Sure you are, buddy : facepalm

[-] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 149 points 3 months ago

There's thousands of these assholes around us in Canada.

[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In Canada's defence most of these people are based out of Russia anyway

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are way too many of them locally too. At one point they identified themselves with their combination of FUCK TRUDEAU flags and Trump bumper stickers on their trucks.

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[-] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago

I saw a person here in western europe with a trump flag... A giant fucking trump flag hanging out their apartment window... These people are absolutely fucked in the head.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 3 months ago

By chance, is flying the Nazi flag illegal in your country?

My guess is that the Trump flag is the dog whistle

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

I think the only place where flying the Nazi flag is actually illegal is Germany.

Personally I think it should be perfectly legal to fly the Nazi flag. If only so that the rest of the population knows who you are.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The problem is not flying the flag. The problem is what flying the flag does: spreading the message and emboldening those who would otherwise be harmless. Or worse, recruit impressionable folks.

So you cut that shit right off the bud before it spreads.

It's like cancer. You don't reason with cancer. You don't say "you have the right to do your thing, but get along with the rest of me, yes?" You cut that shit off right away.

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

It makes perfect sense when you realize that Trump is a symbol to international fascists. Let's not forget that after 2016 the world shifted significantly to the right, and had normalized fascist rhetoric to 30% of the population in one of the largest nations in the world

[-] msage@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago

after 2016 the ~~world shifted significantly to the right~~ fascists declared themselves openly

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 130 points 3 months ago

Looks like born, raised, and lives in Malaysia.

From knowyourmeme:

In the latter half of the 2010s, Cheong continued to grow an audience as a conservative Trump supporter on X under the handle @stillgray. Since 2017, he's worked for the Daily Caller, a website co-founded by broadcast journalist Tucker Carlson. His commentary on U.S. politics is often undercut by people pointing out the fact that Cheong is a Malaysian native and resident.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 100 points 3 months ago

so, an outsourced conservative comentator, as ironic as the made in china maga flags

[-] Tyfud@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago

Man, times are so tough they're even outsourcing Fascism.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Would you work for what an American fascist is paying these days?

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[-] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

This comment would be funny if it wasn't true.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You have to be a special kind of dip shit to not only support Trump, but to do so when you're not even American.

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 13 points 3 months ago

broadcast journalist Tucker Carlson

Fuck whoever wrote this. He's a fuckin propagandist that talks on an opinion show... For him to be considered a journalist is a gigantic insult to journalism for fucks sake... Opinion shows are not journalism.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

That's nothing! Trump was born in SE Asia and was adopted by US citizens, but never took his naturalization test, so he's not a citizen either. Can you believe that? I mean sure you can, you believed that other thing.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 3 months ago

Yes well we can all agree that he looks extremely Asian.

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[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Many people are saying...!

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[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 56 points 3 months ago

Aka half of hexbear lmfao

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

Conservative estimate

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[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Honesty is not a conservative trait. It never has been.

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[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago

There are so many comments on the US election from people who have zero participation in it.

By itself that’s fine, but point it out please. “I’m not a US voter, but” or something. I get these bizarre takes that make sense only after realizing the commenter isn’t familiar with US elections - which is good news. Because what I’m used to are bizarre takes from people who are (or should be) familiar with them.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago

I'm not from the USA but will be the first to call out idiots trying to convince people not to vote in the US election!

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Thank you for your service 🫡

[-] sodamnfrolic@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 3 months ago

It might be due to the fact that I mostly consume media in English, but I hear more about US elections than I heard about the EU parliament elections which were last month. A lot of people are interested, and for good reasons - it's going to influence much more than US itself. I don't think you can go back to keeping your elections to yourself without keeping your military, pop cultural and corporate influence to yourself aswell.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

No and that’s totally valid, but when I see something like “Joe Biden should do X or he’s going to lose the vote!” My immediate context fir that is that it’s a US voter saying that. So my response might be something like, “you moron, he obviously can’t do that because of the Bollocks vs. Chowderhead decision of 1972.”

BUT - If I were aware that they were saying that as an interested observer from another country, I could say”oh, well here it’s different because of Bollocks. See what had happened was . . .”

It’s just a fundamentally different conversation.

[-] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

As a non-american, I'd tune out a lot more of us politics if the US wasn't the world's largest military, and a major nuclear power.

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[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

If people post on international forums, internationals will respond.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

And I’m all for it. But this tweet is illustrative of the issues in not knowing that. Put it up front, is all I’m saying.

Otherwise, it’s just confusing and sometimes that’s a very bad thing.

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[-] Voyajer@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

My only complaint is when they're commenting as if they were citizens. I doubt it's intentional but I've noticed it a few times now.

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[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

A war with who, Ian? Did DEI shoot at your boy?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 39 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does anybody know how the 'Readers added context' feature works? It seems to be really effective and I'm surprised it was invented by X of all places.

[-] OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It was added by Twitter before Elon broke it.

"Trusted individuals" get to propose context, and it's vetted by a bunch of other trusted individuals. Everyone then votes if it's good or not. Context that is too contentious will probably get removed. If you keep proposing notes everyone hates then you lose the status.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago

That sounds quite neat

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago

I've got to hand it to the folks that are staying on Twitter to dunk on jerks in the Clarification Box.

True heroes with stronger stomachs than I.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

If this is a real person, then he’s paid to do this

[-] npz@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago

Ian Miles Cheong's Twitter-fame is baffling to me. I often follow conservative people on there if they're in an important position of some sort, but this guy has accomplished nothing that makes his perspective more relevant than the average schmuck.

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[-] ScruffyDucky@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember this nazi turned turbofeminist...turned nazi again I guess. This guy pops up every once in a while. No principles, all attention whoring.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

I'm a little surprised nobody has tried to blame Hamilton's "My Shot" for the attempt on Ole Donny Littlefinger's life.

It would be extremely funny to see Lin Manuel Miranda having to apologize for advocating political violence, while a bunch of Groypers scream about doing a second American Civil War over their friendly fire incident.

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Ian Miles Wrong

[-] pero@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Aw yeah, this idiot that got fussed over Grok when it said that transwomen are real women lmaoo

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[-] kevindqc@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Has he even been in the US once?

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Facepalm