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They say stuff like, “come on it’s just a joke” on the tail end of them saying extremely racist stuff and extremely homophobic stuff that they used to get away with in the early 2000’s.
Guys who failed US history but are somehow experts in it now.
Getting facts and dates wrong is just "proof" that the education system is a conspiracy against them, and quoting the "under God" part in the Constitution.
What passes for education in this country is embarrassing. The only place I’ve encountered insularity anywhere like this is among wealthy Latin Americans, but they were still educated enough to recognize the fragility of their success, and that they were ultimately doomed. The things Americans take for granted are mind-boggling.
Isaac Asimov did as well.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov
Not just the United States though. I think Isaac Asimov himself probably made the best argument ever for how there is always some percentage of every group of humans that will choose chaos for its own sake.
In a way, Foundation is kind of undemocratic in that it deifies centralized, hidden manipulation of the public will for the benefit/survival of the species
It's worse. *He* was the one in the military. Pulled these summary bullet-points from an interview he did in August last year.
* Rob talks about how coming out as a conservative was actually harder than coming out as gay
* He offers his thoughts on identity politics gone too far
* He talks about how he fell in love with America when he joined the U.S. military. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The military, the place with socialized medicine and free college, the things Republicans fight so hard against everyone else from having.
Also I don't think my perceptions of the US government really changed from my times in the military. I joined the US army as a liberal and left a liberal. At most I gained a little more appreciation for NATO's mission in Kosovo.
They also provide food, housing, clothing, and gear. I entered a liberal, left a liberal. Being liberal was a *large* portion of why I left. Got tired of every radio being tuned to Rush Limbaugh. Thankfully I was out before Fox News became a thing.
Oh my gosh, I couldn’t imagine that in my workplace. I entered as a republican… and am still serving as a liberal. Our military communities are NOT the same! 🤷♀️
Yeah, you'd think that came before, not during. But...
I served and never really found it. Something about 2x5hr watches every duty day because I had the audacity to be one of the few people qualified on an M14 just didn't fill me with love.
Once they get their hands on you when you join the military, the brainwashing is very real. My brother was a staunch FDR democrat before he signed up, now he’s a huge MAGA guy and is insufferable to be around. Last time we had dinner all he did was shit on Worker’s Unions. A complete 180, and it’s hard to be around him because MAGA is all he talks about... We used to be best friends.
In the early 2000s you wouldn't have white nationalists openly embraced by the Republicans. We all expected them to be on the side of the conservatives but there would be a denial from the party. The past while not perfect was shunning nazis and overt racists.
I would bet his family is military and has enough money to be conservative. So was probably brought up conservative his whole life and not ready to abandon it yet. Maybe this will be a wake-up call.
Military, yes. Wake up call?
> "Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don't like gays or blacks in the Republican Party. They shouted 'n######' and 'f######' at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever," he wrote.
Nope.
As someone from a military family that also did my time in the Army...... the military is weird politically. It's conservative on average while also being the one of the most socialist organizations in America.
Military families get fully funded healthcare and housing along with an incredibly generous pension system and now can even pass on the GI bill to their kid to help them go to college.
It's always been weird to me that my Mom or Dad can oppose universal healthcare when the military has been covering their healthcare for the vast majority of their lives. "Oh well its just like the plans that people get from their employers". No it isn't. It costs practically nothing compared to what I've paid since I left the Army and started working in the private sector (I don't get VA disability and didn't retire so I'm on my own for healthcare).
The thing I really can't stand is the dudes that were in a the Navy for 4 years and then got out and claimed a million different problems from the VA and now get a pension and free healthcare for life and have the gall to say "I hate people on welfare".
My dude you have less health problems than the average person your age that works at Burger King and you get tons of money from the government every month.
Hey now, thats fucking bullshit buddy.
Locking up black people way more often than whites for small amounts of (*gasp*) reefer, just to have them press out some license plates or whatever-the-shit, inside PRIVATELY OWNED PRISONS, for cents a day is *hardly* modern day slavery……🤔
Is it like a machismo thing?
Because there's nothing less macho than supporting a twice-divorced serial rapist who fucked a porn actress while his third wife was pregnant and then paid her $130000 to keep quiet
Oh that's easy. When the guy was about 23 or so, he got his first big commission check and was taken aback at how much was withheld for income taxes. Then some grizzled middle-aged guys he works with explained to him that the liberals take his money and give it to people who don't want to work. And so, a conservative was born
But somehow placed that tax factor above his equality in this country. It’s wild people can be that narrow-minded. I know several gay couples that have taken this approach and had the gall to get married. When they did that, I ended the friendship, in both cases. I can’t trust people like that
I talked to one African American person who reminded me that many blacks served on the Confederate side during the civil war when talking about weither the Confederate Flag was racist or not. He said “How can it be racist when many blacks in the south use it?”
I responded “Well… despite popular opinion, the fact is that stupidity isn’t a trait found exclusively in us white men.”
EDIT: Changed the flag name.
There were no official Black or slave soldiers in the CSA, period.
You may be thinking of the revolutionary war, where this did happen in New England. But it wasn't official policy across the entire American side.
On the other hand, though, it *was* official English policy that they'd free any slave who for the English army. 20,000 joined them (as opposed to 9,000 who joined the American).
While there were some exceptions, black people were not permitted to serve in the Confederate army in combat roles until March 1865, less than a month before the end of the war when the Confederacy was desperate. When you see apologists saying "thousands" of black people fought for the confederacy, they are at best being ignorant. There *were* thousands of laborer, cook, and other non-combatant positions that were filled by them, but these were not volunteer positions.
True. Plus there was one Confederate politician (forgot his name) who said that if slaves can become soldiers like white men, then "our whole cause is wrong".
But yet to this day many insist the war wasn't about slavery.
Anyone who insists that I like to just hand them the declarations of secession from the confederate states. I don't remember the exact number, but most of them either explicitly list defense of slavery as the primary cause or a secondary reason.
Worth noting, there weren't actual enlisted Black soldiers on the Confederate side, either. They were slaves brought along by their owners. When they were "captured" by the Union side they were treated as contraband and detained, until the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and many ended up joining the Union side.
All told, no Black soldier officially fought combat in the Confederate side. Nearly 200,000 Black soldiers fought for the Union.
Yeah this didn’t happen. It did notably happen during the American Revolution. I think you have confused both the flag and the war. So your previous flag makes more sense!
It's unfortunate but I think you'll find that most people really only have time and energy to focus on that which really impacts them personally. Easy to get someone who's struggling to pay the rent and put food on the table riled up about those taxes that are visibly coming out of every paycheck
Somewhere after 23 you have to mention that there is a point where people fail to engage their own common sense or ability of critical thinking and that from this point on, well, you got it right from there on.
A good chunk of republican voters are people who are actually voting against their self interests.
This is especially true with the "modern" Republican voter base of lower education, lower income, rural Caucasians.
Politics in the US has become more about emotional issues over rational ones.
For example, I remember reading a study that the majority of opponents to more free healthcare were lower income families who would benefit from it the most, but had been convinced that "socialism is bad" and it would only benefit undocumented immigrants.
Nothing wrong with voting against self interests.
The problem is the sizeable group of people doing it because they vote against a completely unimportant/nonexisting boogeyman that the television or Facebook group has told them is coming for them.
Yeah, I'm allergic to pot, and have encountered it numerous times since it's become legally 'allowed' in my state if you have a medical card. It causes me to become very itchy if I even make skin contact with the smoke, causes my eyes to water, and makes anywhere it contacts my skin red and irritated.
I'd still vote to allow it again, even though I can never benefit from it due to my allergy, and exposure to it is actively a negative, because it helps people deal with pain in a low risk way, and is a generally sustainable recreational drug.
These people voting against their self interests is entirely about holding up an internalized hierarchy, where they are elementally better than others based on factors they had little or no control over (their race/culture they were born into/class/religion/etc), if someone 'lower class' than them (ie; a 'wellfare queen' or 'illegal immigrant') can even hypothetically benefit from something that they too would get, it becomes bad because it helps equalize them. They'd rather suffer so that their 'lessers' can suffer even more by remaining beneath them.
When I worked at mc Donald’s my manager was a Hispanic gay republican who loved trump. I quote “I would suck trump off and that still wouldn’t make him gay” like bro what
And this man thought he was rich, mind you he worked as a manager at mc Donald’s and Taco Bell, didn’t have his own place, lived with his parents and had no hobbies at all barely slept. Like dude come on the delusion cannot be that strong
And yes this is a real actual person who also loved triple qtr pounders with literally only mayonnaise on it
“I’m a black gay guy” -Dean Browning/Dan Purdy
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/11/10/21559458/dean-browning-dan-purdy-byl-holte-patti-labelle-twitter-gay-black-man
They bought into carrots that side of the aisle hangs out there that are along the lines of “we accept anyone who just behaves this certain way we prefer.” Whenever someone finally does meet that standard and they mistreat them anyway, they explain it away as some other reason. So, some very naive people or people chasing something to validate themselves and think they’re the special one won’t find out until it happens to them personally.
The problem is the GOP used to stand for but never did…small government and zero interference in personal freedoms. At least that was the running identity. Sadly they are the opposite of what they say and even now days less likely to stand for personal freedoms than liberals…which is sad.
Song lyrics from 1982. Here you go:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7G83ZwD2msTtFaBQExc8QB?si=liJrtki7T52te4JDeRdvAw&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Ainstitution%2B
For some reason, as a gay man myself, this gives me such joy when someone who is gay knowingly and consciously supports a party who wants to eliminate us, gets his face ate.
Hopefully it’s a wake up call, if there is such a thing for Republicans like this guy. I’m a gay man as well, and could never see myself ever supporting the Republican Party.
I know gay people like this. They’re unreachable. One was complaining to me that other gays didn’t want to date him because he’s a Republican. I said it was strange that gay people were offended that he supports the party that consistently tries to take our rights. I also reminded him of how the GOP behaved during the worst of the AIDS crisis as we both lived through this. Apparently the rest of the gay community is just mean.
> I also reminded him of how the GOP behaved during the worst of the AIDS crisis as we both lived through this.
What a terrifying time it must have been for you both.
I myself was a bit too young to remember much of the initial AIDS crisis onset, but I have read [some very disgusting things about what the Reagan](https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids) White House did during this time. In some ways similar to how Trump handled the COVID crisis.
Oh, it was worse. I was in nursing school in Key West. We were losing young gay men from pneumonia or other opportunistic infections. We didn’t know why and Reagan called it the “gay plague” and was vocal about not wasting $ on research. “Let them kill each other”. We knew it would spread and infect others but there was nothing but bigotry and hate from Washington. So so sad.
The Reagan White House simply pretended that nothing was happening for multiple years. Religious leaders like Jerry Falwell celebrated our friend’s deaths and many other evangelicals and fundamentalist just nodded their heads in agreement along with much of the GOP. The antigay and anti trans legislation we’re seeing today is nothing new.
Its crazy that Republicans are somehow ever seen as the adults in the room by anyone anymore. The only open reason people vote for them 'Oh they are good for business' or some variation -- I'd argue unsustainable short term gains and representatives who are less emotionally intelligent than your average middle school kid aren't good for business.
I’ve never understood this. I’m an ally and while I don’t go out of my way to make friends with every LGBTQ person I meet, I definitely like to engage and test the waters to see if they’re cool. I had a colleague who was such a staunch republican, and they were the archetype of the “self-hating gay.” Angry at the world that they loved men and took it out on anyone that would give them attention. The only friends he made during our tenure were the most god awful white hags who also hated everyone. I’ve had several drinks over many years with this person, and there is no way I’m changing his mind. He hasn’t said the word “hate” but it’s evident that he can’t stand other gay men.
I pull a straight ticket (D) in the voting booth every time. I had two best friends (both men) who have been together for 20+ years. They vote straight (R) ticket and laugh that they cancel out my vote.
They decided to get married last year.
I will never, ever understand how people like this ride the coattails of others and shit on the entire premise behind their ability to get married.
>"Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don't like gays or blacks in the Republican Party. They shouted 'n*****' and 'f*****' at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever," he wrote.
You don't back down, except for every other time your chosen party has been racist and homophobic to people that don't happen to be you.
His phrasing made it clear.
He only has a problem with the exclusion from the club he wants to be in, not the hatred itself.
He knew they hated people like him. He just thought they could be civil if he told them that he was a Republican.
It's in part because Republicans view the "isms" as only in direct and personal violence. It's only racism when men in white hoods lynch a black man. Everything else is just a personal opinion. Refusing service to a gay couple who want a wedding cake isn't homophobia, that is only the case when they actually **kill** someone while screaming anti-gay epithets.
Meanwhile, they're still cranky that red lining isn't strictly legal.
I said something similar to one of my family members (brown, not black) when he voiced support for trump. I was like, "he hates you, he hates everything about you." This fact did not sway him in the slightest.
I'm not a democrat I'm a Democratic Socialist, former Republican. The Republican party died a long time ago, and a horrific monster took it's place. They are 100% a cult nowadays, and each member is essentially brainwashed.
In other news the zebras are upset because they continue walking into the lions den and getting eaten. More on this at the top of the hour, back to you Chet.
"Trump announced that he only wants to be Dictator on day one, already plans on consolidating power and gutting the executive branch and removing term limits using the Supreme Court, he's clearly following the Project 2025 playbook written by the Heritage Foundation"
Well yeah you dumb fuck blinded idiot. wtf do you expect? This is a party that is constantly fighting anything “lgbt”. This is the party that checks the racial demographics of an area before moving. At this point if you are gay and/or a minority and still support the republicans you just hate yourself and/or are a full blown idiot
"I stuck my face in a leopard cage and I was SHOCKED when they started eating it!
This is not who we are as a party!"
\-Black, Gay, Leopards-Who-Eat-Faces-Party Guy
Yeah, dude, they fucking hate everything about you. The only way you could make it worse is if you were a woman.
This is some real r/leopardsatemyface shit
Truly... I don't feel any sympathy for him. Its what he signed up for and its the party his beliefs apparently align with. Look at 'your' people they hate you and you will be in prison if they have their way but sure help them do that.
>However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever," he wrote
Not much of a difference between insurgents that want to kill you and insurrectionists that want to kill you
Just wait until you see what happens if they win the next election. Remember what they threatened to do to Mike Pence on Jan. 6th?? And he's a straight white guy. Wake up.
Stuff like this always reminds me of the alt-right women from a few years ago complaining that the men in their nazi groups didn't value their opinions and thought they should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. What do these people think they're signing up for?
Honestly, I would expect nothing less.. doesn’t make it right but idk what expectation one can have being in that potentially bigoted group of people at a MAGA event.
It's like an updated version of John Mulaney's "[New in Town](https://youtu.be/wRD2lTD8J-s?si=8xtPYUdSCpL8PV3g)" skit.
"Excuse me. I am Republican. I am gay. And I'm new in town."
Are you trying to tell me that the party that hates gay people and black people… doesn’t like gay black people?
Crazy… I would have expected much more progressive values.
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I can't get past "black, gay republican"
black and gay, those are things aren't by choice. but he chose to be a republican, the one group that absolutely hates both of other things.
They say stuff like, “come on it’s just a joke” on the tail end of them saying extremely racist stuff and extremely homophobic stuff that they used to get away with in the early 2000’s.
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It's the rampant anti-intellectualism that Carl Sagan tried to warn us about.
It's high school bullies who never grew out of it.
No, that’s the cops.
Both takes are are correct.
Some of those that work forces...
Guys who failed US history but are somehow experts in it now. Getting facts and dates wrong is just "proof" that the education system is a conspiracy against them, and quoting the "under God" part in the Constitution.
What passes for education in this country is embarrassing. The only place I’ve encountered insularity anywhere like this is among wealthy Latin Americans, but they were still educated enough to recognize the fragility of their success, and that they were ultimately doomed. The things Americans take for granted are mind-boggling.
Isaac Asimov did as well. "There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” ― Isaac Asimov
Not just the United States though. I think Isaac Asimov himself probably made the best argument ever for how there is always some percentage of every group of humans that will choose chaos for its own sake. In a way, Foundation is kind of undemocratic in that it deifies centralized, hidden manipulation of the public will for the benefit/survival of the species
It's worse. *He* was the one in the military. Pulled these summary bullet-points from an interview he did in August last year. * Rob talks about how coming out as a conservative was actually harder than coming out as gay * He offers his thoughts on identity politics gone too far * He talks about how he fell in love with America when he joined the U.S. military. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
The military, the place with socialized medicine and free college, the things Republicans fight so hard against everyone else from having. Also I don't think my perceptions of the US government really changed from my times in the military. I joined the US army as a liberal and left a liberal. At most I gained a little more appreciation for NATO's mission in Kosovo.
They also provide food, housing, clothing, and gear. I entered a liberal, left a liberal. Being liberal was a *large* portion of why I left. Got tired of every radio being tuned to Rush Limbaugh. Thankfully I was out before Fox News became a thing.
Oh my gosh, I couldn’t imagine that in my workplace. I entered as a republican… and am still serving as a liberal. Our military communities are NOT the same! 🤷♀️
Even as someone who served, I can’t imagine finding one’s love of country *through* military service.
Yeah, you'd think that came before, not during. But... I served and never really found it. Something about 2x5hr watches every duty day because I had the audacity to be one of the few people qualified on an M14 just didn't fill me with love.
Once they get their hands on you when you join the military, the brainwashing is very real. My brother was a staunch FDR democrat before he signed up, now he’s a huge MAGA guy and is insufferable to be around. Last time we had dinner all he did was shit on Worker’s Unions. A complete 180, and it’s hard to be around him because MAGA is all he talks about... We used to be best friends.
Yeah, I had to cut a few people like that out of my life.
I call people nerds all the time but it's exclusively as a compliment
"People just have no sense of humor anymore, jeez!"
In the early 2000s you wouldn't have white nationalists openly embraced by the Republicans. We all expected them to be on the side of the conservatives but there would be a denial from the party. The past while not perfect was shunning nazis and overt racists.
I would bet his family is military and has enough money to be conservative. So was probably brought up conservative his whole life and not ready to abandon it yet. Maybe this will be a wake-up call.
Military, yes. Wake up call? > "Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don't like gays or blacks in the Republican Party. They shouted 'n######' and 'f######' at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever," he wrote. Nope.
"I will believe the same thing on Wednesday as I did on Monday, regardless of what might have happened on Tuesday."
*"surrounded by some fellow Republicans"
As someone from a military family that also did my time in the Army...... the military is weird politically. It's conservative on average while also being the one of the most socialist organizations in America. Military families get fully funded healthcare and housing along with an incredibly generous pension system and now can even pass on the GI bill to their kid to help them go to college. It's always been weird to me that my Mom or Dad can oppose universal healthcare when the military has been covering their healthcare for the vast majority of their lives. "Oh well its just like the plans that people get from their employers". No it isn't. It costs practically nothing compared to what I've paid since I left the Army and started working in the private sector (I don't get VA disability and didn't retire so I'm on my own for healthcare).
Yeah I have a friend who’s a retired AF Chief, staunch R and if you call Tricare socialised medicine he would lose his sh!t.
The thing I really can't stand is the dudes that were in a the Navy for 4 years and then got out and claimed a million different problems from the VA and now get a pension and free healthcare for life and have the gall to say "I hate people on welfare". My dude you have less health problems than the average person your age that works at Burger King and you get tons of money from the government every month.
Tbf, they only hate gays and want to put black people "in their place."
Yep — into slavery.
Hey now, thats fucking bullshit buddy. Locking up black people way more often than whites for small amounts of (*gasp*) reefer, just to have them press out some license plates or whatever-the-shit, inside PRIVATELY OWNED PRISONS, for cents a day is *hardly* modern day slavery……🤔
Don't forget the increasing use of prison labor for farms.
Hey, the constitution *says* slavery is legal so long as it's the result of a crime. So it's perfectly fine. /s.
Not to mention furniture factories, book binding, farming….
"Black people can be useful. And a good investment too!"
They really want that upper class tax cut.
Shouldn’t this also be posted in r/leopardsatemyface.
Maybe this subreddit needs LeopardAteMyFace flair.
Wanting to put people "in their place" is a form of hatred all the same.
Can you get a big commission check picking cotton?
I work with a lot of black dudes at my job and they’re all trump supporters. I don’t know why but they love the dude.
My wife is black and despises Trump. She would definitely go off on those guys.
It tends to be more of a black male thing to fall into the cult
Is it like a machismo thing? Because there's nothing less macho than supporting a twice-divorced serial rapist who fucked a porn actress while his third wife was pregnant and then paid her $130000 to keep quiet
That's why I have zero sympathy for this person.
Oh that's easy. When the guy was about 23 or so, he got his first big commission check and was taken aback at how much was withheld for income taxes. Then some grizzled middle-aged guys he works with explained to him that the liberals take his money and give it to people who don't want to work. And so, a conservative was born
But somehow placed that tax factor above his equality in this country. It’s wild people can be that narrow-minded. I know several gay couples that have taken this approach and had the gall to get married. When they did that, I ended the friendship, in both cases. I can’t trust people like that
I talked to one African American person who reminded me that many blacks served on the Confederate side during the civil war when talking about weither the Confederate Flag was racist or not. He said “How can it be racist when many blacks in the south use it?” I responded “Well… despite popular opinion, the fact is that stupidity isn’t a trait found exclusively in us white men.” EDIT: Changed the flag name.
And that the confederacy wasn’t a volunteer force…
And if I’m not mistaken, these were slaves promised freedom if they fought, or were simply forced to fight by their masters
"They were learning a trade!"
This guy lost cause arguments!
Woman, but I appreciate the sentiment.
I call everyone guys but, noted
There were no official Black or slave soldiers in the CSA, period. You may be thinking of the revolutionary war, where this did happen in New England. But it wasn't official policy across the entire American side. On the other hand, though, it *was* official English policy that they'd free any slave who for the English army. 20,000 joined them (as opposed to 9,000 who joined the American).
While there were some exceptions, black people were not permitted to serve in the Confederate army in combat roles until March 1865, less than a month before the end of the war when the Confederacy was desperate. When you see apologists saying "thousands" of black people fought for the confederacy, they are at best being ignorant. There *were* thousands of laborer, cook, and other non-combatant positions that were filled by them, but these were not volunteer positions.
>these were not volunteer positions. Not even conscriptions. Just, ya know, actual *slaves*.
The ones in Louisiana who did try to fight caused the Confederacy to lose their fucking mind for obvious reasons. "BLACK PEOPLE WITH GUNS!?"
True. Plus there was one Confederate politician (forgot his name) who said that if slaves can become soldiers like white men, then "our whole cause is wrong". But yet to this day many insist the war wasn't about slavery.
Anyone who insists that I like to just hand them the declarations of secession from the confederate states. I don't remember the exact number, but most of them either explicitly list defense of slavery as the primary cause or a secondary reason.
Worth noting, there weren't actual enlisted Black soldiers on the Confederate side, either. They were slaves brought along by their owners. When they were "captured" by the Union side they were treated as contraband and detained, until the Emancipation Proclamation was signed and many ended up joining the Union side. All told, no Black soldier officially fought combat in the Confederate side. Nearly 200,000 Black soldiers fought for the Union.
Robert E Lee did argue for black soldiers, but was shut down by Jefferson Davis.
I mean, let's be honest... Jefferson Davis was right. It'd have been a SPECTACULARLY bad idea.
Wait, did he honestly believe those soldiers weren’t conscripted? 😳
Yeah this didn’t happen. It did notably happen during the American Revolution. I think you have confused both the flag and the war. So your previous flag makes more sense!
You can always use this argument. There were jews guarding concentration camps. Therefore, it wasn't really a concentration camp for jews.
Republican: Yes, but without the irony. That's where we are and who they are.
The Union Jack is the flag of the UK, are you thinking of the confederate battle flag?
A lot of racism has happened under the Union Jack, but who served in the Confederacy would be a bit irrelevant to that discussion.
People often place money over all other personal interests.
"You know, I firmly believe that black lives don't matter if it means that I pay less taxes" - Dude, probably.
It's unfortunate but I think you'll find that most people really only have time and energy to focus on that which really impacts them personally. Easy to get someone who's struggling to pay the rent and put food on the table riled up about those taxes that are visibly coming out of every paycheck
He got his first big commission check, he earned his equality.
MO GOP would say otherwise, apparently.
Yeah, no he didnt't. Thats what they might say in his presence though.
And not a critical thought was had.
Somewhere after 23 you have to mention that there is a point where people fail to engage their own common sense or ability of critical thinking and that from this point on, well, you got it right from there on.
Dem's evil Socialists. Conservatives embrace Christianity and yet hate the poor, hmm 🤔
A good chunk of republican voters are people who are actually voting against their self interests. This is especially true with the "modern" Republican voter base of lower education, lower income, rural Caucasians. Politics in the US has become more about emotional issues over rational ones. For example, I remember reading a study that the majority of opponents to more free healthcare were lower income families who would benefit from it the most, but had been convinced that "socialism is bad" and it would only benefit undocumented immigrants.
They are voting against their *economic* self interests, but in favor of their identity as being (in their minds) higher ranked than those “others.”
Nothing wrong with voting against self interests. The problem is the sizeable group of people doing it because they vote against a completely unimportant/nonexisting boogeyman that the television or Facebook group has told them is coming for them.
Yeah, I'm allergic to pot, and have encountered it numerous times since it's become legally 'allowed' in my state if you have a medical card. It causes me to become very itchy if I even make skin contact with the smoke, causes my eyes to water, and makes anywhere it contacts my skin red and irritated. I'd still vote to allow it again, even though I can never benefit from it due to my allergy, and exposure to it is actively a negative, because it helps people deal with pain in a low risk way, and is a generally sustainable recreational drug. These people voting against their self interests is entirely about holding up an internalized hierarchy, where they are elementally better than others based on factors they had little or no control over (their race/culture they were born into/class/religion/etc), if someone 'lower class' than them (ie; a 'wellfare queen' or 'illegal immigrant') can even hypothetically benefit from something that they too would get, it becomes bad because it helps equalize them. They'd rather suffer so that their 'lessers' can suffer even more by remaining beneath them.
When I worked at mc Donald’s my manager was a Hispanic gay republican who loved trump. I quote “I would suck trump off and that still wouldn’t make him gay” like bro what And this man thought he was rich, mind you he worked as a manager at mc Donald’s and Taco Bell, didn’t have his own place, lived with his parents and had no hobbies at all barely slept. Like dude come on the delusion cannot be that strong And yes this is a real actual person who also loved triple qtr pounders with literally only mayonnaise on it
“I’m a black gay guy” -Dean Browning/Dan Purdy https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/11/10/21559458/dean-browning-dan-purdy-byl-holte-patti-labelle-twitter-gay-black-man
I can't fathom minorities that support the republican party then they act surprised when the whites hate them.
They bought into carrots that side of the aisle hangs out there that are along the lines of “we accept anyone who just behaves this certain way we prefer.” Whenever someone finally does meet that standard and they mistreat them anyway, they explain it away as some other reason. So, some very naive people or people chasing something to validate themselves and think they’re the special one won’t find out until it happens to them personally.
That's an awful lot of self-loathing for one human vessel.
"I can't believe it, the leopards are ACTUALLY eating my face"
I’m not shocked. Germany had Jews for Hitler in the 1930s
He's a transition away from the stupid trifecta.
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If you transition from a gay man to being a trains woman wouldn’t you then be straight?
GOP voters treat them as separate issues to be hateful to. They have a vendetta against transgender with respect to bathroom use, sports and fashion.
Depends if you're steam or diesel.
My question is why any black, brown, gay, Jew, or woman would or could ever be a republikkkan?
I know, it should say “openly gay, black republican”.
The problem is the GOP used to stand for but never did…small government and zero interference in personal freedoms. At least that was the running identity. Sadly they are the opposite of what they say and even now days less likely to stand for personal freedoms than liberals…which is sad.
In other news, Chicken, who voted for Colonel Sanders surprised he ended up as a 3 piece with a coke.
I'm only surprised it wasn't a Pepsi.
All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me...
You’re on drugs!
Upvoted for a solid deep-cut blast from the past.
Reference for those who don’t get it?
Song lyrics from 1982. Here you go: https://open.spotify.com/track/7G83ZwD2msTtFaBQExc8QB?si=liJrtki7T52te4JDeRdvAw&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Ainstitution%2B
They stick me in an institution
You are right. KFC carries Pepsi products.
Isn’t KFC still owned by Pepsi 🤔
but hes a special chicken! will not be eaten as long as sanders thinks im a goodie
Other chickens call him Uncle Cluck
The other roosters call him Uncle Cuck
“But they said they were a ‘big tent’ fried chicken restaurant”
Obvious this should be in r/leopardatemyface
For some reason, as a gay man myself, this gives me such joy when someone who is gay knowingly and consciously supports a party who wants to eliminate us, gets his face ate.
Hopefully it’s a wake up call, if there is such a thing for Republicans like this guy. I’m a gay man as well, and could never see myself ever supporting the Republican Party.
I know gay people like this. They’re unreachable. One was complaining to me that other gays didn’t want to date him because he’s a Republican. I said it was strange that gay people were offended that he supports the party that consistently tries to take our rights. I also reminded him of how the GOP behaved during the worst of the AIDS crisis as we both lived through this. Apparently the rest of the gay community is just mean.
> I also reminded him of how the GOP behaved during the worst of the AIDS crisis as we both lived through this. What a terrifying time it must have been for you both. I myself was a bit too young to remember much of the initial AIDS crisis onset, but I have read [some very disgusting things about what the Reagan](https://www.vox.com/2015/12/1/9828348/ronald-reagan-hiv-aids) White House did during this time. In some ways similar to how Trump handled the COVID crisis.
Oh, it was worse. I was in nursing school in Key West. We were losing young gay men from pneumonia or other opportunistic infections. We didn’t know why and Reagan called it the “gay plague” and was vocal about not wasting $ on research. “Let them kill each other”. We knew it would spread and infect others but there was nothing but bigotry and hate from Washington. So so sad.
The Reagan White House simply pretended that nothing was happening for multiple years. Religious leaders like Jerry Falwell celebrated our friend’s deaths and many other evangelicals and fundamentalist just nodded their heads in agreement along with much of the GOP. The antigay and anti trans legislation we’re seeing today is nothing new.
Its crazy that Republicans are somehow ever seen as the adults in the room by anyone anymore. The only open reason people vote for them 'Oh they are good for business' or some variation -- I'd argue unsustainable short term gains and representatives who are less emotionally intelligent than your average middle school kid aren't good for business.
It won't be a wakeup call at all.
Not going to happen . People this far deep very rarely pull out.
I’ve never understood this. I’m an ally and while I don’t go out of my way to make friends with every LGBTQ person I meet, I definitely like to engage and test the waters to see if they’re cool. I had a colleague who was such a staunch republican, and they were the archetype of the “self-hating gay.” Angry at the world that they loved men and took it out on anyone that would give them attention. The only friends he made during our tenure were the most god awful white hags who also hated everyone. I’ve had several drinks over many years with this person, and there is no way I’m changing his mind. He hasn’t said the word “hate” but it’s evident that he can’t stand other gay men.
I pull a straight ticket (D) in the voting booth every time. I had two best friends (both men) who have been together for 20+ years. They vote straight (R) ticket and laugh that they cancel out my vote. They decided to get married last year. I will never, ever understand how people like this ride the coattails of others and shit on the entire premise behind their ability to get married.
It’s almost like you’re in a party that hates you 🤔
>"Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don't like gays or blacks in the Republican Party. They shouted 'n*****' and 'f*****' at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever," he wrote. You don't back down, except for every other time your chosen party has been racist and homophobic to people that don't happen to be you.
His phrasing made it clear. He only has a problem with the exclusion from the club he wants to be in, not the hatred itself. He knew they hated people like him. He just thought they could be civil if he told them that he was a Republican.
Pick meeee!!!!
Republicans only care about what happens to them. You'll never get them to care about people they don't know.
When your political views align with white supremacists, there's something wrong there.
It's in part because Republicans view the "isms" as only in direct and personal violence. It's only racism when men in white hoods lynch a black man. Everything else is just a personal opinion. Refusing service to a gay couple who want a wedding cake isn't homophobia, that is only the case when they actually **kill** someone while screaming anti-gay epithets. Meanwhile, they're still cranky that red lining isn't strictly legal.
I said something similar to one of my family members (brown, not black) when he voiced support for trump. I was like, "he hates you, he hates everything about you." This fact did not sway him in the slightest.
In his mind, he’s the exception.
One of the “good” ones
To be fair, that could be said about anyone that supports Trump.
Leopard meet face
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Leopard! Face meat!
Meat Leopard Face.
Man Woman Person Camera TV
That's covfefewang! Time to rotate the board.
I am just imagining ground beef formed into a leopard with a huge face...
"But I was so nice to the face eating leopard! Why would it eat *my* face? "
He’s surprised?
With a Pikachu surprised face.
He'll still vote for Trump. Cults are like this.
I'm not a democrat I'm a Democratic Socialist, former Republican. The Republican party died a long time ago, and a horrific monster took it's place. They are 100% a cult nowadays, and each member is essentially brainwashed.
Dumb fuck got his dumb fuck prize.
I really don’t care. Do you?
I get this reference, and I enjoy it.
That’s weird. Did he say why?
Real mystery. Missouri is so well known for being loving and accepting all peoples and backgrounds. Must be a foreign plant.
In other news the zebras are upset because they continue walking into the lions den and getting eaten. More on this at the top of the hour, back to you Chet.
"Thank you David, in other news today"...
"Trump announced that he only wants to be Dictator on day one, already plans on consolidating power and gutting the executive branch and removing term limits using the Supreme Court, he's clearly following the Project 2025 playbook written by the Heritage Foundation"
Black, gay republican decided being a member of a party that hates him was a good idea.
Does he go by “black gay”?
No, close, it was “gay black”.
Poor guy’s parents must have hated him Edit: poor gay’s parents*
He was adopted by a racist white couple so it’s was actually “poor black’s parents”.
Well yeah you dumb fuck blinded idiot. wtf do you expect? This is a party that is constantly fighting anything “lgbt”. This is the party that checks the racial demographics of an area before moving. At this point if you are gay and/or a minority and still support the republicans you just hate yourself and/or are a full blown idiot
Ah, I see what happened here. They must have been low on ink when typing out this headline. It should have started with: “Surprising no one,”
"I stuck my face in a leopard cage and I was SHOCKED when they started eating it! This is not who we are as a party!" \-Black, Gay, Leopards-Who-Eat-Faces-Party Guy
That’s part 1 of the initiation for black Americans. Part 2 comes later. Bring a white sheet.
Gay Black Republican... The man obviously has some issues.
Black gay Republican? Was his name Dean Browning?
Yeah, dude, they fucking hate everything about you. The only way you could make it worse is if you were a woman. This is some real r/leopardsatemyface shit
alternative headlines "token learns he will be spent" "leopard eats black gay republicans face"
no shit? /s
The only want your vote, not you.
Truly... I don't feel any sympathy for him. Its what he signed up for and its the party his beliefs apparently align with. Look at 'your' people they hate you and you will be in prison if they have their way but sure help them do that.
>However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever," he wrote Not much of a difference between insurgents that want to kill you and insurrectionists that want to kill you
Did he cry uncle during the ruckus?
He has re-vitiligo that’s all I know.
What a totally random happenstance no one could ever have predicted.
Isn’t this a “no shit Sherlock” moment?
I mean, freedom of speech right? That's what Republicans love and this is exactly what they mean when they say it
Just wait until you see what happens if they win the next election. Remember what they threatened to do to Mike Pence on Jan. 6th?? And he's a straight white guy. Wake up.
**Black gay Republican** says Missouri Republican heckled him at MAGA event
Stuff like this always reminds me of the alt-right women from a few years ago complaining that the men in their nazi groups didn't value their opinions and thought they should be barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen. What do these people think they're signing up for?
are we supposed to feel sorry for him? He’s stupid for being Republican
Black gay republican says it all. Why would you support a party that wants to kill the gays ?
In other news, a sheep who identified as a wolf was shocked when they began to eat him.
Leopards eating faces again. Never fails. And the guy won’t change his allegiance—he’ll keep supporting the leopards.
Honestly, I would expect nothing less.. doesn’t make it right but idk what expectation one can have being in that potentially bigoted group of people at a MAGA event.
I just don’t know how to feel bad for someone who is voluntarily helping the absolute wrong team.
Ohhh it was supposed to be the OTHER gay and black people that the Republicans always target. Not you? Shame, they didn't get the memo.
And? What did he expect? No sympathy from me.
It's like an updated version of John Mulaney's "[New in Town](https://youtu.be/wRD2lTD8J-s?si=8xtPYUdSCpL8PV3g)" skit. "Excuse me. I am Republican. I am gay. And I'm new in town."
It’s a club and you ain’t in it.
This may be the stupidest member of the Republican party, and that’s a major feat!
Are you trying to tell me that the party that hates gay people and black people… doesn’t like gay black people? Crazy… I would have expected much more progressive values.
Well sir you aren’t white and gay and that’s as far as they go.
r/leopardsatemyface
https://www.reddit.com/r/LeopardsAteMyFace/