Snowflakes. Groomers. Cucks.

For years the MAGA movement has approached politics the way a bully would approach a schoolyard, sparring with labels so nasty, they seemed expressly chosen to appeal to the kind of people who stuffed nerds in lockers in sixth grade. And for years Democrats, abiding by the mantra to go high, not low, have responded by trying to be the adults in the room: defending themselves with facts, with context, with earnest explanations that nobody remembers (if they defend themselves at all).

The problem is that taking the high road only works if politics is a sport played mainly by people who act like grown-ups, which it is not. And also: Facts and context don’t make for particularly sticky messaging.

Enter: Weird.

Over the past two weeks, as “Brat” and coconut memes have taken over the internet and Kamala Harris inches closer to Donald Trump in the polls, the Democrats have finally gone low, deploying a bit of verbal jujitsu so delightfully petty it might just work.

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211 points

i find weird and creepy to be less name calling and more fact pointing

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78 points

Have some Lemmy Gold.

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28 points

i love how there are like 10 different kinds of lemmy gold

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10 points

Gotta catch em all!

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23 points

Good observation!

Take these!

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They are all as valuable as that other gold too!

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There is??? I’ve never seen anyone offer up any in the comment sections I’ve been in.

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That’s cause all the Instances have different gold.

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62 points

Let’s keep up the “name calling” facts

Matt Gatez creepily traffics children
Gym Jordan is, at best, a creepy enabler of pedophiles
Mike Johnson weirdly discusses individual porn movies with his children
(I’m not trying to stick to a theme here)
Lauren Boebert seems to weirdly enjoy public indecency

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10 points

Republicans ain’t like us.

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24 points

yes! they key is to use factual words that these very simple, emotionally driven people understand.

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(I’m not trying to stick to a theme here)

Sometimes a creepy pattern just emerges from the data. :shrug:

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MTG literally feeling-up a cardboard cutout of TFG is SUPER weird. what in the sugar frosted fuck was that??? Southern republicans were fucking weird 20 years ago but god damn

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Party of family values 🙄

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19 points

Also way less offensive than what they deserve.

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15 points

For Heaven’s sake, someone make this person a Lemmy Mod

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10 points

Unfortunately, fact pointing doesn’t work.

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