• sqgl@beehaw.org
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    8 hours ago

    Didn’t even click to read the satire.

    As much as I hate the guy it was marketing genius to do the fist pump immediately.

    Same as his mug shot (although he probably practiced that one for hours in a mirror).

    Many of his core followers are only semi-literate. They respond to iconic imagery.

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      6 hours ago

      he didn’t do the fist pump immediately.

      it was like 10 minutes later, you fell for the propaganda.

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    10 hours ago

    Almost as if he was waiting for his next photo op…what a stupid tool

    Edit: I’m a tool and didn’t realize I was reading the onion I’m a stupid tool in this case…

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      9 hours ago

      It’s ok, i also ate the onion at least once…

      With news about Trump, it is also an extra deceiving onion.

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      8 hours ago

      Like, from just reading the headline, it doesn’t seem very onion-y. It’s not just perfectly believable, but I sort of assumed that that is what happened.

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        10 hours ago

        Nope… sick with COVID and didn’t realize I was in the onion land I still think it’s a tool but I shouldn’t respond to onion articles that makes me a tool…

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          9 hours ago

          It’s okay bro, easy mistake to make. The fat orange guy is a walking onion article no matter what he does.

          Frankly it’s amazing that The Onion didn’t go under in the last decade as reality became stranger than their headlines

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    11 hours ago

    I’m not sure if that’s the right gesture when you’re constantly agitating against socialists:

    socialist propaganda poster

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      10 hours ago

      Yes, common knowledge dictates that only socialists raise their fists, ever, because they invented the gesture

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        9 hours ago

        The guy is a politician. Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, he cannot show the gesture of his own political camp. So he will have to make do with this symbolic loan. But it fits in quite well with his election campaign, especially as he strangely portrays his opponents as fascists.

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          9 hours ago

          I am pretty sure a raised fist predates government or even agriculture, but sure, let’s work with very limited understandings of what things can mean. Donald Trump is a horrible monster, but I don’t really see what good limiting what he does with his hands does for anyone.

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            9 hours ago

            I saw him spewing garbage on tv at the gym a few months ago; no audio, luckily, but they always have a tv showing fox news, and it was right in my line of sight. The ridiculous shit he was constantly doing with his hands had me cracking up. It was so over-the-top, to the point of parody. I couldn’t stop laughing at the idea that anyone takes the chucklefuck seriously, just based on his moronic gesticulation schtick.

            So yeah, let him keep doing insanely stupid shit with his hands.

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              9 hours ago

              I agree! It’s super distracting, the things he does with his hands. The accordion bit someone did a few years ago was perfect. Because wtf else require hand gestures like that?