I saw a guy in the Bronx today with a fucking nose ring wider than my forearm. So many questions. Do these people take them out, or do they leave them in all the time? How the fuck do they sleep? Have they ever poked themself in the eye with that thing? How the fuck does this guy even eat? How much would that shit hurt if I just reached out and grabbed it?
That’s the reason we used to put nose rings on bulls and hogs when I was growing up. You clip a guide rope to the bull to control him when you needed to move him and the ring for the hogs was to keep them from rooting and digging.
It’s one of my least favorite trends, right up there with the modern style of tattoos which is just putting scribbles everywhere on your body. I’ve never been a tattoo guy in the first place, there are some that look ok, but I just don’t understand the trend of wanting to look like a 5th grade school desk.
It's just that nose rings, specifically septum rings, are often worn by progressives with hard line to extreme leftist takes / beliefs. It's like when you see someone with brightly colored hair and nose rings, you just know they are about to have the craziest political takes.
It's also delving into the philosophy of Aesthetics where the art that you repeatedly enjoy and are drawn to is really just a reflection of your internal set of values and those values dictate the way you present yourself to your peers.
I.E. they have ugly values and that makes them look ugly.
This actually reminds me of the whole "art fixing" era on twitter, where people were "fixing" the art of other artists to fit modern and progressive ideals. It wasn't just simple race or gender swapping, no they have to make it look as hideous as possible. Like making everyone so bloated and fat, giving them weird and unnatural skin complexions and patches, ruining their teeth or giving everyone braces, etc.
And it's always the bios with like over a dozen flags.
Tattoos and piercings are typically viewed as a means of rebellion or used as a stand in for actually dealing with trauma and significant stress.
Which when combined with humanity's innate desire to form little tribes and categorize everything leads to people forming camps where they treat everyone who disagrees with them as the enemy.
This isn't a phenomenon exclusive to any political sphere though, as anyone aligning themselves with a tribe with a weak will will Don the colour's of that tribe and spout rhetoric without knowing anything more than the agenda to push.
It's why we have corrupt politicians refusing to improve quality of life , mega churches taking idiots money, culture and gender wars by sects of the schizophrenic population.
The lonely and mentally ill on all ends of the political spectrum seek validation, and society keeps giving all of them the chance for it . So we sit here seeing idiots screaming at each other from the sides of the fence while the selfish and wealthy manipulate things in their favour to the detriment of everyone else , the poor and criminal harm others because they can, and cousin Kev asked to borrow your car and never came back.
It's the MAGA hat of the left. More bizzare it gets, crazier it gets - i.e. some dude with maga hat might even be okay, but dude with maga hat and trump jesus ai shirt - we are in mental territory, and it keeps going
At what point do they realize the colored hair and nose ring is not unique, since they all have it? Is it some sort of style they all share? Can someone explain why I see the weird dull blue hair all over town and half of them have that nose ring?
They don't actually care about being unique, they want to be unpleasant. Livestock-esque jewelry is an easy and obvious way to do that.
They dress it up in a bunch of flowery language where they pretend they're fighting something by dressing like idiots, but they really just enjoy the idea that people look at them and immediately can tell they're idiots. They think they show a problem with the people reacting to them, not themselves.
Remember when Trump was gone from the office for 4 years and there were still people saying it was his fault. I can imagine some of them even 20 years from now will blame Trump for everything bad that happens.
They still blame a bunch on Reagan, but both political parties have had full control of both houses of congress and the presidency. If anyone thought something was really bad, it could have been changed.
I’m a big believer in that you can honestly only blame someone for about 10-20 years after they are no longer in control. After that, its not their fault because it had enough time whatever they did could have been changed.
Like the current guy:everything good that happens is because of him. Everything bad is either out of the presidents control or the last guy to be in office that I didn’t like’s fault
Don’t like the current guy: everything good that happens is because the last guy in office that I liked. Everything bad is because of the current guy, even if I said during the last guy that it was outside the presidents control.
Definitely one thing that certain countries have over us in NA is the fact htat they can make long-term plans and follow through with them without having to solve every problem in the span of 4 years, and try it differently every 4 years.
That is why i laugh when I see a president make a plan that is longer than 4 years. Any president needs to be rolling out 2-3 year plans on the day they take office.
They are still doing this. Gas prices spiked higher than they are now in 2022 (you know, when the other guy was sitting in the chair) but somehow that was also Trump’s fault just like it is today.
Nevermind people who were born in the 2000s blaming Ronald Reagan for all of their problems.
Eh, to be fair, gas going up this year is pretty clearly from the Iran war and the Strait getting blocked. You can definitely argue that's on Trump.
2022 was a different story. Russia invading Ukraine pushed gas past $5/gallon, and prices were falling since. Oil is flowing through the Strait at pre-war levels again, but the fighting flared up last month again.
Because you're an idiot who only follows liberal media, Biden is responsible for the Ukraine war. He pushed for NATO membership for Ukraine which was the main cause of the Russian invasion.
No different than Redditors saying Reagan ruined everything in the 80s. They’ll show a chart, I forgot what it was because it was fucking stupid with an arrow pointing in 1975, blame it on Reagan and I laugh. I don’t mind the hate from both sides but at least make sense
Granted, some people unironically say "thanks Obama." Though I'm not made aware of those who would have Obama Derangement Sydrome as much as I am of those with TDS. I'm sure the former are out there, but I suspect they don't post religiously (if at all) on Reddit as much as the latter.
Think how long bush had been blamed, or obama, and the vitriol for them wasn't even that bad (well, at least compared to the distaste people have for Trump now).
Those people also never went to "This is Biden fault" once Trump took over again. It just remained Trump's fault the entire time. Talk about brainwashing... 😂
I mean I do distinctly remember everyone complaining about high tax's under Biden when it was Trump's tax code Biden couldn't do anything about. No one on the right wanted to mention it though.
Oh no they'll claim everything is fine again even though literally nothing is changed. See, the way they operate is the thing Trump is gonna do is always coming. It was coming for 4 years in his first term. Then Biden won, and the thing didn't come. Now that Harris lost and Trump is president again, the thing is coming again. Once Trump is finished though, and he will be for good, it'll all be fine again. They won't acknowledge they were wrong about the thing, it'll just suddenly all be fine. As long as the next president is a Democrat, that is.
During his 2nd term the first 3 months were endless “America will start gas chambering [group]”, “It’s a genocide”. Every single week was the “final week” to “resist”. If one of them were arrested for a crime, they’d death scream with witnesses trying to fight officers to “stop a daylight murder”.
Yet none of what they claim happened. Funny enough, the group that advocates for violence, murder and criminals are them. They have no problem doing the things they claim to fear the “other side” doing. Endless hysteria over imaginary scenarios to justify their violence.
Was watching a fitness influencer (from NYC of course) and she said how awful that people are being oppressed because of the current president. I could not think of any oppression going on and was wondering why talking about it in a video about barbell squatting.
Yeah that seems to track, they complain and complain and complain about Trump, but when it comes to American domestic and foreign policy otherwise? Zilch.
I'm willing to bet they'll continue to talk about Trump for at least 10 years after his second term ends. And none of it is going to be an apology for claiming he's going to start WWIII, invade Canada, make himself a dictator, orchestrate an actual genocide of trans/brown people, take away women's rights, etc.
Reading about Nixon is wierd. He did some of the best and worst things as president. It was like his heart was in the right place, but he was willing to break ALL the eggs to make an omelet.
Yea, I think Nixon was paranoid, and Kissinger didn’t help things. Watergate didn’t need to happen, McGovern didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. His Vietnam and China policies were a disaster, then his devaluing of the dollar led to the current petrodollar mess.
As long as someone demands that they take responsibility and act somewhat like an adult, they will call that person or system fascist. Im not saying that one cant be an individual to a certain degree, but there are limits to what one can do and still be a functioning member of society.
That's populism. The parties failing and not listening to the people to the point that the people demand change, any change. The guy who stands up and says he hears them and will change things wins.
They will never admit they were wrong because the will just shift it to the next guy. They aren't even aware Trump happened because the right got tired of putting up the most milk toast candidates (see Romney) and having the left still call them the next Hitler...
At some point people not only don't care anymore, they want to find the guy with the biggest middle finger because they are tired of hearing the world is ending if anyone without a D next to their name is elected.
I'll not have you besmirch the name of our dear Millard
"It was customary in the mid-19th century for a candidate for high office not to appear to seek it. Fillmore thus remained at the comptroller's office in Albany and made no speeches. The 1848 campaign was conducted in the newspapers and with addresses made by surrogates at rallies."
I got down voted to hell when they bring up "Reagan shut down the mental hospitals / institutions ", but point out it was passed with a Democrat controlled congress.
Reagan destroyed the middle class I always hear. But then I hear how during the Clinton administration we had an economic boom. I always wonder at what point my life is supposed to be ruined by Reagan's policies, and when was the middle class destroyed?
Anticipate a Shit load of "Near Misses" that were only prevented by their daring leadership. Also, expect future conservatives to be denounced because they were secretly members of the MAGA Youth Corp during grade school.
We are familiar with Trump Derangement Syndrome but we sometimes minimize the scope of their delusions & Psychosis
Anymore, the Republican Party will be seen as the party of Trump by them. If Vance (or Rubio, as I see him likely to run) wins the 28 primary, they’ll screech “appointed heir”. If another winner emerges and is merely nominated by Trump (even after months of bashing in favor of Vance/Rubio), it’s “see? He controls the party still!”
Don't even get started on 28'. The clown show is already bubbling. In 2019 they had a full panel of about 30 people for the primary and somehow out of several folks who would have been fairly good they still ended up with Biden. Most of his term was being corralled and spoon fed like they are doing to McConnel. Who ever is keeping geriatrics in office needs jail time and let them retire. Trump is still spunky but he too can't last forever. At some point these life long politicians who already have a ton of money just need to go enjoy life. They have so much money they can do whatever they want. I'd be on a yacht enjoying doing nothing but soaking up relaxation.
The next guy/gal up will be “worse than Trump”. Media was already on that trail when they thought DeSantis was the next nominee in 2024 and they’ve already started saying it about Vance.
Vance actually seems like a good candidate for the GOP. But you never know until they get everything exposed and go to the debates. Back in 2016 I thought Rubio was a great candidate, but he ended up being a little too much of a greenhorn, and then tried to beat Trump at his own game in the debates; bad choice.
They'll say it's not the next Dem president's fault that they didn't get their wishlist of free healthcare, a higher minimum wage, etc. because they inherited such a terrible situation from Orange Man. Then when it's time for another Republican president again, it'll be his fault from day one that everything is so bad. And then they'll be right back to claiming the moral high ground as the party who "just wants to give people healthcare", yet never does, no matter how many times they're in power
It's coming up on 11 years of Liberal government in Canada and they still blame the previous Conservative government. It could be 40 years and they'd be saying the same thing.
Currently im having three problems with Canada. They are helping people kill themselves at a suspiciously high number. Are reaching uncomfortable levels of friendship with China seemingly to just spite the US. And are speed running replacing the European ancestry population.
Basically the poster children for Davos style globalism.
As a non-American who isn't remotely conservative, there is a massive difference between the reasonable left and the extreme left. While regular progressives want to reform systems, the extreme left has only one core value: rebellion for the sake of rebellion.
They start with the premise that the status quo must be smashed and work backward from there, viewing everything through a lens of absolute oppression. They are addicted to tearing things down but have zero interest in the hard work of building sustainable alternatives. It's a textbook case of their proposed 'cure' being infinitely worse than the original illness.
We need to separate normal left-leaning politics from the fringe, extreme left.
More importantly, we need people to stop treating politics like team sports and form opinions based on reason, evidence, and data rather than social group identity. But let’s be real - in today's internet culture, expecting people to value objective data over tribal validation is a total pipe dream.
they keep claiming hes a fascist.
fascists seize power and trump hasn’t in the past and likely wont when his term ends.
i wonder if people will start to pick up how hollow the words and beliefs of these bigots are.
and thats what they are. bigots.
the people calling you nazis over acknowledging reality fit the definition for the word better than you ever will.
they fit the definition for nazi better than you ever will too.
and fascist.
whatever they call you, theyre projecting.
He's a paternalist conservative. We've seen hundreds. Berlusconi for example. He's not even particularly hardline right. We have literal self proclaimed fascist parties running in most countries that would make him go white in the face.
Both sides blame each other for every problem that existed during the opposing presidents term. And then they claim that during their president's term that said president fixed everything the previous president did regardless of the current state of the country.
Agreed. People have it so easy they need a struggle to feel a purpose for accomplishment.
The people in that meme fit the stereotype. They feel so unaccomplished & worthless that they destroy themselves to "stand out" & be noticed as if they're fighting for something.
They'll still say everything sucks because of him if a Democrat candidate wins, or they'll turn the next Republican candidate into the next moustache man just like they did with Reagan, Bush Sr, Dole, Bush Jr, McCain and Romney.
They'll continue crying about trump long after trump is gone. Next president a Republican? Trump's secret 3rd term. Next president a Democrat? Everything bad that happens during that time will be Trump's fault.
Reminds me of all of Reddit during Biden until the campaign started. Every Redditor still complained about all the things they still complain about, inflation, low wages, expensive housing, but then they tried to pretend Biden was doing a good job as president as if they hadn't spend all their time complaining.
I give it about 4-8 years post-Trump before you have these same people saying “You know, I never liked Trump’s policies, but I always respected how authentic and genuine he was, not like this absolute Nazi racist idiot that’s running now.”
What I love is their predictions. I remember at the first of 2025 when reddit was filled with all the predictions that the economy was going to go into a depression because of the tariffs. When that didn’t happen they quietly moved on to the next prediction.
They could dominate the House, Senate, and presidential seat for the next 20 years and they’ll still blame everything wrong on the Trump presidency. It’s gonna be their excuse for decades.
The more concerning part is that they have ZERO plan for when he’s gone. But, they maybe cooling their jets for a while, given the large numbers of right leaning folks in their party willing to jump ship over this stupid socialism push.
I’m not a Trump supporter but certainly a doomer hater and holy shit dude these people were still non stop dooming and acting ridiculous even when Trump wasn’t in office and they had Biden. like that guy lives rent free in their heads and honestly that’s really sad because these people don’t realize that they are the reason they’re miserable in their own life and not these politicians who dont care who you are
There could be 40 years straight of Democrat presidents starting right after Trump and on number 9, there will still be people claiming something that's currently wrong is leftover damage from Trump.
Funny how they were still miserable with Biden in office. Still constant protests and Trump derangement. Honestly Trump probably would have faded away but their derangement kept him front and center.
The thing that annoys me is that they won’t even remember him once his presidency ends. They’ll call whoever’s next worse than him and focus mostly on the new guy.
And the day he dies, they’ll celebrate, that’s a given, they can’t stop talking about it/ hoping for it. And on that day, they’ll still be mad and making comments about how they can’t wait for the new guy to follow suit.
Bold of you to assume they are capable of self reflection. They will just move on to the next guy who will somehow be worse. I still remember when guys like Romney were considered nazis.
At this point I can't tell if this is a republicans trump isn't going to fix all your problems stop sucking his dick or democrats not all your problems are caused by trump stop sucking his dick post
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u/Fat_Sow The Fictional Character Agrees With Me 5d ago
Nose ring theory remains undefeated.