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"Didn't expect MAGA to be racist to me!" (slrpnk.net)

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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 209 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

>Not a country

>Donald Trump has repeatedly spoken badly about and deliberately mistreated Puerto Rico

>Donald Trump also routinely speaks extremely badly about the country Puerto Rico is in

I'm glad he's changed his mind at the literal last minute, but it baffles me every day how ignorant people can be.

Petition to restart !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, by the way.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Petition to restart !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world, by the way.

Every time I make the mistake of visiting that sub, I want to smack the mod who locked it. I don't even know if his grievances were legit, but clearly the only people he's hurting are the folks who would like to post to the sub.

Edit: Are .world Admins aware? Do they have a position on the situation? Do they give a crap? Anyone know?

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

We're aware. AFAIK, nobody has expressed interest in taking over that community and bringing it back to life.

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world would you like to volunteer?

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

It's funny you should ask that; I was just about to reach out to ruud over Matrix and have been thinking about it for a couple weeks. I'd love to if that's alright with the admin team.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Do it, you don't suck.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 54 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hey, you shouldn't presume to know what other people do with their free time.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Call me

[-] ShaolinRaiden@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

I support this candidate. Good luck.

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[-] jimothy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Here's the beautiful thing about Lemmy and the Fediverse as the whole: Anyone could be a pioneer and create another leopardatemyface community--even in another instance different from lemmy.world. I saw the mod's explanation of locking this community and I think it's a legitimate reason cuz many of us running away from Reddit at least wants something different from the userbase and moderating culture there and .world instance failed to provide it.

Also, I think the .world Admins are aware, and that they have a position on the situation, and most likely they don't give a crap. That's why like I said, any dissenting users could create yet another similar community and try to lure others in to subscribe to it.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

most likely they don’t give a crap.

We do, a little. But we also can't manually curate the entire instance. For things like this, it really helps if someone comes and talks to us, especially if they're willing to volunteer.

I don't think that was a legitimate reason to lock the sub. Often, when you disagree with someone, you can use words instead of mod/admin tools. And that mod created an obvious strawman to rage against. They wanted much heavier moderation than we typically do, and I don't think we're extremely light on moderation.

Lemmy.World Community Team (yeah, it's a little weird to sign a comment, but this is also my personal account)

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

https://lemm.ee/c/leopardsatemyface

.world is not the only instance.

[-] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago

Maybe he just ran out of the paper towels Trump threw at him the last time he was in PR. Now he had a spill to clean up and he’s finally mad.

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 104 points 3 months ago

Florida is filled to the brim with Hispanic folks that love Trump. It makes no goddamn sense to me.

[-] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

It makes no goddamn sense to me.

Cuban expats that are vehemently anti communist.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 65 points 3 months ago

Cuban expats that are vehemently anti communist.

And who have apparently assimilated so well into US society that they have no idea what communism actually is anymore. A democrat vote is still miles away from anything even remotely resembling communism.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

When I was a teenager that started follow the politics of the US, I was extremely confused about the Republicans calling the left liberals, because our liberals were center-right.

It took me a few years to stumble upon the Overton window (without using that name at that time).

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's only loosely connected with the Overton window, they just don't know what the actual word means so it means "Democrat" to them.

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[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 48 points 3 months ago

Man, the US really is getting its mileage out of the Red Scare.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

I’m going to guess they’re into theocracies.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

Conservatism.

How much sense does it make for poor people to support Trump? Or women?

[-] franklin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hey listen, poor people can support women all they want.

joking

[-] ECB@feddit.org 13 points 3 months ago

Another reason is that Hispanics (like many minorities) are on average both more religious and more socially conservative than the general population.

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

My dad was African Caribbean with a heavy accent who got citizenship after decades in the US. At times, legal, at time illegal, as the system is quite intentionally broken. After ALL that experience, being repeatedly treated with racist attacks by cops, bank tellers, and who knows how many else, that's just was I was around to see happen. Anyway, he was VERY pro-trump. Mostly because he was juvenile, and liked he could say a few lines of whatever Trump was saying and it would piss everyone off. He just loved it.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 6 points 3 months ago

I’m convinced that most of what they say is to simply piss people off. Once someone is in a negative space long enough, they start to crave that attention and anger as their new norm.

Your dad went through a hell of a gambit to be here.

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[-] medusa@sh.itjust.works 67 points 3 months ago

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 3 months ago

I know of a handful of other Latin Americans who still want to vote for the fucker. They can't articulate why they'd vote for him other than a vague economic reason, even after reminding them of all the heinous shit he spews about people who don't look like him.

[-] Mihies@programming.dev 32 points 3 months ago

Even economic reason is absent with Trump.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

I'm crying at the fact that this guy thought trump would be good for the economy.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

There is quite a lot to say about the neoliberal sabotage of American manufacturing capability, but the fact that people think conservatives have any interest in making those vanished jobs both come back and be worth having is stupifying.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I guess he wasn't paying attention when Trump treated Puerto Rico like shit during his term in office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/us/puerto-ricans-trump-insult.html

[-] auzy@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

"Nicky jam is hot". The fact that Trump didn't even bother to know about him when thinking he was a female onstage I'm guessing would have been the first red flag for him

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Never expected the orange leopard to eat MY face.

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

We've been trying to tell you. When he gets your vote and gets into office, he's not going to give a shit about you. Listen to the people who already got fucked the last time he was president.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

MY Country

"Fuck you got mine" mentality here

[-] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

The country of ... Puerto Rico??

A nation perhaps but why TF is he calling it a country

[-] mc900ftJesus@lemy.lol 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because no one calls where they live a nation? Country is the generic people term for place you live, we don't care about the legal distinctions and specifications.

[-] Anti_Face_Weapon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

It's less of a legal distinction and more of a definition thing. He is objectively using the wrong word.

It would not be incorrect to refer to the people of Puerto Ricans as a nation by the definition of the word. The word nation does not refer to a place but a group of people.

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 13 points 3 months ago

I used to endorse trump, but then I realized that I actually never endorsed him because I have a fucking working brain and I'm not a stupid 'murican.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

I'm sorry to say that, but I think that moronic statement is pretty much the US in a nutshell. I mean Trump is one of just two presidential candidates...and it seems to be a close election.

[-] NastyNative@mander.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

I used to endorse trump until a joke was made and Im too fragile to handle it.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, so, nothing Trump said or did up 'til now was a deal-breaker...but this comedian makes a racist joke, and that's the last straw?

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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

That guy looks like Drake

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Those leopards are hungry for some faces.

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