• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netBanned from community
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    2 年前

    I am reminded of the Mexican dude I used to work with who was a huge Trump supporter and would refer to other Mexicans as wetbacks and say shit like “send them back.” Always had me like “bro, you know he’d deport your ass, too, right?”

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      There are a surprising number of Latino Americans who are pro-Trump who don’t seem to realize what will happen if Project 2025 is implemented and they’re out somewhere without the “proper” paperwork.

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        I’ve been able to convince a few of them to not vote for the orange asshole by passing them along this pic and link to Project 2025’s PDF. All it took for one was the mention of abortion rights being curtailed to change her opinion. A lot of people don’t bother learning about policy and that just makes them gravitate toward whoever appears to be “strong” or “righteous”.

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            The time limit one is amazing. It took me 11 years to get the VA to process my shit. “We lost it, bro. Try again!”

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              I’m interpreting that one to mean you just submit your initial application within 10 years of acquiring the disability, or possibly within 10 years of being discharged.

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                Ok, so take my case (and the situation of thousands of other GWOT veterans) it took years to even get the VA to admit anything was received, and that was without losing anything. It took 14 years to get mine processed, and you know under this law it would hit year ten and they would do a “sorry, brah! Go fuck yourself!”

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          Well, don’t mention abortion rights then, and let the other points bring the point home that Trump would be a bad idea.

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        At first, I thought the phenomenon had to do with religion. My opinion changed after 2020 as Biden is Catholic, so that no longer tracks. Nowadays, I’m starting to think it has more to do with machismo culture.

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          I think you are right about it being machismo. A thing to know though is that plenty of Christians hate Catholics. The schism between Catholics and Protestants still burns bright for some people.

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          Plenty of them can. They just don’t realize what will happen to them if Trump wins and they happen to get on the wrong side of a cop who doesn’t like how brown their skin is.

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            That’s fair. Personally in the 4 years he was president I was terrified he would come out with something that would force me out of my job and thus out of the country. (and he nearly did, I wasn’t allowed to work for 3 months at one point.)

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        Sorry to respond so late but the reason its funny is because “chinga tu madre” is a common insult, it means like “fuck your mom” but its used as just general fighting words, so “chinga tu maga” is just playing off of this

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    The average maga can’t even pronounce quesadilla this sign will unfortunately accomplish nothing.

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    It’s been decades since it took Spanish class, but it’s been a lot fewer years since I worked with anyone who spoke Spanish. And if you work with people that speak Spanish and don’t pick up the swears, then you don’t actually work with people that speak Spanish.

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    I have my doubts about how well the writer of this sign speaks Spanish. “Naranja” is a fruit; the color orange is “anaranjado”.

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        Most Mexicans don’t speak their native language. Spanish is the language of the people who colonized them and that they altered forced to adopt. It’s more accurate to say they speak Spanish imo. Otherwise, that’s like saying Cherokee Native Americans, when speaking English, are speaking “Cherokee” just because they may have some slang that other English speakers don’t have. And no, they aren’t speaking “Cherokee,” that language was forcibly removed from their culture just like many native languages were removed by the Spanish and to a lesser extent, the Portuguese.

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        Eh Spanish but not Castellano. In truth you could probably be more granular to describe the various country variants and dialects, but I’m not sure they have words for those divisions, not to the degree of considering them to be other languages.