• rayyy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Another, Four Seasons Total Landscaping. What a bunch of weird idiots.

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        11 days ago

        I have no idea. Fear of “socialism”? Religion? The myth that republicans are good for small business owners?

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          11 days ago

          the fear of socialism is the only good one i can think of, but often times these people are coming from authoritarian type countries or places, i’ve heard theories that they leave the persecution, only to desire it once more upon leaving, hence the voting for trump. We’ve seen similar things with east germany, after they reunited there was an interesting problem with “self determination” people are generally happier with less choices, weirdly enough.

          i doubt religion is significant, but maybe they just don’t understand the US government structure. That’s my other theory, they just don’t understand how the government works at all, and end up picking the bad candidate.

          Maybe the small business owner thing, but are these people more likely to own small businesses? i’m not sure, i think most of them would be in the labor economy, education or something else. Rather than entrepreneurship.

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        11 days ago

        Latinos themselves are not a very cohesive group.

        Many are die-hard Catholics. Many fled from Cuba and will vote against anything that looks like communism.

        But that’s far from all Latinos, or even all Cuban immigrants.

        It’s important to not lump everyone together.

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          10 days ago

          hm, that makes sense with what i’ve heard so far, so i guess that shouldn’t surprise me.

          i guess i’m probably just most confused by the fact that people would vote for trump at all lol

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            10 days ago

            i guess i’m probably just most confused by the fact that people would vote for trump at all lol

            You, me. The entire sane world.

            It’s truly perplexing why most these people would vote for the guy. Or even donate to his political campaign since he brags about not needing donations…(and his lawyers fees… yesh.)

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              yeah, idk, one of the mysteries of our age, bound to be present until the end of time. Until someone covers it in a significant historical context that is.

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        11 days ago

        With the Hispanic people I know that prefer Trump, it’s the usual trumpist/Republican reasoning. Even down to anti-immigration, from a person who’s father was an undocumented immigrant. Propaganda and desire to be in the in-group among your peers is wild.

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    11 days ago

    I know maga is dumb and all but I gotta imagine this is fake. No way they would actually know latin. That would only happen if they went to church as much as they pretend they do.

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    11 days ago

    Y’know I could see this being done by a third party in an attempt to portray the GOP as not caring about Hispanics (Not that they do care lol)

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    11 days ago

    I don’t know Latin and haven’t taken Spanish for like 20 years, but would the first line translate to “Legal (my emphasis) Hispanics and Latinos”? Gotta love courting the votes of a demographic while still showing your bias against them.

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      Yep. I studied Latin and the “legales” is modifying the two nouns.

      The first actually refers to residents of Hispania, so any classical Latin speaking immigrants from Spain and Portugal should feel included.

      The second refers to the Latins, who were assimilated into the Roman (Trojan if believe the Aeneid) population and no longer exist.

      Stylistically, I would have gone with the enclitic “-que” over the conjunctive “et.”

      EDIT: They messed up the verb. Well, I’m guessing they thought they were using a verb. The “vota” is the nominative plural of votum, so it reads “Votes for Trump.”

      They’re not bright enough to know that the English verb “elect” derives from the perfect passive participle of “eligo, eligere” - electus.

      They should have gone with “Eligite Trump!” - “Choose/Elect Trump!”

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      Basically I think though my latins rusty it reads like google translate in that the form seems wrong like someone transliterated English to Latin and ignored Latin grammar and logic in that Latin speaking people in Latin really doesn’t exist in the same way. Latini I think was only the subgroup of Latin speakers in Italy named Latium, either way not how a Roman Latin speaker would refer to a Latin speaker in general, not that the concept existed in the same way.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latium

      It’s kind of like translating Japanese directly into English, reads off if you say in the room there are many chair in English kinda deal.

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    11 days ago

    This can’t be real. I mean . . it very much can be real, but c’mon. Somebody’s just fucking with us right

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      11 days ago

      The number of people in my town that think our language is American, Mexicans speak Mexican, all Asian people are Chinese, and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States makes this very plausible.

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        and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States

        You do have a few Saint-Petersburgs, right? And Athens? And Cairos?

        that think our language is American,

        Similar to Russia then.

        Mexicans speak Mexican,

        Similar to Russia then.

        all Asian people are Chinese,

        Still similar to Russia.

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            Sure, but we’ve been in this timeline since the Escalator Ride to Hell so it’s not, like, that unusual.

            Heck, Pizzagate was a no-shit, for real thing these chowderheads yapped about for years. Maybe still do.

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        Like you could say American is a sub dialect of English with it further broken down into accents. But I doubt most folks think of it that way, especially folks who say “I speak American” outside of an argument with the English.

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        Democrats are much more likely to have a Spanish speaker on staff at all levels. They are a more diverse bunch. Republicans, many from southern states will speak some Spanish, more so than northern white democrats. But, they are more likely to he a white only staff at each level, so nobody would pick up on it.

        This is part of the reason diversity is important. It will be self evident to some people that things are not right, whereas those in a different world won’t even notice.

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          10 days ago

          I am probably completely wrong, but I thought he was saying that he could see the Democrats putting this exact sign up, not one like it. On the surface it might appear to be pro Republican, but in reality it is not. Just like the robo calls people were getting where they claimed to be Biden and told people not to vote in primary.

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            Whoever put the sign up, all it did was confuse the shit out of anyone who knows at least one romance language.

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        How the hell can you see this being put up by Democrats? What idiot messaging do they have that even comes close to the torrent of ignorant bullshit the republiQans swim in every moment of the day?

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          Not the party, but it falls very in line with the current “whether or not this is true, they seem the type” attacks such as the couch fucker memes