• dumples@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      I absolutely fucking love that they get triggered by being called weird. For context, I’m a sideshow performer- what was historically known as the freakshow, and we absolutely PRIDE ourselves on being weird and outlandish. We say that strange is beautiful. The mundane is boring.

      So these weirdos being triggered by a word that so much of my community considers beautiful is just 😙🤌🏼