• Ghostalmedia
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    1382 months ago

    Same energy, different target demographic.

    • @[email protected]
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      292 months ago

      That address redirects to I think three different sites without HTTPS and then it ends up on some webhosting site

        • Ghostalmedia
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          522 months ago

          Not weird at all. Totally normal website made by a totally normal person.

          • @FloatingAlong
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            112 months ago

            Seriously, it’s like everytime you have a jet ski party and someone has to go to the hospital, suddenly the news is saying he got shot. It’s like ‘ugggh’, right?

        • @marx2k
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          332 months ago

          Why do these websites always read like a bottle of Dr.Bronner?

          • Bizzle
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            162 months ago

            Dr Bronner’s insane ramblings are at least wholesome though

          • @wreckedcarzz
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            22 months ago

            …where the police promptly shot him?

            Probably, actually.

        • @SLVRDRGN
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          BLACKS FOR TRUMP SAID DO THIS.

          Why is all of this written so completely stupidly?

        • @pyre
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          52 months ago

          Into the wonderful

          • Ghostalmedia
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            Nah. That website is probably just hosted on a Pentium 2 and it struggles to host 10 active sessions.

  • dactylotheca
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    932 months ago

    I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: “translate this campaign text to Latin”, because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it’s called Latin America too!

    Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went “🤷 ah well, money is money”

    • @acosmichippo
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      422 months ago

      or just scrolling through a drop down list of languages and saw Latin before Spanish.

    • @norimee
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      if they hired a translator who just went “🤷 ah well, money is money”

      Probably a Latini…

      Anyways, this reminds me when the series Homeland filmed at a location that was supposed to be a syrian refugee camp and hired arab speaking graffiti artists to “add authenticity” and they wrote things like “Homeland is racist” and “BlackLivesMatter” and shit like it instead of the requested “Pro -Assad” messages… https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show

      • @Sanctus
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        12 months ago

        “However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage.”

        Dude can’t even admit the fact that they purposefully portray Muslim countries like that. What a shit bag.

  • @Johnmannesca
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    842 months ago

    What a dipshit, using a dead language for a dead campaign.

  • Optional
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    752 months ago

    This can’t be real. I mean . . it very much can be real, but c’mon. Somebody’s just fucking with us right

      • Optional
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        32 months ago

        Oh absolutely. I can see it happening for sure. But did it? Is this real?

        I’m thinking it’s not. Just a goof being presented as a real thing.

      • @rottingleaf
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        22 months ago

        As somebody far enough from any America, I got a few healthy recreational grunting laughs from this.

    • @acetanilide
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      122 months ago

      The number of people in my town that think our language is American, Mexicans speak Mexican, all Asian people are Chinese, and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States makes this very plausible.

      • Optional
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        32 months ago

        Oh its possible, sure. But is it real or a prank?

        • @acetanilide
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          22 months ago

          The fact that we have to ask is scary enough

          • Optional
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            32 months ago

            Sure, but we’ve been in this timeline since the Escalator Ride to Hell so it’s not, like, that unusual.

            Heck, Pizzagate was a no-shit, for real thing these chowderheads yapped about for years. Maybe still do.

      • @[email protected]
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        Like you could say American is a sub dialect of English with it further broken down into accents. But I doubt most folks think of it that way, especially folks who say “I speak American” outside of an argument with the English.

      • @rottingleaf
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        and any random combination of cities/countries are part of the United States

        You do have a few Saint-Petersburgs, right? And Athens? And Cairos?

        that think our language is American,

        Similar to Russia then.

        Mexicans speak Mexican,

        Similar to Russia then.

        all Asian people are Chinese,

        Still similar to Russia.

    • @captainlezbian
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      22 months ago

      The problem is I can see it being real and I can see it being put up by either campaign

      • @[email protected]
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        Democrats are much more likely to have a Spanish speaker on staff at all levels. They are a more diverse bunch. Republicans, many from southern states will speak some Spanish, more so than northern white democrats. But, they are more likely to he a white only staff at each level, so nobody would pick up on it.

        This is part of the reason diversity is important. It will be self evident to some people that things are not right, whereas those in a different world won’t even notice.

          • @Johnmannesca
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            12 months ago

            Whoever put the sign up, all it did was confuse the shit out of anyone who knows at least one romance language.

      • Optional
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        How the hell can you see this being put up by Democrats? What idiot messaging do they have that even comes close to the torrent of ignorant bullshit the republiQans swim in every moment of the day?

        • @captainlezbian
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          22 months ago

          Not the party, but it falls very in line with the current “whether or not this is true, they seem the type” attacks such as the couch fucker memes

          • @svtdragon
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            I see the couch memes as an extension of “I can see Russia from my house” memes.

  • @TheEighthDoctor
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    442 months ago

    Is it just me that wants to vandalize the Billboard with “Romanes eunt domus”

  • @edgemaster72
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    402 months ago

    I don’t know Latin and haven’t taken Spanish for like 20 years, but would the first line translate to “Legal (my emphasis) Hispanics and Latinos”? Gotta love courting the votes of a demographic while still showing your bias against them.

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      Yep. I studied Latin and the “legales” is modifying the two nouns.

      The first actually refers to residents of Hispania, so any classical Latin speaking immigrants from Spain and Portugal should feel included.

      The second refers to the Latins, who were assimilated into the Roman (Trojan if believe the Aeneid) population and no longer exist.

      Stylistically, I would have gone with the enclitic “-que” over the conjunctive “et.”

      EDIT: They messed up the verb. Well, I’m guessing they thought they were using a verb. The “vota” is the nominative plural of votum, so it reads “Votes for Trump.”

      They’re not bright enough to know that the English verb “elect” derives from the perfect passive participle of “eligo, eligere” - electus.

      They should have gone with “Eligite Trump!” - “Choose/Elect Trump!”

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      122 months ago

      Basically I think though my latins rusty it reads like google translate in that the form seems wrong like someone transliterated English to Latin and ignored Latin grammar and logic in that Latin speaking people in Latin really doesn’t exist in the same way. Latini I think was only the subgroup of Latin speakers in Italy named Latium, either way not how a Roman Latin speaker would refer to a Latin speaker in general, not that the concept existed in the same way.

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

      It’s kind of like translating Japanese directly into English, reads off if you say in the room there are many chair in English kinda deal.

    • @rottingleaf
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      22 months ago

      I almost have tears in my eyes.

      Also a bit reminiscent of Johnny de Vito in “Romancing the stone”

  • @rsuri
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    362 months ago

    I know maga is dumb and all but I gotta imagine this is fake. No way they would actually know latin. That would only happen if they went to church as much as they pretend they do.

    • @[email protected]
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      The more likely scenario is that some staffer used Google translate, and thought that Latin means the language of the Latinos.

    • @Chickenstalker
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      Kek. I’m reminded of when the Russian FSB supposedly caught Western spies in Russia. Among the incriminating evidence were several pirated copies of The Sims game. Presumably, the FSB goons were told to plant phone simcards at the scene but they misunderstood it to mean the PC game. As such, I am conjecturing that this billboard was designed by inept Russian or Indian online operatives.

  • @Vytle
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    Y’know I could see this being done by a third party in an attempt to portray the GOP as not caring about Hispanics (Not that they do care lol)

    • @TrickDacy
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      142 months ago

      They would be heroes, this is amazing if so

      • FuglyDuck
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        112 months ago

        This also is amazing if it’s the GOP…

        Just a different sort of amazing…

  • Jesus
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    312 months ago

    Finally, a candidate that is pro-opera.

  • @[email protected]
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    292 months ago

    Ok I’ll write “Hispanics and Latinos vote for Trump” and so they think it’s from one of them, translate-> Latina and done!

    • @Dagnet
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      92 months ago

      Bottom text does seem like informal portuguese, so progressive