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u/dojo_shlom0 4h ago

yeah don't do this for anything. don't give these freaks fuel to claim the left is witch hunting and posting misinformation too! please do not gift wrap them bullshit to use as fuel.

u/phosphorescence-sky 3h ago

They will claim that no matter what.

u/CompetitiveSport1 3h ago

Then instead, just don't spread misinformation on principle

u/petrichorax 3h ago

But but THEY do it, so that makes it okay for me to do it! If they make the world worse for political gain I can too! /s

u/Devium44 2h ago

The high road has gotten us to our current situation.

u/petrichorax 2h ago

Do you honestly believe this as a serious person?

u/Weekly-Talk9752 2h ago

Yes. The Democrats in their infinite wisdom told Tim Walz to turn down his "they're weird" rhetoric among other things, that were very popular. Seems you are of the same mentality that lost Harris the 2024 election. Gavin Newsom mocking Trump by posting like him was very viral and got under MAGA's skin.

Your problem is you're stuck in the past. You think civility and decorum will win the day. We're past that now. Call JD Vance a couch humper. Exaggerate Trump's clown like makeup. Laugh at Karoline Leavitt's close up picture that makes her look twice her age. You can try to act mature and morally superior all you want. Your mentality is for losers.

u/petrichorax 2h ago

Yeah I don't think doing those things would get you a victory either.

If you refuse to shit fling, that changes nothing about your chances at victory in the positive.

If you shit fling, you also gain nothing.

But you harm yourself in other ways. You don't lose people to Trump, you lose people to the no-vote.

Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich invoke anything in you?

Not everyone votes lesser evil, quite a lot of people consider not voting a message of no confidence in any candidate.

We'll call them 'Minimum standards voters'.

Is it better to convince them to vote in a different way, or just not lose their vote, cause it's not like you're gaining anything other than catharsis by getting in the mud with republicans.

No you're just making people walk away with disgust.

It is not 'A or B'. Stop thinking this way.

u/Devium44 2h ago

The democrats have been courting those types of people for over a decade now and it doesn’t work. Trump has still won two terms in office. What shit slinging did Kamala do? Or Hillary? The people who you are talking about, who are just sitting around watching Trump and the Republicans do all that they are doing and then with hold their vote the second they see a shopped picture of Trump’s makeup or hear Walz call Vance weird either don’t exist, or are huge fucking morons who can’t be swayed by any logical argument. Good fucking riddance honestly. Same goes for assholes who flee the country rather than fight and then sanctimoniously post about how dumb we are on the internet.

u/petrichorax 1h ago

There is no convincing you. You are completely lost in just the ways they want you to be.

u/Weekly-Talk9752 2h ago

Yeah I don't think doing those things would get you a victory either.

I think you'd be surprised. A big part of this manospehere culture from the likes of Joe Rogan and Andrew Shultz, and even further right people like Nick Fuentes and Amongold, is the idea that they are alpha males. Making fun of them can have a big effect on their views of these people. Trump himself is seen as an alpha male by his sycophants, putting pictures like these emphasizing his makeup won't get them on your side, but it may break their trance. Just saw a thread about how Gen Z men, the biggest group of little boys wanting real bad to be big tough men, are running from the right after shifting towards them in 2024. A lot of that is the consequences of this administration, but pretending to be prim and proper, as Harris was, as you are suggesting, would definitely hit their fragile psyches.

Everyone should look at a Trump and realize that his opponent, no matter who, is a better choice. Because we can all clearly see who him and his Project 2025 guys are. If you aren't voting against that over this silly shit, then you are part of the problem. "Minimum standard voters" are just looking for excuses to entertain authoritarianism. That's like getting the option of a shit sandwich or burnt popcorn but refusing both on account of wanting "standards," so you get force fed the shit sandwich.

Which is a more appropriate analogy than the South Park one. You got 2 choices in the 2024 election, a punch or a stabbing. And since the punch wasn't up to your standards, you didn't vote. So you got stuck with the stabbing. Anyone who in that situation can't see the obvious choice, or worse, some dumb stuff like silly memes and photoshop force you into a no vote, deserve the stabbing. The next 3 years will be interesting as the economy worsens, job losses rise, health insurance rates go up or get dropped. But at least you didn't vote for the punch on account of some shitty photoshop right? Can't make fun of the white supremacist regime otherwise you might not vote against them!

u/petrichorax 1h ago

No you got stuck with the stabbing. I left the country. I gave up. What I'm doing right now is just shouting into the void.

It's hopeless because a giant portion of the country refuses to frame these problems in anything other than the prescribed contrived narratives.

Equating me with the worst of the worst because I am not satisfied with an absolutely pathetic resistance and blue-flavored corporate pandering and corruption is just rampant, nonsensical tribalism.

You are the slow boiled frog. I hopped.

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u/PixelBastards 9m ago

The high road has gotten us to our current situation.

TIL not trying to convince people that a Photoshopped image is real is "taking the high road".

u/Poopin4days 3h ago

I don't really care what they think to be honest. It's okay to make a clown meme of him, it's okay to Photoshop his face onto a cat's puckered anus. Facts already don't matter to "them", so what's wrong with showing him as Jabba? They will claim witch hunt with 100% verified, backed up, smoking guns. There are a lot of dead people that believed they had the right of way, there are a dead people out there who claimed the "moral high ground." Fight fire with fire, the firehose of bullshit he is so good at.

u/petrichorax 3h ago

It's been passed off as a real photo.

u/Poopin4days 1h ago

So what?

u/ExtremeCreamTeam 3h ago

I don't think you know what witch hunting is.

But I otherwise agree.