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Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene just released her new book MTG, and the Amazon reviews...are something.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

Of all the Americans MTG is one and I couldn’t wait to read her book. Unfortunately it arrived upside down so I had to return it. 1 star.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That article is virtually unreadable. What a trash website.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's, like, a few words and then some ex-twitter links. And then a few more words and some screenshots of the Amazon reviews before going back to the ex-twitter links. Dumb.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For me, the twitter stuff doesn't even load. It's literally unreadable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I feel like that’s par for the course for a large number of news articles now, especially the “Y is outraged at Z because of —“ articles where it shows like 3 tweets from people who are, at best, mildly annoyed by the thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

George Takei constantly shills for that site in his mastodon feed. I unfollowed him because of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I unsubbed because the man talks a lot... @pluarlistic and @breadandcircuses now flood my feed

mastodon is neat, I've not figured out how to use my masto-id on lemmy but what ever.

[–] PissinSelfNdriveway 2 points 1 year ago

4 fucking reviews on it and they aren't even funny.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

And Amazon has now restricted the reviews. Boo

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Weird for Magic The Gathering. I have questions.

Are we talking the coastal wizards are being trolled or the players?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

From the Amazon description

Known for her humor and honesty,

lol, wut? when?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's when people say that they are funny and have a dark sense of humor, only to find out they mean racist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

All this time she thought we were laughing with her.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The humour is obvious. Just listen to her daily ramblings and speeches and you'll be rolling on the floor. The latter is an example of the former.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It’s not surprising that she confuses “laughed at me” with appreciating something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technology has come so far you can even publish books in different timelines!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the most likely explanation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

You know what, guys? Marge would be quite upset about the negative reviews, if she could read.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She couldn’t even bother to make sure her name and title was centered on the books cover.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Worse yet, it's leaning left, and we all know that's inaccurate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Do even the magas want to read a book from mtg? I'm finding that doubtful.

[–] Corkyskog 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Can magas read?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This kind of book is typically money laundering more than anything else. PACs can't just give money right to a candidate, but they can buy thousands of copies of their book to give away at events. Boom, money right into your guy's pockets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Do they even read?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The majority of the copies are bought by some Republican super PAC, standard GOP procedure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whenever I hear of MTG I think of the Japanese firm and I'm really confused why the business has been assigned a gender -_-

https://www.mtg.gr.jp/en/

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 8 points 1 year ago

I think of Magic the Gathering and also get confused.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Damn that article under it about Jenna Ellis is also hilarious

https://secondnexus.com/jenna-ellis-maga-fact-reality

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Amazon deleted the other reviews.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Crazy that for some reason those 4 were left up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Amazon probably only left up verified purchases.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hard to say. None of them specifically say verified purchase (at least I think they normally say that), and this is one that’s still up:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You may notice the article itself shows at least six different ones, so reviews are getting removed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is it written in crayon?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Doesn't that mean they bought her book? So....she's laughing all the way to the bank?