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renewiltordyesterday at 12:12 AM4 repliesview on HN

Everyone is talking in some kind of weird in-group code or in-jokes that I can't understand so I'll decipher it for the rest of us normies.

> Maguire clearly "comes from a culture that lies about everything."

This is a reference to Shaun Maguire's Twitter post where he said that Zohran Mamdani "comes from..."

https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1941135110922969168

> > Maguire is Jewish, with ancestral ties to early Jewish settlers in California.

> Sir, we are going to have to ask you to leave.

This comment appears to be reacting to the first one by assuming the first one is saying that Jewish people lie about everything, and it responds by saying this is unacceptable to say.

I have been off Twitter for 2 months and when I go there I can't understand anything. People are always saying "can I say something?" and "we know what this means" and shit like that and either the 2 months have killed my brain or something because I never know what the first guy isn't going to say and the second guy knows.

Now Hacker News is similarly incomprehensible and I'm starting to think my mind is no longer able to handle human speech. If this is happening to anyone else, then I hope the interpretation helped. If it didn't, then maybe I'm just losing my mind.


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protastusyesterday at 1:16 AM

Thanks for the explanation -- I also had no idea what this meant.

I am disturbed that in-group code has been normalized as a way to state socially abhorrent positions out in the open, as if it offered plausible deniability.

barfoureyesterday at 12:15 AM

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