A contest for the state’s next “I Voted” sticker yielded several winning designs, but a seventh grader’s stood out from the rest.
  • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 months ago

    “If there is ever a year to have an unhinged werewolf ripping its shirt off as the “I Voted” sticker … it’s 2024,” Derek Dobies, the chief of staff of the Michigan A.F.L.-C.I.O.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Rudy Giuliani in front of some lawncare storefront, “we have reports that illegal were-people were voting in this election”

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      The only way you can get one is by committing vote fraud and voting in Michigan. Just saying.

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
        7·
        2 months ago

        If any republicans committing fraud because “they have to be doing it too” get one of these stickers, I will buy the one you get if you try to vote illegally a second time.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 months ago

    “Ope, I voted” is a pretty good one too. I normally don’t take a sticker but either of those I’d hold onto.

      • Kiernian@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Pronounced like “hope” without the “h”, it is indeed a local (Midwestern U.S.) "expression.

        It is, mostly, a “shorthand apology”.

        “Ope, just gonna squeeze right past you and grab the ranch” (dressing) or “Ope, grab the butter while you’re up whydoncha?”, or “Ope, I spose it’s about that time.”

        In the context of that sticker, it’s more like a “sorry, not sorry” but less intense and more polite.

        • MeowCatPlzMeowBack@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I’d add to this great explanation by including that ‘Ope’ doubles as an ‘oh shit’ or ‘whoops’ expression.

          Examples include dropping something, tripping, making a mistake, and also used in situations where we feel rude asking someone to do something. As you said, the classic ’ope, gonna squeeze past yah’ is because our weird northern hospitality makes us feel uncomfortable being rude so we say ‘ope’ to signal we’re aware that we are inconveniencing the other person. Even though ‘ganders will honk at each other for other shit, we don’t typically like to be seen as infringing on someone else’s autonomy given the midwest is a big ‘don’t tell me what to do and I won’t tell you what to do’ culture.

          On the topic, I’d also like to state for the record that Eminem is saying ‘Ope! There goes gravity’ which has a completely different connotation than ‘oh there goes gravity’ as non-midwesterners often translate it to. Oh is too passive compared to Ope which, again, is in the ‘oh shit that was unintentional’ meaning that only the power of Ope can express. I know this seems like such a small issue but it enrages ‘ganders to a degree unfathomable to those outside the midwest, so best steer clear of that. Like our geese, we can get real uppity over random shit, if you piss us off all that northern hospitality melts away to be replaced with HONK.

          p.s. if you don’t finish off the “ope, ‘spose it’s that time” without slapping your thighs with both hands as you get up, I’m pretty sure you can be charged with a war crime ‘round these parts.

        • zabadoh@ani.social
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          2 months ago

          Wow, thanks! I wouldn’t have guessed some of those uses.

          I’m guessing that it’s short for (I h)ope (you don’t mind, but…)