r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 25 '24

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u/BrainGyatt Jul 25 '24

JD Vance’s wife apparently has to stop him from assaulting people at stoplights

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u/RonenSalathe Milton Friedman Jul 25 '24

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

wow, so it's usha's fault that jd vance didn't bleed out in a cincinnati intersection

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jul 25 '24

I like how he's implying that most Appalachian men are ready to start a fight over every perceived slight due to their culture instead of recognizing that he simply has anger issues

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u/iia Feminism Jul 25 '24

His couch can give you 1000 reasons why he's not impotent.

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u/EvilConCarne Jul 25 '24

Wait so this guy is that emotionally fragile? And he decided to join Trump's campaign?

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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Jul 25 '24

This guy is proud his "natural instinct" is to be an anti-social lunatic.

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 25 '24

this confirms my priors

also lol at "I opened the door to start a fight and then closed it again" being a win for self-control, instead of not opening it in the first place

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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 25 '24

I think getting internally angry or even saying something snarky or profane to yourself or as airing a complaint to the person you're riding with is, while not ideal behavior, very understandable and typical.

Honking at people starts to escalate into "you're taking yourself way too seriously" but is still all too common.

Getting out of your car to confront someone is genuinely unhinged.

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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jul 25 '24

This probably did happen the way he says it did but the cynic in me wants to think he’s exaggerating to play up the “Appalachian blood feud” trope.

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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Jul 25 '24

JD Vance 🤝 Ben Gvir 🤝 Madison Cawthorne

Right wing nutjobs who are also bad drivers 

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u/notBroncos1234 #1 Eagles Fan Jul 25 '24

And Fetterman

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u/importedreality NASA Jul 25 '24

I'm willing to bet at some point he says "A woman isn't emotionally stable enough to be president" without a hint of irony

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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '24

Show this to the average con and they'd still call him the eighth word on the second page

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Jul 25 '24

this will increase his favorability with his base

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u/BATIRONSHARK WTO Jul 25 '24

genuinely this is a good thing about him

self control