I know it’s a word some people think is beyond the pale but I must have been overexposed to it or something (I know an Australian or two who seem to use it as a term of endearment) because I can’t deny there’s a certain blunt anglo-saxon vehemence to its utterance that is hard to substitute...

you sure your name isn't actually Rupert Murdoch...?

some days you just want to swap out that last a for a u...

the problem with even paraphrasing the man is (I believe) something of a mantra in the coding community & among statisticians & data analysts...

well, if he gets a second term presumably a Chump™ branded gaming console where you can play out your racist hatemongering NRA fantasies without fearing that you might either be or get mentally ill...I imagine it would go a little like this...

really, though, it’s amazing any mentally ill person could ever acquire a gun IRL...what with them being so busy playing all those video games that made them mentally ill...

[TL;DR: yeah...but I seem to still be aggrieved about it beyond that...]

do you suppose that’s his voting arm or his bill signing arm he’s gone & put out of action...?

that might be a little unfair...unless you click the link & notice the difference between the name as displayed & the account name (this time it’s an “a” after the “L” in Lizardo you won’t notice that it’s a troll doppelganger for a user who wouldn’t post that trash...

for the record...if kinja had an edit window longer than 15mins the word monkey wouldn't appear in the above comment...

I didn’t call you anything...I suggested there might be better targets to upbraid & I’d stand by that...

I wouldn’t know...but speaking for myself I’m plenty riled up by the kinds of bullshit to be found all over the grays & here & there up here in black&white so with no intention of further infuriating you I’d say that any & all reasonable people are angry just now...

not that kind of defense...I’m not claiming it wasn’t the wrong choice of words...only that in context it wasn’t quite such a glaring error...

fair point...will try & do better in future but in my defense the previous reply he dismissed made it clear I meant it in the sense of the ones that used to do the organ-grinder’s job for them...

for the record...

not defending ICE...attacking you & your malignant blight upon these boards...as well your disingenuous ass knows...

you know good & well my beef with you is based in what you actually stand for...not the crap you point to...you mouth-breathing amoral excuse for a reichwing organ-monkey...

have some goddamned respect you bottom-feeding scumbag...your patented brand of two-faced rhetoric has no place here at the best of times...

it seems like they flock to any gun violence thread to stand their specious rhetorical ground...

can we at least agree to quit pretending these incidents aren’t links in a chain of events that leads directly to the stubby-fingered inciter of racist powderkegs currently squatting in the White House...