It appears that you hate these particular Lincoln Memorial teenagers, and are willing to justify the attacks, and threats against them, because your feelings were hurt over some unrelated matter. These teenagers didn’t do anything wrong, and yet you appear to feel that they should be punished just to make you feel better about yourself. That’s a truly sad, and desperate, position to find yourself in.
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I’m not surprised. I assume you are a yellow dog Democrat, or maybe a yellow dog independent? You chose to live in a bubble, and refuse to believe that someone could possibly have a viewpoint different than yours. Just between you and me, it sounds like your bubble might have a name, and that name is arrogance.
Let’s let history be the judge of who was on the right side when we look back on dark days of 2016 to 2019.
There are a lot of viewpoints I don’t share that I can understand, and sometimes even respect. Supporting Trump is just not one of them.
…unless you’ve got CNN on in the background 24/7 and you follow an extensive list of Social Justice Warriors on twitter then you are in as big bubble as the rest of us. I’m in a bubble. You are in a bubble. We are all in a bubble! It is the height of arrogance to imagine otherwise.
What the fuck are you talking about, and what on earth does this nonsense have to do with what my post that you quoted? In what way is this supposed to be responsive to that?
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I estimate about half the voters of the US would. But as far as I can tell, their opinions don’t matter to those who oppose Trump.
Why would people attending a March for Life wear a MAGA hat? It could be that they believe that USA was great once:
“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
When America decided that unborn human beings aren’t people, have no right to be born, and can legally be poisoned or torn limb from limb to end their life, America was no longer good.
The end of abortion is a huge step toward making America great again, so a MAGA hat is totally relevant to the March 4 Life.
I’m sure this won’t convince anyone, but at least it has been said.
Of course, when de Tocqueville wrote that, America practiced chattel slavery, was actively murdering and stealing from indigenous residents, and extended the franchise, generally speaking, only to White property owners. (Fun fact: In the early-to-mid 19th century, a fifth to a quarter of all pregnancies in American were aborted. TMYK!)
I expected a useless, derisive, prevaricating non-answer, and you did not disappoint. Thanks.
Except that, the MAGA Hat is recognizably an emblem and slogan (and merchandising tool) of a specific partisan political candidacy - Donald Trump’s, and his supporting faction within the Republican Party. Trump himself is on record as being lukewarm on this particular issue and was in fact ostensibly pro-choice until he became a GOP frontrunner.
The individual students may have their own idiosyncratic interpretation of what the symbol means, but it raises with me the question: WAS this participation in M4L something actually endorsed by the church school and diocese?* Were they understood to be representing the school? *In which case, were they fine with having their participants choose to display what is undisputable partisan political paraphernalia while in a march that is supposedly accountable to a Higher Moral Authority? I know the Catholic School I went to back in the day would have NEVER allowed us to display partisan or even ideological political emblems/slogans at a church-sponsored or endorsed activity.
What? “unless you’ve got CNN on in the background 24/7 and you follow an extensive list of Social Justice Warriors on twitter then you are in as big bubble as the rest of us.” Are you saying that people who listen to CNN 24/7 AND follow twits from Social Justice Warriors do not live in a bubble? Seriously?
You’ve already admitted that you live in a bubble. Good luck with that. OTOH, it is pretty close to the height of arrogance to assume that others do something simply because you do. just sayin’
Meanwhile, has the media misrepresented the incident with the Covington Cathlic kids? I believe that they have.
Think of it as helping yourself. Either that, or good luck finding those main stream media ponies.
What does your post that I quoted have to do with the threads topic? Has the media misrepresented the incident with the Covington Cathlic kids? Or not? How you chose to justify the lame stream media’s misrepresentation of the incident at the Lincoln Memorial is up to you.
The very idea is incomprehensible to me also and I’m surrounded by Trump supporters.
The ones that have actually bought and wear a MAGA hat happen to be self-described racists. I don’t have a reason to doubt them as one was a brief member of the KKK decades ago, the other lets the n-word slip occasionally during casual conversations. But that’s only two out of the 20 or so supporters I see on a daily basis.
The others all seem to have varying reasons for supporting Trump but all the reasons have one common theme: a sense of them being attacked. Attacked for their religion, attacked for their not wanting a non-white gov’t (“don’t ya see these cities with blacks or mexicans running them? do you want that??”), attacked for wanting to keep their guns, attacked for not wanting to learn new pronouns to describe people’s sexes, attacked for not wanting to pay for welfare for moochers, etc.
They all watch Fox News because other “mainstream” news makes them angry and Fox News doesn’t.
They know Trump is an idiot, but they like that he fights publicly the same fights they fight internally. They’ll overlook the fact that he’s hurting them economically every time though because he thinks like they do on social matters. They don’t mind that he lies because he lies FOR THEM (“remember that one lie Obama told about keeping your doctors? I can easily remember it because I can’t think of any other lies he told, but see, all politicians lie, they are all the same!”).
I still feel like I’m living in bizarro world, one of those universes in a multi-verse where everything is the same as our known universe but people have tails, except our quirk is that we elected Trump.
What kind of a warped worldview has, as prerequisites, CNN + SJW tweets to avoid living in a bubble?
If I may suggest, they’re already angry but Fox News tells them that their anger is justified and okay (which gives one the good feeling of being self-righteous), while the other outlets might be suggesting their anger is misplaced (which gives one the bad feeling of feeling guilty and used, which makes them angry but for a different reason).
If I could reword that statement, I’d emphasize that Trump supporters get angry at the mainstream news’ coverage, not necessarily the subject matter.
For example, the news will cover a cop shooting a black male. I watch the “mainstream” media cover it while implicitly portraying the black male as a victim. Well, I don’t think he was, they are probably not telling the full story, the black male was probably a criminal, they are only showing pictures of him smiling but I bet he’s a thug, etc., etc. This makes me angry at the news coverage (not at the black male). So I turn over to Fox News and they are telling me the other side, confirming my prior beliefs, so watching this news makes me feel justified. I think I’ll just stick to watching this news. Fuck that other news.
…nope. I’m literally saying the opposite of that.
And you live in a bubble as well. The difference between you and I though is that you can’t admit it.
What is it, exactly, do you think “living in a bubble” means, and why do you think you are uniquely immune?
You are welcome to believe whatever the fuck you want to believe.
…I suggest you look up the word hyperbole.
Even in the most liberal cities, around 15-20% of people voted for Trump. Some of your co-workers or neighbors or mailmen or store clerks or doctors or whoever are statistically likely to be Trump voters, no doubt, even if they don’t wear MAGA hats or anything that screams Trump.
That explains a lot, when it seems like the whole damn country took the brown acid.