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    4 days ago

    Man, not keeping up with US news just makes these kind of images really confusing 😶‍🌫️

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        3 days ago

        That I happen to understand a bit. Something about forceful returns of “illegal immigrants”, in this case to Mexico by “ICE”. Dunno what it stands for but I know IRS stands for Internal Revenue Services. So ICE = Internal Control Eh… Internal Crime Ejection?

        OK, had to look it up. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I’ll never remember that without the “a” in between. IaCE

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    3 days ago

    I really hope he chuckled to himself over Meritime because that’s excellent. That’s good work right there.

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        The word maritime means of or near or on or dealing with the ocean. So he made a pun by replacing it with Merit, which is about how worthy or how good at stuff someone is, or if someone deserves something.

        It’s a pretty good pun!

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          worth adding that when an employer hires on “merit” it often disproportionately chooses white men, i.e. why its related to DEI