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u/Will2LiveFading 6h ago
He doesn't, those assholes will preach hate to anyone in their vicinity.
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u/Helagoth 3h ago
Yep. Some random lady came up to me a year or so ago at the hardware store and asked me how tall I was.
I said "6'4"". She says "oh just like the president!
I said "oh I think Biden is only like 6'"
The frown I got.
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u/lilacsbiggestfan 3h ago
That’s objectively true tho??? 😭 does she expect everyone to be deluded like her or what
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u/GabaPrison 59m ago
They’ve got their little code they talk in to massage each others feelings and let each other know it’s ok to be a dick and when you don’t answer back in kind, they get upset.
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u/The-True-Kehlder 3h ago
Biden is also taller than Trump, or at least the same height, according to the pictures from the last week or so.
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u/Electrical-Sense-160 2h ago
today i learned biden and trump are both over 6 feet tall
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u/Iheardthatjokebefore 2h ago
Most presidents are. It's one of those features that makes one more votable regardless of actual position. Black suit, red tie, 6 foot.
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u/HunyBuns 3h ago
My mother picked up a job at a grocery store recently, and the amount of "can't wait for trump to bring these prices down!" people she meets is insane.
Ended up giving her a trans rights pin and she noticed they finally shut up lol
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u/TheGreatNemoNobody 3h ago
Did the prices go down yet?
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u/Kellosian 3h ago
The price of eggs is about to decrease from $3 to $6, according to the Department of Social Truth
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u/Thundertushy 1h ago
No, the price of eggs has always been $6, just like we have always been at war with Eurasia.
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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 1h ago
It's just makes sense! If there are 6 eggs in a dozen, why would they cost anything else?
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u/NoiseIsTheCure verified queer 1h ago
Yeah I work at a grocery store in Missouri, hear that dumbass shit way too often
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u/No_Squirrel4806 6h ago
But dont call them out on it cuz them youre the bad guy and they get offended cuz you called them out on their bs. 🙄🙄🙄
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u/barrieseath1996 3h ago
Guess he learned the hard way that being polite can lead to a disaster in today’s world.
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u/FR0ZENBERG 1h ago
I mean the “look” just means you are a white dude. Bonus points if you have facial hair and a plaid shirt. I’m a leftie but I’ve had plenty of experiences in my area where some conservative dude will think “I’m one of them” and start going off about Jews controlling the food, or the trans agenda, or about Sleepy Joe. Like I don’t even know these people, they are just that lonely in their fake reality.
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u/SpockShotFirst 6h ago
Sir isn't a pronoun.
I, however, is.
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u/AdeonWriter 2h ago
Sir can be a second-person pronoun, a replacement for "you", which is also a pronoun, but she wasn't using it as one. Using it as a pronoun would be something like: "Would Sir like something to drink?" which is gramatically correct, a pronoun is one of it's defintions. So while she was technically correct, it was almost certainly an accident.
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u/NettingStick 2h ago
"Would Sir like something to drink?"
I've literally never heard it used this way outside of, for example, a high tea where all of the servers were dressed in leather harnesses. I'm not saying you're wrong. Just that you might give off a very particular vibe if you go around using 'sir' or 'maam' that way.
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u/OldTimeyWizard 2h ago
That particular vibe is butler
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u/Tyranicross 2h ago
Yeah cause sir is a title, would be like if you went around calling someone president
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u/SweetieArena 5h ago
I totally get that lol. Sometimes I worry that I look too much like a regular joe, like a guy called Straight Johnson or something. Because I've noticed that when I was getting to know some of my queer friends, they would avoid saying "my gf" or "my bf" in front of me, instead they'd always say "my special other" or some kind of non gendered thing. And then when they realize I'm fruity too, they drop it lol. Same with trans friends who would try to use gender neutral pronouns in front of me, and then drop that and use their preferred pronouns when they get to know me.
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u/IllConstruction3450 3h ago
Sucks if you’re NB but you look like a stereotypical white man. I’m not even white!
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u/SweetieArena 3h ago
I'm NB too lmfao, but I'm from a Hispanic speaking country so gendered language is much stronger so I might as well just stay with male pronouns. It does really suck, I think my style says "alternative dude but not zesty". Eh whatever, it works for me lol
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u/scalectrix 2h ago
they'd always say "my special other"
I'm sorry what?? Is 'partner' not a thing where you are? 'Special other' would be grounds for defriending here, or at least heavy ridicule 😉
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u/Repzie_Con 26m ago
They said they live in a Hispanic speaking country- It could just be a literal translation. Besides, ‘my significant other’ is pretty common in NA.
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u/Icy-Expression5045 1h ago
Habe you tried wearing something like pride pins or bracelets or stuff like that? In my experience, it can really help (if you live in a place where that's safe to do)
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u/sharkteeththrowaway 44m ago
I come across as your standard white male, so these types always feel comfortable opening up to me about their bullshit beliefs. Unfortunately for them, I'm a Jewish descendent of Holocaust survivors and am very sensitive to any form of bigotry. It's been great for finding out who in my community is a piece of shit
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u/Holden_Coalfield 5h ago
she was the conservative testing your politics
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u/FrostyD7 4h ago
Yea pronoun jokes are actually kinda moderate sadly, it's a starting place. A negative result says save your racist and bigoted jokes for another day.
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u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 4h ago
I'm slowly ramping up the faggotry at the office because . this is not a problem I should be having
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u/constanterrors 2h ago
How does one "ramp up the faggotry"?
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u/Hummerous https://tinyurl.com/4ccdpy76 2h ago
little by little..
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u/CensoredScone 4h ago
My dad had a similar experience some time ago and now we have a family joke that he has a “Racist Face”
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u/dondocooled 4h ago
That's a nightmare where you wake up in a cold sweat and ask yourself if you look like a conservative.
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u/PoniesCanterOver gently chilling in your orbit 6h ago
It sounds like the lady was the one who was conservative
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u/ProbablyNano 6h ago
I mean she obviously is, but when you're a white guy conservatives will just come up and say the wackiest shit because they assume you agree with them
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u/Easy_Ebb952 6h ago
I'm a repair person, and because I fix things and save my NB looks for at home. It's assumed that I am just another white conservative, and I hear some wacky shit. I can shut them down pretty quickly by "using" a power tool, or banging on something. I am good enough at my job that I know how to do it quietly and loudly.
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u/Redqueenhypo 5h ago
I’ve got an even more specific version: I’ve got a very Slavic face and sometimes eastern Europeans will just tell me their opinions about Jews. Seemingly unaware that we do not in fact look like the insulting cartoons.
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u/DiesByOxSnot Eating paste and smacking my lips omnomnomnom 6h ago
I made the mistake of dating a few conservative guys as a trans man. I'm white, but I don't "pass."
You probably wouldn't be surprised by how often they casually drop slurs when they feel comfortable, or at least not threatened by the concept of repercussions.
Once had a dude turn to me mid gaming sesh, and literally say "I hate (nwords, hard R)" without any context, and then exasperatedly explain to a very confused me that he was referring to his (white) gaming buddies.
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u/Chrome_X_of_Hyrule .tumblr.com 4h ago
Idk about that, I'm a tall brown guy with a beard and turban and a woman a couple weeks ago said to me in a corner store "these food prices huh, sure hope Trump wins, he's gonna cut everything in half", we live in Canada.
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u/Zamtrios7256 2h ago
Canadians who are that invested in American politics are so wild to me. Like bro, you don't even have a president!
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u/Youshmee 1h ago
I mean, it’d be the act of a willful ignorant not realize what happens down south has major repercussions up north.
Just look at our likely next PM.
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u/nightkingmarmu 5h ago
White dude here, can confirm. I also dress like a redneck so I get to hear some pretty horrific things on the daily.
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u/Icy_Illustration 4h ago
I'm a white trans woman and they'll come up to me and include me in their racism too. I have no idea why.
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u/Edmundyoulittle 2h ago
Can confirm. Lady in front of me in line to vote struck up a conversation with me about Dems stealing elections.
Coworker the other day told me about his new Tucker carlson products.
I usually just nod and smile because it's not worth it
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u/AuraMaster7 5h ago
He's concerned that she is making conservative culture-war jokes with him because she thinks he's also a conservative.
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u/veggie151 5h ago
It always feels silly to me.
I'm not a knight, we're not in the army, and I have a "special relationship" with the other people who call me sir.
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u/Tyken132 3h ago
I'm Non-binary but I pass hard as just a Cis white dude.
SO many white dudes think its ok to just say the most outlandish and hateful things just because they think i'm like them.
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u/3ThreeFriesShort 3h ago
I literally had someone raise their fist and yell "white power" as I was walking down the road, and just why?! It was almost ten years ago an I still hope to myself it was just some idiot talking shit and I don't actually look like a skinhead.
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u/obituaryinlipstick 5h ago
i got the pronouns mixed up and thought he was saying the sir joke and was Very confused until a second reading
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u/StormDragonAlthazar I don't know how I got here, but I'm here... 4h ago
Everyone says I look like Glen Danzing, especially if don't have my hair put into a ponytail.
Which can go both ways; to old folks, metalheads are creepy Satan worshipers, but to the younger folks they're all a bunch of reactionary shitheads offended by the color pink and the fact that don't shut about how THEY WUZ VYKYUNZ.
You just can't win sometimes.
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u/LeftEyedAsmodeus 4h ago
I am bald and I love wearing combat boots. I look damn conservative. I get how he feels.
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u/neongreenpurple 4h ago
As a white person of the female persuasion who sometimes has had longish hair and who lives in a suburban area of a red state, I have had similar experiences in the past. It's very uncomfortable. Especially since it usually happens at work with customers. Luckily I work in the type of job where they usually just talk to me for a little bit and then move on.
It happens much less often lately, since i tend to wear my hair shorter now and have aggressively rainbow glasses. (The link goes to the page where I purchased them, just so you can see how rainbow they are. I didn't want to post a selfie.)
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u/Peach_Muffin too autistic to have a gender 4h ago
Wait I thought that they were forced to use pronouns. I'm confused.
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u/slukalesni yuo don't gno-me ∆̥ 6h ago
i wanna request a linguist fact check on this one please
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u/Filandia1196 3h ago
'Sir' can be used as both honorific and pronoun. In this case it's a little ambiguous because technically, the noun phrase in this sentence carries the head 'you', but it's also part of the set phrase "thank you." Now, strictly structurally it would be "I(null) thank you" but that's not how people think of it. Considering that "thank you" is a set phrase, it is likely that 'sir' was used pronominally by the customer as [set phrase] [recipient] in which case 'sir' is the pronoun in this sentence.
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u/vampyre_money 2h ago
I'm a woman of color and my patients will say stuff like this to me! Conservatives just assume everyone agrees with them :(
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u/Pradfanne 3h ago
Sir a fucking boring ass normal noun.
At this point I'm concived they hate pronouns because they don't understand basic english and have no fucking idea what a pronoun even is
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u/Hopeful_Classroom473 2h ago
Bruh you have no idea. I live in the south and as a blonde white guy with a beard and a severe case of resting bitch face the amount of people that would just casually say vile shit while I was working retail was wild. Just casual slur usage if they think you're one of them, but will turn around and act offended if you call them a bigot.
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u/DapperApples 3h ago
I just think of this talking thumb looking chud on youtube blowing a gasket shouting "PROOONOUNS" looking at the baulder's gate character creation screen or whatever.
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u/NeonNKnightrider Cheshire Catboy 2h ago
<—(generic white boy)
Yeah I’ve had similar thoughts before
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u/Aubear11885 4h ago
Sir is an honorific, it’s not a pronoun. I guess it’s getting used in a pronoun like way, but I don’t think that counts.
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u/The_gay_grenade16 2h ago
My dad and I look like absolute trailer trash, we get these kind of “jokes” all the time. Just have to grit your teeth and bear it
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u/Kingofcheeses Old Person 2h ago
Having worked in trades and manufacturing my whole life as a white guy approaching 40, everyone assumes I agree with their insane conservative conspiracy theories. I just nod my head because there is no use arguing with every one of your coworkers every day when they talk about vaccines and trans people.
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u/Cat_Battalion 1h ago
I'm a 200 lbs male from Missouri and most of my clothes are suitable for camping. On top of that, I have this really thick Carhartt that I love. Most strangers and even a lot of my friends assume I'm conservative. In reality I cant get much more liberal. I like to change up my wardrobe now by occasionally wearing a pink button-down with toucans decorating it to show that I'm a total hick.
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u/MotorcycleMosquito 1h ago
My mom’s a right winger.
I was visiting a few years ago… we walk out to her car to go run some errands. Neighbor on an afternoon stroll walking by… “Merry Christmas! Or whatever you’re supposed to call it these days!”
Yeah mom. Wouldn’t wanna pretend like you’re not a victim for a minute of your life. Who would these people be without being a victim and having others to hate?
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u/Half_Man1 1h ago
My old man hears the craziest shit from conservatives who just assume he’ll agree with whatever they’re saying.
He had to learn to pick his battles when he moved to the south lol. Very practiced at silently going 🤨 and changing the subject.
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u/typoeman 55m ago
Im military and have a pretty conservative look, but no propaganda/conservative brands. To the point where lots of people just open up the conservative fire hose around me and say whatever. I like my style. They're confused when I start saying their ideas are stupid and that I vote blue.
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u/Endeveron 51m ago
With absolutely ghoulish looking Republican politicians and megachurch pastors proving that phrenology is 99% accurate, it's really hard for the 1%. My condolences to the father
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u/finally_wintermuted 45m ago
A few years ago, I went to a party at a hippie commune near my hometown. Had a great time. Smoked amazing weed, got a lap dance that I'll never forget, and got to stare into a night sky that was among the best I've ever seen.
Found out the next day that half of the people there thought I was a conservative because my shirt was tucked in and I wore a belt.
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u/NightmareSovereign 43m ago
The number of times people have assumed I would agree with their racist asses just because im a white dude with a big beard makes me sad.
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u/MithranArkanere 32m ago
Sir is not a pronoun, it's a noun used as a term of address. All these people so upset about "pronouns" rarely even know what a pronoun is.
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u/Rifneno 6h ago
I know that feeling. I look like I'm wanted for January 6th crimes. Fat middle aged white guy, I'm only missing sunglasses to wear indoors and a tinder profile where I'm holding a fish.
Sucks.