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Guy Who Says Slurs Draws the Line at 'Weird' (reductress.com)

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 101 points 3 months ago

huh? that's weird

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

Watch your language.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

"Just like "cis", "weird" will be censored on xitter"

-- Elon Musk (mars genii)

[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"XXXXX Al" Yankovic in shambles

[-] Trubble@startrek.website 7 points 3 months ago

Oooo.... I looove the guy but, I dunno that I can watch a xxxx rated porno with him in it, not at our age. 😬

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

I would 100% watch something Weird Al starred in, billed as porn. You just know it was subversive and brilliant!

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah! Oh yeah you dirty little thing you! You like that? Uh huh! accordion noises intensify

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 months ago

just him slapping a ham rhythmically for an hour solid, staring unblinkingly into the camera with an expression that grows progressively more unhinged

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[-] xantoxis@lemmy.world 66 points 3 months ago

I gotta say, they found a VERY good photo to represent "guy who says slurs".

[-] shikitohno@lemm.ee 34 points 3 months ago

On the other hand, that's a pretty rough looking 27 year old. He looks like a 60s something bro who never stopped lifting.

[-] Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago

65 year old guy who retired and discovered anavar.

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[-] lemick24@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Yes! I can absolutely believe this as a guy who drops the n word in casual conversation then acts surprised when people cringe and leave the event he's ruining.

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[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

Weird is the absolute least offensive term anyone can be saddled with. If it bothers you that much you got more problems than just being weird.

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[-] coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gotta say, the left is running an excellent campaign! Really tuned in to the online stuff

[-] dumbass@leminal.space 31 points 3 months ago

I found offence to him calling the republicans weird!

Its disrespectful to weirdos like myself!

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

They're "stay away from your creepy uncle weird", not "quirky weird".

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 24 points 3 months ago

Fascism is based on authoritarian ideas. "I'm right, you're all wrong, no matter what."

Our brains are hardwired for social cohesion. The idea that we are the outgroup absolutely terrifies us.

Being called "weird" is a fascists worst nightmare.

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

I'm too weird to be able to understand why they find the term offensive.

[-] redisdead@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Because there's good weird types, and there's bad weird types.

They know they are in the bad weird category.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Anyone not conforming to their rigid set of ideals is weird to them, making it always mean bad weird.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago

because they're incredibly fragile

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

He's one of those guys where every photo looks like a mugshot.

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

That's a haggard looking 27 year old.

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[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

what the hell did i miss with this weird thing why is everyone talking about weird

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 58 points 3 months ago

First, let us all bask in the beautiful position you are in of not being up to date on American politics.

mmm. That's nice, I miss this.

Now: The Democrats have taken off running. President Biden withdrawing from the race, the de facto and now official nomination of Vice President Kamala Harris and then her choice of running mate in Minnesota governor Tim Walz have all proven more popular than anticipated, and among all this the Democrats have started calling the Republicans "weird" and also "creepy." And this seems to have struck a nerve on the right.

It seems to have actually punched through that their policies of defunding libraries, shutting down schools, killing doctors, waiting until birth to murder infants, checking children's genitals before allowing them to go to the bathroom and on and on it goes are absolutely not normal.

Calling them "deplorable" or "dangerous" or "a threat" doesn't have the same effect because those sound badass to them. "Look, our enemies are scared of us." A group that is as conformist as the American right can't revel in being called "weird" anywhere near as effectively.

[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Majority report just did a good take on how they are weird because they don't know how weird they come off with their crazy.

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

“Mr. Walz offered an inversion of that old Radiohead single at his introductory rally on Tuesday night. “These guys are creepy, and yes, just weird as hell,” he smilingly charged. From his mouth the word comes across as a somewhat spicy Midwestern revision of the coastal freakout, common during the Trump presidency, that almost every day was “not normal.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/arts/tim-walz-trump-weird.html