• Southern Boy@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Why exactly were people rehabilitating this man? Do they remember they gained nothing from electoral antics in the last general? It must be cynical political entertainment for money and attention. Here at Sᴏᴜᴛʜᴇʀɴ Bᴏʏ™ much higher standards are upheld.

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      I think it was driven by the KHive because they knew that the initial momentum from switching to Kamala was crashing against the seawall of Kamala’s policies being exactly the same as the man she replaced. Walz being rehabilitated was a meme and it didn’t even last very long - by the time Kamala made her blood and soil DNC speech the jig was up, and we’re pretty much right back to where we started.

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        the “KHive” thing was always a weird self-tell to me (alluding, I assume, to the insect-like hivemind attitude of her followers, where all individual thinking is quelled and all ends uncritically serve their Queen), but it occurred to me only yesterday — did they literally just switch it to KHive because it was originally BHive (like Beehive) for Biden? But then Biden got palace coup’d after the Democrats’ billionaire neo-colonial death-merchant financiers pulled their funding over his brain dripping from his ears and nose on live TV, so they needed to change it but just switched the first letter because the didn’t have the imagination to come up with a new name? Because agony-soviet

        • jaywalker [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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          The hive thing was originally popularized by “bey-hive” for Beyonce I believe. Then some Kamala supporters used “k-hive” and then they did “b-hive” for Biden. Really it wasn’t even Beyonce fans that did it first, they just did it the loudest

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            I don’t understand why people would want to give themselves a name that alludes to being part of to a borg-like hivemind of insects that live solely to serve their ‘royalbred’ betters; but then again I’ve never been one to identify with ‘fandoms’ in general. And a lot of Europeans did it until gui and some people still do it :god-save-the-queen: anglo-burn so what do I know.

            These are also the same people who get mad about “collectivism” when you talk about marx hammer-sickle

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          I’m pretty sure “KHive” dates back to the 2020 primaries, so it’s not a Biden thing.