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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 124 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Daugherty added, “Now these thugs will learn no actual lesson and go out and do it again, potentially with a weapon, and their next victim may not survive like Big Balls did.”

He's right. Someone should do something about ICE gangs.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 69 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Daugherty added, “Now these thugs will learn no actual lesson and go out and do it again"

Huh. That's just what I said after Trump pardoned all the insurrectionists from Jan-6.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And a lot of them have turned out to be repeat offenders

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

And hired them for ICE, CBP, and other positions.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Daugherty added, “Now these thugs will learn no actual lesson and go out and do it again, potentially with a weapon, and their next victim may not survive like Big Balls did.”

They might use weapons? On Nazis?!

...uhm... No... Stop... That's illegal... sips tea

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

When did tiny testes and the pedi party ever learn a lesson? Bitch please.

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Maybe they'll go after him again. One can only hope

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 91 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Homie got beat up by two fifteen year olds and Trump is acting like the Bloods and Crops joined together to beat this dude up.

Also if I have to see the name Big Balls in the context of my government again I'm gonna lose my mind. Dude was a shitty hacker. He shouldn't be in government.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago

Crops 4 life.

A corn thug from the CROPS pointing a gun at an apple

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

The funny thing though is how he thinks he found a great user handle, but the story of him getting beaten up by two 15y/o's means he can't use it online unless he wants to be the laughing stalk of any community he joins.

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Heh, this bro still has a mind.

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 87 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It’s amazing how they will take literally any opportunity to say “DEI”.

We should start talking like them just to piss them off. “Big Balls, NEPOTISM HIRE by ELON MUSK, let himself get beat up by CHILDREN! VERY SAD!”

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 57 points 8 months ago (6 children)

DEI is their new n-word.

Also, the opposite of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is "uniformity, inequity, and exclusion." Is that what they expect the melting pot of the USA to embrace?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

" You start out in 1954 by saying, “N****r, n****r, n****r” By 1968 you can’t say “n****r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n****r, n****r.”

-Lee Atwater, former RNC chairman-

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

melting pot

To them, it's not a melting pot. They see a caste-system of suckitude where every different group exists on the levels beneath wealthy white people. Every reaction, every lie, every diversion, it's all in service of that one design. The funny part is: the coded speech and dogwhistles mean that they don't exactly have enough social sway to be full-throated racists about it.

Also, the opposite of "diversity, equity, and inclusion" is "uniformity, inequity, and exclusion." Is that what they expect the melting pot of the USA to embrace?

Is it what they expect?

Well, I'm pretty sure not only expect, but reading "uniformity, inequity, and exclusion" is a configuration of syllables that can make every right-wing tradwife pregnant, and feels to their alpha male husbands like watching from the closet in their Batman mask.

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, pretty much. There was a comic I saw someone post on Facebook of The Statue of Liberty helping build trump's wall. Like the morons had never read or heard of The New Colossus.

[–] natecox@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

I’m making my kids memorize The New Colossus. I know it by heart and they will too, because that kind of context is where “what the fuck are we doing?!” comes from.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Those are the cornerstones of conservative ideology

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

For a while it was CRT, but DEI hire is easier to stick on a specific person.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I almost miss the old days when everything conservatives didn't like was CRT.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

Having DEI on your MAGA Bingo Card is always a reason to celebrate. It's like a freebie, you know that square will get dabbed.

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[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

In other news, Trump reportedly asked his advisors today if he could do "the opposite of a pardon".

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly not sure if this is satire.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 32 points 8 months ago

Lol I was joking. He doesn't need to ask, he already has ICE for that.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 9 points 8 months ago

Guy is such an idiot.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I would like to nominate these teens for the Nobel peace prize

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Right-wing commentator Eric Daugherty expressed his disbelief at the decision and Briggs, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden.

“WTF: DEI Judge Kendra Briggs, appointed by Joe Biden, RELEASED the violent . . .

Why is the dailybeast article made up largely of racist “influencer” quotes? Dailybeast, stop doing it wrong.

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Daily beast is the liberal answer to Daily Mail, in my uninformed opinion.

[–] DougHolland@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Your opinion is not uninformed on this. Same as the Daily Mail, everything's SHOCKING and overhyped at Daily Beast. Maybe Daily Beast is slightly more credible; there's usually a baseline truth somewhere under the shrieking headline.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

This site sucks. I don't care if they agree with me politically, I hate how they write

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[–] seathru 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] tonytins@pawb.social 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The real “big balls” is always in the comments.

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh my I hadn't seen that photo of him after his alleged attack. That is so obviously fake.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, all it shows is that Big Balls is a soft boy. And he probably started it.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

Haha nice. Trump pardoned those that killed people on J6th. These are just kids and BigBalls is a piece of shit.

[–] some_guy 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope his big balls get stomped again. And again. And again and again and again.

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Random "So I married an axe murderer" appears.

Loved that movie when it came out. Saw it trice in theaters. Never seen it again

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

The EMT’s after they finished checking him out:

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[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 13 points 8 months ago

Trump was out on bail for his own criminal case with way more felonies. Would he prefer to still be in jail pending appeals?

[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

They have the chance to do the funniest thing.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

The President of the United States defending a member of his administration named Big Balls, this shit is surreal…

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Big Balls blew Trump?! Oh... I had to go back and reread that headline

[–] pillowtags@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

Holy shit that photo?! It’s so obvious that they smeared the blood from a broken nose all over his body lol.

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

Is she a DEI judge? Because the last time I checked, her title was Judge.

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