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Thanks, I was quite confused by these memes over the past 2 days.

Now, if somebody could explain to me the "orb pondering" meme, that would be great.

Upper part looks more like a tamagotchi.

Saying "shut the fuck up" (even in scrambled order), "this asshole" (from another user), and even "stop saying that shit" isn't "good-faith" criticism. Good-faith criticism is "I disagree because ". I said absolutely nothing egregious and offended nobody. If you think you see something egregious in what I said then you misinterpreted my words.
You said people aren't making assumptions, but there's a couple comments in this thread who said that I'm supporting Trump. Others, like you, insist that I'm downplaying it and don't care that he's a fascist, which I have neither said nor implied. There's of course a couple reasonable responses, too.

Now, one last attempt to put the record straight. Yes, I still think he stumbled into saying it accidentally. By that I DON'T mean he isn't thinking it or doesn't mean to do it. I only mean that we should be focusing on more concrete terrible things that he has said and done, of which there are plenty. Media has run with this specific event for so long only because it's easy to sensationalize due to the way they report it, it seems like he stated it clearly and deliberately. Because that's what I thought when I was seeing all the news and thought "damn, did he just straight up said that? has he become that bold". Then I watched the actual video and saw that he just kinda walked himself into blabbering it and played it off as a joke. If a person on the fence will see these the news, go check the actual video, see that it's blown out of proportion they might ignore the future criticisms of Trump. And media caused that for a couple extra views.

Anyway, I don't intend to continue this empty discussion. I'll just leave you (general you) with an advice to not put words into people’s mouths, and not to insult/attack people you don't know. We will all benefit from it. Cheers.

I wasn't downplaying anything, after everything discussed, you still insist that I somehow don't care about what he said.

I would also not complain if people engaged in good faith and were trying to politely convince me that I'm somehow wrong. But instead it was just assumptions and insults. Yes, I'm absolutely not in the wrong for stating my reasonable, but perhaps controversial opinion. It's the people who attack and be rude who are in the wrong.

But anyway, while we were arguing here media has already moved on to another thing, so all good here. Apparently, he said something like "criminals are criminals".

Not everyone is wrong. But it happens occasionally and then people pile on. I'm guessing it's just people looking for an outburst.

My comment says "media and memes should stop milking it". Which is the only thing that they are doing. There's nothing to discuss. This isn't news, we all already know he's a fascist dictator. The only problem is that some people support it. You should've started being terrified long ago when he was acting like a dictator, not when he accidentally mumbled being one.

Why is Lemmy so rich in people hell-bent on interpreting comments in the worst possible light, then make assumptions about the author based on that interpretation of a single comment? Oh and then proceed to be rude, in one shape or form.

Do better, people. Don't be jerks.

You end up with an authoritarian regime by saying things everybody already knows? I'll be careful not to tell people that water is wet.

Wait, are you calling me an asshole? Just because I'm tired about hearing old news for 3 days?

Boy, people on Lemmy are no better at making assumptions about people out of thin air.

Exactly, we all already know this. Democrats and those who weren't gonna vote for him anyway already know this and it won't affect their vote. Republicans and those who were gonna vote for him really hope he's a dictator and are glad to hear this. Will continue to vote for him.

Him accidentally stumbling into sorta saying it openly doesn't change anything.

I watched the video itself. He barely mentioned it and it pretty obviously was one of his on-the-spot incoherent ramblings that he was just trying to form into a somewhat coherent thought. But the media and memes have been milking it for 3 days straight. That was a 1-day milk, 2-day at most. I'm sure he has done something moronic more recently, let's move on.

Technically, the members of the subreddit claim the name is ironic, but you'd be hard-pressed to tell by the way they often act.

They are called CAT cables for a reason.

Edit: I just saw the title of the post and realized my joke is dumb now.