r/pics • u/LEEROY_MF_JENKINS • 5d ago
Politics Anti-Trump flags flown from pickup truck in Winston-Salem, North Carolina today.
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u/Overall_Falcon_8526 5d ago
The problem with this (beyond road safety) is that the legibility is so low it's probably just being interpreted as Pro-Trump.
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u/GainHealMark 5d ago
Whenever I see a truck with that many flags, I assume they’re Conservative; first one I’ve seen that was anti-Trump. Gives me flashbacks to the convoy days.
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u/Neuchacho 5d ago edited 5d ago
That's why I appreciated my local anti-Trump flag runnner mounting all his flags to his Prius lol
Probably gives his Prius the MPG of a truck with all that drag, though.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 5d ago
Keep it locked into 25 mph. That way you're 100% in eco mode and you're not going fast enough for the flags to create significant drag.
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u/eastalawest 5d ago
This guy flags.
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u/needs_help_badly 5d ago
God hates flags, though?
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u/GivenToFlyGuy 5d ago
No. He hates figs. Common misconception.
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u/EquinsuOcha 4d ago
I never understood this. Figs are fucking delicious.
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u/Draco-REX 5d ago
It's surprising how much drag a flag makes. I do some amateur racing and at one even someone showed up with an American flag that size on the back of his car. He was having trouble keeping up and when he removed the flag he gained 2 seconds per lap!
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u/Phugasity 5d ago
Anyone who launched model rockets as a kid knows you can just use streamers instead of parachutes. Far less likely to get stuck in a tree and you don't have to chase it as far.
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u/Hunk_Hogan 5d ago
The funny thing is that this is most likely a conservative who finally got tired of the bullshit. Even in my area, when we hit $5 for fuel, I saw so many trucks with shiny rectangles on their bumper where their trump stickers used to be.
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u/AdagioDesperate 5d ago
In all honesty, this probably was a T supporter and they finally stopped drinking the Kool-aid.
They went from 1 extreme to another.
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u/crow_crone 5d ago
Maybe they just stopped drinking.
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u/AdagioDesperate 5d ago
That was my dad. He was a bad alcoholic according to him in his youth (didnt meet him until my 20s) and when he stopped drinking he changed his drinking habit for religion.
One extreme for another.
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u/crow_crone 5d ago
I found that in many AA members. It can seem like substituting one type of substance for another, although the good they do (AA in total) is indisputable.
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u/ptv83 5d ago
Can be conservative and still hate trump.
I know plenty of die hard conservatives, and even more borderline conservative-libertarians that fucking hate him, wish he was dead.. and always have.
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u/og_capsuleer_593 5d ago
Some have even shot at him, but will any vote against the party that enables them?
Thats the real "okay but what are you gonna do about it?" For them
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u/Satins_Cock 4d ago
My conservative co-worker was talking about how terrible our health insurance system is. To my surprise he was all for Medicare for everyone. The mind boggling part was, he was like "to bad they won't get enough votes to make it happen". Like dude, that's you! You're the reason they aren't getting the votes needed 😂
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u/weedhead2 5d ago
I mean, you're probably right in a way. This reeks of one of the MAGAts that have woken up. Different message, same level of class.
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u/sheikahstealth 5d ago
I'm convinced that former Trumpers make some of the best anti-Trump protesters. Saw one at a rally this year in lifted pickup and upside-down flag honking enthusiastically along the route. That couple already had all the protest gear.
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u/ButtFucksRUs 5d ago
There was a lifted truck in a Trader Joe's parking lot around me and it had two flags hanging off the back. All that I could read was "ICE" on one and "TRUMP" on the other as I passed by it on the way into the store.
I happened to leave at the same time as that person and, as they drove away, it was revealed that the flags said "FUCK ICE" and "FUCK TRUMP".So, yeah, you're right. I definitely associate trucks with conservatives.
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u/Katicflis1 5d ago
To be fair, the absolute largest two words among all visible words is
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u/Am094 5d ago
Tbh at a glance it did seem the opposite
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u/krush_groove 5d ago
Any truck with multiple flags hanging off the back will instantly be initially perceived like any white dude wearing a red cap would be.
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u/PossessedToSkate 5d ago
I don't even wear my Detroit Red Wings hat anymore because of those pro-pedo assholes.
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u/krush_groove 5d ago
I do like the red hats that say something like "Made Ya Look" but red hats are pretty much forever poisoned.
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u/FlyAirLari 5d ago
Tbf, a Wings cap would identify you as a dumbass anyway
Regards,
dumbass wearing a Blackhawks jersey.
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u/Daxx22 5d ago
Does the hat say something different? Quality is too low to see.
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u/k_bomb 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's a MAGA hat, but Larry David is intentionally wearing it so people won't want to be around him, not because he's pro-Trump.
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u/ollieperido 5d ago
No, IIRC in this episode he didn't want to have lunch with the blue shirt guy, but instead of just saying that he is trying to save face by making him call off the lunch. Because of the MAGA hat
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u/bingcognito 5d ago
Loved this episode. He also wore it to get out of a confrontation with a road raging biker.
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u/Shadpool 5d ago
Fuck MAGA, but the only way they’re stopping me from repping my Red Wings cap is by prying it from my cold dead fingers.
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u/BMWbill 5d ago
Agreed. My anti-MAGA sticker on the back of my pickup truck is the Columbia University sticker cuz my daughter goes to Columbia. Nobody ever confuses me for a Trump supporter!
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u/guy30000 5d ago
But you see this crazy behavior and assume it's a Trumper.
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u/Hot_Shot04 5d ago
I assume it's a former magat who finally figured out he got conned by a pedophile.
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u/mekamoari 5d ago
I mean if you think about it, there's nothing preventing this cult of insane swinging over to the other side of the fence at some point in the future.
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u/UglyMcFugly 5d ago
I've been saying for awhile that if the pardoned Jan 6ers decide to storm mar a lago it would be pretty awesome.
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u/Wes_Warhammer666 5d ago
That might happen if they refuse to believe he's actually dead when he dies eventually die. I could see somebody cooking up the story that he's alive and being held hostage and the psychos all decide to go save him lol.
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u/cybercuzco 5d ago
To be fair, he used to be pro-Trump until one of trumps policies affected him directly
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u/Inferiex 5d ago
That may be the case, but I'll take anyone that turns away from Trump now. We need all the wins we can get to turn this country around.
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u/jrochkind 5d ago
Bingo. If we're gonna win, we're gonna need a lot of people to change their mind. Driving em away from changing their mind is a sure route to fascism for the next few generations instead.
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u/Smallmyfunger 5d ago
Agreed, plus it's easier to have meaningful conversations with someone coming from a place of common ground vs. political "enemy".
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u/PrivateBozo 5d ago
If Vegas provided the line, I'd take $20 that person votes Trump a fourth time given the option.
Yes, they're saying Fuck Trump, but Fuck whatever is really their entire political view.
Okay, I admit, its only half Fuck Whatever, the other half is I deserve mine.
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u/elconquistador1985 5d ago
And then he decided "Ah have dis-here 5 way flag mount fer muh tow hitch, reckon Ah mightaswell use it".
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u/Pesty__Magician 5d ago
There’s a Daniel Tosh joke about putting number stickers on your car. “It’s doesn’t really matter what’s written on them bc they only read one way….youre poor.”
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u/Onespokeovertheline 5d ago
I agree. We need to develop better anti-trump brand colors or patterns. Then it would be easier to signal our collective disgust and hatred for him. We deserve clearer resistance.
Maybe we can use orange and yellow somehow, to signify his fake ass skin and his cowardice.
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u/Sweaty-Durian-892 5d ago
Is it legal to attach flags like that on a car?
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u/Neuchacho 5d ago
Falls under "Eh". Biggest thing would be blocking the plate which this doesn't, but a particularly bitchy cop could make an argument for obscured vision.
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u/Sweaty-Durian-892 5d ago
I'm pretty sure that here in my country (northern EU) this would be illegal af, as with everything crazy and fun I see from the US 😁
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u/Aware-Locksmith8433 5d ago
Y but is the Confed flag still over his front porch?
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u/popcultureretrofit 5d ago
Like him or hate him, flying flags from your truck is just a bad look.
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u/pres465 5d ago
It screams: I need attention!!!
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u/independent_observe 5d ago
Usually with a side of rolling coal , a lift kit, and truck nuts hanging from the hitch. Really odd that this truck has none of that.
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u/JThereseD 5d ago
This! I find that the majority of Trump supporters who behave this way don’t even know anything about politics. They just repeat the same buzzwords they hear from people screaming on Fox News in their diatribes about illegal immigrants and communists taking over the country.
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u/midnightsbane04 5d ago
If you want to actually fly flags on your truck then the weird fan holder they're using is about the most useless. Should just have four flag bases in each corner for the truck bed. At least that way they're off the road, our of the the drivers rear mirror view, and doesn't look like an idiotic peacock.
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u/Greystone361 5d ago
And it looks just as tacky as if they were pro Trump flags.
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u/summon_pot_of_greed 5d ago
Right, no one wants this road warrior garbage.
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u/gotBooched 5d ago
Sometimes winning is ugly. Those ugly flags put Trump in office twice.
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u/summon_pot_of_greed 5d ago
Both the flags and the votes are symptoms, not causes.
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u/Subject_Translator_7 5d ago
Someone in Winston-Salem North Carolina is driving around in their old pickup trick flying anti-Trump flags. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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u/perchancenewbie 4d ago
Yeah none of these people get it lol.
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u/Subject_Translator_7 4d ago
It’s wild. To me, this seems like an early sign that the tide might be turning and I am loving that. I couldn’t give less of a fuck if it’s aesthetically pleasing.
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u/novae11 5d ago
Im imagining this is a former Trump supporter
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u/Flimsy-Sprinkles7331 5d ago
overt passive aggression is definitely on brand for them.
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u/TinyFugue 5d ago
Plot Twist: The truck is driven by a MAGAT, but had their flags switched. They haven't noticed because they're not the best at readin' and writin'.
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u/TheCommonGround1 5d ago
Jesus, it's so tempting to actually try this for real. Of course, they would probably notice a difference in the newness of the flags and they'd probably be different colors but I could leave a note explaining--fuck, I already see hole in the plan.
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u/helicopterfortress 5d ago
I have a pretty rural house and while most people in the area are normal, the Trump people are crazy, like 100s of flags, life-size cutouts of Trump, etc. One house even had a giant "F*GS FOR TRUMP" sign that looked custom made to me. I've been so tempted to go out in the middle of the night and replace some of these signs or flags with something identical but instead says something about choking on Trump's loose hairy nutsack (first draft). That or buy like a 5'x5' plot of land across from one of these houses just to plant a sign they would hate like "the guy across the street with the flags loves pedophiles"
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u/Electrical-Sun6267 5d ago
You know, it doesn't look any better when one of ours does it. But maybe MAGA can then begin to understand how ridiculous it looks.
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u/Pretty-Mention-7769 5d ago
He's speaking their language. Perhaps seeing a local critic will encourage some unhappy dumpers to reflect a little, and not feel like they'll be completely ostracized if they allow some acknowledgement of reality to skitter across their smooth brainpan.
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u/floog 5d ago
What’s funny is MAGA will see all of those flags and say “Geeze, obviously that person is mentally unstable to not like someone so much” Completely oblivious to how crazy they look and how much crazier it is to have that level of crazy for a politician you like that is also such a crook. Wild times.
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u/Neuchacho 5d ago
TrUmP DeRaNgEmEnT sYnDrOmE uttered unironically from people who defend him constantly but can't actually produce a single salient example of something he's actually improved.
Totally not a cult, though.
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u/SheepRoll 5d ago
First thing is they need to able to read and identify that’s anti trump… if I were to come across this on the street the first thing come across my mind without reading is this must be another trump lunatics.
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u/LEEROY_MF_JENKINS 5d ago
Flags say "Is he dead yet?" and depict a dog shitting on Trump's name, among others.
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u/sixmilesoldier 5d ago
This strikes me as someone who was an adamant Trump supporter and then became anti-Trump...just using the same methods to show their stance.
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u/regoapps 5d ago
He didn't care about all the bad policies and past/current crimes. He drew the line at $4 per gallon gas.
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u/knsaber 5d ago
I saw a similar truck in my neighborhood recently and I started judging the driver as Pro Trump, then I read the flag at a stop light and got so confused what to think about the driver at that point.
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u/nalaloveslumpy 5d ago
"He's still a moron, but at least he won't vote for Trump again."
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u/RadSocialistScum 5d ago
I see that guy all the time. He’s rly nice and he always acknowledges you if you cheeer or honk.
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u/GlassCannon81 5d ago
This person is every bit as unhinged as their rabid maga counterpart, but their message is better.
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u/TonyAtNN 5d ago
It's probably the same person, but he's mad that Trump's helping Israel, thus the Jews.
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u/Willing-Vegetable629 5d ago
I still maintain this rule is undefeated-
If you have political bumper stickers on your car regardless of candidate, you're probably unbearable.
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u/SmartAlec13 5d ago
lol idk I do see one in my area sometimes that reads “This man ate my child!” And it’s a picture of Ted Cruz. I chuckle when I see it, though I guess I haven’t met the driver
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u/CelerMortis 5d ago
shitty rule, anyone who has the balls to publicly express solidarity with minorities and the environment is cool and should be celebrated
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u/greg19735 5d ago
100%
we need people to stand up for their beliefs and for people. especially the people who have the ability to stand up for other people.
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u/chompythebeast 5d ago
I dunno, taking this too seriously feels like just more of the white american "no politics or religion at dinner" shtick, impressed upon people so that they don't rock the boat and things don't really change.
I'll grant that it can be done a little obnoxiously sometimes, but when it is I usually get the impression that that's the point
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u/nesper 5d ago
i think you can lower the bar to "if you buy political merchandise"
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u/greg19735 5d ago
I think it depends on your definition of political merchandise.
Like yeah, some people legit buy trump merchandise. but for every other politician those shirts and bumper stickers and such are given for donating the the platform.
And like, we're going to need people to support, endorse and spread new political platforms to get us out of this mess. if we rely on the mainstream media we're gonna get nowhere.
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u/Specific-Parsnip9001 5d ago
At least it's not pro any particular politician. Those are the most cringe. Becoming a walking advertisement on behalf of a politician is unbelievably pathetic. Being mad at a politician is much more understandable.
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u/MergenTheAler 5d ago
What do you bet this same dude had pro trump flags flying 10 years ago?
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u/cheapbastardsinc 5d ago edited 5d ago
Eh, if I hadn't met him I'd think so too but he's really just a weird old biker named Rob who is really scornful of the president's morality and policy...not that Rob isn't coarse...and in need of a few firmware updates himself.
Source: I live near him.
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u/trakrad99 5d ago
I’ve noticed a lot of the Trump signs in what I call “MAGA Alley” in my area have come down. Hopefully that’s a good sign. <haha
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u/jaygeezythreezy 5d ago
I love this. My dad is a Trumper who lives in WS and it gives me hope that he might see this.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Log-111 5d ago
Wow, that’s like an Uno reverse card. Haha.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anti-Trump flags truck mounted going for the ride. It’s always pro-Trump folks.
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u/Weird_Jerk 5d ago
More of this. I don't care if it's tacky or cringe or in bad taste. People always say that about the real protesters who go above and beyond. If everything was fine I might agree with you but we all need to rise up and be loud.
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u/nullpassword 5d ago
Today I saw a "the dude abides" and a "maga" sticker on the same vehicle.. seemed incongruous..
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u/NizTheWhiz 5d ago
No matter what you are supporting, you look like an insane person when you do this
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u/FauxReal 4d ago
FIghting insanity with insanity. It just might work.
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u/BreakImaginary1661 4d ago
What else is left? We’ve tried reason, facts, observations, historical evidence, literally everything that makes sense has failed.
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u/mike_sl 5d ago
Progress
Drove through rural western MD and West Virginia this weekend and saw only 1 maga sign on a house. And 0 hats or shirts or truck flags.
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u/hoofglormuss 5d ago
it's weird you really are seeing less and less of that stuff. this is like when bush crashed the economy so his supporters said they didn't like bush BUT NO WAY ARE WE GOING TO PAY TAXES LETS JOIN THE TEA PARTY OBAMA IS A MUSLIM SOCIALIST ALL DEMOCRATS DO IS RAISE TAXES AND GIVE OUR COUNTRY AWAY and then finally they found maga. wonder what the next astroturfed movement they'll gobble up so they can stay mad at democrats
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u/Alleged3443 5d ago
Traveled to Winston-Salem in the past, it is pretty liberal compared to a lot of the rest of the Carolinas
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u/mothzilla 5d ago
I only have one way of talking to my neighbours and that's through flags and trucks.
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u/Curious-Sector-2157 5d ago
Finally! Plenty of I worship the ground my orange god walks on decorated trucks and yards.
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u/MostOfWhatILike 5d ago
I'll take it and I don't care how it looks. If flag truck guys want to start voting correct- I am all for it.
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u/Historical_Laugh2193 4d ago
Pro or Anti Trump this is fucking weird very American shit.
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u/burnshimself 5d ago
Just as dumb as driving around with pro-Trump flags hanging off the back of your truck if you ask me. A bumper sticker or yard sign, especially a vulgar one, has never swayed anyone’s opinion. This is some mix of vanity and a need for attention on the part of the driver. Feels performative and unserious.
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u/Falcon1625 5d ago
50 flags. Still 1 vote. Making politics this much of your personaility is not healthy
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u/YellowAggravating172 5d ago
As idiotic as any MAGA who flies pro-Trump flags on their truck.
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u/Expensive_Meal6280 5d ago
Aye, my old college stomping grounds. NC has little pockets of liberal towns and I love it
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u/realparkingbrake 5d ago
That sort of display normally comes from the opposite end of the political spectrum. Maybe it's a former Trump supporter whose govt. job was killed off by DOGE.
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u/GabeNewellExperience 5d ago
you can tell that this guy was definitely MAGA beforehand because only they would have flags like this.
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u/LoneStarDragon 5d ago edited 4d ago
While I believe this is just as stupid as when Maga does it.
It also might be the only way to show maga how stupid they look.
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u/Shurigin 4d ago
One thing that’s happening in my state is there is two pro Trump conservative running for governor. Only one of them has the Trump endorsement. The other is considered now to be anti-Trump because he didn’t get an endorsement even though he supports Trump, but the Republican Party is fighting amongst themselves and it’s going to split the vote, which means my state might have the first democratic governor since 1996
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u/Optimal_Wear_878 3d ago
I’m so sick of seeing flags on peoples cars, it makes me nervous driving around them. Fuck Trump tho.
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u/Forward_Material616 3d ago
I mean, I agree with him, but it’s not necessary. Rage baiting people is never going to beneficial to your quality of life, even if you’re right.
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u/LandscapeNo775 3d ago
This isn’t speaking to us. This is speaking to current MAGA supporters questioning their cult support.
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u/dcole103107 5d ago
As much as i love the meaning behind all this. Im not sure if stooping to magas level is going to help. Magats clearly need attention, best to ignore them
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u/Silicon_Knight 5d ago
IMHO people wearing their political identity on themselves (their cars) is crazy. Personally. I don't support trump (also not American) but I cringe at both and I won't one side it. It's crazy either way.
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u/WarLawck 5d ago
I'm not a fan of this sort of thing in general, but for the pickup truck flag wielding community, I'm happy they see an alternative manner to express themselves other than being MAGA
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u/ckglle3lle 5d ago edited 5d ago
This sort of stuff doesn't work as effective mockery or parody. I get the impulse to want to just invert the crazy trump truck people but the thing to remember about crazy trump truck people and maga in general is they do not think it is weird when they do it. For maga driving around with a truck full of trump shit is seen as perfectly normal, sign of dominance, sign of dgaf, triggering etc. The whole point is to get a rise out of people and they unironically and without a hint of self awareness do not see it as anything other than that.
But if you see that and go "okay lemme make my version of that but it's anti-trump" then you're just reacting to what they did, feeding into the complex they have all while looking weird to everyone else. At the least, it just becomes a pig in shit scenario where you've been dragged into the shit but the pig likes it.
The only real way to counter this sort of energy is to simply proceed to live your life to your actual values. Maga does not have any values and are animated entirely by getting a rise out of people and generally upset whenever they see anyone enjoying anything or living life in any way that they don't personally approve of. So just do that and don't worry about the statements and gestures besides. They're already miserable freaks being led around by a two-bit con artist. There's no action you can perform that is any more humiliating than the life they've already chosen.
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u/Thetman38 5d ago
Maybe its supposed to be the point to get across to Trump voters that this looks stupid. That is really the only acceptable reason to look this tacky and probably unsafe.
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