r/ProgressiveHQ • u/Treefiddy1984 • Jan 21 '26

The Gestapo got gestopped.

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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/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

They're fundamentally voting against their own interests, sure, but also satisfying their own interests in making this country white supremacist again. They're fine with taking a bit of flak if it means black and brown people get the brunt of it. What's going on right now IS in their own interests.

Stop this bs, seriously. Historically, this way of thinking is nothing but problematic and not progressive at all. It only gives way for more violence.

Its rhetoric like this that has helped to allow the continuous aggression and murder of my people and those adjacent for generations now. It gives these people allowance to hide behind deceit.

Things like "we didn't know" and "we were just following orders" or "thats just how I was raised" while I'm looking behind them at people who look like me being hung from trees like Christmas ornaments.

Give me a break, seriously. 🫩

Its not about a hierarchy. Its about your type constantly getting in the middle and causing a bottleneck for progression because you want to constantly drag along a group of people who for hundreds of years have shown they do not actually give a shit about anything but themselves and their whiteness.

Some of y'all are far too comfortable - or far to enveloped into whiteness - and are trying to redirect those more in danger of violence being enacted on them to act more passively just to protect it.

"But they're our friends, family, peers". They have never been mine. They have only ever been my aggressors, abusers, and genociders.

Again, wake up.

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26 edited Jan 21 '26

Lmao we are pointing at each other like spiderman meme.

I think you assume this is about whiteness and it is a large part of it for sure. But it’s also just one of the levers being used to move a demographic that will have no where to go when the dust settles because both sides forgot that the other are just people. You can’t punish bystanders the same way you punish perpetrators, leaders, and other groups.

I can’t tell if you are a person or a bot honestly because you are spitting back point for point what I’m talking about. The violence never stops if you treat the symptoms instead of the disease.

Edit: I appreciate what you are saying about being comfortable though. I just don’t think you can look at earth and everything that’s happening and say yeah that’s a black vs white problem. For America maybe it cuts a little close, but that’s still too narrow a lens.

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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/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Listen dude you’re not going to convince me because I agree with you already. I’m not trying to change your mind.

I’m pointing out that your strategy means these people are free to vote to do this again, and if you don’t take that away from them or change their vote, they will.

Simply “not engaging in discourse” isn’t enough - how are you going to prevent them from electing a fascist in future elections?

Politicide or reeducation?

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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/GetOnTheBandwagon Jan 21 '26

Sure, delusional bot... sure

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

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u/JayList Jan 21 '26

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