• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Also comey is the whole fuckin reason we got Trump 1.0

      His ridiculous last moment announcement of “those emails weren’t criminal but still super sus in my opinion" contributed for sure, but it was mostly Hillary being a bad candidate with bad policies, no charisma, and a bad campaign strategy shooting herself in the foot at every opportunity.

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        Didn’t help? He didn’t dominate the results. It was this announcement that did it.

        She would have been fine, they both would have been. No comparison.

        Trump ran all of his campaigns like shit. He’s just propt up by the entire right wing.

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          Yep, I remember too. A few weeks before the election “oh yeah I’m concerned about the email” breathing new life into a non-issue for the media to run with, they’re all complicit. I hope they’re dragged against a wall when their times come.

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    7 days ago

    What does a shell pattern mean?

    Please explain it for everybody that isn’t American.

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      It’s a signalling method used since the Cold War when morse code transmissions were easy to intercept. You form your message by placing shells together, and wait for the intended receiver to chance upon the said shells and read the message. In today’s time, it is apparently still used by the heads of American agencies to issue top secret kill orders to private contractors (read: mercenaries).

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      86 is a common term in the hospitaly industry for “getting rid of”.

      It sometimes refers to items out of stock, but it also refers to being kicked out or refused service at an establishment. Like someone being too drunk and getting thrown out of a bar can be said to have been “86’ed”.

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      86 is a code in restaurants for items that are sold out and need to new removed from the menu (i don’t know why that is the code). So “to 86” something is to remove it, get rid of it, or be done with it. Some have extrapolated that to also mean to remove someone by killing them, but that is not at all a common way to interpret the phrase. And 47 is referencing Trump who is the 47th president of the US. 46, then, referenced Biden.

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        86 is a code in restaurants for items that are sold out and need to new removed from the menu

        lol and this obscure thing is general knowledge to american people?

        anyways, thanks for the clarification

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          In our super-stellar, better-than-everyone-else, American exceptionalism job market, many Americans end up working their asses off for less than minimum wage in the service industry at least once in their lives. Enough so that we’re all mostly familiar with the most common industry slang.

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          It’s not obscure at all, and it isn’t limited to just restaurants. I’ve known the term 86, referring to removing something or someone, since I was kid.

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          That’s one way to tell people you don’t know much about your own language/culture. Because all of them have words or phrases that ignoramuses think are normal to most people.

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              187 is an old California police code for a murder. Might still be in use, I don’t know. It came into more common knowledge with the song Deep Cover by Dr Dre and Snoop in 1992 with the lyrics “Yeah, and you don’t stop / 'Cause it’s 1-8-7 on a undercover cop”

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            Like half of those you listed are police codes that they use over the radios that seeped into common language.

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          86 is a restaurant term, basically meaning that there is no more of a dish.

          46 in this context is the 46th president of the united states.

          And for a serious response on shell pattern, its referencing shotgun shells; if you are using birdshot, you get a very spread out pattern of impact points, with buckshot it would be a tight grouping of impact points (shotgun shells are packed with metal BB’s instead of a single, larger chunk of metal).

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            86 started at a speakeasy during the prohibition called Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street in NYC. They’d kick out poorly behaved people, telling them to “86 it” out the door. These days restaurant workers and kitchen staff is 86 to mean that a menu item is unavailable or someone is being cut off or kicked out. It basically means “get rid of it”.

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            The shell pattern is actually referencing a picture Comey tweeted of sea shells in a pattern on a beach that formed the numbers “86 47”

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    I’d like to believe this but why isn’t anybody posting a link to the tweet instead of a screenshot which is so convenient it almost begs to be fake

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    The right wing doesn’t care about hypocrisy. The only thing that matters is “is this good for me right now?”.

    Pointing out hypocrisy to them is as effective as someone saying your geometric proof is invalid because you’re wearing a yellow shirt. It’s just not a part of their worldview or system of values.