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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ok but how did he become a senate candidate?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Weird is the "u mad bro" and I am here for it!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

MANLY MAN NO SNOWFLAKE CUCK GAY STUFF HERE

DON'T CALL ME WEIRD

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

it's funny because none of the democrats "declared war on weird" and none of them said it was at all negative or derogatory; the republicans were just afraid of being different that they basically just made the democrats ad even more effective by perceiving weird as bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

WAR ON SCANDALGATE is their default headline, adjusted for whatever the hell they are mad about. They are not creative. They are old, boring, and weird.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

These are the guys in grade school who beat up smarter kids for not being as stupid as they were.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

It's hilarious watching them self-destruct over something that could be easily ignored to take its power away. Poor little guy can't help himself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Man, these republikkklowns are some weird mofos. Couch fuckers, a guy trying to look like a cheeto with a terrible hair piece that can't complete a coherent sentence, just weird.

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

Whine seems to be spelled wrong on his hat

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is really showing why this an effective strategy. If you called any of those fine gentlemen getting flogged at Folsom "weird" they won't care. In fact they would take it as a compliment, own it and may even mention that this isn't even their weirdest form. Do it to a conformist republican and they freak out and show how weird they are and obsessed with what other people do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I absolutely fucking love that this triggers them

Weird is a beautiful word. I'm a circus sideshow performer, aka professional freak. In the sideshow we celebrate the weird and unusual and outlandish (but not these two, we're all hippy communists).

So the fact that this word triggers them is just 🤌🏼😙

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

What do you do? That sounds rad

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how it shows how it is effective, the article is really just "look some more people on Twitter called this no-name candidate weird." It doesn't touch on at all if this is an effective strategy that will sway voters.

It's just more of the hard hitting and deep digging "journalism" I've come to expect from lgtbnation.

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

lgbtqnation is a garbage site. If it makes me weird to say it, I can live with that.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago

What a weird thing to do.

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