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      yeah.

      If I hear some one use the other term, my plan is to confront them about using “pedo” language. If they insist, I’ll shift to questioning their support for a pedo.

      There is a cognitive dissonance that’s been set up where their love and obedience to Trump is tied in with an alleged “hate” of ‘pedos’. I mean it’s obviously bullshit but you can skewer someone who can’t disambiguate the two using this approach and create a situation in their mind they can’t handle.

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      That article doesn’t say what you think it says. The family of the man pictured in the logo wanted to keep it because it was it of the most widely seen images of a Native American. The family themselves don’t seem to care about the name much. Other groups do though.

      I was never a big fan about the wholesale elimination of native-inspired team names, because I always felt the iconography was more offensive. There could have been tasteful ways for Cleveland to keep the “Indians” name, but it was clear years ago that Chief Wahoo had to go. Same for Chief Nokahoma (who I think the Braves retired in rhe 80s), and every team with a Tomohawk in their logo.

      The Redskins were always a different case. The logo wasn’t quite so offensive, but try naming a team the Spics, Honkeys, or Japs and see how people like that. The name had to go. They could have named the team after the Blackfeet tribe, somehow, and kept the logo. But once they abandoned native names, the logo had to go.

      It’s too bad the Washington Generals was already taken, that would have been awesome. In retrospect, they should have kept Washington Football Team…

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    We could split the difference. What’s the middle ground between the US military and native Americans? You guessed it! Your newly renamed Washington Genocide!

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      Everyone would actually remember they are from D.C. and not the state of Washington if you called them that.

      Edit for fun fact: Washington D.C. is more than 300km closer to the equator, than it is to the capital of Washington.

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    Idgaf. You’re a rapist, Trump. A pedofile. A vile excuse for a human being APART from being a tyrannical wannabe dictator. Fuck off and die already.

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    i’ll have to agree they need to return to their old name. Washington Football Team was great, they should return to that

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    He probably wants to force them to sell the team back to Dan Snyder, too. Trump and Snyder do seem to be men cut from the same cloth.

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      Snyder only sexually harassed adult cheerleaders, though, so he’s not quite in Tump’s league

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    This is really the kind of thing that motivates Taco and his base.

    Meanwhile…where are those Trumpstein files?