• laz@pawb.social
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      No, I believe it’s a reference to Queen Marie Antoinette, Queen of France during the French Revolution. She was notorious for a life of decadence (even by monarch standards) while the French population starved.

      It’s where “let them eat cake” comes from.

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        I’m sure that’s what the reference was but this still feels “slimy” to me. It’s like when people think it’s ok to be homophobic when they’re saying how Trump loves slobbering on Putin’s cock or it’s ok to be misogynist when you’re talking about Lauren Boebert. I don’t like the Idiocracy thing where whoever is the loudest dickhead gets to be king, I think that sucks. I prefer the approach of someone like Mamdani, who carries himself with grace and really wants to help people, to Newsom’s “just like Trump except I’m a Democrat guys I promise” approach.

        Fuck Gavin Newsom, he’s no friend to InI and he definitely is transphobic. He said so on those neo Nazi podcasts he loves to appear on. His legislative record proves it.

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        This is exactly it. He’s saying that Trump is behaving like Marie Antoinette right before the French revolutionists chopped off her head.