The former vice presidential candidate doled out harsh words for both the president and his own party.
    • Googledotcom@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I have big narc tendencies and lemme tell ya that shit would kill me. The only point I am saying this is to harden the fuck up through some niche forum so that ‚public embarrassment’ doesn’t feel like dying anymore.

      It kinda worked. But it took a lot of trolling like a lot and multiple bans on any possible social media you can imagine to shape oneself into someone more resistant to words.

      First gain resistance by learning to say whatever shit is on your tongue and feel nothing about consequences and then come back to reason and you feel like unlocking superpower. Finally not shaped by others but being more of a rock staying solid and unaffected by external factors whatever happens.

      The hardest battles are those we fight with ourselves

      • boaratio@lemmy.world
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        7 days ago

        I know you’re getting down votes, but I appreciate your honesty and willingness to do some introspection. Good on ya.

    • frog_brawler@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I had a theory during Covid that if I would be able to embarass the shit out of anti-vaxers on Nextdoor, that they’d stop showing up and spreading bad info. I never got to check / test / confirm any results to what I was (completely unscientifically) doing; but this is a great article to make me feel like I am getting a pat on the back.

    • frezik@midwest.social
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      7 days ago

      If we look at the common exhibitionist subtype of narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) that most people think of when they hear the term narcissist, it is fairly easy to see that they use a simple three-part defense to create a façade of extreme self-confidence. I call this the “GOD defense.”

      G – Grandiosity: They act as if they are special and entitled to do or say whatever they want. Grandiose motto: “I am special.”

      O – Omnipotent: They make all sorts of unrealistic claims about how powerful and knowledgeable they are. Omnipotent motto: “I can do anything, and I know everything worth knowing,”

      D – Devaluing: They feel free to attack and devalue anyone who is not clearly above them in their status hierarchy. Devaluing motto: “You are worthless, defective garbage, and are here to serve me.”

      Yeah, you could just put “Example: Donald Trump” on all three.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        When did I say that? The election had abysmal turnout, and most non-voters say something along the lines of “both sides are the same”. The most effective way to fight back against that narrative is to…actually not be exactly like the other side. Yet the Dems just couldn’t forgo a few million in bribes and actually be materially different on key campaign issues.

    • astronaut_sloth@mander.xyzEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I think that’s a bit simplistic. I think Biden’s position on Gaza hurt turnout, but at the very most, that would mean Trump would win the electoral vote only rather than both the electoral and popular votes. There were several other reasons, e.g. the economy, Biden not bowing out earlier, Harris not putting some separation between them, etc. that ultimately doomed them.

    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, no kidding. It was Walz’s winning strategy until the corpos told him to cool it. They’d already decided it was trump’s time to win

    • TootTootComingThru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      That was so mild too. Call them creepy shrimp dick loners. Make them look deeply unsettling and unhinged and inhumane and illogical little unlikeable creeps they are and isolate them. Use whatever sticks. Their top guy is a proven rapist and was best buds with pedophiles. Keep hammering that!

      Taking the higher moral stand doesn’t work with these people; grab them by their fucking hair and drag them through the mud kicking and screaming. Do you wanna win and maybe slow this country’s descent into full on fascism or do you want to “not stoop to their level” and “uphold decorum” with words? Because what’s coming is going to be much more unkind than words.

      That is the only way to handle these types. Time to grow some ovaries and start calling these pieces of filth what they are.

      • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        The great thing about “weird” is that it’s not really aggressive but more disgust. Like, if some guy says women are inferior you can say “that’s freaking weird dude” and leave it at that.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      It seems that internal polling put the “weird” message as not really helping (or hurting) the Harris campaign. Arguably, keeping up the “weird” message may have been useful, but they were likely trying to find something that seemed to have a larger impact.

      • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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        8 days ago

        Incomplete. The full phrase is actually:

        Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

        (The buffalo from Buffalo that buffalo (i.e. bully) buffaloes from Buffalo, buffalo (i.e., bully) buffaloes from Buffalo.)

        • epigone@awful.systems
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          7 days ago

          i mean, by the grammatical rules, it’s still a valid reply to the comment.

          [modifier][noun][verb][modifier][noun].

          gödel reminds us: “syntax all on its own cannot determine semantics”.

          the point is to evidence grammaticalness despite apparent meaningfulness, and the commenter may just be seeking to simulate the point with a logically consistent application of the rules at play. “incomplete” with respect to [mimicking] or [reproducing] an [socio-historical cultural] artifact, but not inconclusive in evidencing the point (remixing to produce variations on the theme; i.e., there are evidences of +20-word recursive sentences, if not larger).

          nothing about the buffalo sentence entails the social rule “when someone else posts the buffalo sentence, it must match the aforementioned sentence verbatim”. permutations on the point are totally fair game.

  • MuskyMelon@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    If one of them says, “Well Harris was/would be worse!”, explain the concept of Schodinger’s Cat to them; in a universe where Harris was never President, you can’t say shit about what she would have done.

  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Nah, they don’t want to become a target. They’ll wait until it blows up on the streets, then point and say ‘see?’. Meanwhile, the public is waiting for the congressmen to do something. It’s something to watch.

  • SarcasticMan@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Starts with you, coach. Until I see you on your soap box beating these shit heels with a bag of nickels you are just blowing hot air.

  • Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I’ve said this for a while now. You want to make a dent? You go after the ego.

    Picture this: an endless stream of totally “realistic” phone-recorded AI videos of Trump playing golf. He lines up the putt—misses. Tries again—air ball. It’s literally an inch away now—misses again. Doesn’t blink, just traps it in, smirks, walks off like he nailed it. Over and over.

    The key is subtlety. These can’t look staged or flashy—make them feel like someone’s nephew filmed it from the cart. Make it look like he’s genuinely terrible but thinks he’s crushing it.

    Then blast them everywhere. Flood the algorithm. Turn his “I’m the best at golf” schtick into a punchline.

    This is how you use AI to actually take Trump down—with a thousand tiny ego papercuts.