• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    She criticized the party too loudly and too often. Bet she got told to leave. Wonder what compromising material they have on her to force her out.

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    I guess she’s leaving with some integrity. Hard disagree with most of her beliefs but at least she stuck to them and didn’t just kowtow to the pedophile president.

    Guess I have some of the same sort of respect for her that the right shows to Bernie, sort of a don Quixote lunatic with honor.

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    Bye, bitch.

    May she feel, every minute of every day, the same existential fear for her safety and life that she’s made a career of making every minority and woman in America feel.

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      She’s going to get some kind of cushy book tour from the #NeverTrump Republicans and cash in on her “I’m in the president’s party but I don’t like him” the same way Ron Paul dined out as an anti-Bush Republican for over a decade.

      Nothing bad ever actually happens to these people, with the special exception of Charlie Kirk

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        She’s going to get some kind of cushy book tour from the #NeverTrump Republicans and cash in on her “I’m in the president’s party but I don’t like him” the same way Ron Paul dined out as an anti-Bush Republican for over a decade.

        looks dubious

        Within the broader party, she was generally associated with Trump, and just recently ran into friction on a few issues.

        Ron Paul was famous for disagreeing with broader party positions, and had been doing it for a long time.

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

        he cast two thirds of all the lone negative votes in the House during a 1995–1997 period.[23]

        If you wanted to take someone who had a record of disagreement with Trump, maybe Thomas Massie from the small-government faction, or if you want someone centrist, maybe Lisa Murkowski.

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    . . . on Saturday morning, Trump dubbed Greene “Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown.”

    Geez he really is losing it. That’s weak.

    All the kids were saying Perjury Traitor Greed six years ago.

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    Funny how she was hated for years by the left and she was fine. Hated by the right for a few days and she felt the need to hire security and then resign.

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      Obviously it’s because the far left terrorist antifa are so insidious they make their death threats silently, so that no one else even knows. Only the brave and courageous MAGA warn the actual victim.

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            I cannot believe how quickly its transpired that people can’t pick up on very, very obvious sarcasm. I genuinely can’t.

            The number of homeless children has increased by 50% n 6 months.

            “We should grind them up and feed them to the Rottweilers guarding the multi-billionaire’s properties so they can save money on dog food and help create more jobs!”

            “You WHAT?!!? These are CHILDREN!!”

            the /s wasn’t a thing pre covid. I dont get it,

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              Tone Indicators (wikipedia.com) have been around for a long time.

              The syntax of modern tone indicators stems from /s, which has long been used on the internet to denote sarcasm.[4] This symbol is an abbreviated version of the earlier /sarcasm, itself a simplification of </sarcasm>,[5] the form of a humorous XML closing tag marking the end of a “sarcasm” block, and therefore placed at the end of a sarcastic passage.

              Just because one hasn’t been exposed to a concept doesn’t make it new. :)

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              It’s just Poe’s Law in action. It’s impossible to create satire that is too extreme, because there will always be someone who believes it to be a genuine post. The law was originally coined to refer to fundamentalist Christians, but was later expanded to encompass any kind of satire or sarcasm in online text.

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              Without the voice inflection and body language of personal communication these are easily misinterpreted. A sideways smile, :-), has become widely accepted on the net as an indication that “I’m only kidding”. If you submit a satiric item without this symbol, no matter how obvious the satire is to you, do not be surprised if people take it seriously.
              Jerry Schwartz, 1983, Usenet

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              I think this is the reason. With the mass de-masking in recent years and people saying the things out loud that they’d previously just keep to themselves, it’s become more difficult to tell if people are being sarcastic or just are genuinely hateful and cruel.

              I hate that this feels like the reason, but it does. I’ve lost a lot of people that I used to count as respected friends and peers.

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      She wasn’t “hated by the right for a few days”, her life and her family were threatened. She hired more security and still doesn’t feel safe now that maga freaks are against her. For all its faults, that’s the difference between Democrats and Republicans…

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    She announced her resignation (just ever so conveniently) a couple days after her pension ability kicked in, and after she’d made millions in stock trades.

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      She also burned Trump by championing the Epstein file release. Her voting base has rebelled and she knows there is no re-election in her future no matter where she goes. As much as I do not like her and her politics she literally sacrificed herself before leaving. It was a grand show to likely hide your point that she just passed the pension cut off. But it was one hella of a way to go. MAGA is in shambles.

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      But also after she wanted to run for Senate but Trump said “no,” so I don’t think this was all about cashing in on a government pension and quitting or she wouldn’t have had those aspirations.

      This is likely because she supported the release of the Epstein files and Trump wasn’t happy. He’s already called her a traitor because of this.

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    These mfers get a pension after five years? And they keep it if they quit? Like why aren’t more of them giving up early access to information for stock trades?

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    Whatever her reasons for doing so, she was calling out Trump for some of his bullshit, and that was getting the arguments on Fox “News”, which meant a few MAGA were hearing it, possibly for the first time. That was good.

    I can only imagine the pressure put on her to quit. It’s no surprise she caved.

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    Is she stepping back to run for a different office? Did the death threats get to her? Did she make enough money and contacts she doesn’t need to do this shit anymore? Only time will tell since you can’t trust them to be honest!

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          People say that, but I moved to China immediately when I had retirement money and haven’t worked since

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            I know it does happen some but it seems rare. Also anecdotal but most of the people I know who had it made like that had gotten their money as salespeople and/or at a tech startup and just kept on chasing that rabbit. Likely just a different cross-section of people who are more ambitious (or greedy.)

            I’d love to see an actual study of it, especially comparing vocations.

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          I plan to stop as soon as o have retirement money. I’ll be close to 90 then but I’ll stop

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    I was just starting to warm up to her. I mean, she’s still a vile human being, don’t get me wrong, but she was at LONG LAST asking the correct questions, only to be immediately shut down. I hope MAGA takes note of this.

    Oh, who am I kidding. Trump could personally rape their kids and they’d still defend him.