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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 106 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Any time you see a politician ranting about DEI, replace it in your mind with the n-word. That’s what they’re really saying. No, it doesn’t matter that people of any race can use it; Republicans have spent the past 6 decades cementing the idea of public projects and vilified racial minorities being inherently linked.

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[–] Plum@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Tf is Boot-edge-edge? I can't keep up with idiot name calling conventions.

[–] quylaa@lemmy.ml 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Buttigieg.

It took me way too long to figure that out.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Thank you for that. I'm appreciably dumber now.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah but like, what's the joke supposed to be? It is embarrassingly childish, but usually the name calling actually makes sense at least.

"Boot edge edge" is just nonsense. Like cool, you thought of similar sounding words.

Like preschool level shit.

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[–] decolo@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

and Bootyjudge was right there

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

This is not a demographic known for its witty rhetoric.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

he sounds like an edgy teenager and he's in control of billions in tax money. I miss a world without xitter.

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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 month ago
[–] winkly@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s called a bi-cycle for a reason ;)

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The lanes were made out of black tops!

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Wow, you all are on fire today. Well done.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Diversity of transport modes

Equity in infrastructure quality

Inclusion in transportation planning

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Support our pollutionarily-challenged cyclist friends! Not everyone is able to make a mess of the environment equally!

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe if they really, really oil their chain a whole lot?

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

rolling coal for cyclists: attach a pot of crude oil dripping onto your chain and splatter that shit everywhere.

Fantastic idea!

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's all in-group pandering and shitty petro-masculinity. No conservatives should be in power. They are bad people.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

petro-masculinity

That's a new term for me, thanks. Been seeing a lot of that recently, and I had a thought: my EV and solar panels aren't just about the environment, they're independence. I can make a kilowatt-hour with stuff I have at home. I cannot make a gallon of gasoline with stuff I have at home.

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[–] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 month ago (8 children)

How are we still doing climate change denial in $current_weather?

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Oh come on, snake_casing when you could have made it look like an $ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE?

[–] LamaThematique@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The casing is not important here because, no matter how you write it the "current weather" always is an ENVIRONMENT variable ;)

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

DEI is everything I don't like. Same as woke.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do republicans insist on waking up from sleep every morning?

Waking up is super woke.

Real TRUE PATRIOTS go to sleep once, and stay that way forever, to own the libz.

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

New Mitch McConnell spin just dropped

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 19 points 1 month ago

imagine being proud to be such a bigoted piece off shit. Holy shit.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Boot-edge-edge

...What the fuck is this? An insulting name for Buttigieg? Stupid.

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That's how Pete's 2016 campaign presented it phonetically when people were still unsure how to pronounce his name. Not much of an insult but nobody has ever accused this administration of being clever.

[–] Spitefire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Thank you for figuring it out, I was stumped.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its a DEI bike lane because you didn't earn it. You earn a lane by taking on $80,000 in debt to buy a F350.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

"I just stole 1.7 billion dollars!"

That's all I'm hearing

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

yeah you just redirected it into your pockets you fucking crooks

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Commas are WOKE commie!

[–] OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app 11 points 1 month ago

Anyone who has a problem with bike lanes should just kill themselves and save the rest of us from their dumbassery. Duffy is another waste of skin.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've come to the conclusion that most of the Twitter Trump Parrots have absolutely no idea what most of their daily hate words even mean.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

Eight minutes’ hate.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just redirected $1.73 billion in USDOT grants away from Biden-era DEI pet projects

To where? The war?

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Everything I don't like I'll label Woke, DEI, Communist, Socialist, Antifa or Liberal. They are too dumb to know they are being played"

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'd even add "Green" in there. And "rigged".

Woke, DEI, Communist, Socialist, Antifa or Liberal

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's kinda like gatcha currency, where the extra step makes it harder for people to know how much they're spending.

They spent so long trying to establish that "DEI is bad", without clearly defining what it is or why it's bad. But people just went along and accepted it. So now they can literally just point to something and say "That's DEI!" and that extra step is too much for people to put together they're just being told not to like something without a proper reason. And they just believe it because they succumb to social pressure easily and go along with whatever the "in-group" does because they're afraid of becoming part of the "out-group".

And the crazy thing is that they were never part of the "in-group" to begin with they just think they are lol. It's really kinda crazy manipulation. I'd respect it if they weren't using it to enrich themselves and fist fuck the planet.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 8 points 1 month ago

He's going to regret not having bike lanes when Trump restarts war with Iran, and this time without strategic oil reserve.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Car brain <---> Fascism

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 month ago

I think money should be allocated to climate change

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's because they're too LGB(iciclyst)T[...]-friendly.

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Ya, I'm bi(cyclist). I'm also down with multi-modal trans(portation).

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

What about all those DEI highways huh?

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