Quoþ ð Tankies, "BUT DEMS SAME ÐO!"

Stop trying to make Middle English happen.

- You complete me.
- Drag likes the middle English. Drag thinks you just hate fun.
A thorn in your side?
- A thorn in my ash.
Why? This is their post and they wanna use middle English. It's not that big a problem for anyone else.
Are you just worried that it'll become a more common trend? I don't think that'll happen. It's just gonna be like scrolling by a ich iel post every now and again.
NAY I SAY!
- Based as hell.
No. Language is dynamic by design. If þey/þem wish to be diacritical fluid, who are we to deny freedom of speech?
- You're right, it is. But language shifts in populations in ways that enhance communication. One person using letters that nobody else uses makes communication of ideas more difficult.
  Not only that, but they're only choosing to use some Middle English letters, and not any other rules of Middle English grammar or spelling.
  They can use whatever language they want, but if it's too much effort for people to understand, they're more likely to be ignored.

He said himself, in early 2016 I think, that he could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and he wouldn't lose any votes.
But why is that actually? It baffles me.
- Sexism.
- Because Republicans have chosen Trump as the leader of their in-group, and everything they say and do is just sound bytes for getting him in power and abusing the out group, no matter how inconsistent, hypocritical, or false it is. They don't actually think what they mock the left for is bad, but if they can use it to justify being against them, they'll use it.
- Harris followers are better people with higher standards than Trump followers.
- It's all propaganda. Biden gave the terrorist state of Isreal $18 Billion in American tax dollars this year alone. That's $13 Billion more in a year than the average of $5billion per year for the last 75 years.
  I don't know wtf Dildo Tramp's angle is here, but both parties are Zionist boot lickers who've continuously funded genocide. I don't know why he would try and make his opponents look less evil than he is, and also piss off his skinhead supporters.
  Edit: to be clear, you should still vote Harris because it's the lesser evil option in this fucked up circus. But denying reality makes you just as bad as air-headed trumpets. Both sides are owned by the same corporate interests and mega-rich, and we need to abolish this 2 party system, not make-up fantasies that one side is actually good.
  Nobody is debating the fact that Trump is 1000x worse and also has and will continue funding Isreal if elected.
  That's how you know the downvotes aren't from the progressive side. We don't downvote facts or minimize genocide.
- Feeling even an ounce more assured in getting away wið saying ð N-Word wiðout facing social consequences is a potent enough high for ðese slimeballs ðat ðey will literally hand him ðeir newborn child to rape on national television so long as he keeps ð supply coming.
Has he not literally been doing that? I've been seeing articles about how much he looks up to Hitler. And he quotes him. He's not being subtle, at least.
- In his first campaign it was said that the only book he kept and actually read was the English translation of Hitlers speeches. He has never really shied away from his adoration of the mustache man.
- Videos talking about building a unified Reich, talk of immigrants polluting the blood of the nation, a lot of talk from his orbit about cultural Marxism, all the shared enemies (other than Israel, who are now the genocidal fascist ethnostate he aspires to), Nazis consistently turning out to support him... It's straightforwardly Nazi bullshit. At least Hitler did prison time for the beer hall putsch - Jan 6? Fine, apparently.

Downvoted for the title. Not sure what kind of mouth breather trend that is, but it's not lasting

I remember a person on Reddit using this.
þ- th sounding /θ/ (think)
ð- th sounding /ð/ (the)
As to why... I hope OP tells us.
- I've seen them explain it elsewhere. As i recall, they liked the reaction it got, and do it for that.
- They're still missing the "e" from "ðe". That's what bothers me.
- Because I feel like it
Is a fucked up sense of outrage supposed to make you look internet cool? Hey check me out, I'm acting more concerned about something stupid the OP did than I am about the alarming content they just shared, isn't my personality so edgy?
And announcing your downvote, you're like the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde over there.
It's not a trend. The way you and drag are speaking is the trend. Phlubbadubba is speaking Old English. You're right, though, it didn't last.
- The conversation I had with drag before about drag's reasons for speaking this way shifted my perspective enough that Phlubbadubba's use of Old English doesn't bother me the way it probably would have before. I understood drag, but seeing how negatively people are responding to a tiny bit of Old English makes me appreciate drag. Keep it up.
- The way Drag speaks is the trend, we are all just following

Quote me if I'm wrong but isn't this fucking illegal to have a private citizen act on behalf of the United States government?

Surely this law will apply to him.
- he will write it in his CV under the list of convictions
Logan Act
- Only applies to Little People
Nixon did it with the Vietnam War. Reagan did it with the Iranian Hostage Crisis. Trump did it with Putin in 2016 (and then Pardoned Michael Flynn for taking part in it).
Add it to the pile. He's above the law

Don't worry, I'm sure in a few years he'll be indicted, and then a few years after that there will be a trial, and then a few years after that he might be forced to grift his followers to pay a fine.

Shit, he probably won't last long before senility or old age gets him. Then we have old president JD to look forward to
- Senility and old age have already “gotten” him. He’s basically an animated carcass.
Technically I don't even þink ðis would get a trial, since Israel, unlike Iran and ð Vietkong, are not enemies of ð US at ð time of ð act in question.
Meaning what would normally qualify for an open and shut case for treason doesn't apply since ð aiding and abetting isn't happening to a technically hostile power.
- W̵̤̤̏h̵̡̧̢̰̯̺̣̻̟̙͙̟̅ẏ̸̢̻͙̺̖̤̳̠̙̼̩̳̯̓̏͒̅͑̐̓̿̾̆̐͠͝͠͝ ̷̨̞̮͚̝͎̠̬͇͙͒̃̈́̆̉̋͊̍̉̀̋̈̓͜ạ̷̡̱̘̻͈̥̰͚͍̗̗̱̞̣͗̑̀̚͝ͅŗ̸̜̮̗͍̣͙̮̜̤͍̟͙̼͚͝ḝ̷̩͕̰̖̣͖̤͎̝̗͔̯̺̗̱͂̎̿̓̐̊̈́̑̌̿͘͝ ̵̮̱̗͎̼̞̰͚̬̣̬̀̍̐̓̂̽̃͑̒́͊̾͘̕͘ỳ̸̟̤̟̞͔͔̙͕̪͔̰̰͔̪̭̭̏̀͂̊́̚͜o̷̰̮̹̰̯̳͉̰͆̃͂̇͘͠ự̵͗̉̈͛̐̃́̂̔̑͛͘͝ ̴̡̨͖͚̟̜̳̣̫̰̜̖̪̽̌̚͜ͅͅt̸̢̢̟̖̞̱̥͛͊̈̈̀͆̈́͐̈́̑̽͘͘͝a̸͇͔̬̽̓̋̍͒͐͛̿̂̎͛̚͘͝l̷̡̛̰̜̳͕̞̗̥̯̤̭̮͎͎̱͌̄͛̆̓͑̊͊̅̓̚̕ḱ̷̹͙̯͚̰̙͖͖͋͆̉̈̚i̴̧͙͑̒͋̀̈́̽̊̆̊̎̋̃ņ̸̣͓̟͈̯̹̞̥͓̠͈͖̲͈͖̈̔̋͊̿̂̀͗̕͜͝ḡ̶̡̛̩̞͖̟̯̞̯̼̺̘̭̊̉̂̆̎̈́̐͌̏͛̃̊̕ ̴̬͎͖̟̣̻̈́̉́̈́̋͂̍͂̒̇̈̾̕̚͝l̵͚̲̖̰̇͑͝i̵̧̠̜͕̩̖̙̝͙̠͉̙̮̼̒͐̅̏̑͒̄͂̈́͌̀̑̽̚k̶͙͙̟͔̠̳͍̭͉̥͓̼̝̟̣̗̲̆̐͆̄͌̓͛̍͒̊͊̊̕͝ȇ̵̮̙͜ ̵̢̦̜̯̑͆́̌̾t̶̘͕̲̼̲̰̙̱͕̩̜̦͐̿͋͒̒̑̂̔͋̕̚ͅḧ̸͕̪́̅̐a̶̡̲̟͇̺̯̜͎̹̰̿̏̓̓̆͑͝ţ̴̜̭͌̈́̓̏́͛͝?̵̡̨̜̦̖͓͔̘̿

On one hand, I agree with you

On the other hand, Jesus Christ didn't the Middle English fad die out in like, 2013 Reddit?

And you should be glad it did. Germans didnt get so lucky.
r/ich_iel and ich_iel@feddit.org STILL think it's funny not to use english words and instead translate them literally so it sounds like complete nonsense. ("Zangendeutsch") This joke got old like 10 years ago but if you use even a single english word you will still be greeted with "Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn" which means speak German you son of a bitch.
I just want good memes in my own language, but that community is insufferable.
/rant, sorry
- Wait wait wait, that community is... real Germans, but they speak broken German as a joke? Holy shit I thought this kind of dumb was reserved to English...
- Und es ist auch immernoch fickend lustig du Hurensohn!
- To be fair, although Zangendeutsch is commonly used for shits and giggles the reaction to English words hasn't been this way since some time after Reddit.
  It evolved into an ironic !askouija@lemmy.world style complete-the-sentence thingy where everything goes.
  Example

This would normally totally annihilate a presidential run. Fucks sake, they were ended by a guy saying "please clap" or having a weird laugh.

But then again, only cultists vote for this man.

It's not just the Maga hats. There is a substantial amount of the population that thinks claims like this are just muckracking by "the other side", and that he is really the better candidate in terms of economy, border security, and traditional values.
Trump does something of this nature every week and I read this same comment every week.
Nixon did the same during the Vietnam war. He just wasn’t public about it. Same with Reagan during the hostage crisis.
There are no rules if there is an “R” next to your name.
This would normally totally annihilate a presidential run.
What annihilates a Presidential Run is heavily predicated on the propaganda machine surrounding the candidate.
In this case, you've got an American media that is fully in bed with the MIC and a big client state of the MIC generating enormous returns through procurement.
Why would a conglomerate that profits off sale of arms to Israel want a ceasefire? Why would media owned by these conglomerates bad mouth a candidate that promises to increase military aid and Pentagon spending?
For the same reason you see glowing coverage of Saudi Arabia, Dubai, the Philippines, and India, you're going to keep seeing us love bomb our favorite genocidal dictatorship in the Middle East.

The guy is literally too stupid to stop hitting himself in the nuts. And then he blames the "deep state" for making him hit himself in the nuts.

While you may think he's hitting himself in the nuts, polling says otherwise. I know, it's infuriating.
Don’t you guys remember four/six years ago? This was a…depressingly effective tactic to evading responsibility. Because he just…openly admits to shit that other politicians know is poison. But nothing sticks because there are a million other things he does the same thing with. And it’s news for a day or two and then…nothing happens.
The guy is getting the entire Israeli misinformation and counter intelligence machine working for him non-stop. That's a pretty big deal.
It doesn't fucking matter how hard he hits himself in the nuts: he's still going to get 48% of the vote. If you care about shit like this, you're already not voting for him.

It worked for "Tricky Dick". He just didn't feel the need to go blabbing it to everybody because back then you couldn't get elected without at least pretending to have morals.

Worked for Reagan, too.

Just as the classified documents case, this would be grounds to put Trump in military jail, instead of pussyfooting around a corrupt justice system he appointed a large chunk of. DNC being a neocon fundraising organization is pro Trump if he is more pro Israel.

Ahhh, a tale as old as Reagan..

As old as Nixon!
- To think what things constituted as crimes and scandals back in the hay day of Nixon.

If you're going to use eth I just wish you'd use a vowel for 'the'. No other consonants imply vowels in english.

Borrowed from Shavian, where ð equivalent letter, as well as four oðer consonants, actually do imply ð full word.
Used for words wið specific grammar purposes, n for and, f for for, v for of, and t for to.
- Interesting. Shaw specified that shavian alphabet should be a complete replacement to avoid the jarring appearance of misspelling though right? Porting those conventions into standard english orthography seems to violate that.
- What makes you choose þ or ð? In Icelandic it's the difference between voiced and voiceless.

People seem to also be ignoring that this entire conflict is a direct consequence of Trump assassinating Soleimani.

Yep there's nothing that poor weak Biden or the ineffective dems could've done about it

I can’t even understand what this is supposed to say.

Quoth the tankies, but Dems same tho
They're using old English characters that used to mean "th"

Is there a real citation for this? Something that's not on Twitter? "The Daily Edge" doesn't even have a website of their own.

I'm going to assume these daily conversations are still unproven, unless someone shows me a better citation.

https://archive.is/11FfE
it looks like he Said he spoke with him 2 days ago, and a couple times. besides that, the "daily" conversations are extrapolated from him having talked to mentioning out how a few times just this week and him saying that "regularly" talk, as far as I can tell, or it's just referring to their near daily talks this week.
and the video does have him saying bibi calls him and talks to him a lot and maybe biden's going to drop a bomb on Israel so they don't talk to Biden.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bibi-called-trump-claims-to-speak-with-netanyahu-on-near-daily-basis/amp/#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17299181971192&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

The daily edge hahaha I'm mature

Am I the only one who thinks that IF the US survives this election that things have to change radically?

You can't have a democracy like this when a convicted criminal mobster wannabe can just get enough votes to install himself as a dictator and if he doesn't that he just organizes a deadly insurrection to try and get himself there anyway

The USA needs to get rid of this winner takes all system, it needs to rid itself of this system that requires a president. What it needs is 20-30 political parties that each get a share of the pie and have to work together.

This situation has gotten worse EVERY election since Reagan, last time we had a failed coup, this time we may get a dictatorship, what. The. Fuck.

I'll continue. The supreme court needs to be removed entirely and be replaced with whatever is better. The police forces need to be completely overhauled. Pacs and super PACs need to be illegal immediately, every cent in politics needs to be accounted for. An absolute split between church and state, and while at it, tax churches heavily. Undo all gerrymandering, return taxation to how it was in 1940, updates for current times tomokug loop holes but going up to 100% on income after an x amount per year. Nobody should be able to be a billionaire, hell, nobody should be able to be a 100 millionaire. After a certain amount of wealth, that's it, you can make more but it all goes to taxes.

Edit: to add to this: news organizations should be government funded through a neutral third party. Nobody wants to pay for Jews anymore but we desperately need it. So let's make sure it's funded and out laws (back) in place requiring journalists to be neutral and honest. Fox News style ~~"news"~~ bullshit should never be allowed. Opinions is fine, as long as that's what it is clearly called and labeled as. If a news organization obviously focusses on one type of politics, out you go. Also, break the 24 hour news cycle. We don't need news 24 hours a day, as it inevitably leads to a numbers game which leads to news organizations to just publish clicks for money, which leads to news about how there is crime like there is no tomorrow while reality it's the other way around. News should be informing people, stop the misinformation.

Another add: schools should be required to teach about voting, how to vote and why it's important. Just, obviously, not what to vote. Right now so many people vote for person X because "he seems such a sweet man, I'd love to have him over for dinner!" With that, don't allow political parties to use slogans, as it dumbs everything down to stoopid.

Just a few things to start with...

My concern since late 2018 or so has been that America is effectively terminal, it's just that we don't know it yet. That we've passed some internal tipping point before waking up where even if we try to course correct, it's too late to stop the decline. I'm not sure we can get the momentum anymore to fix it. Biden and even Kamala feel more like a temporary reprieve where we'll only have enough power to stave off total collapse, but not enough to actually make any headway. Which is basically all Biden has been able to do.
- That's a legit worry, but since we don't know where that tipping point is we don't know if we've passed it or not. I think it's just as legitimate to maintain hope, and here's why. The repeating pattern we've seen is that when progressives start to institute policies to improve people's lives, there's always a lag before any tangible results. During the wait the pendulum shifts back to regressivism, Republicans get in control, and then proceed to take credit as things improve. They use this momentum for more elitist policies that reverse the gains, but the harm to the general public also has a lag and doesn't become apparent until the pendulum has shifted back to progressives, who inherit a pile of shit to contend with.
  But MAGA has fragmented the Republican party so hard, after he loses the election it will take the party years to recover, as the rats claw each other to pieces trying to get on top. Instead of the usual 4-8 years it could take 12-16 for conservatives to regroup. This will provide enough time for progressive policies to take root and bear fruit, and for progressives to actually get credit and build on them. It will be impossible for Republicans to convince even their own that things are bad enough to go back to retro policies. They'll have to think of a new playbook.
  I just think this whole period of time is going to move the goalposts to the left, America will still have a chance to resemble something like the ideal we were taught to expect.
Yeah we have to outgrow the POV that says putting limits on wealth equals communism, or means no freedom. Democracy loses its meaning if kings can live inside it - which is what we get if wealth gives individuals more power than the rest of society. We're on course back to the age of aristocrat landowners and tenant farmers. That's not human progress, that's degeneration. To me the slogan, "We won't go back!" means a lot more than avoiding another Trump administration. It means recharting the course of our society away from a nobles vs peasants world and toward a world of true equality. It will take changes that are much more fundamental than imposing taxes on wealth. We have to de-legitimize extreme wealth and disable the huge leverage it gives a few people over the rest of us.
- I fully agree with you but I'd do it through taxes. It's not forbidden to be ultra wealthy, it's just impossible to become that. Just after a certain about of either current wealth or income, income taxes go to 100% and at certain wealth levels, be it through owning buildings, yachts, or whatever, taxes will make sure you'll have to sell off some of those assets until you're within normal range. Nothing wrong with that in my book
No arguments
I have a rewritten constitution in my profile, so nah, you ain't ð only one bro
- I have a rewritten constitution in my profile
  bro
  ...

blessuð

Hey, I know you, you're ðat guy

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Does the ceasefire involve taking over Gaza and turning it into Israeli settlements? Where would the people be moved this time? It was the last part of Palestine that did not get governed by Israel. Biden caused so much destruction to the Palestinian cause.

Damn, Trump must be making Biden and Harris give unequivocal support to Netanyahu's genocide too! The conspiracy goes deeper than I thought.

Will Dems hold Bibi accountable?

Oh they won't?

Worse than same.

So your reaction to learning that Trump is actively sabotaging peace talks with Israel is... Blame the Democrats?
Seriously smooth brain conservative take, holy shit.
"Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob from prison!
Vote Sideshow Bob."
- I'm not supporting Trump, I'm wondering why Israel is so central to democratic policy when they have literally done everything in their power to elect Trump?
  I can't imagine anything besides corruption or kompromat at this point. Literally nothing else makes sense.
worse than the same? this must be a mental lapse or just bad faith. I mean I would totally understand "not enough" but "worse than the same"? Are you living in a parallel universe? The moment Trump is elected you will start seeing people rallying for more support to Israel and probably sending American troops over there.
Reported.

Is Biden too stupid to realize that helping Bibi helps trump? Or does he just not care because supporting genocide is more important to him than the election?

I think the most reasonable assumption would be that the Democrats reckon that coming out against Israel will lose them more zionist votes then sticking with Israel will lose them anti-genocide votes. And given the amount of money AIPAC has been throwing around against anti-zionist candidates in primaries, that might not be an incorrect reckoning.
- its about money not votes. Usually whoever gets the most money wins.
- Which means they've made the calculation that they don't need or want the anti-genocide vote.
  So don't blame this anti-genocide voter for not voting for a candidate that doesn't want me.

So true liberal bestie, democrats are better because they silently sends billions to israel to carry out genocide while trump can't keep his stupid mouth shut.

- The tankies realized we all had .ml instance blocked so they started moving to .world
Man, must suck having to work for Putin as a troll. Some people would feel shameful

White American College Socialists have NO RIGHT to call ðemselves allies to my people while ðey fight like ðeir life depended on it to go unjudged for ðeir consistent and strident efforts to assist ð cause of ðis genocidal bastard who has now blasted out on live TV he is actively hindering ð effort to stop ð bleeding because Israel knows who will be more amicable to ðeir efforts to continue ð genocide.

Ðere is no excuse to hide behind any longer. To defend letting Trump win, be it by þird party voting, be it by not voting at all, be it by being ð ultimate accelerationist copium inhaler and voting Trump directly, is to actively sanction ð continued and accelerated genocide of ð Palestinian people, among countless oðers.

Vote for Harris, or be counted wið ð rest of ð collaborationists when ð people who actually need revolution rise up against your mess and begin instituting justice.

Ð cause of ð Palestinian people is singular, wherever in ð world we walk. To support ðis man and his allies among ð genociders is to march against our cause.

Our cause: Bedna N3aesh. We Want To Live.

Why write "the" as "ð" instead of "ðe"?
- A desire to be arbitrarily special
- Maybe they pronounce it "ðə", and they're implying the schwa by default
- Borrowed from oðer writing reforms in which ð equivalent letter is also shorthanded for "the"
  I have a whole load of ðem, but stick to just using ð and þ because ð prescriptivists would never shut up if I brought out ð whole bag of fun.