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  • elbucho@lemmy.worldtoAsk@lemm.eeWhat phrase really annoys you?
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    7 minutes ago

    Not the person you replied to, but I’m guessing that they’re a stickler for the original meaning, which is “to reduce by a 10th”, hence the “deci” in decimate. It comes from a military discipline practice that could only have been invented by the Romans. The force to be punished is divided into groups of 10, and each group is given a bag containing 9 white pebbles and one black pebble. They each take turns reaching into the bag blindly and grabbing a pebble. The people with the white pebbles are then each given a cudgel and ordered to bludgeon the poor bastard with the black pebble to death, hence reducing their overall numbers by a tenth, or decimating them.


  • “To be honest…” / “If I’m being honest…”

    So, what, you’re normally lying?

    “It is what it is”

    A tautology is a tautology.

    “Tell me how you really feel” (said after you share a harsh opinion on someone / something)

    Didn’t I just do that?

    “I’ll hold down the fort”

    Why? Is it threatening to float away?

    I’ll admit that last one is a bit David Mitchellian.




  • elbucho@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldBe Honest
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    5 days ago

    You’re right, of course. They’re not ALL stupid racists. Much like rain also contains miniscule portions of debris which the water forms droplets around, MAGA also contains a core component of incredibly evil people, and a few run-of-the-mill racists of average intelligence.







  • And they sure as fuck aren’t going to vote in the 2026 Midterms either, cupcake.

    I would love to hear your reasoning as to why you’re going to have more success trying to be nice to traitors in the hopes that they will no longer be traitors than in convincing someone that not voting against a person who actively hates America is a bad thing. I mean, you’re going to have to really put your foot into this one, because that whole premise sounds stupid as fuck.

    No, I’m going to spend 2025 focusing on you idiot Democrats

    Great. Continue beating that drum, you fucking moron. See how that works out for you. I accept your vote, but you will never get my gratitude, you Vichy motherfucker.

    Edit: Oops - I’m sorry. According to your idiotic theory, my being mean to you means that you’re going to vote for a fascist. Please, Mr. Rational Guy, sir, please don’t vote for Trump in 2028 (assuming we still have elections by then) - I promise I’ll be really really nice to you! Fucking idiot.


  • See sweetheart

    Ok, first of all, fuck you, you condescending fuck.

    in order to win elections, you need to obtain more votes than the other team.

    Hey dipshit - you do realize that 10s of millions of people just straight up didn’t vote in the last election, right? And that the number of Trump voters has been fairly constant since 2016?

    Stop wasting your breath trying to coddle these fucking traitors. Focus instead on the people who didn’t give enough of a shit to vote against them. Maybe if we all loudly condemn the traitors and draw lines in the sand, we can shake a few million apathetic idiots loose in the process. Princess sugar tits.


  • What’s infuriating to me is that people like you like to constantly shift the responsibility for these shitheads’ behavior onto the people who call them shitheads for being shitheads. What, am I supposed to flatter the traitors in the hopes that they’ll choose to not be traitors anymore? Should I buy a sheet of gold stickers to hand out? Fuck that and fuck you for sticking up for them. They are adults and 100% responsible for their own actions.




  • You know what historians call the German people who voted for the Nazi party because of propaganda, or economic reasons, or because they just plain liked the cut of Hitler’s jib? Nazis. Historians call them Nazis.

    You’re talking about fighting “the actual fascists”, but if this guy’s joined the cult of fascists, then he’s a fascist too.

    Edit: also - the fuck you mean offer them a second chance? This election WAS the second chance. Third, actually. Just how many chances do you want to give out? They aren’t free, you know.