• elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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    22 days ago

    Balding mediocre middle aged white guy, of course. It’s always the ones you most expect

    Insults do not need cuss words. I, for one, vastly prefer elegant insults.

    Your statement is worded in an insulting manner. inserting that “mediocre” in there turns the phrase into an insult, whilst the second sentence tries to reaffirm your thesis that all balding, middle aged white guys are MAGA supporters.

    Cheap, and really MAGA-ish.

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      21 days ago

      As a balding middle aged (mediocracy dependingb on the given activity) white guy, I get where they’re coming from.

      It’s that the non-rich MAGA-ites have a tendency to fall inton those categories - not necessarily the other way around - as they chase the fictitious golden age where they could have instead been great.

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      21 days ago

      the second sentence tries to reaffirm your thesis that all balding, middle aged white guys are MAGA supporters.

      Well, no. Technically it’s a statement that balding mediocre, middle aged white guys are the ones you would most expect to be MAGA supporters.

      Does it make sense how the words they used correspond to the meaning of the statement? And does it make sense how when you add extra words to the statement, it means something different from what they said?