Comment on Did we all give up on calling him Drumpf?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Never did because it was stupid. The man’s committing unchecked crimes against humanity and you’re doing playground name-calling.
I think one of my earliest interactions on Lemmy was about how dumb a comment about the Russia-Ukraine war that used the name “POOtin” was.
Calling Trump “Drumpf” accomplishes absolutely nothing (seriously) and makes it seem like you’ve got nothing else than his grandparents’ funny-sounding foreign name to attack with.
I think… there was a kernel of a decent instinct there. At the point that John Oliver bit came out I feel like we were all kinda just marveling at how far stupid playground insults managed to get Trump. “Well, ok, maybe he’s onto something. Let’s try it and see what happens.” Was a fine reaction for the time, but I think it was best abandoned quickly.
In 2025, not useful in the slightest. I don’t know what is precisely, but I don’t think it’s petty name calling.
Yeah, I’m glad most stopped.
I like to share excerpts from Lemmy with my incredibly right-wing family (hopefully to chip away at their staunch beliefs) and its SOOO much easier to share articles/comments when I don’t need to re-write them to exclude all Drumpf mentions. (Those mentions of course cause the person I’m trying to influence to immediately shut down and not read the rest of what I said)
The John Oliver bit about the sound of Trump vs Drumpf was an alright punchline to a show ten years ago, before even the first installment of this madness. Those were simpler times, though, and fundamentally I agree with you.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Some of us just prefer to take the Whoopi Goldberg approach and never give them the dignity of saying or typing their actual name. The person is an egotistical sack of orange shit, I don’t like saying his name either. Every time someone says his name, it just strokes his ego that much more.