• theprogressivist
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    1556 days ago

    Republican Representative Brandon Gill has told New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to “go back to the Third World” in response to a video of him eating with his hands.

    I guess this asshole has never eaten a burger, chicken, hot dog etc. Fucking racist piece of shit.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 days ago

      In Russia it was impolite, actually, to eat chicken not with your hands. Can’t say why, maybe it’s the possibility of bones splitting and flying away, and maybe it’s that some of the meat remains on the bones, so some visible food gets thrown out. As a kid I would sometimes get looks (making my hands oiled and dirty I don’t like, being autistic and just because it’s inconvenient).

      In any case I’m not sure someone’s eating habits affect their politics, unless demonstrating lack of basic hygiene or involving cannibalism.

      • Miles O'Brien
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        55 days ago

        I will happily eat macaroni or soup with my hands for the rest of my life if that means everyone gets Healthcare.

    • @[email protected]
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      65 days ago

      Brandon Gill does, in fact, look like the kind of person who would eat a burger with a knife and fork.

    • Default Username
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      5 days ago

      I might start eating Doritos with a fork and knife just to be extra “civilized”.