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  • Hehe, I was thinking about that as I wrote it…

    Here in Sweden, we normally make fun of Norwegians with stupid jokes, and we have one about a Norwegian guy traveling to the UK with his car.

    He is driving down the motorway in the UK, listening to the radio when he hears this:

    “This is an emergency alert, there is a car driving against the flow of traffic on the A1 just south of Newcastle…”

    The Norwegian blurts out (in Norwegian):

    “One? There are thousands”




  • When I read the “HRH” title abbreviation it reminded me of my first trip abroad.

    I am a Swede and in the early nineties me and my family decided to take a trip to the UK, we took the family car and dad drove to the ferry, this was a Swedish car, with Swedish plates, and a clear national identifying sticker on the back noting us as Swedes.

    As we drove around in the UK, we noted that a lot of cars seemed to flash their indicators at us, weird…

    It took a few days but then we realized that our registration plate said “HRH 123”, and we felt quite self conscious after that…

    Anyway that was my story, and I’d rather post about that than read more about the shithead this article concerns.





  • If we compare Trump to a phishing email, they are remarkably close.

    Use of language: Phishing emails usually incorporate misspellings and bad grammar, this is done to prevent people who are too detail oriented from wasting the scammer’s time, if they sort themselves out the scammer can focus on the gullible people who will believe them later in the process. Trump uses child like grammar in the same way, it turns away educated people from his fans, reducing the risk that they will start convincing followers that Trump is bad, which increase the echo chamber effect.

    Use of hyperbole: Phishing emails will push hard for fast action, telling you that doing X is extremely important, and needs to be done now. Same with Trump, there is always a big crisis, putting you on edge, stressing you out, this further reduce his follower’s ability to use critical thinking, so they will have an easier time to mindlessly support whatever action they are told will solve the crisis.

    There are way more similarities, but I am on mobile, and starting to cramp, so I end this comment here.

    TL;DR: Trump is a scam email.