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In the Republican Southern Strategy, terms, phrases, and actions that evoke racism to racists, while being plausibly deniable to the press and the wider public. Much of this code is inherited from the pro-slavery code of the antebellum South.

The name is a reference to high-pitched dog whistles that people cannot hear, but dogs can.
Dog Whistle Code became an essential part of the Republican Southern Strategy after overt racism became unacceptable.

Barry Goldwater's Libertarianism was Dog Whistle Code for segregation at the 1964 Republican Convention.

Ronald Reagan's first Presidential campaign appearance was itself Dog Whistle Code, taking place in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the scene of the murder of three civil rights workers.

States' Rights

Originally, Dog Whistle Code for the right to keep slaves, then the right to maintain Jim Crow segregation laws, now the right to oppress any disfavored minorities, women, immigrants, GLBTs and the rest of the riffraff

Deficits don't matter (Ronald Reagan)

Because they hurt Blacks worse than Whites (Lee Atwater, explaining the Southern Strategy and Dog Whistle Code)
by Antibogotes October 5, 2010
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Dark Brandon takes over the obscene and vicious Let’s Go Brandon meme from the caterwauling Dark Side, and weaponizes it for Progressives, with overtones of Batman and other superheroes. Components of the meme include Joe Biden's aviator sunglasses hiding laser eyes; his numerous political achievements; ice cream cones; fighting malarkey; a Dark Brandon prequel movie with a multitude of familiar superheroes; Dark Brandon 2. The other side is trying to take it back with accusations of pedophilia and incontinence.

It has been extended to

Dark Garland or Dark Merrick, Attorney General Merrick Garland
Dark Kamala, VP Kamala Harris
Dark Obama, Former President Barack Obama
Dark Hillary, Hillary Clinton
Dark Fetterman, Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman

It has been used in tweets from the White House, and written up in Rolling Stone and on Daily Kos.
shorter merrick garland: "my transformation is complete. the era of dark merrick is nigh. all hail brandon."

Beau of The Fifth Column @BeauTFC: "West Point has gone woke" might be my new favorite. There's only one possible explanation. Dark Brandon adjusted the curriculum.
by Antibogotes August 28, 2022
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Also ganev, gonif, goniff, Yiddish: גאַנעוו

Ganef is the form popularized in Mad Magazine.

Thief, from ganvenen, to steal.

Dem Ganefs Yiches (The Thief's Lineage) is a popular Klezmer song.

Dayn mutter ganvet fisch im markt.

Your mother steals fish in the market.
That ganef was born with his hand in someone' s pocket.
by Antibogotes August 11, 2020
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The reverse of paranoia, from the 1948 Science Fiction short story, "Narapoia", by Alan Nelson. Delusions that one is following somebody, or that others are plotting to do the victim good.
"Well, I keep having this strange feeling that people are plotting to do me good. That they're trying to be benevolent and kind toward me. I don't know exactly who they are, or why they wish me all this kindness, but...it's all very fantastic, isn't it?"

This new disorder apparently had symptoms opposite from paranoia; he would call it "narapoia".
by Antibogotes March 1, 2023
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