Post AucFSZzpSCdfKUOzRY by steely_glint@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #AucF2WRc2MfEmgyMOO by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-30T09:47:54Z
       
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       We should make American presidents "take on names" like popes do. Or better yet the opposition should get to pick the name. For humbleness and amusement purposes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AucFDZZQkqvtfItmBE by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-05-30T09:49:54Z
       
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       "griftler"
       
 (DIR) Post #AucFSZzpSCdfKUOzRY by steely_glint@chaos.social
       2025-05-30T09:52:34Z
       
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       @futurebird The secret service (supposedly) does, they allow a new president to choose their code name. Clinton (allegedly) chose ‘Elvis’ -ensuring that everyday his detail had to whisper into their cuffs : “Elvis has left the building “ !
       
 (DIR) Post #AucFtO5HqmXIChjoh6 by Illuminatus@mstdn.social
       2025-05-30T09:57:24Z
       
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       @futurebird Mind you, that's why European monarchs usually had a nickname, sobriquet or what have you, many times more than one according to perspectives. The tradition endures these days.
       
 (DIR) Post #AucGfdhf5BQqXrhCGO by Aethelstan@mas.to
       2025-05-30T10:06:10Z
       
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       @futurebird ooooh. Do the celibacy too.
       
 (DIR) Post #AucI2IVm8fmvR1VJyq by NatureMC@mastodon.online
       2025-05-30T10:21:28Z
       
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       @futurebird The best names for Nazis were always given by the resistance. 😉 Bertolt Brecht's "Anstreicher" for Hitler in 1933 became famous as an ambiguous wordplay with "Anschmierer" as someone who paints/smears (Hitler saw himself as a painter) and humbugs/cons other people. https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=42069&lang=enPeople sang it secretely. In later years, people were arrested just because of using that name. It was used for resistance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AucIF6TmBZyBskfw6C by slowtiger@berlin.social
       2025-05-30T10:23:43Z
       
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       @futurebird Get some inspiration here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monarchs_by_nickname
       
 (DIR) Post #Aud1c0EG5Oz95wi6hU by katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-05-30T18:52:07Z
       
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       @futurebird Well, the opposition did that, for humiliation and amusement purposes: "Sleepy Joe".