• ClownStatue@piefed.social
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    I think they need to march on Washington and demand the files be released. Go straight to the capitol building and just walk in like they did last time they didn’t get what they wanted. I mean obviously nothing bad happened las time because all those folks were pardoned because it was all a hoax. They weee peacefully touring the building.

    Anyway, they should do that again.

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    Getting Played is the only thing MAGA is good at. Relationships, politics, cars, you name it.

    They love to scream about how cool they are, but they don’t realize the whole world is laughing at them.

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    Oh, wild. I expected them to put the investigation of Trump’s molesting teenagers above any party power-plays. Nobody could have predicted that they’d protect a rapist just because he does everything they’ve been wanting to do for fifty years.

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    These MFers have gotten played for over 15 years. At this point the US should start investing in mental health based state hospitals because these people’s brains dont work. Im not trying to be funny or malicious … it is very sad, they have something wrong with them. Trump derangment syndrome is a real thing … just not how MAGA thinks it is.

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      They’ve been planning this for longer than 15 years. The Citizens United ruling just allowed them to put it into turbo mode and here we are. This is what happens when you legalize bribary.

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    If I click this, am I again going to find that “maga turns on Republicans” is again just three or four angry magas on Truth Social or X?

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      Don’t forget the slight dismay some podcasters will have till they slowly start to rationalize and walk it back. I’ll admit it’s more fun watching the mind fuck in real time with narration.

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    why do journalists keep referring to Twitter as X?

    it’s just not going to happen, and you lose credibility

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      If you hate Musk, call it “X.”

      X has poorer brand recognition and poorer brand sentiment than Twitter.

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      Because it changed its name… like what would be the point of calling it Twitter when it’s literally x.com now?

      How do you lose credibility for calling a product by its name? What do you mean it’s not going to happen? It’s already happened. You can call it a stupid rebrand (I agree), but you can’t pretend it didn’t happen… Twitter doesn’t exist anymore.

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          It’s still called Facebook… The parent company changed names, you refusing to call Facebook the product of meta is just silly… Meta is the evil corporation that makes Facebook.

          Elon bought Twitter and changed it to x, you refusing to call it by its old name doesn’t change that fact and doesn’t change it back to Twitter magically. It’s weird, but whenever.

          Do you refuse to call Walmart anything but Walton’s? Do you refuse to say Firefox because it shall forever be Firebird? Do you refer to the iPhone as the product of Apple Computers?

          Products change names, get over it.

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            Do you just like arguing with people online? Because if you didn’t know… the debate-bro persona isn’t as edgy and controversial as you seem to want it to be.

            If you were paying attention, (you weren’t) you’d have noticed I never said a thing about the social media platform. I said FACEBOOK; as in- THE COMPANY.

            So… maybe instead of typing up seething paragraphs and failed “gotcha’ moments, you should go find a book on how to read for context.

            It’ll save you some embarrassment in the future.

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            Keep arguing with people online, you’re so productive and you’re changing so many minds, ahahahahaha

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        They mean that replacing “Twitter” with “X” isn’t going to change in the common vernacular.

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          Yes it is, it has… The verb tweet isn’t going away, no one is going to seriously “x” line no one is going to bing anything, but that has nothing to do with the product itself anymore. A Kleenex just means tissue paper to most people, and a tweet is a short message on a Twitter inspired platform… You tweet on x now, because that’s literally the product’s name.

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              They specifically said it lowers their credibility to call x.com “x” instead of Twitter, which isn’t its name anymore.

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        What do you call posts on this platform? Is it tweets? It is isn’t it? So yeah, its still twitter.

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          I don’t use the Nazi platform, but I recognize its name is x… I don’t know what you think you get out of insisting on calling it Twitter? Do you think that’s a protest? Do you think you’re hurting Elon and his Nazi friends by calling into question the credibility of someone for calling it by its name?

          Just such a weird nonsensical hill to die on. Just stop using the platform entirely, and just accept that Twitter is dead.

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            Meh, the new name is dumb, I’m not using it. It’s got such brand recognition that articles talk about it as Twitter/X instead of just saying X.

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    That’s where things are at for now; anything the GOP does to try to make it go away will make it worse.

    Yes, people are leaving MAGA over this, and many others are less vocal than they were. Not everyone, but MAGA doesn’t have to shrink much before it’s no longer a political force.

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      It doesn’t matter whether or not people “leave MAGA” , it matters how they vote. Are they fed up enough with it all that they would vote for a “Liberal”? Even one who’s not at all Liberal , but just has a “D” after their name? If not, then their “leaving MAGA” is just a temper tantrum with no practical effect.

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        That’s a very narrow way of looking at democracy. Voting is only one thing you can do to affect change. It’s arguably not even the best way.

        Since Trump took office, members of Congress have been talking about getting death threats if they don’t do everything Trump says. This has had a real effect on what Congress has done in response. To a certain extent, members of Congress always get death threats, but the amplitude seems much, much higher than it has ever been. This has had a real effect on what they’ve done against Trump–both GOP and Dems alike.

        If MAGA stops their support, then that goes away, and it will have direct impacts.

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        Do you guys still think you are going to get to vote? That’s cute. Have you not been paying attention?!

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      They aren’t leaving MAGA, they’re leaving the GOP. They still want to do project 2025, etc.

      And I still don’t think they actually believe Trump is involved.

      But yes about the voting thing. However, the dems have lost a crap tonne, so it might even out. :(

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        They have no power without the GOP. It’s the same reason that the American Green Party has no power, just from the opposite side.

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    George Bush… Foo foo fool me a one hundred and seventy third time… You can’t fool me again… Yeah that’s a saying we have in Texas.

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      That was actually a rare moment of quick thinking on his part. The media would have loved to have a sound bite of him saying, “shame on me.”

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        It’s hard to say how that would have played out. You defend it by saying “that’s a common saying I was quoting.” And see how long that plays out in the news cycle. Yet here we are 20+ years later joking about his stumbling over this simple expression. Is that better or worse than if the news had the “shame on me” sound bite on repeat for a few days? Which we most likely would not be talking about right now? I don’t know.

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      Ha ha, what do you call 3 prez shit candidates in a row from dems?

      Barak was a pos too btw, but he had game.

      From hillary to biden to kamala and we have the same establishment in charge, worse and unpopular as ever, and you think the magas are the only ones falling for it again?

      Wake up and help get real candidates, populist ones, or enjoy republican rule now rigging elections.

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        Why not just get a criminal, thieving, pedophile rapist, just like the GOP ?

        ALL the people you just mentioned are light years better than any republikkklan that exists. Fullstop! The problem with America, is that half of you are soul-less cunts.

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          Yet not better at winning elections are they? Which means they are not better, because we still end up with those worse politicians. I don’t know if I can explain this in any more simple way for you guys.