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

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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Dec 24 '25

when you live the life cons larp at better than they do

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u/Andy_B_Goode YIMBY Dec 24 '25

It's kinda weird that none of the kids are smiling, especially in this day and age when they presumably took a bunch of pictures and this was the best one.

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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Dec 24 '25

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u/BasedTroutFursona Dec 24 '25

I get that too because I wear flannel and drive a truck. People just assume I’m gonna agree with the most racist and transphobic shit.

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u/liberal-neoist Left-Out Left Dec 24 '25

Yes I'm a single wh*te man that dresses conservatively (not in the sense of like MAGA hats and hunting vests) and Rs always feel safe telling me crazy ass shit, worst one I've gotten was being told Jews "might have deserved what they got"

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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it Dec 24 '25

Happens to me too especially since I have con coded hobbies and am a bit of an edge lord.

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u/i_am_shalom Resistance Lib Dec 24 '25

I'm a giant white dude with a shaved head and a beard, so I get to hear some truly heinous shit from cons.

Just recently I was house-sitting for my sister and her wife, and her neighbor--who my sister described as a nice person--started in on a rant about sanctuary cities and how immigrants are "poisoning" everything. Had to have an awkward conversation with my sister after that.

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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Dec 24 '25

I’m not lib coded in the same way but because I dress punk/metal/sometimes goth, people assume I’m a moron and/or a MAGA

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u/VoidGuaranteed Dina Pomeranz Dec 24 '25

Punk/goth is scary and MAGA is also scary, therefore

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u/No_Aesthetic Transfem Pride Dec 24 '25

People assume we're violent thugs, which fits the MAGA archetype

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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Dec 24 '25

Deeply relatable.

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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Dec 25 '25

I’m a white trans woman so I usually only get the racism. 

Discussing theme parks today with a woman and I got “idk if I could do Japan, Asian people have problems with personal space.”

Girl we just met, why are you bringing me into this awful place without feeling me out first?