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Bernardo de La Paz

(55,458 posts)
1. Can't see the tweet, but is ANY usage of the "-tard" ending appropriate on this website unless an actual quote?
Sun May 11, 2025, 08:04 PM
18 hrs ago

The headline is not presented as a quote. As it is all I (and some other people) see, it appear sui generis from the Original Poster themself (you). What's going on?

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pbmus

(12,515 posts)
3. What do you call people who vote against their own interests?
Sun May 11, 2025, 08:37 PM
17 hrs ago

The word I use is a combination of retard and trump or Trumptard, if that is too harsh please describe the person that voted for the destroyer of democracy…also realize that the word ‘woke’ might describe another person

Bernardo de La Paz

(55,458 posts)
5. "retard" is as offensive as the n-word. Combining it with other words does not dilute its offensiveness.
Sun May 11, 2025, 10:13 PM
16 hrs ago

Combining it with other words does not transfer offensiveness.

Using "-tard" is offensive to progressives. You know it offends progressives. Why do you want to offend progressives? Especially now that you are being called out for it by progressives.

please describe the person that voted for the destroyer of democracy


maga, stupid, foolish, sucker, conned, idiot, jerk, shit-for-brains, greedy, deluded, low-info voter, asshole, nitwit, empty head, sadist, racist, fafo, mf-er, bozo, clown, leopard food, cult-member, ken/karen, kakistocrat, buffoon, trumpanzee, tRump-licker, fascist, authoritarian, RWAF (right wing authoritarian follow), reich-winger, dimwit, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, red-hatter, dope, asleep at the wheel, white supremacist, magaloon, ignorant, bubble voter, trumplodyte, trumpista, deplorable, ....

It does not take much imagination to avoid offending progressives when referring to tRump voters. You picked one of the few ways and then doubled down. This is DU, not FR. "-tard" is much loved there, not here.
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