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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 63 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Can someone please translate this rule for a non American?

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 122 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Text in the top left of the image behind the speaker

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is why we invented red circles drawn in MS Paint

[–] Psaldorn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No giant arrow? No laughs from me. How will I know?

[–] DerArzt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

A better question is how are my internet addled eyes supposed to read such a clear picture without Jpeg artifacts?

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whitewashing is the act of minimizing or covering up vices, crimes or scandals, or of exonerating the guilty by means of a perfunctory investigation or biased presentation of data with the intention to improve someone's reputation.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In this case it might be actual Whites doing said washing.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Which is probably a first for some of these folks

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think that's the white house press secretary. She's gotta go in front of a bunch of journalists, try to frame the president's actions as somehow a good thing (whitewashing), and then answer all of the journalists' questions (sort of).

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I forgot about this game. We all get a bottle of [insert favorite rotgut] and take shots every time they have a noticeable anxiety tic in response to questions. Last time it got good enough that SNL did skits.

[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He only hires white blonde chicks and to me that reeks of DEI

[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

DEI = Dick Eating Interns? Ducks Escaping Internment? Dildos Entering Inmates? Dudes Eating Indian? Drivers Evading Interstates?

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Focusing on the important things, like how bad her surgeries were