Here we go with the name game
2026-08-01 23:39 UTC
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-08-02 04:10
Farrokh Bulsara ran as Freddie Mercury. My most favorite politician with a stage name.
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@defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-08-02 01:29
Barack Hussein Obama
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-08-02 04:27
Looking at the Wikipedia list of stage names, it seems like most of them change their names not to hide racial origins (though there is plenty of that) but to simplify names that are complex or hard to pronounce. Sting didn’t want to have to write out Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner every time he signed an autograph. A counterexample is Engelbert Humperdinck (aka Arnold George Dorsey). Anyway, the Democratic party is supposed to be a big-tent party and not care about race or ethnicity in their candidates. Some do, including Superdelegates, which is how we ended up with Joe Biden in 2020, who was the most right-wing candidate except for billionaire Michael Bloomberg (who is essentially a Republican).
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@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-08-02 05:28
JD Vance is James Donald Bowman, according to Wikipedia What makes Vance super creepy (other than his general disposition), is that Peter Thiel created a super PAC in March 2021 to donate $10 million to Vance’s Senate campaign, essentially turning Vance from a political nobody into a US Senator that was entirely beholden to Thiel. Vance is like Lindsey Graham, willing to do anything to retain proximity to power, which is why his face/heel turn regarding Trump, but Vance is totally Thiel’s bitch, and will do Thiel’s bidding if ever he becomes POTUS. We may be saved because he isn’t charismatic at all even among most Republicans, and is unlikely to retain the same grip on Congress that Trump does, should it ever happen.