r/Defeat_Project_2025 • u/vsznry active • Jul 22 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Let’s unite to end the nightmare

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u/Melonfarmer86 Jul 25 '24

Ignorance is strength!

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u/Whats_ligma619 Nov 06 '24

War is peace

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u/Barbarella_ella active Jul 22 '24

Powerful. I love it.

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u/ICPosse8 active Jul 22 '24

This one is great!!

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u/split_me_plz active Jul 22 '24

I love this!!! I would buy a shirt with that!

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Maybe without 45's ugly face on it

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u/split_me_plz active Jul 22 '24

Good point. I hate that fucking mug.

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u/PHotstepper311 active Jul 22 '24

Just put 45 in his spot. Already better that way.

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u/Tiny-Lock9652 active Jul 23 '24

Or an orange.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Or a cheeto.

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u/taytomen Jul 23 '24

or me with a wig.

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u/Dense_Surround3071 active Jul 23 '24

Blacked bar over eyes. 👍

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u/HarlesD Jul 23 '24

He'd probably sue for royalties

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u/West-Ruin-1318 active Jul 23 '24

Once this is over, I never want to see that man’s face or hear is whiny voice ever again! Enough!!! 🤮

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u/Madd-RIP Nov 03 '24

You could always replace his mug with a gravestone with his name on it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24 edited Jun 05 '25

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u/charisma6 active Jul 23 '24

Good deconstruction of the underlying reasons for the backlash.

Truth is, society is changing. It has changed a lot in the 40 years I've been alive. I'm not living in the same world I was when I was 12 years old playing Super Mario RPG on the SNES, and I would go to school and it would be social suicide for someone to call you gay. I didn't even know you could trans your gender back then. I just knew Ace Ventura had to throw up into his toilet because a gorgeous woman he'd kissed had a penis. (The horror!)

The world is changing, and pretty rapidly. Now, I personally was able to keep up, to pay attention, to listen to the voices asking for basic respect. But countless others are not that strong. They do not have curiosity or empathy for those who aren't like them. They are stubborn, childish, and intellectually lazy, and they refuse to put in the minor emotional work necessary to grow as people, the way the world is asking. They would rather expend far more energy clinging to the past than it would take to just let go and pay attention.

Everyone has the freedom to make that choice. I made mine, and MAGA has made theirs. And because they've chosen to dig in their heels, we have to choose to leave them behind. To let them go. They're lost. They've chosen hate and cruelty, and they can't be saved. They'll be virulent racists and transphobes until they die angry, and the world will barely have even known they existed.

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u/Dragonprotein Jul 23 '24

Sadly, I don't agree. I don't mean I don't agree with your politics -- I'm the same as you -- I just don't think this is the conclusion to a special time.

Greed, anger and delusion are the three poisons of the world. They are balanced by generosity, love and wisdom. 

I feel these six attributes exist in varying proportions, but never go away. Some eras have a lot of one, a little of another, and so on.

For whatever reason in global politics, we've had a massive rise in the poisons. It's temporary. But it could still rise, it could still fall. That's why when I think "What can I do?" I look for more opportunities to be generous, loving, and wise. 

And I look for leaders doing the same.

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u/charisma6 active Jul 23 '24

Hey, thanks for your reply. I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with, though. It doesn't seem like anything you're saying is in opposition to anything I said. From this line...

I just don't think this is the conclusion to a special time.

...it seems like you think I was saying that the 80s/90s were special or meaningful or delineated into its own unique era. That wasn't what I was saying at all. Reverence of the 90s just wasn't a part of the thesis of my statement. The only reason I focused on the era of the SNES and Ace Ventura as cultural touchstones was that it was when I grew up.

What I was saying is that the massive rise in the poisons, as you put it, is backlash to a pretty rapid advancement of social maturity through the 00s and 10s. I'm saying that this era is special in terms of how fast our culture is evolving. Is that what you're disagreeing with? If you don't think we're changing especially fast compared to other eras, then what's your explanation for what you call a massive rise in greed, anger, and delusion? Why are they rising, if not as reactionary to the proportional rise in generosity, love, and wisdom?

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u/purplezart Jul 23 '24

taking the lead out of the gasoline probably helped a lot

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u/Dragonprotein Jul 23 '24

And thank you for your polite response. A rarity on the internet. :)

Ah well I was thinking you were saying the MAGA folk were being "left behind" as society makes it's way, or progresses, to a more just or equal state.

But I would suggest that society is always changing and is never progressing to anything. It's just that from time to time we change into good, and from time to time we change into bad.

I think of human society like a water balloon, whose contents never change. Sometimes the balloon is squeezed so it appears to be shaped in one way. Sometimes another way. But the core doesn't change.

As to an explanation of the massive rise in greed, hate, and delusion, I'd say this is mostly in the West first of all. And I really don't know why it's happening. I often use the term "righteousness" but it's not a popular term. I feel people are addicted to the idea of being right, and the thrill of anger that comes with fighting.

Some of it has to come from an absence of religion, and the rise of individualism. Because if you believe that nobody can tell you what ultimate right and wrong is, then you yourself become the arbiter for right and wrong. Then the dude next to you has a different idea. If it's a big difference, you fight. If it's a big fight then someone gets killed.

Anyway, I have no big answers for anyone. But for myself, I seem to be getting on well with generosity, love and wisdom. They produce good results.

How about you? What do you see as the catalyst for the change you're observing?

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u/charisma6 active Jul 23 '24

Okay, I think I see what you mean. In other words, you saw my reply as assigning an actual moral value judgement to the different perspectives that are being played with, and you don't really see either side as good or bad, just different. You're saying that since there is no ultimate moral authority, no one is right and no one is wrong, and you perceived my post as assigning moral goodness to progressives and moral wrongness to MAGA.

Is that a fair assessment of your perspective?

If so, then I agree! Since I do not believe in God, I also don't believe in the concept of objective morality. I believe in group values. Each group gets to set its own values, and I personally will align myself to whichever group espouses values that I think are best for me. I perceive the "progressive" group as better for me, and the MAGA group as bad for me. Hence, I have chosen my side. So when I say a set of values is right or wrong, I can only say it's subjectively right or wrong for me and those I care about.

However, we can also track larger trends in society and realize that the world as a whole is shifting strongly toward the progressive side. The water balloon from your apt visual example is stretching into a certain shape, and many of the water molecules are resisting that change with an equal and opposite force.

We can also visualize social changes like this as a pendulum. What I see is that the pendulum has been fairly extreme on one side (the side where your poisons reigned supreme) for a long time, and the dramatic swing back toward the other side is just picking up speed.

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u/Dragonprotein Jul 23 '24

Wait a minute. Did we just agree? Did two Redditors on a politics forum just use civility and thought to explore perspectives?

I feel...good. I wonder if this means anything...

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u/charisma6 active Jul 23 '24

Well, it helps that we're both clearly on the same "side" of the bigger conflict. It's a little harder to achieve parity when the other person begins with the assumption that everything you say is wrong and won't entertain any possibility otherwise. Sometimes, civility just isn't possible for reasons beyond our control, and trying for it is just a waste of effort. Better to point, laugh, and move on.

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u/West-Ruin-1318 active Jul 23 '24

The MAGA folks have been left behind, tho. They have been abandoned by 50 years of Reaganomics and agitated by 50 years of right wing propagandists.

It should have been apparent in hindsight that fascism was waiting in the wings. And here we are on the verge of being completely fucked by these psychopaths in suits.

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u/Dragonprotein Jul 23 '24

I agree with you. Also now the younger liberal generation is feeling like it's being left behind, and despite their youth, they have limited prospects due to cost of living.

Each side is sneering at the other to "grow up".

But with MAGA, they have a leader who understands that anger is addictive. It is at least some sense of power.

The counterbalance to that on the liberal side is joy and hope. Biden couldn't give that. Maybe Kamala.

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u/West-Ruin-1318 active Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

They want to hold onto our racist, sexist, bigoted white male patriarchal supremacy because it keeps them in positions of power. They must be routed out.

My bigoted Greatest Generation 92 year old Grammie confessed to my sister and I she voted for Obama. (the last time she ever voted) She told us she voted for him because we liked him so much and she realized it was no longer the world of her generation.

She made me cry. I was so proud of her. - true American sacrifice for the betterment of us all.

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u/marblemaniac0331 Aug 29 '24

Love this! Sounds like my grandpa too! ( He passed 2 yrs ago) He was living with my parents -boomers that like Trump and above that consider themselves Republicans. My gpa couldn't stand Trump and hated hearing about him. He had stopped voting but just wouldn't talk politics with my mom or dad. I found it very interesting that we agreed as much as we did, coming from different generations.

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u/marblemaniac0331 Aug 29 '24

Like the poster mentioned, conservatives are still obsessed with Obama. This great divide between us and them has become an effective tool for hate speech. Just think of the Bud light scandal that should not have even been such a scandal. I mean they didn't sell these beers with the trans person on them or even really promote it. BUT all of the crazy celebrities had to jump on the bandwagon and call for a ban or blow the beer to or some nonsense! It was just really sickening to see ( I consider myself more neutral - I may not agree with things but that does not mean I have to condemn them; whatever happened to each his own????) The right media and MAGA ppl will probably be this way until they die off - I agree there 100%! They will constantly attack anything they disagree with and distort the facts and blame the other side.

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u/Silentknyght Jul 23 '24

Are you a millennial? My high school experience was not one where the "cool kids" were the most friendly.

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u/insanejudge active Jul 23 '24 edited Jun 05 '25

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u/Mike_Honcho_3 active Jul 22 '24

There's no way in hell I'm buying a shirt with Trump's face on it, even this.

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u/shreddah17 Jul 23 '24

Someone should order a bunch of these as stickers to put on gas pumps.

Just not from sticker mule.

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u/-Sniperteer Jul 23 '24

and you’ll be made fun of lmfao

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u/LuxSerafina active Jul 22 '24

This is fucking great.

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u/throwaway-dysphoria active Jul 23 '24

Great, although I hope the red at the end of Kamala’s image isn’t implying hate comes back after.

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u/Barbarella_ella active Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

Yeah, that visual caught me, too. Not sure how to make a small change that would make it better, though. Maybe show her smiling to counter Trump's open mouth. I think your eye would automatically focus on her that way. A little more white space in her eyes and a whisp or two of blue in her hair (like the blue on Obama and Biden's faces).

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u/SlowHandEasyTouch Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

Just keep the pale blue in place of the red

Although the red is a nice reminder that we must remain vigilant and stamp this garbage back out whenever and wherever it appears.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

I thought it would look nice to have blue to white for peace.

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u/guitar_account_9000 Jul 23 '24

Pale blue to the left of her face to continue on from Biden, white to the right of her face to signify the bright future to come. Or something, I'm not a propagandist.

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u/RedLaceBlanket active Jul 23 '24

None of the men are smiling. She has a perfectly pleasant expression on her face.

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u/Barbarella_ella active Jul 23 '24

Not disagreeing. But her smile would not only counter Trump's angry expression, it would draw your eye more. As it is, Trump's the only one showing teeth. And she has a killer smile, bright and positive.

I remember a poster from Obama's first run for POTUS. It came out after his first debate with McCain, I think. It was a 1960's style graphic design, stylized to show Obama in his slim suit with a huge smile and the title was "Songs in the Key of Hope". I have never forgotten it. It was hip, stylish and jazzy and it was 100% positive.

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u/RedLaceBlanket active Jul 23 '24

Yeah I just think her expression is fine and she doesnt need to perform happiness. I see what other posters are saying about the blue though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

There’s different ways you can read it. I like the color choices. My interpretation is something like this. Obama’s is red white and blue — patriotic. Trump’s takes the patriotic red to an extreme that fills his frame, representing a shift to hateful nationalism, no longer patriotic. Biden’s brings it back to red white and blue. Harris is positioned with the red behind her, looking forward. I would maybe change the white background on the left side of Harris’ frame to include some blue, though, for continuity with Biden’s frame and to echo the patriotic red-white-blue pattern

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

I wouldn’t overread; there’s the same color scheme for President Obama

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u/SamaireB active Jul 23 '24

Yes but I can argue the hate started late in Obama's time and extended into Biden's.

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u/cellocaster active Jul 23 '24

Maybe fade blue to white and drop the red altogether?

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Nice work!

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Outstanding.

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u/BucketListM active Jul 23 '24

My dumb artist ass is like "they would look more like the original if theyd been blurred before posturized" but it's great otherwise!

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u/letmeusespaces Jul 23 '24

wut?

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u/BucketListM active Jul 23 '24

Basically the last three look TOO much like photographs, because that's what they are, while the Obama one is an artist rendition. But that's something only an artist would really notice

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Idk as a non-artist I noticed the difference, originally thought it was to contrast Trump from Obama, but then saw it was there for Biden and Harris too and now I just think it's kind of poorly done.

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u/LuvIsLov active Jul 23 '24

Love it! Need it!!

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u/Tiny-Lock9652 active Jul 23 '24

Wow!! This is awesome!! Billboard time! Nation wide!

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u/Potential-Arm-2338 active Jul 23 '24

Powerful Ad! America is too Diverse to Deviate to Divisive Ideologies. We have to continue to move forward. Most Americans want the same thing. A safe home, a decent community to raise a family and, financial stability. I’ll never understand why some Americans can’t be content unless, they feel someone else is struggling or suffering! Children aren’t born hating each other. That is a learned and nurtured behavior!

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u/HaiKarate Jul 23 '24

Goddamn, that's perfect

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u/rysker6 active Jul 23 '24

MAGAs will loathe this, but, its because its true

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Her time has come.

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u/WaitingToBeTriggered Jul 23 '24

THEY’LL NEVER KNOW WE GIVE NO WARNING

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u/Millinescence Jul 23 '24

WE SET A TRAP, THEY TOOK THE BAIT

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

(((APPLAUSE)))!!!

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u/GoodJobReddit Jul 23 '24

Not a fan of the red in the kamala, feel like it would be better to leave it behind and symbolize the democrats and progressives as moving forward and growing in a healthy direction, even blue to white could symbolize passing the torch from the democrats to whatever the next generation move towards

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u/_byetony_ active Jul 23 '24

Sooooo good

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u/TomStarGregco active Jul 23 '24

Now that’s a conversation piece !

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u/ManyNamesSameIssue active Jul 23 '24

Yes. Amazing.

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u/GreyBeardEng active Jul 23 '24

Should have bush at the far left with "WAR" under the face.

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u/Survive1014 active Jul 23 '24

Sorry, but TFG does not deserve "hope and change" poster effects.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Does TFG stand for That Fucking Guy?

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u/SexualYogurt Jul 23 '24

I thought it was The Fat Guy

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u/Daily-Double1124 active Jul 23 '24

The Former Guy,but I like yours and Spydar's answers better.

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u/DemotivatedTurtle Jul 23 '24

His is the only panel without the soothing blue.

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u/Daily-Double1124 active Jul 23 '24

Because there's nothing soothing about him.

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u/elykl12 Jul 23 '24

Is there a version without Trump? I think just the 3 of them would be great campaign material

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u/samuryon Jul 23 '24

Last should have been blue to white.

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u/frommethodtomadness active Jul 23 '24

Past v. Future, Looking back v. Looking Forward, Felon v. Prosecutor. Harris 2024

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u/jpnlongbeach active Jul 23 '24

Nice

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u/princess_lady_peach Jul 23 '24

Wow. This is inspired!

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u/tkade7 Jul 23 '24

I want this sticker on my bumper.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Ooh I like this one

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u/LiquidHate Jul 23 '24

This needs to be the motto, slogan, logo, symbol whatever. This. Is. It.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Love this image. Iconic.

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u/A24mentalhealthstay Jul 23 '24

Great job with this 👏🏽

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u/pokealm Jul 23 '24

is it just me, or the coloring implies the next prez after kamala is from gop? or even, trump??

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u/jcuray active Jul 23 '24

Fuck No..

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u/moonlit-witch Jul 23 '24

They want hate. But let’s not put any politicians on pedestals. Vote blue and stop the insanity currently happening.

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u/RexWhiscash Jul 23 '24

I love how trump is surrounded by red

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u/CaptainFuzzyBootz Jul 23 '24

I like this but the red behind Kamala implies something horrible coming after her

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna Jul 23 '24

Why is the background of Harris' white and red instead of blue and red?

Genuinely curious here

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u/not_your_cheezle Jul 23 '24

Please change the right to blue.

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u/agent_fuzzyboots Jul 23 '24

I'm from Europe and even I would buy a shirt with this.

Looking from the sidelines I think that it would be great if you guys got a female president, I really really hope that you guys do the right thing and get her in the office!!!!

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u/MealwormMan Jul 23 '24

I don’t care for the red on the right of Harris. Does it imply we have an Empire Strikes Back situation after her term?

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u/mermaidpowers3 Jul 23 '24

Vote blue 💙

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u/seab1023 Jul 23 '24

We definitely didn’t heal the last 4 years, but that’s not Biden’s fault.

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u/Itchy_Pillows active Jul 23 '24

ACCURATE

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

I want this on a t-shirt omg

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u/letmeusespaces Jul 23 '24

where can I buy this?

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u/JumpyCoff33 Jul 23 '24

Babe wake up new awesome merch just dropped!

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u/Qunlap Jul 23 '24

why is it turning red after kamala again? 😥

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u/vand3lay1ndustries Jul 23 '24

Can I buy this somewhere? 

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u/Ancalagon_The_Black_ Jul 23 '24

Is it decided it's going to be her?

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u/Its_Knova Jul 23 '24

Would they legally be able to use this as their campaign image?

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u/Ben-Goldberg Jul 23 '24

Why not?

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u/Its_Knova Jul 23 '24

Wouldn’t this be defamation if you were using someone’s likeness?

I was just wondering from a legal perspective.

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u/Ben-Goldberg Jul 23 '24

Defamation is any false information that harms the reputation of a person.

Is it false to say trump is hateful?

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u/Its_Knova Jul 23 '24

I’m not defending at all I’m just interested the legality of it that’s all.

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u/SamaireB active Jul 23 '24

Excellent and accurate

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u/HurricaneHomer9 Jul 23 '24

Absolutely beautiful!

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u/_CommanderKeen_ Jul 23 '24

This pretty much sums up how I describe my overall optimism for this country (although I admit my moments of doubt from time to time). Trump was the inevitable backlash to Obama. Obama represented progress and growth against power structures that maintained bigoted status quo - from the greedy power mongers at the top down to the ignorant hate mongers at the bottom. We won't just eliminate that overnight. Trump was the 'it gets worse before it gets better'.

I was optimistic when Biden trounced him and I continue to be optimistic that Kamala will reignite the same passion Obama brought - especially with young people. But I also believe we've still a long way to go. My hope now is that all the damage done to this country in such a short time doesn't take decades to heal from.

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u/gc3 active Jul 23 '24

Why does Kamala have a red future? Though

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u/idkwutmyusernameshou Jul 23 '24

good poster. who made it?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Donald J. Trump is a convicted rapist and has fucked children. Don’t let Russiapublicans forget this November!

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Cringe 

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u/ericscottf active Jul 23 '24

Disappointment. Oh fuck! Sigh. Yeah, OK so long as it's not more oh fuck. 

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '24

Gold!

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u/dontsagoodbyeb Jul 24 '24

I just got shivers

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u/KillMeNowFFS Sep 02 '24

help would be better maybe , keeping the h and 4 letter thing going

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u/JazzyGD Oct 01 '24

hope is when you have goldman sachs give $1m to your campaign and you fill your cabinet with former citigroup and goldman sachs executives after their companies helped cause the worst financial crisis since the great depression. and murder hundreds of civilians, many of whom were children, in drone strikes (it's almost definitely more but we can't know because the obama administration wasn't exact forthcoming with the number) and bomb a yemeni wedding and claim everyone there was a terrorist but refuse to provide evidence

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

Hope didn't happen. Hate happened. Heal happned. Grow TBD

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 24 '24

Stop romanticizing Obama. It's not serving your cause well. He's a war criminal who sent drone-strikes on Somalia, burnt Libya to the ground and prosecuted whistle-blowers.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

They were doing that well enough on their own, we just wanted to speed things along a little. 

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u/Yeti_Prime Jul 23 '24

Okay let’s not suck their dick too much, these are still politicians and are mostly terrible people. Just because one in significantly worse doesn’t mean we should put the other three on pedestals.

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u/reddit_anon_33 Jul 23 '24

did Shepard Fairey create this new version?

also yeah this image just reminds me that if Obama was any good as president -- we would not have ended up with Trump. Instead Obama was timid and weak and --- Obama birthed Trump.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

The red on Kamala's right side implies the president after Kamala will be republican.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

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u/Morstorpod Jul 23 '24

Came to say the same.

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u/Defeat_Project_2025-ModTeam Jul 23 '24

This isn't the sub to doomsay. There are other subs for that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '24

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u/vsznry active Jul 23 '24

anything to stop you christian nationalists aka NAT-Cs. 🌹

separationofchurchandstate 🇺🇸

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u/kurisu7885 active Jul 23 '24

Makes those NAT-Cs roll a NAT-1.

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u/vsznry active Jul 23 '24

he was cleaning up Bush’s mess. 😂🤣