• razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 month ago

    It means “white” in several European languages, so while it’s probably not the intended message, it somewhat fits the theme…

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      1 month ago

      in belote (card game), ‘bela’ is the king and queen of a trump suit held by a single player.

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        1 month ago

        Going on a bit of a tangent: In Russian, «бела» (bela) is the short form of «белая» (belaya) and is almost exclusively used in older literature and poetry. So while both do mean “white”, it’s rare to hear bela in modern everyday speech :)

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    First covfefe and now Bela

    There’s a possibility for a darker meaning for these things.

    Similar to how there are some cults that get their members to send blackmail material on themselves to the cult leader. Because if you knew the cult leader had embarrassing nude photographs of you, then you leaving or betraying the cult is less likely.

    So, covfefe and Bela could be public proofs of submission from Trump to somebody else. There may be more proof from before this that demonstrates somebody ordered Trump to post these things, and if Trump ever betrayed them, then they could use these to present absolute proof that Trump is compromised and subservient to, for example, a foreign government. But without that proof, it just looks like a slightly embarrassing typo.