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milk_thief [it/its] @hexbear.net

9mo ago

You could say her Arab voters outreach is... ass backwards

their attempts at losing are so half-baked and boring

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lol I hope this is real. Tte Arabic text is machine translated and is written from left to right. It asks to vote OR volunteer.
- They need to get a refund on whatever machine they're using. Google translate is better than whatever they used
- Google translates that as "We were sleeping, and we were not sleeping", as well as saying she's Alexandria Occasion Cortel from the Losing Sector.
  
  from the Losing Sector.
  It got that spiritually correct at least
  
  More like Cartel lol amirite?
  No not because of her ethnicity, not because- It's THE DEMOCRATS I SWEAR GUYS I JUST MEANT-
  
  I used Google too
- AOC comes out in defense of the being gay with your dad constituency
The script is all wrong, this is actually fantastic
- I don't know the least bit of Arabic and even I was going "isn't the letters supposed to be joined together?"
  
  and it is arragnd in the wrong direction
Could they have hired 1 Arabic speaker? Aren't there any professional translators that'll work for em? It's like a 10 minute job. All those people who were translators for the military in countries across the ME and Afghanistan and yet they can't find one.
- From what I've heard from Arabic speakers working for the democrats is (big shock) they are really racist and ignorant towards them and tend to drive them out.
- Given how hard the Americans fought against allowing any people from Iraq and Afghanistan to seek refuge in America, I wouldn't be surprised if the number of Arabic speakers who want to work with the Democrats is a rapidly dwindling number.
  
  Afghanistan doesn't speak Arabic
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I would demand my money back
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  Faroese translation (from text grab, couldn't get a good Scandi image translate)
To non-Spanish speakers: This is also what it sounds like when aoc speaks Spanish
- Spanish translation
- lol
I can't read arabic, but that looks wrong somehow. Aren't the letters supposed to be joined together? I remember learning the sounds at one point. It kinda looks like the thai script actually.
Also

pussy lol
edit: Wait is the script going the wrong way??? Lol wtf
- Ye letters are supposed to be joined going right to left. Certain letter combinations will change the way the letters are written, too. It's like if they wrote "Vote for AOC!" like this:
  c O A r O f E T o v !
  
  covfefe hehe
- its the wrong way AND not joined together, its amazing
- I thought it was Thai too at first glance lmao
  
  Thai translation
- It also looks like they used the Arabic equivalent of comic sans.
- Chat is this real
  
  My results weren't much better
- @Aru@lemmygrad.ml do you know?
  
  give me a moment I'll translate it and put it in Gimp
@kristina@hexbear.net translation
- for anyone not familiar with arabic this is how it should look like, but with a different font because I have a headache and I ain't searching for the one piece today
  Also note that the arabic is ass, it's the equivalent to "You're winner!"
  
  lol yeah pretty much
- tragic it isnt as funny as hoped
  thee arly voting
Performative activism at it's finest
Why the fuck is the script written from left to right like English? That's now how it works.
Google Translate, forced to Arabic, right-hand half of the image:
I realize I have only spelt out the issue in the alt-text and nobody hovered over the funny image smh

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