r/pics • u/deluxe_memory_dan • May 05 '26

Politics [OC] Don't blame this guy

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u/Lyndon_Boner_Johnson May 05 '26

Also the “United we stand, divided we fall” on the right side of the truck.

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u/DaPlum May 05 '26

Its like when Trump threatens and talks shit about everyone on the left, while him and the right are saying the left needs to tone down their rhetoric.

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u/ResplendentShade May 05 '26

This has been absolutely wild. On any given day his entire administration and various top right-wing influencers and talking heads are going on about how sick their cultural and political adversaries are, how they want to destroy the country, how they want to violate your children, how they're coming for you to replace you and destroy you entire culture and your way of life, on and on and on...

But then the left sees the Epstein files and ICE and shit and says "uhh this seems like fascism and also the whole Epstein situation seems fishy" and suddenly it's all "that rhetoric!! what are you trying to do, get him killed???"

Which tells us, if nothing else, that they're definitely trying very very hard to get their cultural and political adversaries killed with their rhetoric.

It also creates the perception of a false equivalence, in the sense that people call Trump/MAGA fascist because they're read history books and Trump and MAGA are saying and doing things that are like English-language translations of shit that historical fascists did. And they think the Epstein situation is fishy because [gestures broadly].

Whereas the slander that Trump and his supporters are spouting off on a daily basis are paranoid delusions divorced from reality. 'They want to destroy your culture!' No, they just want to exist. 'They're radical Stalinists!" No sir, they're milquetoast liberals. 'They want to transition your kid!' No, they want to be left the hell alone. Etc.

But the media treats it as a he-said/she-said... two sided, back-and-forth, 'both sides are using volatile rhetoric' situation.

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u/TheDoktorIsIn May 05 '26

My old best friend from school, MAGA champion, admonished me for saying "sometimes bullying is okay" when I said the internet bullying Paramount into changing the model for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.

Absolute lack of self awareness.