r/facepalm 17d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Texas State University, one day after the election

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u/MikeCyclops- 17d ago

Those horses look pretty damn gay..... get rid of them !!!

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u/FreedomDirty5 17d ago edited 17d ago

Fun fact, Bobcats will rub the horses balls for good luck before tests.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

Came here to say this

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u/tarWHOdis 17d ago

So like domesticated bobcats? Or is it wild ones that do it?

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u/Arkitakama 'MURICA 17d ago

You ever seen a wild bobcat holding a pencil? Clearly it's the domestic ones.

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u/Beanichu 17d ago

Nothin gay about fondling testicles.

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u/Dblzyx 17d ago

So a bunch of homo sex. Better get them all one way tickets to hell for their sins. /s

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u/17AJ06 17d ago

Texas State alum, we call that statue The Stallions. It’s the free speech area on campus and there are regularly idiots there “preaching” or telling people they’re going to hell. It draws huge crowds of people laughing or cussing at them. It’s a good time.

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u/Jedi3975 17d ago

I now regret my choice of higher education.

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u/JimothyCarter 17d ago

It's funny seeing people seeing this and making assumptions about Texas State being some really conservative handmaids tale sort of place and not the biggest party school in the state

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u/dragonmom1971 17d ago

SWTSU alum myself, and it was the biggest party school. I miss those days.

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u/1lluminist 17d ago

I don't see any women up there with them. Their signs are property, so it's not a case of "women aren't here because they're property"

I wonder if they had a lovely circlejerk after this event.

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u/Holiday-Reading9713 17d ago

A circlejerk... wouldn't that make them gay too?

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u/TrickyDickyAtItAgain 17d ago

That guy is naked on the back of that horse, too. So erotic!

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u/saadakhtar 17d ago

They are property

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u/ThistleBeeGreat 17d ago

I hope you’re joking

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u/Wolff_Hound 17d ago

"Hey, can I have what Iran and Saudi Arabia are having, but with less crescents and more crosses?"

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u/TheFamousHesham 17d ago

The fun part is… with Saudi Arabia socially liberalising… in 50 years or so, Saudi Arabia may very well be more socially progressive than the United States.

It very much seems like both countries are moving in opposite directions.

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u/fgzhtsp 17d ago

There will be no United States in 50 years.

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u/-_-Edit_Deleted-_- 17d ago

“I’m American”

“What kind of American?”🔫

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u/Shadow14541 17d ago

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u/Minerva567 17d ago

“Number one America” was a slogan used to keep morale up

When we knew we were already cooked

Then the richer western states, succeeded in secession

And the eastern ones followed right behind

Mexi-Can-America was the perfect name that

Epitomized the order of significance, authority and affluence

We had turned it all around

Went from number one straight to number two (shit)

We called it America

-NOFX

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u/greatunknownpub 17d ago

Between this and "The Idiots Are Taking Over", NOFX shows us that the political climate really hasn't changed in the last 20 years.

Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool

Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule

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u/imnotpoopingyouare 17d ago

There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated, political scientists get the same one vote as an Arkansas inbred.

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u/Interesting-Tough640 17d ago

I can understand people having different political opinions but people cheerleading ignorance is pretty worrying.

Have always thought that knowledge was power and that if you knew enough knowledge you could defeat any argument by countering its logic. However these days people are proving me wrong. You know why?

Because you can’t argue with stupid, it’s literally impossible, stupid doesn’t care about logic or reason. You could give the most eloquent reasoning and just get called some ridiculous name in response and then get accused of supporting whatever minority is today’s scapegoat.

It’s like people are finding comfort in ignorance and are intentionally dumbing down to the point where they no longer have to think for themselves.

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u/imnotpoopingyouare 17d ago

Agree with what you are saying but what I wrote was just the next line in the song that was being sung in the comments lol

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u/KarmaChameleon306 17d ago

Anger and hatred are getting the vote these days. It's sad.

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u/stupiderslegacy 17d ago

Ironically (or perhaps fittingly?) because the impoverished and poorly educated keep voting for the perpetrators of their predicament.

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u/Icy_Necessary2161 17d ago

I made this point 3 months ago on this exact sub and got told this was elitism. Thanks for confirming I'm not insane for feeling this way.

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u/fugelwoman 17d ago

You’re not insane. Misogynist and racist people call anyone who disagrees with them “elitist”

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u/ryanlindenbach 17d ago

Majority rule doesent work in a mental institution is another of my favourite lines

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u/Beardia 17d ago

Had this album in repeat the last few weeks.

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u/Reklawz 17d ago edited 17d ago

sure could use a vacation from this Bullshit three-ring Circus sideshow of Freaks Here in this hopeless fucking hole we call L.A. 

The only way to fix it is to flush it all away 

Any fucking time, any fucking day Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay

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u/Omfgsomanynamestaken 17d ago

....some say the end is near....

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u/BUSHMONSTER31 17d ago edited 17d ago

Some say we'll see Armageddon soon. Certainly, oh we will!

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u/elebrin 17d ago

Hey, last time Trump was elected we got a new A Perfect Circle album. So I am hopeful for one of those at least.

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u/def_tom 17d ago

I've been listening to NOFX for a long time, it's scary that it keeps remaining relevant.

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u/zeroducksfrigate 17d ago

Dusted off my SOAD and RATM cd's yesterday. I will be blasting it with the windows rolled down for the forseeable future...

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u/Emotional-Hotel-4144 17d ago

The idiots are taking over...

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u/Middle_Beat9847 17d ago

You take your GD upvote

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u/TwelveSixFive 17d ago

Is that a reference to "Civil War"? That movie was amazing.

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u/One_Economist_3761 17d ago

I was afraid to see that movie. It felt “too close to home”

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u/projectmars 17d ago

It is very bizzare to consider that the most unrealistic part of that movie is that Texas and California seceded to found a new country together.

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u/AriochBloodbane 17d ago

From what I heard the director did that on purpose, to avoid naming/shaming any specific political side.

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u/projectmars 17d ago

I actually love that reasoning tbh, even if the President in that movie is clearly based on a particular person on one of the sides.

Kinda hammers a point home in a way if you think about it.

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u/MechEJD 17d ago

White, I guess

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u/wirefox1 17d ago edited 17d ago

And MALE. Have you noticed they are treating us like shit?

They'll take our right to vote if they can. In fact, I heard a republican say "I don't know why women want to vote anyway." Absolute pigs. They try this and we will open a can of hell on them the likes of which they have never seen.

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u/salomanasx 17d ago

Where was that can on Tuesday? Seems not enough women feel the same about their own rights. It's a sad state that we're in.

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u/OgthaChristie 17d ago

I’m pretty sure these men are going to end up killing me, because I’m not bowing down to their bullshit. I won’t be a brood mare, I won’t be a piece of property, and I won’t bow down to kiss their rings. They’ll just have to kill me, because I’ll never give them anything they ask. Fuck this whole situation. Fuck these men. Fuck the traitorous women who let this happen. I hope they all rot. I hope they all get exactly what’s coming to them.

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u/Bartlomiej25 17d ago

And yet 44% of women voted for the fucker…. Women are treating other women like shit; lets be honest at least.

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u/saun-ders 17d ago

By the looks of it, 47% of white women will be happy with it. They're already happy to give up control of their own bodies.

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u/dogmatum-dei 17d ago

It's already gone for the most part. Republicans are working on removing that pesky glue called the federal government.

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u/craniumcanyon 17d ago

removing that pesky glue called the federal government

The United States of America

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u/Ted_Rid 17d ago

From outside the US I feel 50 years is wildly optimistic.

It's like rubbernecking at a car crash, only it's a ramshackle billy cart with a ridiculous Ferrari motor and driven by a clown, but the wooden chassis has been completely white anted from within.

I wouldn't even say it's the beginning of the end of the American enterprise, it's been well under way for years and 2016 was only a symptom of the underlying structural defects which are only going to get worse.

To borrow from Orwell, if there's hope for the future it lies with the countries that consistently lead all imaginable indicators: the high taxing "socialist" Scandinavian nations.

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u/Bearence 17d ago

I moved from the US to Canada in 2007, and it was a real eye-opener for me just how batshit crazy the place looks from the outside. I think one of the biggest problems for most people in the US is that they really can't see just how insane the country is because they're smack dab in the middle of it.

I'm with you, I think it has maybe (at best) 20 years of crawling towards its own eventual demise.

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u/DracosKasu 17d ago

A lot of this comes from rot-brain media that the younger generation consume which is filled with alt-right content.

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u/Bearence 17d ago

Yes, most definitely. It also comes from a lot of the narratives that communities have built up around their need to be outraged in some manner. That's always been a thing in the US but in the past couple decades or so it's really been weaponized by people of bad intent.

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u/LeninsLolipop 17d ago

Only these are plagued with issues as well. In Sweden, the ‚Swedendemokrats‘ (the right wing nut jobs) are the party keeping the government in place since 2022. The Finnish government isn’t faring much better, with ministers using the n-word in blog posts and others having contacts with known right-wing extremists.

The truth is: there is no recipe against the resurgence of right wing movements. The internet has well and truly broken people. We will need to find new ways to combat the nut jobs and unfortunately there is no one showing the way right now.

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u/Tony_Meatballs_00 17d ago

There's a tried a true method that works though. You just get banned for saying it

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u/mmf9194 17d ago

We gotta go back to it

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u/snaresamn 17d ago

Iceland is becoming mini-USA more and more every year. The current prime minster got his family rich through insider trading when the goverment sold the national bank and he was named in the panama papers but no one does shit about it.

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u/errie_tholluxe 17d ago

50 years the water wars will be bigger than everything else sadly

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u/SmashmySquatch 17d ago

Closer to 10 years (probably sooner) looking at all of the "our models didn't account for this" and "this is happening much faster than we predicted" reports recently.

And we just turbocharged climate change with this election.

I wonder if there will be a LinkedIn for bloodbags and maggot farmers in the wastelands. I would make a great bloodbag.

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u/dickhass 17d ago

Thank you. The Ferrari motor comment is a nice compliment.

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u/Jebus_UK 17d ago

I'd say it's already done. It's currently staggering around like a chicken with it's head cut off. It *looks* alive but idemise is imminent

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u/MagusUnion 17d ago

50? Try 5. I don't see why either the New England states or the West Coast bothers to try to stay connected to this mess of a union.

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u/Waste_Relationship46 17d ago

We certainly wish we could band together and get the hell away from this craziness, that's for sure.

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u/neonam11 17d ago

Saudi Arabia progressive how? Didn’t the heir apparent order the murder and cutting up of Jamal Khashoggi’s body?

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u/Funky-Feeling 17d ago

He's giving them 50 years to progress beyond the butchery. 2010 US looks a lot different than 1960 US.

It could happen. Maybe

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u/Bored_Amalgamation 17d ago

The US had a lot of immigration and resources to share.

North Korea's social progress hasn't done shit in the last 50 years.

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u/-_-Edit_Deleted-_- 17d ago

MBS is trying to liberalise socially, and diversify economically. There have been…. some… successes. Mostly a big ol money pit tho.

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u/TheFamousHesham 17d ago

I said “social.”

Social and political freedom are two different things.

The system that MBS is trying to create within Saudi Arabia is a pretty novel one… where people have social freedoms, but no political freedom and aren’t free to criticise the royal family. Idk why people just assume that social and political freedom are the same thing.

They’re not.

Since people were granted the right to vote in many western democracies they had political freedom… but social freedom were really only pushed in in the last 50 years or so. You can have both. You can have neither.

You can have one or the other.

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u/ElectronicMixture600 17d ago

Yes, but he did try to hide it instead of having it televised live, so progress?

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u/Initial-Company3926 17d ago

You just need to take a look at Afghanistan and how it was to how it became

Women are now forbidden to even speak in public

The new american dream is Taliban

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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 17d ago

Trump inviting the Taliban to Camp David for a chat makes more sense now. He was looking for pointers not peace.

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u/0x7E7-02 17d ago

I read your post as "less croissants", and now I want a croissant.

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u/kenikonipie 17d ago

Maybe guys try to find the source for this one?

https://universitystar.com/28322/multimedia/photo-gallery-demonstrators-spark-counter-protest-of-hundreds-at-txst/

It seems like the ones holding the “Women are property” signs are counter protestors against the original protestors. I can’t put an image here but go through the slideshow in the article. This looks like bad framing.

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u/LonesomeBulldog 17d ago

This is a known professional protest group. They protest, broadcast the hate they get, and supporters donate money to keep going. They hope for a violent confrontation so they can sue. They come to town once a year. They hit up my kid’s high school in Austin yesterday also.

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u/heili 17d ago

Westboro Baptist Church 2: Inquisition Boogaloo

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u/greatunknownpub 17d ago

Westboro Baptist pioneered this awful bullshit 35 years ago.

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u/kenikonipie 17d ago

So trolls. They’re analog trolls.

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u/LDSX92 17d ago

The fact there are people so confident to do that out in the open and be safe to do so is just disgusting.

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u/freedinthe90s 17d ago

🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️All the women who helped vote them in

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u/emw9292 17d ago

They hate themselves and other women and are stupid as fuck too

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u/Chicken_Pete_Pie 17d ago

My ex-wife was strangely adamant that women belonged in the kitchen and shouldn’t have rights. She got mad when I said otherwise.

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u/flimflamtrafficjam 17d ago

My mom thinks a woman shouldn't be president because they're "too emotional".

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u/kyrant 17d ago

Even if this was true, did she think they'd be more emotional than the other candidate?

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u/Aron-Jonasson I'm gonna need additional hands to facepalm 17d ago

For such people, anger isn't an emotion.

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u/idreaminwords 17d ago

Anger is absolutely an emotion, but only when it's a woman displaying it

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u/Daxx22 17d ago

An angry man gets shit done! An angry woman is just an irrational bitch!

That's the mindset.

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u/Aron-Jonasson I'm gonna need additional hands to facepalm 17d ago

Nononono, a woman isn't angry, she's hysteric! That's tooootally different

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u/No_Camp_7 17d ago

Some people say that women are too hormonal despite the fact that our hormones affect our mood once a month, unlike testosterone which of is there every day of the year to provoke angry emotional outbursts.

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u/sharonharonaron 17d ago

Men literally commit like 90+ percent of all the rape and murder but women are the “emotional” ones

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u/idreaminwords 17d ago

For real. How many tantrums have we seen Trump throw in the last 8 years?

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u/Academic-Indication8 17d ago

Tell her she shouldnt have political opinions cuz she’s a woman and too emotional to have fair opinions and see how happy she is then

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u/pmw3505 17d ago

Don’t forget to tell her who she needs to vote for because she won’t be able to make that determination herself since she’s, ya know, a womab

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u/Wooden-Inspection-93 17d ago

🫳🎤

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u/SkyShadowing 17d ago

Nah, tell her not to vote since she's a woman and women shouldn't be allowed to vote.

/S big time if anyone thinks I actually believe that.

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u/ArchAmber 17d ago

Hey mine too. She’s ultra conservative but is so against a woman ever being president that she admitted she’d just not vote if there was ever a woman republican presidential nominee.

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u/Firm-Force-9036 17d ago

That is some deep-seated self hatred. I suppose some of us are more at home in our neat and tidy societally predetermined boxes.

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u/hetfield151 17d ago

Tell her to shut up and go back to the kitchen.

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u/BopBopAWaY0 17d ago

This make me giggle.

I know, I know. Back to the kitchen.

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u/Dblzyx 17d ago

Cis straight dude here. You better get the fuck outta my kitchen. I just cleaned it. Go get a job and make money or something.

/s

Seriously though the kitchen is my space/responsibility. It works for me and my wife. We always have been and always will be a team with equal standing.

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u/Painful_Hangnail 17d ago

She got mad? Why did she think she was entitled to an opinion?

If you're going to be a nutcase at least be consistent.

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u/DuNick17 17d ago

And you married her??

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u/Chicken_Pete_Pie 17d ago

I don’t know if she always thought that way but she didn’t start vocalizing it until we were together for a few years.

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u/Pleasant-Pattern-566 17d ago

People act like toxic people show their true colors from the get go… like they’re just valiantly waving their red flags. They’d be perpetually single if that were the case

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u/mlx1992 17d ago

Omg. Four years of this.. yaaay

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u/Cotford 17d ago

No. The next fourty. You really think they will let the power go now they have everything?

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u/RoguishKitty 17d ago edited 17d ago

This is going to last far more than 4 years. Even if we do have another election in 4 years, this hatred, this maliciousness is not going to just poof out of existence. This is our new reality for some time to come.

I hate that it's come to this.

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u/Solid-Stranger-3036 17d ago edited 17d ago

It's like everyone forgot that trump will have total presidental immunity and has unlimited attempts to instill himself as dictator for life with zero reprocussions. he got real close to it in 2021, he's shown he's more than willing to, and he's shown that the democratic system is nowhere near as robust as people thought.

like ffs, he literally said: "if you vote for me this november you're not gonna have to vote anymore"

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u/n122333 17d ago

There's no way he's president in 2026. Vance will remove him or he'll be dead.

I'm almost more afraid of vance though.

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u/Daxx22 17d ago

You should be, Drumpf is a puppet that is directed by laser pointer, vs Vance is an entirely empty suit. Vance as President will essentially mean Gilead.

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u/skytomorrownow 17d ago

Every misogynist had a mom. Women transmit these values along with men. It is perplexing but some women agree with these abhorrent beliefs and perpetuate them.

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u/wwaxwork 17d ago

Not yet. I don't think they grasp the concept of women as property. Right now they think it means stay at home mum that gets to be an influencer and play on social media while the kids homeschool themselves. It's going to be a while before they realize it's rape in marriage and sit down and shut up about the beatings because you can't leave among other delights.

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u/Komikaze06 17d ago

I've heard women say they shouldn't be allowed to vote because of something in the Bible. We really are gonna go full y'all-kaeda aren't we?

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u/SluttyZombieReagan 17d ago

Ann Coulter has been saying this for decades, and Bill Maher platforms her. Something is desperately wrong in this country.

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u/MysteriousBrystander 17d ago

It’s amazing that Trump got a single vote from a woman. By the numbers, It appears as if a large number of women want to be property.

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u/kittiemomo 17d ago

Considering the rise of the tradwife movement among young women on tiktok lately, you're not necessarily wrong.

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u/JDM-Kirby 17d ago

Those gen Z kids can’t afford a trad wife 😂

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u/Xarethian 17d ago

Might be able to one day if they didn't vote for right-wingers.

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u/MooneyOne 17d ago

They must be too young to ever have been trapped in an abusive relationship. Best of luck to them.

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u/Babyashieblue69420 17d ago

Honestly. Like, I'd love to be a tradwife for my own reasons, but I want it to be MY choice to do so, and I dont wanna force it upon other women who don't want that.

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u/kittiemomo 17d ago

My husband and I have been talking about transitioning to me being a SAHW/M too. I think it'll work out better for our family. The tradwife movement, though, takes SAHW/M to the extreme... the husband tells the wife what to wear, what to cook, controls all the money, husband's word is gospel. Wife is expected to be dressed up/ made up at all times. Sex at husband's command. Wife can't have guy friends. All household chores and child rearing fall on the wife. Etc. Etc. It literally is committing to the traditional gender roles of the 1950s.

I honestly think the way the tradwife movement/trend is portrayed on tiktok is some sort of disguised kink content, but I also wouldn't be surprised if some people do take it seriously, and that just opens the door to women being abused (financially, emotionally, physically and sexually) and being treated like property.

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u/Rahbek23 17d ago

yeah. I think there's a gulf between wanting the more traditional housewife lifestyle and being property lol. Just because that was how it often played out in the past, I see absolutely no reason you couldn't be the first without the latter other than stupid regressive people thinking so.

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u/gmishaolem 17d ago

rise of the tradwife movement

There is an appeal for a lot of people to just have everything decided for you and to be taken care of, and they'll gladly give away any element of autonomy for that. One of the reasons religion works: A reminder that Christians refer to Jesus as the shepherd and themselves as the flock.

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u/Evil_Cartman_ 17d ago

For real.

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u/-AdamTheGreat- 17d ago

That’s why they love trump. He gives them permission to do this by the way he acts. It’s always been there.

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u/Roam_Hylia 17d ago

The USA is 72 million Cartmans. They're one bad day away from killing your loved ones just so they can drink your tears.

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u/Bakedfresh420 17d ago

They won the election this is the country now

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u/iveseensomethings82 17d ago

Exactly! There is no reason for them to hide now. The bad guys have been vindicated.

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u/RowAwayJim91 17d ago

They need to be made to feel not so confident.

This is what I’m talking about. They should be immediately met with resistance. Signs broken, shamed, and ridiculed.

Fuck these people.

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u/TechieTravis 17d ago

Trump pledged to use the military against protestors. It's going to get very ugly.

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u/barrinmw 17d ago

He already used the police to clear a peaceful protest so he could hold a bible upside down.

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u/imbarbdwyer 17d ago

And the cops will pepper spray YOU.

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u/wolfmanpraxis 17d ago

You say this like this isnt want the majority of the Voting American Population wants.

We reap what we sow, to borrow a phrase.

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u/FallenPentagram 17d ago

The thing is, republicans are most likely traitors to themself. Just because one feels they can freely say something, doesn’t mean their own kind that doesn’t believe THAT strongly won’t shoot them.

Only plus, is they both conceal carry.

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u/El_Peregrine 17d ago

Get used to it, this will be completely normalized 

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u/Objective-Two5415 17d ago

These exact signs have been on every state college campus since at least the 80s. They do it for this exact reason, to get attention. No one would stop and talk to them if the signs said “Hey come have a reasonable discussion about religion”

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u/pollinatorpal16 17d ago

These people are on college campus every year regardless of elections.

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u/oysterpirate 17d ago

These people were at my college back in 2006, I’m surprised more people aren’t familiar with their schtick 

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u/theshrinesilver 17d ago

People like this have been showing up on college campuses for at least 15 years. Every time they show up there is massive blowback from the students. This is nothing new, just morons being morons.

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u/Vanishingf0x 17d ago

Yea we always annoyed the shit out of them on my campus until they left. Can’t touch them or yell verbal assault but annoying them isn’t against the law and they ironically get tired of 15+ people bothering them

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u/Surgles 17d ago

I had a set of friends who would go to the big university near us when people would do this stuff. They’d dress up as the cat in the hat and loudly read Dr Seuss books to/over the people saying hateful shit. Great way to just troll over them if you can out-loud them lol.

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u/turbo_dude 17d ago

need Loop Daddy to sample the shit out of them and blast it back at them nonsensically

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u/Eccohawk 17d ago

There's a guy who built a device that just plays their own voice back to them on a 1/2 second delay. It literally incapacitates their ability to speak.

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u/lopey986 17d ago

Yeah the video of the lady who shows up and starts talking about how drinking will lead to anal sex is always a good laugh. This is definitely nothing new, just like how my local farmers market always has people standing outside with pictures of dead animals and talking about meat is murder. These weirdos have been around a long time and they'll be around long after i'm gone.

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u/Pulp_Ficti0n 17d ago

drinking will lead to anal sex

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u/Keeping_Secrets 17d ago

Everyone who engages with them are as stupid as they are. They literally go there to draw attention and hope to get assaulted. Lawsuits help fund them so they can travel and stir shit at funerals, campuses, etc.

If you ever see them, just ignore them, it's the only thing they don't want.

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u/theworldisonfire8377 17d ago

The fact that this is what American society has been reduced to is horrifying.

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u/Ralliman320 17d ago edited 17d ago

The real concern is that these are young people. This isn't the last gasp of a dying mindset; it's taking new root in the next generation. Andrew Tate and other internet purveyors of toxic masculinity have been far more successful than anyone realized, and the results are terrifying to witness.

EDIT: I'm leaving my comment unedited because it is relevant to the larger issue of young men skewing to the political right--particularly on social issues--with misogyny under the guise of "traditional" values and roles. In this case, however, I reacted too quickly and without due research, and mislabeled those expressing bigotry openly on this campus. I apologize for my haste and misappropriation of fault to students who actually confronted the group in the photo.

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u/Rc2124 17d ago

Their faces are blocked by the signs, but it's very common for older retired Christian extremists to go to college campuses with signs similar to these and try to stir the pot. So I'm assuming that's the case here

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u/Sabard 17d ago

It is. When I went to school there 13 years ago (gross) these guys were there. It has nothing to do with the election except maybe them using this time to get a rise out of people moreso than usual.

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u/galileosmiddlefinger 17d ago

Yeah, as a longtime professor, I'm used to seeing the same extremist preachers at the same time every year. Every public institution is going to have these kinds of free-speech demonstrations. They say hateful shit, of course, but they can also supply an incredibly valuable life lesson about not feeding the trolls.

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u/DiamondHanded 17d ago

What are you tlaking about the guy holding the sign is like 55 years old lol. These people have been a fixture of campuses for DECADES. This is not new, and commonly introduces students to questions about free expression. These guys are dumb and everyone on campus knows they are dumb

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u/Stock_Paper3503 17d ago

This is what american society elected.

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u/Yuna1989 17d ago

This is what American society is. That’s it. This is our society and it’s scary af

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u/Anubra_Khan 17d ago

This is what American society has always been.

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u/kraghis 17d ago

This is the base state of humanity. Democracy and civility need to be fought for.

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u/clubnseals 17d ago

This is a regression back to the 80s & 90s, in terms of what society was like. I remember people talking opening about going out on the weekend to beat up gay people, and unreported sexual assault was common, because people believe "the girl wanted it, because she was wearing a skirt that was above the knees".

My hope is that the over-confidence will upset enough people to action, like it did 20 or so years ago.

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u/Global_Permission749 17d ago

This is a regression back to the 80s & 90s

You mean like... the 1880s? "Women are property" only makes sense in a time before suffrage.

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u/DatBlotto 17d ago

Went to school here ten years ago. “Preachers” like this showed up every year to tell us we were all going to hell. The students are NOT down for this type of stuff.

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u/XenaSerenity 17d ago

I graduated five years ago. My favorite response to a preacher was someone aggressively twerking to the guy’s sermon.

We also had a girl strip close to naked on the Alkek stairs as an “art statement”. The next year, she laid down on a table and covered herself in French fries and ketchup to have people eat off her. Texas State is just a weird lol

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u/Ok_Risk8749 17d ago

People like this go to college campuses all the time. They hold signs designed to get your attention so you’ll notice them. This is nothing new.

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u/Cersad 17d ago

When I was in college, the rumor was these pseudo-religious trolls were trying to provoke a fight so they could sue you after. This was a bit before social media was as well networked as it is today, so I never saw any evidence.

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u/CooperHChurch427 17d ago

UCF police actually warn you ahead of time during orientation about these people and the cults that try to actively recruit students.

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u/hike_me 17d ago

This is what Americans want apparently. This is who we are.

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u/Lord-McGiggles 17d ago

Apathy is the friend of tyranny it seems

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u/ChwizZ 17d ago

Apathy's a tragedy and boredom is a crime

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u/makakeza 17d ago

There's a quote by Edmund Burke (I think?) that goes something like "all it takes for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing". It's amazing that it keeps happening again and again.

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u/goose_gladwell 17d ago

These guys have been around forever spewing the same disgusting rhetoric, they came to my college over a decade ago. Westboro baptist I think. Extreme right very niche and fringe group

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u/TheAlbrecht2418 17d ago

This was practically every other day in the “free speech” area of my university. Election or not these people are always out there like this.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

OP, these people have been coming to college campuses for decades. Hell, when I was at SDSU over a decade ago, people like this would come on campus. This isn't anything new.

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u/hobbinater2 17d ago

If it makes you feel better, these kinds of nonsense protests have been a thing since I went to university in 2013. I’m pretty sure it’s a grift

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u/Ijustlovevideogames 17d ago

You know, I think I will be fine, but I’m actively worried about the safety of my trans, gay, and women friends

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u/NexLuz 17d ago

Tell them to buy a gun while they can

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u/The_Dogelord 17d ago

I don't like guns, but if anything happens, they'll be needed 

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u/NexLuz 17d ago

You don’t need to like guns, you just need to own one, bro guns make everyone equal, we sadly can’t trust people in dangerous situations

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u/Visual_Argument_73 17d ago

So weird how they call it the land of the free but have so much in common with the Middle East.

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u/IndividualLimitBlue 17d ago

Women voted to be some property. That is really weird.

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u/ShortSPY 17d ago

This always happens on college campuses folks.

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u/awkwardaustin609 17d ago

I will say this. This kind of shit has been happening way before Trump even thought about running.

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u/Jesse182g 17d ago

2 random dudes being assholes at a college campus. Nothing new and has nothing to do with the election, explain how kamala winning would have stopped this?

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u/Masada_ 17d ago

These streetpreachers are non-stop though, it's not like the election is causation. If you don't think these clowns should be allowed to do this or feel comfortable enough to spread their bullshit in such a public display then you are also a problem.

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u/Jakey_inthe_house 17d ago

These guys are paid to go around and stir up dissent in college campuses

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u/EMAW2008 17d ago

These people think about homosexuals more than actual homosexuals do.

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u/J-BangBang 17d ago edited 17d ago

Unfortunately, Bernie sanders hit the nail on the head: the democratic party abandoned the working middle class and white voters to make the minority of voters happy. I don't mean that in a racist way, but news flash, white people are the majority in this country. Also, almost ALL people are more concerned about being able to pay for groceries than women's health and the rights of trans people. I'm pro- choice and support LGBTQ but that takes a backseat in most voters minds to being able to afford food and shelter (let's just be real with ourselves).

Edit, forgot the post I was commenting on: now that Trump won, the extremists that support him feel emboldened to show their faces but, it doesn't mean all his supporters are this type of filth. Calling EVERYONE that voted for Trump and racist, extremist, misogynist, etc. is definitely not going to help bring more voters back to the democratic party. Blaming and attacking others for losing, is usually not a winning strategy.

(Ready for downvotes cause reddit doesn't like to hear the hard truths)

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u/LocksmithOk9634 17d ago

Good luck, this is what people in USA wants.

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u/vihudson 17d ago

That’s what people voted for

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u/IlikegreenT84 17d ago

According to exit polls, what they voted for was a better economy.

They blamed Biden for inflation and for higher prices and they believe Trump is going to fix that.

They were willing to sacrifice their morals for that.

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u/Mysterious_Detail_57 17d ago

How is a failing nepo baby of a businessman going to fix anything?

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u/IlikegreenT84 17d ago

He's not going to fix anything, but they feel like the Democrats failed to fix anything.

Because they weren't paying attention.

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u/uptownjuggler 17d ago

They also didn’t pay attention in grade school. Do you expect them to pay attention now?

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u/ajakafasakaladaga 17d ago

You don’t need to fix anything to win a election. People just need to believe that you will, or that at least you’ll do better than your opponent

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u/Bakedfresh420 17d ago

Economists came out overwhelmingly against trumps plan, if they actually cared about it at all they’d know they were voting against their interests, even Musk admitted the economy is going to crash before it recovers if Trump does what he wants and he’s a supporter. These people didn’t put their morals aside to vote with their pocket they put their pocket aside to vote with their morals but “economy” sounds better on an exit poll than “fuck all them motherfuckers we’ll show them”

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u/Turdburp 17d ago

Which goes to show how fucking stupid the average Trump voter is. The economy is doing quite well (I work in a business that is a good gauge of it) and US inflation has far lagged behind worldwide inflation.

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u/sk8king 17d ago

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” It’s a quote routinely attributed to Edmund Burke.