• Saapas ( Saapas@piefed.zip ) English
    39·
    13 days ago

    It’s a funny quip but of course the person trying to shoot the president was referring to the president in his manifesto about trying to shoot the president

  • mindbleach ( mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ) 
    27·
    13 days ago

    Nah, that’s disingenuous. ‘The crosseyed fuck who tried to kill you had these damning accusations… oho, did you think those accusations were directed at you?’ Yes. So was the bullet. It’s not a fucking gotcha, it’s plainly why you asked. You need a better retort for someone flatly denying labels for their demonstrable crimes.

    Or better yet, don’t platform fascists. You don’t need a blathering attention whore in the room to lay out the case for all of those words being factually accurate. His narcissistic ass is never gonna tearfully admit it’s all true. The Idiot picked a fight with a hurricane.

    • Saffire ( Saffire@sh.itjust.works ) 
      20·
      13 days ago

      Who cares if it’s disingenuous? The Republicans are masters of it and I can’t remember the last time I saw one argue anything in good faith. In Canada we have a saying: When they go low, we kick them in the teeth. Democrats should adopt this wholeheartedly IMO. Especially when it comes to Trump himself.

      • mindbleach ( mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ) 
        12·
        13 days ago

        Shit questions are still shit when they’re ours. Don’t poke The Idiot for correctly recognizing he was accused, nail him to the wall with the proof those accusations are correct! What’s the fucking point of having all evidence on our side if we act just like lying fascists doing bully tactics over nothing?

        I don’t want a blue-team equivalent of whats-his-face jeering at Jack Smith with a hand full of nothing. I don’t want progressive podcasts patting anyone’s back over that kind of empty showmanship. I am not interested in making conservatives grumble like ‘oh, shucks’ when we hit them with a clever zinger. I want them to recoil. I want them to hear facts which keep them up at night, questioning the politics they have mistaken for an identity.

            • Postimo ( Postimo@lemmy.zip ) 
              3·
              12 days ago

              Except it doesn’t do that. Lets shuffle the teams and see if you can see how dumb this comes across.

              Imagine Abdul El-Sayed having an interview with fox news, and after months of painting him as wanting Sharia law, close friends with people that hate America, and the daughter of a woman involved with the Muslim Brotherhood. In that interview they talk about someone that made a political assassination attempt on El-Sayed, stating their hate for all of the above. When asked about the manifesto of the shooter, El-Sayed says they were mentally ill and it’s terrible what the lies they’ve been convinced to believe about him. If the fox news interviewer then smugly says, “Oh do you think it’s referring to you?” does that not come across as the absolute dumbest smarmy gotcha? Wouldn’t that make you feel more like the media is being deceptive and moving in bad faith when talking about El-Sayed?

              I am fully aware of the difference in these cases, and that Trump actually is a pedophile and rapist, but this smug clap back does nothing but galvanize those that already think the media is “out to get Trump”. And if we want to actually try and convince whoever in the Trump cult is teetering on realizing they’ve been lied to, its with the detailed receipts of how close Epstein and Trump were. Not pithy witticisms that amount to “pedo says what?”.

              • tigeruppercut ( tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ) 
                1·
                12 days ago

                You’re using logic for a situation that’s illogical. Idiots vote based on vibes. Maybe seeing one clapback on something that doesn’t even make much sense will affect the vote of one type of idiot at just the right time.

                Or maybe not. I’d be happy if all these stupid lying type attack ads were gone from our media landscape, but since that ain’t happening any time soon, I have to belive in swaying stupid people with dumb emotional stuff like this.

        • Grail ( Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ) English
          2·
          12 days ago

          I’m sure you don’t believe that the names of insults don’t matter. You and I both know that we don’t call him autistic, or r*tarded. Because those are vulnerable groups who don’t need the stigma. It’s the same with the word narcissistic.

          It’s a word that started with an ace kid, and ended up as a neurodivergent diagnosis.

  • lmmarsano ( lmmarsano@fedinsfw.app ) English
    6·
    13 days ago

    notice image full of text\
    check alt text\
    find

    Oh, referring to you?

    That is wholly inadequate for an image full of text.
    Ain’t no way someone unable to read the image is going to get the whole thing.
    Search engines won’t find anything by the “text” either.

    Don’t cheat accessibility.
    Do the text alternative properly.

      • lmmarsano ( lmmarsano@fedinsfw.app ) English
        2·
        12 days ago

        Explain what the disabled did to you to deserve shitty conduct from you.
        Same for whomever upvotes you.

        If you want to be an asshole, keep in mind whom you’re taking it out on, because it’s definitely not your critic.
        Moreover, no one is immune to disability, and you could find yourself screwed over by that arrogant inconsideration you embrace.
        I’ll gloat over the idiocy regardless, champ.

        Anyone who purports to be leftist yet downvotes accessibility is the biggest hypocrite on the planet.
        They’re all talk, but when it comes to concrete action here and now, that’s all they are: all talk, no action, hollow words, fake.