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Maybe the “great” America that Donald wants to take us back to is the 1860s?

  • lugalEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Words don’t just change slowly, sometimes the do a 180 overnight

    Like when gate turn into a suffix meaning scandal due to the Watergategate

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      We live in the dumbest timeline because I could absolutely see this on the news:

      Bill Gates crashes his car into someone’s gate but doesn’t leave a note. The chyron at the bottom of the screen reads “Gates’s Gate-gate”. We hear about it 24/7 for weeks.