usernamesAreTricky

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 184 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Ah yes the strategy of trying to court jewish Americans by *checks notes* being blatantly antisemitic. There's no real reason to mention he's Jewish here other than to be antisemitic and imply he's a "bad jew"

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago

One problem with that is that companies could create a ton of subsidiaries or shell companies and move money around in funny ways to keep all of them at the lowest bracket

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 57 points 4 days ago

It's still a start, and something more likely to get though congress

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It also normalizes the idea of some criticism of Trump within their circle. Historically, they've kind of given him an auora of being 100% perfect in every way

A tiny crack into that could expand to more (and hopefully it will)

 

Main thing they're doing:

Party operatives, armed with a high-powered projector, booked themselves a room across the street from Trump Tower to display the message “Trump-Vance: Out For Themselves” — along with other slogans intended to rankle, rile, and otherwise irritate the candidate — across his 92-story building’s gleaming glass facade.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

The X service remains available to the people of Brazil, billionaire Elon Musk's platform said on Saturday.

Wait so what do they mean by stopping operations in Brazil then? Just the offices and staff? The article isn't super clear on it

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 71 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Not OP, but here's the original tweet with the video on a nitter mirror:

https://xcancel.com/CalltoActivism/status/1822785991192494548

 
[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You joke and yet there's people like Lizz Truss campaigning for Trump now for some reason.... though that did lead to this photo while she was giving a pro-trump talk:

 
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