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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Considering they are more crazy than weird, it may seem dumb:

Republican Senate candidate Royce White:

“We’re weird? You freaks support pride festivals where grown men are getting pissed on and sucking each other off in public,” White wrote. “You’re a clown and you’re lucky your term wasn’t up or I would’ve run against you. The People Are Coming! You communists are exposed.”

This is insane, because they claim to support personal freedoms, but in reality they don't. Instead they criticize it and discriminate against it.
Perfect example of being weird.

Calling them insane or crazy would probably not have as good an effect, because it would be considered overboard hyperbole, despite it's not.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

That actually makes sense. Calling them weird is something that goes against their values that they can’t really reclaim because it’s too mild

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago

That's a rather "weirdly" specific thing to call out there Royce. Are you trying to tell us something?

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

They also like to embrace being called "crazy", like they're daring mavericks who are ahead of their time or something. Y'know, "fine line between genius and crazy" and all that. But weird really strikes at the core of who they are, at this notion that, fundamentally, they represent the "correct" way of being, and everyone else is wrong.

When you have an ideology built on destroying everything that deviates from your accepted norms, being "Normal" is the most important thing in the world.