• MagicShel@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    I had to go find another article to understand what was going on. Sorry.

    The idea that calling trump a felon is somehow sarcasm doesn’t compute. He is. I don’t sarcastically call the sky blue.

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      Yeah no worries at all man, it was a weird press conference lol. I think once you see how he’s ripping criminal justice reform it becomes a bit clearer

      “All these Dems are letting people out of jail for shoplifting! Well, might as well put a felon in the Oval!”

      It’s just disingenuous bullshit from the Right, nothing new

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        Like… I would totally go to Trump loving folks and be like, “you got me. I’m on team Trump now. Before he was a felon, I couldn’t stand him, but now he has experienced the abuses of the criminal justice system that is a daily fact of life for so many, particularly black people, and I think we should have a president who understands their plight.”

        Now, that would be deadpan sarcasm, but I’d say that. Which is what I really thought the article was saying. I read it multiple times trying to understand what was going on.

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          Haha yeah I live in a city that’s majority black and some of my friends at the local dive bar are actually saying stuff like that. I just keep my mouth shut because I know they’re in the minority with that opinion but it still blows my mind