MAGA devotee Roberto Mosquera thought Trump would unify the country. Now he’s 8,000 miles away.

  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    it’s not funny or cool:

    actually sent to a maximum-security prison in the southern African kingdom of Eswatini—a nation accused of human-rights abuses that none of the men have any connection to.

    he might be a cunt, but he doesn’t deserve a life sentence in a maximum security torture prison

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      He wanted that to happen to other people.

      He does deserve it.

      And we can acknowledge that the system is fucked even though by chance it punished a cunt.

      id rather no one get deported to concentration camps. but that twat doesn’t get to complain.

    • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      He’s a cunt who was perfectly happy doing that to other people. I’m not supporting Trump’s agenda by taking pleasure in the suffering of someone who actually does. Fuck this guy.

      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        12 hours ago

        fuck this guy for sure.
        the silver lining is at least he’s being forced to see what he’s been supporting this whole time… but he still doesn’t deserve this.
        he’s been on hunger strike for a couple weeks now… fuck this guy but not like, fuck him to death in a torture prison….
        i guess it’s the gritty, bloody, reality version of a leopard eating one’s face…

        • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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          9 hours ago

          He should be allowed to make videos & post them online, just to see the mental gymnastics.

          … unless he is somehow still pro mass deportations to random countries that can’t say no to USA monies.

      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        14 hours ago

        then you’re a fascist, and fuck you.
        btw this is happening to people who weren’t trump supporters too.

        • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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          12 hours ago

          “I don’t feel empathy for fascists. who want to send me to a concentration camp”

          Ozymandias: wow you must be the real fascist then

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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          14 hours ago

          And you’re an obtuse twat.

          I don’t give a rat’s ass if it’s happening to people who enabled this. Fuck them and fuck you too.

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            11 hours ago

            Regardless of anything else, I’m cracking up over the argument aboutobtuse. How dare you use the English language correctly! 😄

          • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            13 hours ago

            you don’t even know what obtuse means, you just know it’s an insult smart people use….
            but you’re not smart and you used it wrong, you oblivious cunt.

              • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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                13 hours ago

                Richard Attenborough voice Observe, an idiot on the Internet in his native environment. Watch as he tries fruitlessly to win an argument by quoting the dictionary at another user. I’m this classic display he believes he’s won. Watch, as the other user returns to shut him down, yet again.

                • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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                  Observe, yet another fuckwit missing the entire point of someone referencing a dictionary while trying way too hard to sound clever and original.

                  If I’m being told I’m misusing a word, what else should I rely on to set the record straight? How is that winning any arguments rather than clearing things up for the idiot making shit up? Do all dumbasses travel in pairs around here or what?

                  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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                    12 hours ago

                    Nah I’m just goofin. But seriously the dictionary my guy? Come on man.

                  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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                    11 hours ago

                    Richard Attenborough was Hammond in Jurassic Park. He has a distinctly different voice and tone.

                    I said what I meant, asshole.

              • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                13 hours ago

                the google ai summary? lol, no….


                you see, an obtuse angled object is difficult to fit in with other objects, which are typically 90 degrees (like a box) or less… and deliberately.
                as such, we have the metaphorical definition “obtuse”, referring to difficulty….
                like “oh, this dmv employee is being deliberately obtuse by adding all of these arbitrary requirements to my license renewal”.
                the obtuse=stupid definition comes the vernacular misunderstanding of the term because they heard smart people talking on Shawshank Redemption before and want to sound smart.
                but you won’t understand this anyways… kindly fuck off and clutch your pearls and cope and mental gymnastics clown emoji

                • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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                  13 hours ago

                  You’re further proving my point, dumbass.

                  Does this look like Google to you? Of course not, you’re not very observant or smart.

                  I hope you realize that all the schooling you think you’re doing comes from a deep-seated ignorance about how language works. Usage precedes definitions, and if it’s in the dictionary as such, it’s because that’s the way people are using it. Pedantic fuckwit.

                  • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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                    12 hours ago

                    It’s just wild that you are so blind to the similarities between you and MAGA, calling for people’s death. Yea, it’s not exactly the same, yea MAGA are the bad guys, but denying their humanity IS the same thing they do, and it’s bad. There is going to need to be a very intensive “Denazification” of America if the old Republic is going to continue, but killing roughly 30% of the country because they voted for the bad guys after years of saturation level propaganda isn’t the solution.

                    Take a few moments to reflect on that, please. I’m not trying to argue, I don’t care to read another screeching reply. I’m so tired of it, so if you can’t engage with what wrote in good faith and with a degree of humanity, just downvote me again and move on. The negative vote count every time I say this means enough to me.

                  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    13 hours ago

                    see now you’re being deliberately obtuse….
                    i’m sorry about all of this rage you have, but it’s not towards me

            • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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              13 hours ago

              Everything I don’t like is fascism. Go clutch your fucking pearls where someone gives a fuck.

                  • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                    13 hours ago

                    me complaining about someone being sent to a life sentence at a maximum security prison in a small african country known for human rights violations is “pearl clutching” because all trump supporters deserve to be tortured until they slowly die?
                    he was sent there because he went to prison when he was younger… he had cleaned up, has a family now, living here legally
                    this should be upsetting you, they’re sending non-trump supporters to places like that too.
                    ….
                    say it out loud, say “i want this man to be tortured for life in a maximum security prison in africa, because he supports trump”.
                    ….
                    don’t be one of them to fight them

            • Soulg@ani.social
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              12 hours ago

              What does this even mean, who said anything about liberals

        • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
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          13 hours ago

          Hey man, you can’t be a reasonable person on the left anymore, didn’t you get the memo? The groupthink is now all about screeching for the blood of our Enemies (countrymen). If you don’t want every Trump voter taken out back and shot, you aren’t welcome in the Revolution™

          • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            13 hours ago

            hey don’t start pushing me back to hating everyone….
            damn it i’m misanthropic again….
            everything cool gets taken over by people just along for the ride
            at least there’s still Stoic philosophy keeping it real….

            • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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              13 hours ago

              Stoicism should not be a shield to guard you from reality. Acknowledge those things that you cannot control, that many people do in fact suck, and focus on the choices you can make. We know people suck, and that history tells us they can suck a whole lot harder. You can accept defeat, tell yourself nothing can be done and resign yourself to whatever consequences may come from that, or?

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      nothing in your (biased) AI link says it’s a torture prison.
      I feast on your crocodile tears drama queen, and of that gusano POS

      • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        13 hours ago

        “gusano”?
        so throwing xenophobic slurs now?

        It later was used to describe Cuban exiles in general, and their Cuban-American descendants.

        so, fuck your racism, your childish cliche insults, and i’m really sorry but that link was from me copying a paragraph from the article in my previous comment, one hop up from the comment you read… i’m so so very sorry.

        • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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          7 hours ago

          I love Cubans, the real Cubans so definitely not racist.
          You can not insult real Cubans by using their name for gusanos.
          That is used to describe the traitors, exploiters and followers of the dictator Batista put there by the US regime.
          The scum who had to flee to the US banana republic when they were overthrown by the people. And their awful vulgar offspring with generally the same disgusting mindset. So fuck you for being a liar, and defender of gusanos

          • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            7 hours ago

            fuck you, you racist piece of shit.
            and he’s not a follower of Batista, who died in fucking 1973, you racist idiot.

        • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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          12 hours ago

          It later was used to describe Cuban exiles in general, and their Cuban-American descendants.

          This line simply is not in the article. Just because that guy is lazy and blames everything on “AI” doesn’t really give you an excuse for lying, There is also no “previous comment”.

          “Gusano” is a derogatory term based on politics, not race. It was used by Castro to insult counter-revolutionaries and exiles.

          i’m so so very sorry.

          No, your condescension does not obscure the weakness of your post.

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      14 hours ago

      It’s quite funny though. Cool, not so much. But reaping what you sawed? Yeah that’s funny as fuck.

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          13 hours ago

          Certainly not the act in itself, but wishing bad things on others only to have them happen to yourself? The irony is highly entertaining. Couldn’t have happened to a worse person.

          • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            12 hours ago

            i wish i could be entertained by it, but i just see mentally ill man sent to be tortured to death in small african dictatorship’s max prison… im sure maximum security means nothing there and its just a little slice of hell….
            and of course i see: they’re going to send people like us to places like that, pretty soon… if they keep getting away with it.

        • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
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          12 hours ago

          I think a lot of people here are experiencing schadenfreude, and aren’t capable of contextualizing that anymore. You’re not wrong, not even remotely. Sadly, a bull that’s wrong and a bull that’s right still butt heads and the heaviest bull will win regardless.

          Don’t be a bull. Be a matador. (Kinda… Like matadors actually are awful but I hope the metaphor at least comes through) You can guide an angry bull. Ask questions until your point becomes self evident. It’s not easy but if you want to move the needle, you can’t just be another bull in the ring.