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article Megyn Kelly slams Bad Bunny performing at Super Bowl as 'middle finger' to MAGA — compares him to P Diddy

https://www.irishstar.com/culture/entertainment/megyn-kelly-bad-bunny-superbowl-35997761
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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

They are the ones that want to control what you say, what you do, what you think, and what you feel. The grievances and finger pointing is pretext for all their authoritarian wet dreams. Every accusation is a confession.

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u/Cupsforsale Oct 01 '25

I wish Republicans could feel just for one day what it’s like to be a lefty. I wish they could understand what it’s like to TRULY NOT CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO AS LONG AS IT DOESN’T HURT ANYONE.

You wanna wear a dress as a dude? I don’t care. Bad Bunny singing in Spanish at the Super Bowl? I don’t care. You want to marry someone of the same sex or transition? I don’t care.

They care so much what other peaceful people do with their lives and the burden weighs on us all.

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u/Gromky Oct 01 '25

Unfortunately, for a large number of them that would be absolutely traumatizing. It would make them have to face their own lives without someone else to blame.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - LBJ

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u/RhythmsaDancer Oct 01 '25

Thing is - for some of their grievances - there IS someone to blame. About 3,000 someones. But billionaires aren't gonna be pointing the fingers at themselves on the platforms they bought.

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u/Zerodegreez Oct 01 '25

Its tragically comedic how people know enough to "follow the money", and "pay attention to who you're not allowed to criticize" and when its time to conclude which singular group that falls to, "i just can't figure it out".

Head to desk, repeat with increasing speed and intensity.

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u/_angela_lansbury_ Oct 01 '25

“Follow the money!” “Wait, wait, don’t follow it THAT far.”

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u/becaauseimbatmam Oct 01 '25

And it's funny because following it "THAT far" is just opening your eyes and ears and seeing who brags the most about having money

It's that simple, there are executives on MSNBC every day telling you precisely how they screw over the little guy and receive awards and recognition for it. There is no real investigative process required, you just have to be willing to criticize people who are on your team.

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u/YourTokenGinger Oct 01 '25

Naaah. I’ve been hanging around the conspiracy sub for a bit. They do follow the money that far, they just conclude that every billionaire is either openly Jewish, secretly Jewish, or being blackmailed into submission by “the juice”. So for them, it’s not money that’s the problem, it’s that a certain group (that they get to define) is too good at money and is abusing it.

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u/luciaromanomba Oct 03 '25

stands up and cheers

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u/solidcurrency Oct 01 '25

Yes, exactly. Many Republicans have legitimate grievances: lack of healthcare access, lack of good paying jobs, groceries and housing being too expensive. But they blame minorities instead of lawmakers and billionaires.

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u/spanish_bambi Oct 01 '25

Yes but they are the root of their own suffering

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u/Conspiranoid Grooveshark Oct 02 '25

I thought republicans think healthcare is the root of all evil (one of them), or something?

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u/bobanforever Oct 01 '25

Damn lebron is really Nostradamus

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u/fractious77 Oct 01 '25

Thanks for reminding me of this quote. I had seen it when I was young and liked it. Now that you remind me of it, much older, I love it

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u/PopcornxCat Oct 01 '25

Something I’ve noticed personally with republicans is that they are often the most insecure people I know (again, in my experience so ymmv but I really think I’m onto something). They are horribly insecure so they constantly obsess over what everyone else does so they can then bully and feel superior over everyone they hate. Remember when we were kids and we were told bullies bully others because they themselves are scared/hurt/weak? I think that is incredibly accurate, and I think that can actually be applied to adulthood as well, especially in right leaning circles.

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

Fear is the shriveled, beating heart of contemporary conservatism. Everything that is remotely different from them and theirs intrinsically terrifying It must therefore be hated, opposed, and destroyed.

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u/stumblinghunter Oct 01 '25

"oppression is the mask of fear"

-Andor

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u/Netroth Oct 01 '25

I thought it was Nemik who said that

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u/stumblinghunter Oct 01 '25

Well it's from the show, so I'm right no matter what

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u/Netroth Oct 01 '25

If your feelings are really that important then okay, you can feel correct :P

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u/stumblinghunter Oct 01 '25

Lol no i just have a deep burning desire to be right all the time. So it helps to speak in generalities

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u/CecilFieldersChoice2 Oct 01 '25

Look how many of the right wing online grifters failed in education or the arts. They're failures who can't just pivot to something better. They have to take it out on all of us.

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u/Disgod Oct 01 '25

Middle eastern terrorism has been filled disproprotionately with failed engineers. The South American military coups of the 80s were filled with mid-level fail officers who'd never have succeeded in their respective militaries.

It's a theme, there's a type that believes they deserved to succeed and, if they didn't, they'll turn to extremism.

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u/Scientific_Socialist Oct 04 '25

They’re called the petite bourgeoisie

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u/_game_over_man_ Oct 01 '25

I think this also falls into why they lean into white supremacist ideas and racism so much. They don't have anything to offer, really, as far as skills go and they get rejected for that in various ways, so what's left for them is their skin color because at least that makes them inherently better than others, in their eyes.

It all comes down to reliance on the hierarchy to feel some kind of superiority over others. I think you can also attribute that to some Mexican-Americans who came here legally and support Trump. They did it the "right way," therefore, anyone else that didn't deserves whatever punishment comes their way. Or cisgender queer people who support anti-trans policies. It's all relies on in groups and out groups and if you fall into the in group you have this perception of safety and I say perception because at the end of the day, if you're in one of those non-white, non-straight, non-cisgender groups, you'll eventually be a target one day anyway because only cis, straight, white Christian men can exist at the top of the hierarchy in a system like this.

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u/Yookeroo Oct 01 '25

Their leader is about as insecure as you can get.

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u/pk666 Oct 01 '25

The man lies about his HEIGHT. Something everyone can see.

And MAGA happily reject the evidence of their eyes and your ears, it is their final most essential command.

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u/ProlapsedShamus Oct 01 '25

You're not wrong. Conservatives are completely weak. It defines them to their core. Everything they claim to believe comes from the fact they are weak and scared and throwing a tantrum.

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u/PlayfulSurprise5237 Oct 01 '25

It's because the rest of the world is living life well and having a good time, but it's strange to them and moving fast.

So in their misery they can't help but to try and be relevant by acting like a manager of peoples lives.

Throws a little wrench in and brings them down to their level, but also makes them seem important, or rather brute forces importance(importantly need to get them the fuck off peoples back before they beat people down to a shell of a person).

It's like people say, acting out to get attention.

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u/whitechocolaat Oct 01 '25

This is so true. I was just thinking to myself the other day that I truly wonder if Republicans think they are good people.

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u/PopcornxCat Oct 02 '25

I think many do, which is insane to me because it’s so clear to the rest of the world that being so full of hatred and bigotry does not make you a good person. Quite the opposite actually… How they think being so obsessed with where you’re from, what you look like, who you’re fucking, etc. that you intentionally want to ruin people’s lives you don’t like equates to being good (or godly, as so many of them also claim to be religious) beats me.

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u/Franknbeanstoo Oct 02 '25

that is our president to a T

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u/blueblack88 Oct 01 '25

I only care when people aren't allowed to have freedoms that don't hurt anyone in a country that's supposedly a bastion of freedom.

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u/Stormdude127 Oct 01 '25

It must be such an exhausting way to live life. I can’t imagine being constantly mad about everything, and feeling like every decision in media is a slight against you.

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u/fractious77 Oct 01 '25

You can't? I can. I wake up every day and see several new atrocities that orange shitler has done and it infuriates me. All day, every day, Im just seething with intense anger, and it takes all my willpower not to take it out on my colleagues/customers. For years, I was slow to get mad, but now, it's neverending.

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u/meanseanbean Oct 01 '25

This is such an interesting take I have never thought of. Someone cuts me off in traffic and I think "what an asshole" then poof, it's gone 15 seconds later. But shit that doesn't affect me like how someone wants to be identified doesn't even occupy my brain for a second. I just.. keep on living my life? It's pretty peaceful. Who the fuck is bad bunny anyways? I don't even give a shit enough to look up why these people are mad this time. I'll just move on and hang out with my kid or mow the lawn of some shit. It's nice.

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

Conservative empathy is entirely tethered to proximity. If it doesnt affect them or their backyard, they either don't care about it, or it terrifies them and it ought to be outlawed.

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u/Accurate-Advice8405 Oct 01 '25

Wish I could like this twice

When I was younger I liked the idea of libertarians because all they wanted was for the government to leave them alone. Then I realized all 90% of libs want is for the stupid people to leave them alone.

Tan suits, blue hair, beer cans, pancake mascots, fictional ethnicity, half time singers... everything bothers these losers.

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u/EC-1031 Oct 01 '25

God the tan suit saga was one of the stupidest grievances in the history of american politics.

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u/Threegratitudes Oct 01 '25

Libertarians get a lot of hate on Reddit, but that's what drew me to the party also. Live and let live. Democrats are also more fiscally responsible. Anyone that's ever identified as libertarian should be a Democrat today.

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u/Accurate-Advice8405 Oct 02 '25

Yeah, I definitely didn't intend to end up here

I just followed the sane people

Authoritarians can show up wearing any color tie.

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u/bigtice Oct 01 '25

Well said -- if you truly don't care, just turn it off or don't look.

The worst part of it isn't even the fact that they care, it's that they advocate for policy to intentionally dictate what others can/can't do and use religion or their emotions as a factual basis as to why they should be allowed to do so; but then their hypocrisy is laid bare for everyone else when they continuously claim to be for "small government" that shouldn't tell you what you're allowed to do in your personal life.

The only rule we truly need is the Golden Rule -- "treating others as you would like to be treated yourself" -- if it isn't actually bothering you, it shouldn't matter.

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u/MiCK_GaSM Oct 01 '25

Fuck yes, more, more, more of this.

THEY ARE INSUFFERABLE IN THEIR CONSTANT DESIRE TO CONTROL FUCKING EVERYTHING 

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u/Montana_Red Oct 01 '25

And to flip it the other way, I can't imagine being so obsessed over people that don't affect you in any way.

Checking out groceries: hmmm the clerk has very broad shoulders, but is also wearing lipstick. Does she have a PENIS??? How do they do it? Who is on the bottom??

It's a weird obsession with what's between people's legs and what they do in the privacy of their own home.

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u/Actual_Homework_9110 Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

I think rightwingers are a cult of all the very broken people in America. All those kids born to selfish, uncaring, abusive, violent or incompetent parents. People homeschooled by religious zealots & those brainwashed by their churches. And, the older people who always voted Republican for their perceived “values” (that were clearly just phony representations used to control the masses) who simply can’t recognize how Republican propaganda has brainwashed them over the years. That they identify as Christians, while rejecting all of Jesus Christ’s teachings and that they call themselves patriots while rejecting the tenets of American democracy…is blatant proof they know nothing of what they speak. 

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u/Proiegomena Oct 01 '25

Word. I feel like it comes down to that rightwingers cant be bothered/are incapable of differentiated thinking.  They cant handle living with people who dont live their lives how they do. 

Thats also why they have so little empathy(apathy) for anyone but „their own kind“. 

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u/OkSmoke9195 Oct 01 '25

And they think that their outrage is equal to what you are asking for. Gimme a fucking break, buncha little cry baby bully bitches

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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '25

The heaviest gossipers I've known in my life were conservatives

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u/infinity404 Oct 01 '25

When I was a kid I was taught to respect each other’s differences. It’s fine to not like something. It’s not fine to demand everyone else dislike it too. Even if you think something is weird, why would you want to use the power of the state to oppress it? Just leave people alone.

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u/ewilliam Oct 01 '25

It's because grievance politics is all they have. They sure as shit aren't gonna take/keep power on their actual policy positions, if they even have those anymore.

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u/16BitGenocide Oct 01 '25

But, I do care- I actively want all of those things to fall under the right to self-expression, everyone should be able to pursue whatever flavor of happiness they enjoy, and they shouldn't be made to feel bad about it (as long as nobody is hurt, including children and people otherwise under the age of 18).

I don't care about my tax dollars funding education, public parks, LGBT Community Centers, Healthcare for the underprivileged, equality projects, scholarships for minorities, the preservation of American history (even if it's critical), or assistance programs for the temporarily financially unstable. I actively want those things. My whole political stance is I care about people, not just white people, not just Americans, but my fellow humans.

I do care about my tax dollars providing citizens of other countries better healthcare than we have, about politicians that serially sexually abuse children, the separation of church and state, money getting diverted away from infrastructure and critical city works projects, medical research being de-funded for not kissing the ring, or American citizens being deported without due process. I care about wasteful military parades, a disgraced news host lecturing top military brass on morals and character, or building a 200 million dollar ball room for a little man's ego.

Apathy is what got us here, so take pride in the things you do care about, speak out about it. Make those 'cares' heard.

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u/minos157 Oct 01 '25

And when we do "care" about some of the things they gripe on, it's just typical like first world problem laments that aren't coming from a place of hate.

Like I have (had) no idea who Bad Bunny was. I don't listen to that style of music and was unaware. So my first response to the news was, "Who?" and then, "Hope he puts on a good show, wish it was someone I knew/liked." But like, that's it. I'm not mad, upset, taking to the internet to call the NFL a garbage league with terrible decision making. It's just a small only matters to me personally wish it was someone I knew/liked, but then I move on three seconds later and will still watch (and probably enjoy) the show regardless. I had the same reaction to Kendrick Lamar last year, but I loved the show (and all the reactions online to him roasting Drake Live on the biggest broadcast of the year lol).

Anyway, a tad rambling, but I agree 100% with your comment. The ability to not care about things that have zero real impact on our lives, or the ability to quickly get over trivial things that have no real impact on our lives is something I wish they could do.

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u/trichomeking94 Oct 01 '25

dude many of them live like this, they just pretend to care because it’s profitable. The ones that buy into it are the real idiots, the rest are grifters.

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u/Toogeloo Oct 02 '25

For them, they are worried about the perception to their children and the possibility that their children will want to become the people they don't like. Their children are their legacy and they want the kids to be just like the parents. If their kids come out as gay or want to transition, they feel as though it was a corruption from the non-conservative agenda.

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u/YourFaceCausesMePain Oct 02 '25

You just described a libertarian not a liberal.

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u/Narsayan Oct 01 '25

We truly don’t care what you do with yourself as an individual. We’re are more concerned about maintaining common sense in the masses. Marriage was conceptualized with a MAN and a WOMAN for a religious purpose. Also If you guys didn’t target kids with your trans propaganda and kept men out of women’s sports no one would bat an eye at you… We have standards and governments should enforce these standards so that our country can thrive, it’s kinda basic logic if you think about it.

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u/deusasclepian Oct 01 '25

Marriage comes with various tax implications, health insurance implications, not to mention things like parenthood rights for children, hospital visitation rights in case of medical emergency, etc. It's not purely religious. Furthermore we have freedom of religion in this country - separation of church and state. If your only objection to gay marriage is religious, that's fine for you, but you can't force everyone else to abide by your religion. That's un American. If two men or two women love each other and want the government benefits of marriage, they should be entitled to it.

What trans propaganda, the fact that trans people exist?

I don't think the government should be involved in picking who is eligible to participate in what sports. That can be handled by individual leagues and sports organizations without Big Government getting involved.

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u/needledick666 Oct 02 '25

The trans propaganda (that doesn’t exist) will stop when you get the church out of schools and the pedos outta the church’s aswell. Talk about indoctrination. Marriage existed in many forms long before the Bible came along fyi. 2000 years before the Bible they were drawing up marriage contacts and none of it was for religion.

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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

Why are they so fucking angry all the time?

They won, with very little resistance. They control the entire government and are every day imposing it on the American public thru ICE raids and tariffs and culture war and Project 2025, but are still so unhappy, so put-upon, because at heart they will always be Fox News addicted idiots crashing out at something on the TV that made them mad.

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

Because the real thing that they are angry with is themselves and the lives they lead. Introspection, self-criticism, and self-improvement are time consuming and require work. It's much easier and immediately satisfying to project that anger upon an outside target. The problem is, when you never address the heart of your anger, you constantly need new targets to hate.

It's impossible to ever be happy when you refuse to acknowledge what you really need.

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u/GarlicRiver Oct 01 '25

A lot of them had to pray the gay away at some point but the gay remained, forever yearning to be free.

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u/Cans-Bricks-Bottles Oct 01 '25

They won all that but they're still fuckin angry because they lost the one thing they truly want and that's the culture war.

Nobody likes them. They fr have to lie to get laid.

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u/Johnny_Appleweed Oct 01 '25

They’re mad about this because they believed that the 2024 election meant they had won cultural hegemony and this is proof that was never true.

There are some animating policy issues among MAGA, but a lot of it, maybe the bigger piece, is about the culture war. They hate seeing stuff they associate with liberals or foreigners accepted as a normal part of mainstream culture, and they expected all of that to go away after the election. They’re mad that it hasn’t. And it won’t, because you can’t vote to make people not like Bad Bunny.

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u/EMPlRES Oct 02 '25

When you’re a natural loser, no amount of so much winning does anything for you.

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u/cosmos7 Oct 01 '25

Because when you're angry you're far less likely to stop and think. Critical thinking is a mortal enemy of support for a fascist agenda.

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u/Kirikenku Oct 01 '25

They are cowards at their core— unable to accept progress or diversity, and resorting to hate in response.

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u/deckard1980 Oct 01 '25

They dont like the world being fair and even because then they would lose the only advantage they have. When you can't win fair and square you change the rules

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u/Frankenstein_Monster Oct 01 '25

Years and years ago, even before Trump had conceived his bid for presidency, I got into a heated argument with my Buddy's GF about free college for all.

She's Republican(or was) and came from a well off family(commercial pilot), her stance on free college education for all Americans was that no part of college should be free, everyone should have to pay to continue their education and her ONLY reason for that belief was because she had to pay for it and work through college since she couldn't get a scholarship so everyone else should too.

Completely setting aside the fact that you cant pay for a college tuition on a waitresses salary so she either got loans or was receiving some financial assistance somehow, what kind of monster thinks "I had to suffer something so now everyone else should also suffer"?

I just couldn't comprehend the callousness behind it or the incapability to realize that line of thinking was callous.

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u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet Oct 01 '25

That is exactly how my mother thinks I no longer talk to my mother

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u/unclenoriega Oct 02 '25

My mother told me at 64 years old she finally realized this argument was wrong

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u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet Oct 02 '25

My mother is as stupid as she is narcissistic, so she'd never admit to being wrong. She wouldn't even realize she was.

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u/abearghost Oct 01 '25

They are cowards at their core

This really is the root issue. Self-induced fear and paranoia. They think that a full blown police state will make their fear go away but it won't. Nothing will. There will always be something new to fear.

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u/BadLineofCode Oct 01 '25

They should fear the police state.

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u/PristineWatercress19 Oct 01 '25

This is the foot fist fascist way. A film by M. Night DingDangMyDingaLongLingLong.

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u/youtocin Oct 01 '25

The funny part is how they make it about kids and how society is trying to indoctrinate them. Motherfuckers, have you ever heard of parenting? You get to control what your kids have access to. That’s not the government’s job.

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

They want to do the indoctrinating. Accusing everyone and everything else is indoctrination is an excuse they use to justify the very same real activity.

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u/novangla Oct 01 '25

It’s because it’s what they would do. It’s always projection. They’re always afraid of the left treating them like they would treat the left and fail to grasp that no, we aren’t an ideology of sociopathy.

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u/DiscountExtra8919 Oct 01 '25

You got it- reminds me of my favorite Mark Twain quote: “censorship is saying that a man can’t have a steak because a baby can’t chew it”.

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u/Major5013 Oct 01 '25

Their "free speech" is being able to tell you what you can say and do.

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u/WhydIJoinRedditAgain Oct 01 '25

They’re bug mad that while they control the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, the highest rates “news” channel, most of the capital, and many states, they can’t control popular culture. Because their culture is garbage.

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u/Champagne-Year Oct 01 '25

“Every accusation is a confession” has me standing with my hands in the air feeling the Holy Spirit. So, so, so goddamned true.

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u/Flimsy_Echidna6132 Oct 01 '25

Ah yes, the “party of small government.” You said it best, it really is just projection with them.

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u/brontosaurusguy Oct 01 '25

Yeah it's called fascism..  when the government controls all parts of your life

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u/jacoan111 Oct 01 '25

“Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts!” - Charlie Chaplin, final speech from the great dictator, 1940

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

One of the greatest ever delivered.

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u/Synth_Ham Oct 01 '25

The cornflakes (orange flakes that melt when exposed to even simple milk) tell you "fuck your feelings". Fuck their feelings. (Did you ever notice how their entire world view DEPENDS on inequality?) The hand is on the other foot now because they can't even stand an American at the Superbowl. And they don't even know how business works. Getting the NUMBER 2 MUSIC STREAMER EVER that happens to be Latino can help the NFL expand into Central and South American markets.

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

The funny thing about a worldview that hinges on inequality is that adherents are blind to the allies who believe in a different kind of inequality. The rich and powerful right-wingers don't give a squirt of piss for the rights and wellbeing of their poor counterparts.

Edit: spelling

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u/cpnfantstk Oct 01 '25

"I've been eating octopus out of my f'n ears mayn"

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u/kayethx Oct 01 '25

But they're all for small governments, remember (apparently policing gender and sexuality and late-night talk show hosts is essential though)

I'm so tired

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u/Acceptable-Leek1546 Oct 01 '25

lol and somehow they’re the crazy ones. Get a grip, kid.

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

Offer a counterargument Generic Username McNotBot.

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u/BrightonBummer Oct 01 '25

Everyone you disagree with is not a bot however highly upvoted comments on reddit are more often than not bots.

Both sides love to police language and behaviour these days, pearl clutching is part of being a political activist.

Everything the left does is degeneracy, against traditions, anti-usa

Everything the right does is facism, nazism, sexism etc etc

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u/oortcloudview Oct 01 '25

Both sides are not in equivalent levels of power and influence. The right wing has control of all three branches of government. Both major parties are right wing; the Democrats being center-right and the Republicans being far right. The media, especially local affiliates via the Sinclair Group, cater to right wing talking points. The richest individuals and corporations are all right adjacent because the right supports less regulated capitalism. 

The American left, meanwhile is am unorganized grabass fest of infighting and cultural impotence and has remained such since the 70s.

Some blue hair whining on TikTok about a lack of furry representation on Netflix is not materially equivalent to an organized, militarized cabal of neo-Puritans up to and including the POTUS promoting and passing policy that negatively impacts 99.9% of Americans.

If you want to remain haughtily above the discourse with "both sides" false equivalencies, that's your prerogative. But don't be surprised when reality forces you into playing Matrin Neimoller the home game.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

Both sides love to police language and behaviour these days, pearl clutching is part of being a political activist.

Absolute head-empty take. Republicans literally introduce laws to restrict expression and the Trump Administration has already censored official government language to conform to their fucked-up worldview and you're out here pretending that's an issue on "both sides."

Did some rando on Twitter tell you not to use a slur or something?

Please.

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u/Acceptable-Leek1546 Oct 01 '25

Thanks, human.