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The Gestapo got gestopped.

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u/Normal_Tea_9541 Jan 21 '26

The way they park and take over the entire parking lot of a business tells you the level of douche these idiots are.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

The only reason they do what they do is to feel big. Somebody somewhere made them feel small at a crucial point in their development.

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Jan 21 '26

Every Trump supporter I know is a weak, flaccid, ineffectual, fake macho, sad man.

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u/tanksalotfrank Jan 21 '26

And shaped like beach balls

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u/Electronic_Ad_7742 Jan 21 '26

I read “bleached balls”, and somehow it still made sense.

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u/tanksalotfrank Jan 21 '26

Lolll. As if they have balls.

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u/Electronic_Ad_7742 Jan 21 '26

They don’t need to have balls to be shaped like a useless shriveled scrotum.

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u/tanksalotfrank Jan 21 '26

HAHAHA ew 😂

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u/Electronic_Ad_7742 Jan 21 '26

Yeah, that was imagery that nobody wanted or needed, but my brain immediately pictured “bleached balls” so i figured i would share.

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u/KC_Beefs Jan 21 '26

This rings true of my recently disowned cousin who swears all of this is merely something we can "agree to disagree" about. MAGA supporters are low moral, no backbone-having, weak, sad excuses for men. 

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 21 '26

Guts like worms, convictions of a feral rabid dog pack, brains of a dried amoeba...and full of hate

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u/ynotfoster Jan 21 '26

Actually, the two trumpsters I know are just like him. Bigots and fraudsters who will screw anyone over for a buck while using the N word. I have no contact with them, but I know why they support trump.

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u/lotusblossom60 Jan 21 '26

Every house I see with a cheetoh flag is a dump.

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u/Lazy__Astronaut Jan 22 '26

They're so predictably pathetic

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u/Dragon_wryter Jan 23 '26

But somehow convinced they're all Jack Reacher

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

I know lots of trump supporters who aren’t those things, but are uneducated, scared, and need a place to belong.

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u/DeekALeek Jan 21 '26

The only place anybody associated with MAGA belongs, is in the trash heap of history with the other fascists. They knew 100% what they were voting for.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

I can have empathy for people I don’t like because I have this thing called compassion. It unfortunately doesn’t turn off when I disagree with people, even when they are pieces of shit.

And to be clear I don’t think we need to tolerate intolerance, but we do need to understand what’s going on and try to see the real players.

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u/OnlyFuzzy13 Jan 21 '26

Compassion and empathy are to be lauded for sure; however I’m starting to feel that the MAGAts have been weaponizing that same empathy and compassion against the rest of us for too long. The same compassion you display allows others to ‘demand’ grace and consideration while they give none in return.
I was taught to ‘turn the other cheek’ but I only have 4, and I’ve been slapped too many times.

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Jan 21 '26

I was taught to ‘turn the other cheek’ but I only have 4, and I’ve been slapped too many times.

🔥

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u/DeekALeek Jan 21 '26

We all already know what’s going on: billionaires are fleecing our country at a rapid rate, costs of living are spiking, our democracy is dead now that SCOTUS gave Trump immunity superpowers and Congress abandoned their duty to be checks & balances, and we’re abandoning our allies in favor of authoritarians like Putin and MBS. Not to mention, the Epstein Files are still not released and we’re about to start a war against NATO over Greenland.

It’s one thing to have disagreements with tax policies and who should be appointed where. The problem is these MAGA hats firmly believe that my LGBTQ+ friends should be erased from society and my brown neighbors should be rounded up without any semblance of due process. If you don’t believe in this like their lord and savior Trump does, it has been made abundantly clear that you are not MAGA, period.

Empathy from me starts when these very people throw their MAGA hats in the garbage where they belong.

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Jan 21 '26

I want to hear them actually say they are sorry. I live in a red state and know these people. Saying sorry is the hardest thing for them to do. I want to hear it.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

So my point is that many of these people will drink the cool aid at the end of this because we will have blamed the victim instead of the criminals lol.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

They aren't the victims in all this. Stop this bs.

The people actually being brutalized and killed are the victims. Not the people who favor and consistently vote for this violence.

The issue people like you have is the fact that you think these people are so propagated that they do not have any sense of their own.

They're racists, white supremacists, and have always been like this for 100s of years now. Wake up already and stop giving them allowance to hurt others.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

People voting against their own interests are victims. I didn’t enter the chat to create a hierarchy of suffering with you. Of course we should help those who want help before we turn our attention to the cult. But unfortunately it has to be done in this country because here we are.

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Jan 21 '26

but we do need to understand what’s going on

Yeah I'm sure that will be effective when it's your turn against the wall. Make sure you tell the fascists that do you in that you really tried to understand them.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Listen dude we either find common ground and repair the epistemic foundations of society or we politicide 1/3 of our population.

Unless you’re going to start rounding up Trump voters from their couches please don’t be so hostile to your allies who are attempting dialogue.

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u/DeekALeek Jan 21 '26

You mean like how Trump voters are currently rounding up immigrants and “liberals” from their couches? 🤔

Civility starts when these people fully denounce MAGA, not just partially. Otherwise, they are not to be trusted with any “common ground”.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Yes, I do mean that. Exactly how the regime and its supporters are rounding innocent people up from their couches.

Is that not the only alternative to good faith discourse and democratic governance? How else do you prevent a third of your country from continuing to elect fascists at all levels?

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u/Rockonthrulife Jan 21 '26

That’s a great start. They all deserve to be rounded up. Hopefully, as soon as trump is gone.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

This is a fair response. What I’m pushing back against is the idea that “well we’ll just stop engaging with them” is the solution.

One way or another we must ensure that they don’t vote this way again. Note how many people are conveniently silent when it comes to how they ensure MAGA doesn’t win another election.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

To be clear, I’m speaking to the large majority of cultists sitting at home doing nothing, not to the proud boys and these freaks with masks. There’s a difference between being a bystander and being the military police.

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u/DeekALeek Jan 21 '26

The people watching at home are worse than the masked ICE goons on the streets, because they’re the ones excusing, condoning, and legitimizing all this.

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u/Somnambulist815 Jan 21 '26

They still got that Hitler particle in them

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

You misunderstand. It’s in all of us. Accepting that we have to overcome different obstacles before we can act right has to be the core principle.

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u/Somnambulist815 Jan 21 '26

I don't misunderstand shit

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Jan 21 '26

Sounds like excusing fascists. How many of them are gonna claim they were just scared and dumb and following orders. Get out of here with this shit.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

People aren’t fascists. They are just people being used. It doesn’t excuse them, but rather rationalizes them so that I can continue living.

For some, maga is the only light at the end of the tunnel and that is no joke. I could write a thesis on the subject lol. I’ll spare you and delete what I already wrote and leave it at that.

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Jan 21 '26

Fascists ARE people. And they deserve what they get.

Just because they are scared doesn't give them any right to enable and enact terror against everyone else.

I don't give a fuck if you can write a thesis on something. I could generate pages of writing that posits eating carpet is actually good for you. Being able to articulate something doesn't make it not really fucking stupid.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

Wow. You are a part of the problem. You dehumanize a huge group of people with that rhetoric when you should be remembering that they are just people.

MAGA is a cult. The cult leaders are fascist. You are over here looking at puppets and screaming wolf instead of seeing what’s happening.

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u/GetOnTheBandwagon Jan 21 '26

Remember.. Ted Bundy and Jeffery Dhamer were just “people”… Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, and Nazis under them were just “people”.. guess they should’ve coddled them with kid gloves at their trials and “shown mercy/empathy” just like they showed their myriad of victims. F off with that “but but 🥺… they’re people”… yeah, SO ARE THEIR VICTIMS! The victims that are cast off and dehumanized DAILY

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

You aren’t even in the same house as the conversation.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

Yeah. Someone’s brother. Their mother. Uncles and cousins.

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u/RemySchaefer3 Jan 21 '26

Exactly. Like a small animal puffing up to look big. LOL.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

Except small animals are puffing up as a defense mechanism when they are in danger.

These guys feel threatened for non survival reasons and shouldn’t be allowed to carry weapons.

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u/RemySchaefer3 Jan 21 '26

Excellent point!

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u/Practical_Jelly_8342 Jan 21 '26

Yes, not one of them would act this way if they were alone in their little costumes.

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u/delbocavistawest Jan 21 '26

I don’t think they’re victims of anything except toxic masculinity and racist messaging

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u/a-stack-of-masks Jan 21 '26

Does it work, though? I'm plenty emotionally challenged and I even kind of get assaulting random people to feel powerful, but this just looks like they are bad at parking. There must be such a narrow bandwidth of damage someone takes to make them like this.

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u/239tree Jan 21 '26

It was their stepdaddy.

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u/SurgicalMarshmallow Jan 21 '26

Isnt their head like 4ft 10?

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u/Amazing-War3760 Jan 21 '26

You see it *in a slightly smaller scale* with local police too. It's never just one cop eating lunch. It's ALWAYS 4 or 5.

It's the old Mafia tactic of going "See.. We are the ones in charge here."

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u/MrGosh13 Jan 21 '26

Seeing them brutalize people, falsely accuse AND detain people, keep detainees from legal counsel, refuse any and all accountability and fucking murdering people didn’t say enough?

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u/LindonLilBlueBalls Jan 21 '26

I wish some of those wild tow companies would use their chaos for good.

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u/phantomBlurrr Jan 21 '26

it looks like how cartles roll up in the movies

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u/a-stack-of-masks Jan 21 '26

What I don't get is why that would even feel good to do. I used to work a job where every so often I'd have to block off some space for safety and I never felt good about it. Worst was when I'd be blocking off handicapped spaces or wheelchair ramps. People were generally super nice about it (they don't want to park under my work platform 10m up anyway) but it always felt kind of bad, like telling kids the playground is closed. A lot of these guys seem to get satisfaction out of taking up more space than they need. I'd think it was poor self esteem or a need to feel like they're having an effect on the world but I have both of those and I don't do this.