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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 156 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

“Individually we are weak as a single twig, but bundled together we are as a mighty fa**ot”

[–] ryan_@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago
[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this. It's like the apes strong together meme

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Unfortunately this symbolism has existed for a long time in the form of the fasces (fascis is latin for fa**ot). A symbol of authority that was heavily used by the fascists (hence the name).
Though of course it would be great if it could be repurposed to for a more positive use :)

[–] Riccosuave@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Someone should start a shitpost bot farm to spam her with that clip for the lulz.

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[–] LibertyLizard 88 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 39 points 3 months ago

They're sending their best!

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 62 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Nobody hates you, Valentina. Hate is reserved for effective people.

We just think it's weird that you're obsessed with other people's genitals.

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[–] EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 months ago

In my case shes not wrong

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I love that they chose this picture for the article.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

T-shirt is getting printed right now

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[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago

No love like Christian love amirite

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“Yes, I lost this election, but I’m young, beautiful, and rich as f**k,” she concluded. She lost her job at Purina dog food over her extreme rhetoric and her campaign was unable to purchase ads.

She came 6th. Its funny, but I think she was never a real candidate and hasn't learned anything

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

Anytime when someone needs to publicly tell everyone that they're rich, you know that they're not rich and huge assholes

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[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

I'm in MO

I like penis.

I didn't vote for her.

The math checks out.

[–] InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

I don't think they can produce lithium carbonate fast enough to help this woman.

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Why did she think MAGAs would vote for a Gomez?

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[–] Lurkinney@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Most prolific woman in politics"

-some unknown weirdo

[–] iamanurd@midwest.social 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m not attracted to men, but I’d suck a dick to stop hearing about this awful woman.

[–] dharmacurious 8 points 3 months ago

As a gay guy, I'd go down on a lady to save democracy. I sure hope it doesn't come to that, though

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 months ago

Valentina Gomez is a trash human being. Valentina Gomez is a homophobic piece of shit. Valentina Gomez lost her campaign of hate. Valentina Gomez can eat shit.

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's not just the >!faggots!< voting against her, it's the >!dykes and the trannies!< too, and I assume several boring straights.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

Hey, I'm interesting

[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

Ok what is going on with the “removed” thing?? Is there some kind of instance-wide filter on words? I’ve seen this before.

Is it a blahaj thing? I’m so out of the loop on this lol

edit: actually sounds like in might be a Lemmy.world thing.

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Some servers replace expletives with “removed” or similar. I think it’s silly. YMMV.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

I’m on Blahaj and can see the slurs fine, is it maybe something from your instance or client?

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago
[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago

Bye Felicia

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 17 points 3 months ago

Does she think the government is Xbox Live?

[–] tyrant@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It took me way to long to figure out what the censored word was.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oddly, me too. I'm not sure why my brain went to fat ass first when it's clearly not that.

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

I thought, "What's wrong with 'fascist' in a politics forum?"

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Oh it's this twit. Let her squawk, nobody cares.

[–] finley@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

Proudly 🏳️‍🌈🖕🏻

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

"Unpatriotic lesbian" sounds rad as hell, some people she is trying to denigrate will instead embrace that one.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Either way shes the minority now, so what is she hoping to accomplish?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I can’t believe they tried to censor it but left that evil letter T.

[–] Ioughttamow@kbin.run 9 points 3 months ago
[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Glad she lost.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Hmm… for a moment I thought she’d forgotten how to spell fascist AND forgotten what it meant….

[–] EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

fa***t: is that fascist or faggot?

I'm a little unclear, here

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's the second word, though that's just intuition.

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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Grindr in Missouri must be crazy.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Well I am one and didn’t vote for her…

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Thoughts, prayers, and another strand of pearls to clutch.

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