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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he's going to give it.

"The America Party"?

TBH, pretty tame in Musk standards. At least it's pronounceable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

No, it's actually the worst name possible. It's the latest in a long line of giving things names that force them to be talked about like they're good. Big Beautiful Bill. Patriot Act. It's like if I name my proposal to make every human on Earth my personal slave the "Best Idea Ever Act That Only Stupid Evil People Disagree With". What's sad is that it's actually effective. There are people out there stupid enough to really think "How can you be against the AMERICA party? Aren't you an AMERICAN????". It takes advantage of linguistics to manipulate psychological response to the topic. And even if you say "well actually the big beautiful bill is actually not beautiful at all" then you sound like a silly hair-splitting moron who doesn't have an actual argument and can only attack the name.

Furthermore it creates an ambiguity. I can no longer say "I'm proud to be an American" without tacking on "but not the Elon Musk Party kind", which then spreads and reinforces the dominance of his term.

The left should really try to start some sort of social media trend of saying we're proud to be Americans just to try to undermine the ambiguity before Musk's marketing bots get into full swing and co-opt the term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He named it that so their members are called "Americans." He's trying to steal our national identity for his new Nazi party.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Correction: At least you can read it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

The name is to make a grab at the r’s. If it wasn’t, he would have named it the x party.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm surprised he didn't go with a stupid acronym

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

sobbing Portugal noises