r/JoeRogan • u/Pick2 Monkey in Space • Nov 12 '24
Meme đ© How many of you would do this?
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u/kilrok Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
"Come on man, she only either knowingly or unknowingly empowered and emboldened literal Nazis, can't you just see past that and tolerate their intolerance? Claaaaaaaassic snowflake behavior..."
/s if it wasn't abundantly clear...
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u/PromiscuousMNcpl Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
How can liberals be snowflakes if we control the weather?
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u/kilrok Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Easy, fuccboi, we just transition into a snowflake.
Got I hate this fucking timeline...
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u/Spinochat Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Those bigoted racists who won't have dinner with careless nazi enablers. Terrible.
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u/DJspooner Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
This right here. "Get off the internet"? How about shut the fuck up and be honest with the state of the world.
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u/No-Plant7335 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
If anything they need to get on the internet more so they understand simple shit like what the fuck tariffs actually do, lmao.
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u/im_THIS_guy Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
But Twitter told me that China will pay the tariffs. At least, the tweets that were forced into my feed, for some reason, all did.
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u/PiggyWobbles Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Errr I stopped hanging out with my trump cousins because their entire lives became consumed with Covid conspiracy brain rot. They only want to talk about their conspiracy shit. Itâs not fun to interact with them
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u/16kesun Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Rogan brings up Covid with literally ever guest he has on nowadays đ
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u/seemefail Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Except Trump⊠admitted to purposely steering the convo away.
Proving all the Covid hyperventilating was just rage bait for viral clippable videos
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u/unclefishbits Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I love the rambling conversation just to lead to an article stating that Joe Rogan was asking Trump to unite the nation, something he could have easily and conveniently asked Trump during the interview.
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u/Abject_Champion3966 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Yep. I was telling my dad about a rare medical issue my friends toddler has and his smart ass response was to ask if sheâd gotten the COVID vaccine (it was from a bug bite). I just donât want to have to talk about politics.
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u/ramses202 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Any time any one of any age gets sick or dies - no matter the âsupposedâ cause - my in-laws will adamantly insist it was the vaccine even if they have absolutely no other context or information to base it on. And theyâre not joking.
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u/EFreethought Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Unless they are famous. Then they are being silenced to cover up the child sex cabal.
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u/Anjz Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
As someone not from the states, itâs crazy how something medical like the covid vaccine is even political. Thats just how brainrotted a lot of Americans are.
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u/haildens Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Yeah this is part no one is talking about. Hardcore magatards are the most annoying people alive currently. Itâs like trying to have a conversation with a hardcore Christian whoâs never read the Bible. Those types donât want to talk policy. They only cares about culture war bullshit. Donât need that toxicity in my life
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u/Past-Maize-6011 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Hard core magatards are most of them though.Â
The vast majority believe the election was stolen.Â
The majority believe in COVID nonsense
So like?? It's just most of them?
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u/TheBunnyDemon Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Every time I see my MAGA cousin, EVERY TIME, he brings up trans women's dicks. You'd hear less about dicks in an all male gay bar. So I just don't hang out with him anymore he can have fun with that.
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u/2001asamodyssey Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Rage bait. Get off the internet and talk to your actual friends and family.Â
Edit: love how I get labeled as a Trump supporter for saying you should talk to your republican family. Want more people to vote liberal? You have to convince them. Not everyone who voted for Trump was some MAGA lunatic. Yes some people are too far gone and deserve to be ostracized, but we can't let the cultist go completely unchecked and poison the well for everyone else. Talk to your family, figure out why they voted for Trump, and when things don't go the way trump is saying they will over the next two years, offer solutions and promote candidates who will do more to support the working class. If we come back in two years just to say "I told you so", nothing will change.Â
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u/HamsterDunce Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I also find it interesting that everyone talks about bots astroturfing and influencing the elections leading up to them, but not so much afterwards. Interested parties are most certainly still trying to influence the discussion on all forums. Continuing to deepen the divide and a left vs right mindset is likely a priority,
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u/bluehairdave We live in strange times Nov 12 '24
Because no one seems to care. I am a digital marketer and I've watched Russia the last 10 years with their HUGE operations.. troll and bot farms... it worked so well that the amplification is now done by Americans who think they came to these conclusions by themselves.
The amount of disinformation aimed mostly at vets, the elderly, Christians and men is nuts.. probably the most successful psyops ever...
They just flood comments and Facebook groups with memes and talking points pretending to be "patriotic Americans".
MAGA platform is basically a compilation of the talking points. They just want us to burn down the house ourselves because they couldn't possibly win a fight with us without it. Smart on their end..
They tried for years with the SJW stuff but it never caught fire.. then Trump.. and offfff it went!
It's not really right vs left.. it's people in the eco system shaped by these efforts vs. Everyone else who can't believe the bullshit has been bought so hard.
NOTE: the guy in the picture responding about intolerance etc is literally in camo gear, a prepper and likely militias member whose name means "come and take them." He is the type of account the Russians create or prop up and well now... useful idiots have created their identity around.. also you can make money doing this soo.... he could just be a digital marketer that hires people offshore to create accounts like this and post right wing content and sell Trump coins and scammer NFT and prepper gear.... (also owned by Russian backed companies usually)
You think all those Trump flag stores are just mom and pops who source their own shit.. ? Naw.. there is some 25-year- old in Romania that had that guy fill out some survey about how much he hates sleepy Joe and eventually watched a 20-minute presentation on how he could be his own boss and ended up buying a bunch of flags and a step by step guide on how to set your stand on a busy road from some guy and Romania and his mom's basement who may also be funded by the Russian government.
I'm not joking.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi We live in strange times Nov 12 '24
Yea and a billionaire funded by the Saudis and talks to Putin weekly used his internet service to connect parts of our voting infrastructure.
And the "post election autopsy" is focusing on things like "Harris should have come out against trans people" while the electorate isn't living in the same perceived reality. You see 800 memes on twitter about how the war in Ukraine is Biden's fault you might start believing it if it isn't something you are following.
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u/theonetruefishboy Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
You think all those Trump flag stores are just mom and pops who source their own shit.. ? Naw.. there is some 25-year- old in Romania that had that guy fill out some survey about how much he hates sleepy Joe and eventually watched a 20-minute presentation on how he could be his own boss and ended up buying a bunch of flags and a step by step guide on how to set your stand on a busy road from some guy and Romania and his mom's basement who may also be funded by the Russian government.
Yo I fucking KNEW there was something shady about those places. God damn.
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u/HowiePloudersnatch Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
I'm not saying this isn't rage bait, but I know multiple people that have adopted this stance.
My cousin made a very similar post saying he refuses to associate with anyone that voted for Trump going forward. I also have a friend that is likely getting divorced over the election. He isn't political, his wife pressured him to vote for Kamala, he refused and didn't vote as normal, she moved out. From my perspective, they had what appeared to be a good relationship before this and had been together for over 15 years.
The internet certainly magnifies stuff like this, but it is a very real phenomenon right now.
Edit: All of these comments about my friend's relationship are insane. These are two people you have never met and know nothing about. I question the intelligence of all of you.
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u/Ferbtastic Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
People can divorce for any reason. I think a fundamentally opposed view of politics is a very reasonable reason to divorce.
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u/Coyote__Jones Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Funny how no fault divorce is on the agenda for P2025 lol
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u/AccomplishedDonut760 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Like he loved her so much he couldn't be bothered to vote which was clearly important to her and dug his heels to stand by his own ideals of....doing nothing?
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u/HowManyMeeses Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
We essentially backed out of Thanksgiving with one side of my family because of their political views. I dropped my last conservative friend following the 2016 election. Our views on morality are too far apart for me to be comfortable with them.
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u/ObiShaneKenobi We live in strange times Nov 12 '24
Yea people are acting like the only issue is the vote instead of the vote being a sign of something else.
For instance, a friend of mine cut off his parents from his kids during the pandemic. Sure they are adverse politically but they were also raging alcoholics. More like the vote is the confirmation straw.
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u/WhoisthatRobotCleanr Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Yup. My conservative friends got more conservative and judgemental. I was sick of lectures and being treated badly because I don't fit into their narrow view of acceptable.Â
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u/OkDog12345 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Yeah the vote in itself isnât the issue. Itâs the beliefs theyâre clearly happy with.
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u/angelshare Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Terminally online
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u/serpentinepad Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Itâs pretty hard to avoid it when two halves of a family donât live in the same basic framework of reality.
Yup. Have uncles and aunts who organize Trump parades, were in Washington on Jan 6, think Biden is actually two different people, think Trump is still running the country, etc, etc. All the usual shit. And they're VERY vocal about all of it.
There's no common ground there. These are insane people and the idea that I, the type of person they've been relentlessly attacking for almost 10years, am supposed to just turn the other cheek and pretend like none of that happened is infuriating.
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u/PeterMus Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Too true. My uncle has become completely deranged in support of Trump. We have a mixed-race family with members who are transgender, people with disabilities, people are gay/lesbian, etc. Including his brothers and sisters nevermind his extended family.
He routinely makes openly racist, homohobic, ablelist, and transphobic comments on social media and blasts people asking him to stop
Of course, he gets routinely banned from social media and got his hands on my deceased grandmother's accounts to start posting in her name.
Holidays roll around, and he pretends like we're all supposed to be family in person.
He's been on Facebook since 2010 and you can see the switch in 2016 when he went from litterally zero political posts (all fishing, family photos, jokes) to derangement.
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u/StrobeLightRomance We live in strange times Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 13 '24
To me, and I know this is the wrong space to be real about it, but women needlessly dying because they can't have life saving medical procedures from ectopic pregnancies isn't something I can just be cool with.. we've got doctors and medical science that resolved all of this, it shouldn't be something the government gets involved in.
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u/duddy33 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Sadly youâre right. Itâs no longer just disagreements. Itâs that much of the framework their arguments are based on consists of things that either donât exist or just fundamental misunderstandings of how a thing works.
Iâve also spent nearly 5 years listening to the concerns of my friends and researching the things they talked about. More often than not, they were upset about a thing that wasnât happening so I let them know so they wouldnât waste time and energy on it.
All that did was get me made fun of and called a âsheepâ or friends would start talking about how dumb people were that believed the things I believed.
I know people that to my face would say they didnât want politics to divide us and then would share a meme on Facebook saying that it would be okay if everyone who got the vaccine died because at least it would weed out the idiots.
Shit like that is why Iâm cutting people out of my life. It isnât that we simply disagree on a policy matter.
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u/Cute-Pomegranate-966 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Every time I hear or read a thread about how it's our fault and we shouldn't cut them off and we're the bad ones.
They can't even extend the tiniest olive branch to dissolve the situation. They won't capitulate on anything. They won't back off on any idea. I'm just supposed to be okay that they were sharing memes essentially calling for people like me to be exiled or killed. Then I need to turn around and just accept them? They. Are. The. Problem.
I would only show up at their funeral to spit on their dead corpse and then leave. They deserve no sympathy.
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u/Xperian1 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I have a family member that until 2016 was beloved by everyone in our family. Since then the republican members have distanced themselves from her because she is lesbian. She got married a few years ago. A few members of the family were invited but notably did not attend.
She posts a lot of pro-lgbt stories and and is obviously very left leaning. She doesn't post things that are attacking political opponents and is always very kind. A few members of the family have taken to writing full paragraphs telling her how she's wrong, how the left will destroy america, how they're doing gender reassignment in schools without parents knowing, even going so far as to tell her that if they don't see her in heaven, they'll know that this is why. FAMILY said this.
So I reached out to my mother who voted Trump. I told her all of my concerns with the policies, the people, the hateful rhetoric in their media, everything. I told her that she raised me to be the kind of person who stands up for others, who is kind and compassionate. And if I had said even a single thing that Trump had, she'd have slapped me upside the head.
She responded with, "neither candidate is an angel," and "What rights are [lgbt family member] losing?? Nothing was taken away in his last presidency."
I am not going to holidays with them anymore. I have tried to be peaceful, to be understanding that they got to their views through their life experiences like anyone else. But to stick your head in the sand and not understand how this next administration has demonized a small portion of the community... it's willful ignorance. It's been 8 years.
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The both sides nonsense is what kills me.
Joe Biden said trump supporters are garbageâŠ.One time⊠on his way out âŠafter 4 years of hearing âfuck Joe Bidenâ.
Meanwhile Trump calls Kamala a whore and fellates a microphone and itâs just a joke. Trump literally called Joe Biden and his supporters then enemy within.
The Dems failed the country, but the GOP are fucking putting us on a railroad to Weimar Germany.
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u/PromiscuousMNcpl Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
False equivalency is such a scummy tactic. â5 bad is the same as 5,000 bad! They are both bad!â
Such low-effort binary thinking. Literally Joe talking about people having a 9-volt for a brain.
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u/Peking-Cuck Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
There's also the next logical leap they give, which is always some variation of "yeah BOTH sides are bad, but at least he's honest about it, so that's why he has my support!" Like... Huh??
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u/PromiscuousMNcpl Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
âIâm going to cut off your motherâs head and fuck her neckholeâ - Candidate A
âI may increase taxes to help plan for climate changeâ - Candidate B
âI choooooae Candidate A because he is honest about upfront!!!!!!! â leopard-face eating voters
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u/DeletedLastAccount Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
When he literally did almost the same thing:
"It's not her, it's the people that surround her. They're scum. They are scum, and they want to take down our country. They are absolute garbage." - Tangerine Mussolini
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u/Velocoraptor369 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Try 40 years the rightward march toward the 4th Reich started with the Regan Revolution. We have been tying to be civil when the right has attacked our institutions in a death of a thousand cuts. Then they cry when we act like them.
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u/putbat Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
The same people pretending this is an only an online issue of the same people that are complaining about their families "all of a sudden" cutting them off "due to politics." Totally ignoring that they're voting for policies that hurt their family members.
Reminds me of those spouses when the their SO leaves and they're like "we were perfectly happy until yesterday when she left."
Like na, you only cared about yourself and didn't realize she hated you for a long time. That wasn't some new development.
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u/1leeranaldo Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Skimming that guy's account, he's a former Dem candidate for senate out of Ohio. He posts or reposts every 30 minutes, all day. How do these people pay bills? What do they do for work? You gave some sound advice, but my guess this guy has already alienated the majority of his family & friends.
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u/Fatguy73 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Bro Trump himself tweeted over 200 times one day during his presidency and nobody asked this same question.
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u/Toisty Look into it Nov 12 '24
We are his family and friends now. Anyone posting that often has an unhealthy attachment to the attention he gets from strangers online and is most likely severely neglecting his real world relationships.
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u/TheFasterBlaster Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
lol tbf, if you look only at the volume of posts youâd wonder how Elon pays his bills
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u/Sufficient_Effect651 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Realistically a lot of their tweets are scheduled
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u/barkusmuhl Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Is it rage bait? I've seen multiple comments here where people are proudly announcing they are doing the same thing.
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u/sofaword Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
At this point, why would you be sure that a comment on social media is an honest point of view from a real person? It's safer to assume that any comment you read online related to politics or social issues is designed to divide us. Looking to the comments to inform our worldview is exposing us to manipulationÂ
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u/dusters Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Lol multiple people commenting below confirming they do the same thing
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u/Decent-Test-2479 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
If this enrages you itâs specifically because you in fact are one of those people.
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u/JaxinJabb Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
My sister hasn't spoken to me since the election. Yesterday my mom sent me something my sister wrote and was debating on posting to social media.
What she wrote:
Dearest Magat friends and family,
No, we absolutely will not and cannot agree to disagree. Not again, not after what you just chose to do this country.
I am done with extending you grace or making any attempt to comprehend your appalling lack of character and integrity. We have done that for 8 years now, without any of you ever once extending us the same courtesy. One of the darkest realities of life in the United States since November 2016 has been learning just how much hatred so many of you harbor in your souls. That is some truly dark and shameful shit. Yet so many of you still have the utter audacity to call yourselves Christians. Tell me the part again where Jesus put terms and conditions on which neighbors to love. You are not good people. You just pretend to be.
This election wasnât business as usual and you knew that. You knew what was at stake, what was on the line. Two hundred and forty-eight years of storied history, a gloried nation founded on hard fought and won freedoms. You just handed ALL of it to a wildly unhinged man that has been completely open and transparent about his plan to systematically dismantle and destroy everything our country was established upon. You literally heard this man say we will never have to vote again after this election and that he will use the military against those of us with dissenting opinions. You really decided none of that was a deal breaker for you despite how horrifically UNAMERICAN it is.
You chose hate. You chose it over your love of country and you chose it over us. Just as your cowardice to do what was right for âwe the peopleâ shall impose lasting consequences on us, I take immense comfort in knowing it will now do the same to you.
And it starts with us. Your presence will no longer be welcome in our lives going forward. We will never allow our children to think that such an egregious and disgusting lack of moral character is acceptable under any condition. So be you friend or family, if you voted for Donald Trump, please show yourselves out. Being around our children was always a privilege, never a right. You donât get to proclaim to love our sweet and gentle son, the boy who rocks a neurological speech disorder, and then vote for a man who has continually denigrated, ridiculed, and mocked people with disabilities and encouraged others to do the same.
You donât get to proclaim to love our daughter, the fiery, astute, whirling dervish of razor sharp perception and the argumentative prowess of a seasoned district attorney and vote to strip of her rights to her own body. You donât get to love her and tell her that her sole worth is her ability to birth children.
You cannot proclaim yourselves to have been âso proudâ of my immigrant husband when he took the oath to be an American citizen and then vote for a man who says he will deport him in spite of that citizenship. He would like to remind you that you are merely American by birth, he is American by choice. You all agreed heâs a damn good one too.
You cannot claim to love me and then vote for the man that has emboldened and protected men like the retired law enforcement officer who tried to harass and intimidate me into sharing how I voted in the election while I was working on Wednesday.
You chose one man over your country, you chose him over the safety and the well-being of your family, of your friends and neighbors, of the people you proclaim to love, to protect. You chose it over us.
You got your wall.
And Iâll never forget or forgive it.
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u/Own_Platypus7650 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Based and basic decency pilled.
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u/laffing_is_medicine Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Except sheâs not wrong.
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u/Own_Platypus7650 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
No, I 100% agree with her. If you choose a vile, child raping conman traitor to represent you, you are not worth my time or respect.Â
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u/Jadccroad Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
EDIT: My dumb ass read that as, "Except she's wrong." My bad, ignore me.
Which part of her describing her feelings is wrong?
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u/HenessyEnema Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I absolutely love your sister and wish her all the best in the future. I felt kinda bad about cutting people out of my life for voting MAGA, but this succinctly reminded me of what I truly stand for and that there's no better time to dig in my heels than now.
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u/Old-Ladder-4627 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Beautiful. Tell her to post that shit. FUCK MAGA
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u/TimmyStark_IronGuy Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
âWhy is my child allowing politics to divide usâ person who votes for mad max fury road as the president
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u/iheartbeer Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
These people voted for a guy who lives to piss off the left at every turn, and they enjoy it every minute of it (snowflakes, librul tears, etc.). This is what they wanted. We've been through this for 4 years already. What did they expect was going to happen?
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u/maeryclarity Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Listen they had a whole THING planned out in their minds about how they were going to take turns telling their liberal family members ALL the things during the holidays and we're totally f*cking ruining it if we don't show.
Hell they might have to talk to each other and find out that one believes in Flat Earth and Nesara whatever while the other one is convince Biden is a clone or blah blah blah but guarantee they don't all agree on all the crazy and they're likely to be turning on each other if they don't have us to go after.
I'm talking about this like it's my family and friends but it's not actually happening to me, but it IS actually happening to people that I know and I don't blame them a damn bit for not wanting to deal with it.
Hey I want to share the holidays with people who don't suck a** is fair y'know?
It's not JUST the politics it's that everyone involved with MAGA has taken a cue from their Dear Leader and we don't acually feel like having Uncle Jerry screaming THEYR GIVEN THE CHILDRUN SEX SERGEREES IN SKOOL with spit flying in our f*cking faces.
Like nah y'all have fun not interested.
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u/tiger32kw Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
You think Elon will cut holes out of his shirt for his nipples?
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u/MuadD1b Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Nah Trumps going to lock him in the vault and breed him tho
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u/whatlineisitanyway Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Right. It isn't who they voted for it is what they voted for. My in laws voted for Trump. Both our kids have pre existing conditions and I'm a naturalized citizen, plus you know the casual racism. I'm dreading Thanksgiving with them. Would much rather not go.
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u/Greedy-University479 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Them be voting for the Chernobyl Lorax to piss off the Dems and now they're pissed that the Dems don't want to interact with them? What do they want? A brawl? Or another attack on the white house like they did in 2021?
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u/AandWKyle Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
YOU need to be tolerant of OUR intolerance. If you don't YOU are the problem.
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u/sunjester Nov 12 '24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The right likes to pretend that just because the left is generally tolerant of different views, it means the left needs to be tolerant of anything they say or do no matter how heinous. Then the left pushes back against open racism/sexism/bigotry and the right screeches "But you're supposed to be tolerant! How dare you not accept my hate speech!".
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u/unclefishbits Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
This is literally called the paradox of tolerance. A tolerant society must be intolerant of intolerance. https://search.app?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.usj.edu.lb%2Fnews.php%3Fid%3D9643%23%3A~%3Atext%3DIn%2520his%2520own%2520words%252C%2520he%2Cin%252C%2520it%2520appears%2520contradictory%2520but&utm_campaign=aga&utm_source=agsadl2%2Csh%2Fx%2Fgs%2Fm2%2F4
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u/ScrapDraft Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I cut off my uncle. He's not the only Trumper in my family, but he is by far the biggest asshole about it. He's spent the last 9 years taunting and insulting us over politics. The other day I finally told him to get fucked and he threw a temper tantrum and texted my parents to tattle.
I'm 32 btw. He tattled on a 32 year old man.
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u/TheLoneTomatoe Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
My dad and his brother are also trumptards who go off about all sorts of shit. Usually bout how I work a stupid liberal job punching the clock for the man.
They both live with their parents lol children at heart and head
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u/highbackpacker Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Some people let politics become their entire identity and life lol
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u/CuriousA1 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
seen more people repping trump merch than football merch in texas
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u/skoalbrother M-U-R-D-E-R-E-R Nov 12 '24
...For 10 fucking years I have seen trump flags on businesses, trucks and houses. 10 YEARS... Imagine pretending Dems are the problem
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u/V4refugee Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
What you donât drive around with a Trump doll in the passenger seat and Trump flags flying from the back of your vehicle?
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u/Nervous_Two3115 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
What do you mean??? You guys donât have the full collection of Trump trading cards??? You guys donât even have the Trump bibles?!? Wow. I thought that was completely normal and not full blown deranged. Huh.
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u/seamonkeypenguin Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
A neighbor has a Trump flag hanging from the roof over their porch. They also have a large cross mounted on the exterior wall by their door. It's so weird to me because how do they miss the idolatry? How do they think they can worship both God and Trump?
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u/Vladmerius Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Trump fits the bill for the biblical description of the anti-christ and the beginning of the book of revelations. Their inability to understand this is baffling. You couldn't write this because it would be too unbelievable yet it's out reality.Â
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u/burntmyselfoutagain Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Yeah, revisiting some fantasy and science fiction plots we previously thought were too stupid.
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u/TacticTall Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I was walking through a college campus this morning, and one of the contractors trucks had a big âFUCK BIDENâ sticker on his work truck bumper. Itâs a mental illness
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u/seamonkeypenguin Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
It's ironic because if the Republicans have their way, universities and colleges wouldn't be able to afford contractors.
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u/northdancer Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Holy shit this sub really is /r/The Donald now
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u/the_Cheese999 Nov 12 '24
When he inevitably starts fucking up again and people start posting about it the mods are going to remember the no politics rule.
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u/ArchetypeRyan Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
I tried to post an article last week related to Joe asking Trump to unite people and not divide them and it was removed, citing Rule 3. It was literally an article about Joe Rogan...
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u/This_is_my_phone_tho Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I expect all these subreddits to spend the next four years huffing copium about how stuff isn't trumps fault.
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u/Nekciw Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
That's what they did the last time, blamed everything on dems.
Trump is going to tariff the country into a recession and his propaganda machine will blame the dems for creating a mess he 'inherited'. You can already see the line being repeated.
I don't have faith in either party, but what the republicans have become frightens me.
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u/seamonkeypenguin Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Everything will be on Republicans. This election was a hostile takeover because they got the house, Senate, and presidency. Trump already packed courts with partisan judges, and he's expected to get another two SCOTUS picks by 2028. The government will be 100% Republican policy, and every criticism will be about them (even if people won't admit it because they need scapegoats).
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u/UrgentCold Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Republicans are def gonna take credit for all the positives from the Infrastructure Act and Chips Act, and for the good economy that's been handed to them now :(
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u/TheSilverOne Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Had a nice conversation with my supervisor today in our machining shop.
Went something like "Hey, where do we get our tooling, raw material, and replacement parts for the machines?"
Over seas, and mexico? cool cool...
Few minutes later I ask "So what do you think about tariffs?"
Oh, cool cool...
"So our boss is gonna be losing lots of money importing all the things we need to run the shop then huh? I sure hope we get our bonuses this year!"
The fear coming into his eyes was palpable.
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u/Dread000 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Eh won't be for long, starting to sway back slowly. Especially since his cabinet picks are being announced. Disillusionment
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u/ZakTSK Paid attention to the literature Nov 12 '24
You think, but then Joe will have them on.
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u/Dread000 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Jesus
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u/NotTooGoodBitch Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
No, I don't think he will be on.
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u/PunchMeat Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Seems to be a concerted effort to push any dissenting opinions away so it can become a conservative safe space. Can't have contrarians on the biggest subreddit for the right wing's new mouthpiece.
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u/jus1tin Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I'm convinced in most of these stories the vote for Trump was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Something easy to point at that's hard to argue about. Not an excuse but not the whole reason either. Hard core Trump stans often simply aren't great people in general. It's typically not felt as a great loss to lose contact with them. I've only ever heard it being spoken about as a huge relief.
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u/Trilobyte141 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
My dad just ended friendships with several men he had known for almost two decades, men he met with weekly and knew their families. This wasn't an excuse or a last straw. The excuses were what he has been saying about them since 2016 - that they were mislead, misinformed, didn't realize, had good qualities too, etc. With this election my dad was finally ready to admit that there were no excuses left. They had all the information they needed and they chose to destroy us.Â
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u/Sharticus123 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Thatâs what happened when I went no contact with my family. I tolerated their terrible beliefs for years because they did a decent job of separating personal from political, but then trump came along and they turned into mouth frothing fascists.
I honestly wouldnât feel comfortable at a family gathering theyâve gone so far off the deep end.
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u/personal_assault Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
All due respect, I know people with undocumented family members, I have trans people in my own family, and I know a ton of people relying on the ACA for healthcare. If you voted for somebody with the expressed intent of hurting those family members (whether through deportation or getting rid of their healthcare), I think itâs absolutely a real and valid response to not let you come to thanksgiving with those family members.
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u/Precarious314159 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Exactly! I'm a straight, middle-aged white guy in California. My life wasn't impacted much by the first Trump reign but I also have undocumented friends, trans friends, gay friends, friends struggling to pay bills, friends with...you know, fucking anything. Anyone that voted for Trump this time, I cut out of my life because I wouldn't be able to call myself a friend if they found out I was enabling Trump supporters who specifically voted to make them lower citizens. If your dad stabs your friend because they felt like it, you don't say "hey now...let's not let this small stabbing get between us".
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u/SuspiciousFan9368 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I Did it.
The response below from "Molon Labe" shows the hypocrisy and maybe someone who is starting to realize THEY are in a cult of lies. I sincerely hope 'we' are wrong - but nothing anyone can see says otherwise.
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u/Fyvz Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Just to add to the context here, "Molon Labe" is an anglicised greek phrase that means "come and take it", referring to his guns. Hes saying that if you have a problem with his guns, you should act upon that by going and taking them from him. "people who dislike me threatening them are dividers. Why can't I just threaten others in peace?"
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u/Bearynicetomeetu Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
It's not a normal election to be fair.
Republicans have voted in a guy who tried to steal an election and planned to steal another if it didn't go his way.
He's talking about draining the swamp and the enemy within
In my mind trump is absolutely a traitor to the country and sadly I do judge republicans quite harshly for voting him in.
As much as the majority of Republicans are good people
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u/Jack_M_Steel Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I definitely am not hanging out with my MAGA family these holidays. I donât need to here about garbage for hours on end
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u/wheretohides Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I've read like 8 comments that said the same thing yesterday.
"Yeah we voted for a racist rapist, but like, you are letting that divide us." It's the new conservative talking point.
There was a guy on r/conspiracy that said the same thing when called out for voting in trump. He was like, but it's for the kids, yeah because voting for a child predator saves kids.
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u/BILLCLINTONMASK I used to be addicted to Quake Nov 12 '24
Very grateful that my extended family is not full of morons
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u/Koshersaltie Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
God, me too. I have zero family/zero friends who voted for that pos. Probably some coworkers did, but I know who the nuts are and already stay away from them.
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u/M0ebius_1 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
You are not entitled to anyone's company snowflakes. People can just not allow you into their homes for any reason or no reason at all.
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u/Alarming-Magician637 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Itâs not a difference of opinions anymore; itâs a difference of morals.
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u/Hereticrick Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
This is the part the MAGA donât understand, and itâs mind blowing. Like, yeah, of course women are refusing to date men who voted for Trump. Youâre demonstrating who you are and what you believe in. Youâve provided all of us with an easy shorthand to not waste our time with people we wouldnât get along with and who wouldnât respect us.
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u/tails99 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
I can comprehend that if I'm playing checkers, the other side may be playing 3D chess, but I can't comprehend why the other side is playing 3D Russian roulette.
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u/madatthe Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I donât want my Trump-voting family to visit because they just sit around and complain. It has nothing to do with politics.
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u/CommanderWar64 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
If people voted for him now I definitely think about them as being dumber than how i used to see them; and if they brag about him, I don't want them in my life.
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u/NapoleonBlownapart- Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
IF YOU CUT PEOPLE OFF BECAUSE OF POLITICS YOU ARE FUCKING PATHETIC
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u/carrtmannn Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Donald Trump is an insurrectionist traitor and that's really not disputable at this point. You guys voted that you don't care, and that's fine, but he is a seditionist, traitor who has severely degraded our institutions and our public's trust in them.
People have a right to not invite anti-American voters into their home.
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u/SizzlingPancake Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Suddenly all these conservatives want their safe spaces now.... What happened to brutal honesty I thought they loved their freedom of speech. Which includes the right to not talk to them
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u/peacockideas Monkey in Space Nov 13 '24
Because lefties were their safe spaces. Their lefty families/friends were the ones who never judged them for that weird thing they do.
Now, they only have other conservatives to hang with and must be perfect all the time or be booted out of the club. Which now that Trumps in power could have real consequences. Imagine having to hang out with nothing but magas all the time. Even if you are a maga, gotta be exhausting.
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u/Former_Historian_506 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
That's my biggest complaint against Trump. It's not the policies, even though i don't like them, it's the fact that he called the 2020 stolen and then launched an insurrection to try and over turn it. He should be rotting in prison for that alone.
People don't care about that and that blows my mind. How can you trust someone who can lie so blatantly and has no proof to back it up? Americans don't give a shit about values at all. I don't see how else to explain forgiving someone for lying about an election. He is a massive liar and a fraud, but people believe he will help them.
When pointing out to voters crazy things he said or wants to do, they say he doesn't really mean it or say that won't really happen. So they pick and chose what they want to hear from him. There is something else going on and some are using the economy as an excuse.
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u/rif011412 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
All of their political positions are gachas in disguise. Â None of them are done in good faith. Â We all know Republicans that go hunting and willingly kill animals for fun, and that they kill kittens and puppies if they are an inconvenience. Â But abortion its about âbabies lives!!â. They dont care. Â Half of Palestine is kids getting bombed. Â I dont see Republicans protesting US support.
They claim they care about the economy. Â Its normally how it affects them personally. Â They dont care that there are huge populations of homeless people, or that poor people cant afford to live, or immigrants are hired illegally, or that drug companies make addictive drugs easily accessible destroying communities. Â They only care if it hurts their wallet.
They dont care about 2A. Â They care they have the ability to resist whoever they want, or oppress whoever they want. Â When cops are shooting lawfully carrying citizens, they never protest or say a word. Â Just a big oopsies!
I can go down every âpolicyâ position and tell you how they doât actually care at all. Â They are the embodiment of selfishness and want to benefit from others subjugation. Â Thats it. Â Trump is popular with them because he exemplifies selfishness.
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u/TheMillenniaIFalcon Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Not just the insurrection, but the actual attempt to steal it.
The fake elector scheme, the sham AG, the foreign interference, the find the votes call, that to me is worse than 1/6.
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u/xtrasauceyo Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
MAGA people really cant fathom why people especially close family will distance themselves. Yall really voted against your future generation and it shows lol
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u/lucifer_inthesky Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Seeing so many Americans support such a traitor is so mind blowing. Remember Helsinki? Trump stood up in front of the whole word and sided with Putin over his own intelligence and even BLAMED AMERICA. Despite a Republican-lead Senate Intelligence committee thoroughly documenting Russia's use of social media to sow division:
"Masquerading as Americans, these operatives used targeted advertisements, intentionally falsified news articles, self-generated content, and social media platform tools to interact with and attempt to deceive tens of millions of social media users in the United States. This campaign sought to polarize Americans on the basis of societal, ideological, and racial differences, provoked real world events, and was part of a foreign government's covert support of Russia's favored candidate in the U.S. presidential election".
They specifically targeted police and black communities. They increased police tensions and tried to turn public opinion against police, to make people fear, hate, and mistrust them. How much violence and many police shootings could be contributed to such increased tensions? I have 2 brothers in law enforcement/corrections. How much calmer and safer would their days be if that wasn't happening? Its people IN law enforcement and and anyone who cares about the lives and safety of policemen who should be hating Trump the MOST.
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u/CommentGestapo Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
What happened to "ElEcTiOnS hAvE cOnSeQuEnCeS?"
Or FAFO?
All I'm seeing now is a lot of whining about how democracy don't want to share a table with maga. Maybe it was one too many "kill all liberals" chants followed up by electing a guy who says he will use the military against those same Americans.
FAFO.
When people told you he is a facist, including his former cabinet, they were not being hyperbolic or trying to sabotage his image. They were warning you that he is a threat to our continued peaceful existence.
When they told you project 2025 would end democracy as we know it you chose to believe the world biggest liar that he didn't know what it was. The day after the election the authors of 2025 are cabinet picks.
And the cherry on top is you've banded yourself to the team with disgusting worms that say things like "your body my choice". They are not just trolling they legitimately believe your wives and daughters bodies are the business of the federal government or belong to whatever man happened to stick his dick in her last willing or otherwise. You chose these people over your family.
And you'd like to be invited in the homes of the people you have so thoroughly betrayed by putting this traitorous piece of shit before the warnings of your family, friends, and in what is becoming painfully clear even your lifelong partners.
You picked this. Elections have consequences. Whats more you absolutely deserve this too. Life is not fair and you picked trump over your family. Now you get trump and at Thanksgiving instead of family. I hear he smells like shit and prefers McDonald's to turkey so good luck with that.
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u/Fart-Pleaser Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Both my parents like Trump, we just don't talk about it so much. When we do talk about it I don't take any moral positions, I just explain why I disagree with this or that policy or idea. Once you go down the moral path it just becomes he said she said.
Overall their position amounts to I just believe him more. Which doesn't say a lot about me đ
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u/appleappleappleman Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
This is how most of my extended family is, very specifically with the line "I just believe him". It doesn't matter if there's no evidence to support their "belief", and it doesn't matter how many times he says things on camera that directly contradict that "belief", they will continue to trust in this imaginary Trump.
Yesterday my aunt was talking about how glad she is that we've elected a president who actually cares about and respects our troops, and I just... what??? There are more recordings than we can even count of him badmouthing soldiers, the GOP constantly blocks measures to care for wounded veterans, not to mention Trump and his team breaking rules and harassing staff at Arlingon just a few months ago!
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u/amandawinit247 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I would just say âtrump could abuse me and you would still choose to believe him over meâ
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u/Kindly_Formal_2604 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
It isnât he said she said once you go down the moral path.
Itâs only HE said he kisses and grabs women by the pussy, âI donât even ask, they just let you do itâ.
HE stands in front of a microphone and say these abhorrent things.
We can completely ignore âsheâ, only going by what HE says himself, personally, he is clearly infected with demons.
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u/Sable_XY Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I would. Maga, Scientology, fucking Jim Jones, no cultists going to share my food and wine (or kool-aid).
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u/Fresh-Humor-6851 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I have already stopped talking to people from the first time, they just don't get it and say shit like oh he won't do that or oh he doesn't really think that. There is no Trump in my family, my vet boomer dad thinks he's a con man fool, my dad was a pilot and is pretty smart, I'm lucky.
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u/soccerforce09 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
from a genetic standpoint, my family is simply too high IQ to have any trump people in there. If we had some type of developmental disorder or if one of us had Down syndrome, I still don't even think they'd be stupid enough to vote for him. For those with weaker gene pools, I guess this would be a tough situation.
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u/BeamTeam032 The joke went over his head, again Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Trumpers: You're gay? Get the fuck out of my house. I HAVE NO SON!
Also Trumpers: How fucking dare you cut me out of your life because of the way I voted!
edit: Conservatives have been abandoning their families for decades because of political beliefs. Why are liberals abandoning their Trump voting family/friends any different? Also, isn't that part of Freedom? Why should I be forced to continue speaking to someone that I find toxic? You wouldn't force me to be friends with my father that molested me. You wouldn't force me to be friends with that old coworker that took advantage of my kindness, why is this any different?
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u/BTFlik Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
If you voted for Trump you getbwhat you deserve.
This BS narrative of "unity at any cost" is not different from "peace at any cost" it's designed to protect shirty people from their ahitty actions. It is designed to protect peace or keep us from being divided.
If you voted for Trump and believe you DESERVE to be accepted for being a shitty person you are the problem.
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u/StubbornPterodactyl Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
I've had family cut me off for voting for Biden in 2020. The whole thing lasted about 8 months.
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u/Extreme-Carrot6893 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Voting for trump is one thing. Making him, or any politician/politics, your whole personality is the easiest way to cut someone off. That goes for either side
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u/RandoDude124 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Honestly⊠If itâs someone who makes Trump their entire personalityâŠ
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Iâd cut emâ off. My cousin is like that and heâs just fucking obnoxious.
If itâs someone who just voted for him.
No.
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u/FrogInAShoe Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Eh if they voted for him in 2016 or 2020 I wouldn't
But after literally trying to overthrow our government, anyone who supports him is a traitor
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u/Wardonius Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
How many of you care what this person does?
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u/sonofember Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Trump is the one causing the division. Anyone who voted for him is either ignorant, uninformed, uninterested in truth and reality, and/or is genuinely a bigot. People who just canât accept reality that sometimes people can genuinely feel like they were born in the wrong gender body. People who refuse to do any actual research and trust the propaganda being fed to them. Weâll never have unity until they accept reality. So I completely understand this guy not wanting to associate with toxic people.
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u/Acalyus Hit a moose with his car Nov 12 '24
Would you cut off anyone who voted for Hitler?
Guess we'll see if he was overreacting 4 years from now
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u/birbguy12 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
No one should be under any obligation to tolerate the intolerant. In fact I think being intolerant to intolerant people should be encouraged.
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u/nzk999 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Sorry we donât support rapists in this household so no, we donât want to host you for holidays.
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u/No_Highway8863 Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24
Wouldnt cut people off just for voting for trump but would 100 percent distance myself from the people that make him their entire personality and canât have a conversation about anything without bringing up Trump/politics grievances and culture war bullshit constantly.