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Leopards Ate My Face

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Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate running as a Republican for governor of Ohio, posted a Halloween photo of himself and his two sons on Friday. The post received a wave of xenophobic and racist replies, including one user who wrote, “I see this year Vivek went as an H1B immigrant here to steal your jobs. Very scary. Like the brown version of the Grinch.”

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[–] Catma@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Always interesting how collaborators honestly think they'll be exempt once they usher fascists into power. Vivek hasn't read much history apparently.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This leopard won't eat MY face; I let it out from its cage!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Also, really, Vivek should be happy. This is literally the free speech he supposedly fought for and the sort of speech Twitter was re-engineered to proliferate.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

As we all know, it was never about "free speech", it was about "saying every racist/hateful thing without any consequences or societal pushback". They're actually just saying that out loud these days.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

He also should be glad he could lose his cititzenship despite being born in the US.

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Vivek has gotten obscenely wealthy by extolling a conservative worldview. I think be knows exactly what he's doing, even if it is entirely self serving.