

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lemmygarden lemmy.today lemmygarden@lemmy.today
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K cant wait for him to rename mexico South America.

Is Canada going to be renamed North America?

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ChunkMcHorkle lemmy.world ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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#41 · (edited) Quote Reply

He always does this bizarre renaming shit for a reason. It's never random.

And while I'm open to hearing other reasons New Mexico in particular has raised his ire, I'm pretty sure this has to do with the Epstein files, and the New Mexico lawsuit taking place that alleges Todd Blanche's DoJ is stonewalling NM's attorney general from getting unredacted records that will allow New Mexico to thoroughly investigate Epstein's ranch there, where Epstein's acts against minors are known to have occurred.

New Mexico isn't backing down. At the same time, Thomas Massie is forcing a discharge petition on passing EFTA II, which specifically gives states and state attorneys general legal right to access the completely unredacted records. The walls on his sexual crimes against children are closing in.

So he thinks this name change will shame them into submission, because it's what would shame him. Dumb ass. Didn't work for me; I just think he's a freak that liked to rape and possibly kill children with his good buddy Epstein.

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666dollarfootlong lemmy.world 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world
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#42 · Quote Reply

They should enshrine that only congress can rename something.

And after people have voted for it

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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#43 · Quote Reply

cmon man it's already too close to Idiocracy. We can't go naming places or people Taco Supreme or Beef Supreme lol

Enchirito's cool tho

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Yuccagnocchiyaki lemmy.world Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world
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He always does this bizarre renaming shit for a reason. It's never random. And while I'm open to hearing other reasons New Mexico in particular has raised his ire, I'm pretty sure this has to do with the Epstein files, and the New Mexico lawsuit taking place that alleges Todd Blanche's DoJ is stonewalling NM's attorney general from getting unredacted records that will allow New Mexico to thorou...

A lot of it has been proven to be associated with the online betting industry. People have been placing bets on real geopolitical events and making fortunes. We know for a fact that at least one is associated with trump org or high in the regime.

The rich are like the freakish rich people in the movie rat race except they are making money off of our real world deaths and illnesses as well

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corsicanguppy lemmy.ca corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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#45 · Quote Reply

News flash: New Mexico renames Donald Trump

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#46 · Quote Reply

News flash: New Mexico renames Donald Trump

Donald Mexico kind of has a ring to it 😄

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potoooooooo 🥔 lemmy.world ivanafterall@lemmy.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

Donald Mexico kind of has a ring to it 😄

Tijuana Donna?

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Viking_Hippie lemmy.dbzer0.com Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#48 · Quote Reply

Tijuana Donna?

🎵 His name is Donny and he dances in the sand! 🎵

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Inucune lemmy.world Inucune@lemmy.world
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#49 · Quote Reply

Tijuana Donna?

Don Cuello de la Vagina.

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GreatWhiteBuffalo41 slrpnk.net greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net
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Enchirito's cool tho

I have a feeling my significant other is naming our next animal Frito... Lol

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Wytch lemmy.zip Wytch@lemmy.zip
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#51 · Quote Reply

This has been fascinating and all, and I'm glad that psychology is having a big moment and whatever, but like, I'm kind of over this whole... "watch the narcissist slowly deteriorate" thing

I'm ready for the "post-mortem on this guy's career" phase where we all collectively wander around in a daze for a while

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