• dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Because some of them mentally never left high school. So they pick 'insults" that were “funny” and made them “cool”, back when they peaked, and those appeal to the rest of the faux-news followers who did the same.

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      1 month ago

      Yeah it was a rhetorical question. I wonder if anyone has ever attempted to point out to them that the “other side” doesn’t use these kinds of nicknames?

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        1 month ago

        There’s many such nickname based on trumps fake tan. We can’t really claim superiority on the nickname thing. It IS funny though.

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          1 month ago

          Right online and in memes. Are those used by cable news networks and candidates at their rallies?