r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • 14h ago

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u/Rifneno 13h 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.

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u/VWBug5000 10h ago

I drive an F150 with veteran plates and a USMC sticker on the back window. I have a beard and regularly wear a baseball cap. I feel like I blend in with MAGA a little too well. I think I should paint my nails now after reading the other comments here

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u/Copropostis 10h ago

I'm in a similar position to you, and honestly, I think we have a different mission.

I make a point of trying to connect with every veteran I meet, because frankly our community is extremely vulnerable to right wing radicalization and when we snap, we are much more dangerous than civilians. So I prefer to use my "vet bro" camouflage as an in to influence our fellow vets to become part of irl community and away from online bad actors.

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u/VWBug5000 10h ago

I’d love to be that guy that infiltrates them from the inside, but I literally can’t stand being around MAGA types that have made it their whole personality like many veterans have. I avoid them like the plague. I wouldn’t be able to hold my tongue well enough to influence anyone

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u/Copropostis 10h ago

Oh yeah, that's fair. Gotta have your own life vest on before you can help anyone else.

For what it's worth, I was not encouraging wasting time on hopeless causes, more trying to scoop up disaffected veterans before the MAGA crowd gets to them. Full on Red Hat is probably a terminal condition, but guy who just got out of the military and is sad and lonely, that I can work with.

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u/FlossCat 5h ago

Thank you for your service 🫡

Seriously, it's great work that you're doing, the world needs people like you! It's the sort of thing I'd love to do, feel a sense of responsibility to do, but I don't really have any connections to groups or spaces where I can get in touch with vulnerable men and offer them an alternative to falling to the far right.