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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 106 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (5 children)

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

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

Buttigieg.

It took me way too long to figure that out.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

and Bootyjudge was right there

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

This is not a demographic known for its witty rhetoric.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months 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 2 months ago
[–] winkly@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The lanes were made out of black tops!

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Diversity of transport modes

Equity in infrastructure quality

Inclusion in transportation planning

[–] NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] frosch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago (8 children)

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

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] LamaThematique@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

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

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

New Mitch McConnell spin just dropped

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Boot-edge-edge

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

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

Thank you for figuring it out, I was stumped.

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[–] CombatWombat@feddit.online 15 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

"I just stole 1.7 billion dollars!"

That's all I'm hearing

[–] joeljoelle@piefed.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 months ago

yeah you just redirected it into your pockets you fucking crooks

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Commas are WOKE commie!

[–] OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app 11 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Eight minutes’ hate.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Car brain <---> Fascism

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 6 points 2 months ago

I think money should be allocated to climate change

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

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

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

What about all those DEI highways huh?

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