• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No joke, I see someone wearing one and I walk the other. Anything to avoid conversing with lunatics will make your day better

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      3 months ago

      Same. I love the fact that they all festoon their car and house with Trump/Brandon/Fuck Biden stuff, between that and the hats, it lets me know who to avoid in so many situations.

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        The bumper stickers and FJB badges on the back of pickup trucks dictate my behavior on the road. “Oh, this truck wants to merge. Wait a tick, is that a MAGA window decal on the rear window? Fuck you, buddy, you ain’t getting in here.”

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    3 months ago

    “I stopped learning in the fourth grade and have no understanding of anything more complex than a toaster. I am about to impress upon you, in no uncertain terms, just how painfully unaware I am of my own ignorance; whether you want me to or not.”

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    3 months ago

    All red baseball hats are probably going to have this association for many decades to come. That being said, so few people wear baseball hats lately that it’s certainly not a big loss.

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      3 months ago

      Republican incel hot off the latest Jordan Peterson choir-preaching sermon: “Why don’t women like me!? It must be them!”

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    3 months ago

    This is true.

    I’ve lived in a couple of countries and an interesting thing I found out is just how attuned we are for the country we grew up in to certain markers (accent, clothing, the kind of words people use, etc) of Education, Social Status, City/Countryside origin and so on, but not at all for other countries since most of these things tend to be different from country to country and it takes some time living elsewhere to start reading such things on the locals, and even longer before it becomes instinctive.

    (Mind you my experience was just Europe, which can hardly be said to have a vast cultural distance between countries - I mean, it’s varied but it doesn’t have, say, Japan-to-India levels of contrast - and yet all 3 of the countries I live in for years - Portugal, The Netherlands and Britain - in general have significantly different cultures and vastly different markers for such things)

    So it’s funny how this specific item has become an amazing signal for people abroad of Uncut Low Education status for Americans.