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      To be fair, they need the bandage just as much as trump does.

      Like. A day or two after the attempt he was out golfing and didn’t have a bandage or anything.

      I think it was just a small nick and the blood thinners he’s likely on just makes you bleed like crazy since they prevent clotting. A small scratch looks like a war wound, and would explain why there was blood everywhere but he still has a functional ear.

      Like, if he really got shot in the ear, he’d be missing a part of his ear like in Preacher. It won’t just heal back.

      Dude got a scratch and is playing it up.

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          He’s in his late 70s, doesn’t exercise, eats like shit, and is drastically overweight…

          Like, it’s one of those things that are just safe to assume. Blood thinners arent really that rare for people 30 years younger than either candidate.

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          A lot of people that age, with his OBVIOUS unhealthy BMI are on blood thinner as prevention more than anything else.

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        There is, however, a fourth monkey covering his crotch. “Do no evil”

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    LOL what the fuck. i’ve never seen a more subservient bitchass group of bootlicking sheep than republicans

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      Apparently, the other people are sheep. These are the free-thinking freedom loving people! /s

      Dear God man … this is crazy cringe.

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        Projection is how Republicans roll. Remember when MAGA accused Joe Biden of wearing diapers and they found out their dear orange felon/rapist cult leader wore them instead, and started wearing them?

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      And yet they’re the ones screeching about “alpha males and the loss of masculinity in America.”

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        which is hilarious, because if you’re whining about someone “taking away your masculinity,” (OR if you’re having panic attacks about someone else’s masculinity) then you were never masculine in the first place.

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      But remember, they hate being called sheep.

      Just a reminder, jd vance, trumps newest vp pick, has on many occasions been quoted in the past of saying “I didn’t vote for trump”, “I never liked trump”, and “I’m a never-trump guy”.

      NOW he sings trumps praises, and kisses trumps ass.

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        vance is just another vapid muppet who’ll get thrown under the bus the instant shit goes sideways and trump needs someone to blame for…whatever. just like all the other used-to-be-never-trumpers who are now fighting over who gets to be first to be facialed by trump

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          His name has an extra syllable, he might be counting on Trumpanzees being unable to make a nice little chant like they did for Pence.

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        Vance literally called Trump “America’s Hitler” in a now deleted tweet.

        Also so many are Christian and say shit like “the lord is my shepard” in the same breath that they call other people “sheep.”

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      I guess I will explain it for people

      This is actually a thing…with piercings

      Getting the right ear pieced, also called the gay ear, is a way to signal to others that you are gay. I have no idea if it’s still a thing but growing up if you were getting a piercing the rule was left or both

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        I have two in my right, one in my left, and have been told many times that its the same thing. More in the right ear apparently makes me gay. Im definitely straight, but I kept my piercings like this for the last 15 years, and wouldnt you know it, the only people telling me thats gay are other straight people. This is certainly just personal experiences, but my personal experience is that its not a ‘gay rule’ as much as its a ‘homophobe rule.’ Like you said, pretty sure it was a style or signal in the gay community in the 80s or something, but any more it just feels like an urban legend perpetuated by bigots.

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            Progressive-leaning lesbian and vehemently anti-Trump, actually. She was very much a part of LGBTQ+ culture in the 90s, and the ear piercing thing was a part of it at the time. Though it really has fallen to the wayside nowadays.

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        Is this still a thing? I could have sworn it fell away like ten years ago.

        Then again, I wasn’t sure certain types of pants would ever come back. RETURN TO US, JNCO!

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        I heard it was the left ear, or any piercing, or it was the right ear, or it was only certain kinds of piercings.

        None of it was true.

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        This was never a very reliable thing ever and certainly isn’t anymore. The joke the OP makes is in reference to what it was used for, which was an attempt to attack / stigmatize anyone who did choose their right ear for a piercing perpetrated by small minds. Many of those small minds have now grown into the hateful old bigots that are the base of the GOP.

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    So they’re fine with cloth on the face as long as it’s completely unnecessary?

    Seems everyone should have realized by now what a weak, sad, and pathetic group the Republican party is.

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    I can’t decide if this is more or less weird than wearing a diaper in support of Trum…no…it’s less weird…right?

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        No! And that’s why I decided the diapers were weirder. Those folks had to go out of their way to announce they were wearing diapers.

        I mean what even is the point of wearing a diaper in support of Trump if you don’t tell everyone?

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          Those folks had to go out of their way to announce they were wearing diapers.

          I did not look at it from that angle, but you are 100% correct; the diapers are weirder. lol

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        I’m pretty sure. There would be no end of them telling/showing you.

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      Since these people aren’t treating any ear injury, you might as well call these “ear diapers.”

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      Honestly I’d be perfectly fine if we just stopped treating it like the Forbidden R-Word

      I’m Autistic for the record

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        I wouldn’t pejoratively call a mute person dumb, a mobility device user lame, or an intellectually disabled person retarded

        but I will absolutely call cringe political fanatics lame, dumb retards

        also here’s some free fag-passes from your friendly internet dyke, cuz “fag” is a great fuckin multipurpose word

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          This is like saying “When I say ‘that’s gay’, I don’t mean gay as in homosexual, I mean gay as in stupid”.

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            if straight women got bleeped when they said “dyke” I’d have a way easier time dating 🫠

            just run up to a hot gal with a fake microphone like “TRIVIA POP QUIZ WHAT’S THE WORD FOR ‘an embankment for holding back water’!?”

            “[bleep]?”
            “correct thank you ma’am have a nice day”

            “dyke?”
            “correct! question 2 are you single and/or dating?”

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              “TRIVIA POP QUIZ WHAT’S THE WORD FOR ‘an embankment for holding back water’!?”

              “A levee??”
              “… touchè”

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              I’m confused - does the microphone have gaydar screening and auto-bleep capabilities? I would describe that as much more than a fake microphone.

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                moreso this is a hypothetical alternate universe where every time a straight woman says the word “dyke” it gets bleeped, a la that South Park clip

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          I mean thank you, I remember I got banned from a group like 10 years ago because I said the forbidden F-word, they all knew I was pan and trans, but apparently my N-Word Pass expired?

          Can’t say the t-word either, I remember before it was a pejorative it was more like a cute nickname.

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            original meaning: “waaaah I got trapped into thinking a person of the sex I’m not attracted to is hot and now my genitalia is making me feel weird!”

            new & improved meaning: this person dressed not as their assigned-birth-sex is so hot they could literally trap me Looney Tunes style by being distractingly attractive 😩

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              I thought they meant the slur that’s also slang for a car’s transmission.

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              Not the T-Word I meant, I think Trap is still an appropiate term for femboys in a purely sexual context. It’s only offensive when used as a term for transgirls… at least that’s what I’ve heard

              The word I was thinking of is six letter long

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      We call Republicans hard R’s in our house… it just fits.

      Brian Posehn has a great bit about it in his 25x2 special.

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    I’ll give it to you, this is the most a Not The Onion post has made me go “wait, is that The Onion”?

    Good job. I think.

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      They like playing the victim card, then turn away from people who truly are victims.

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        When has solidarity resembled anything like this? Wearing a fake bandage is a strange way to show it, it’s hyper focused on the leader as opposed to the movement. It reads more as devotion than solidarity.

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          This is the kind of thing you do for the kid that’s feeling down about their injured appearance. For a supposed leader of the free world who brought the injury on themselves, it’s definitely more like kissing the ring

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          I think they’re trying to milk the sympathy card for all it’s worth by wearing these bandages. Since Trump only got a cut on his ear and an innocent spectator was killed, the event isn’t playing as well as it did for Reagan back in the day during his reelection campaign. Wearing big, bulky bandages, they’re ‘peacocking’ to keep Trump’s extremely mild injury fresh in everyone’s mind.

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          Wearing something symbolic is not a strange way to show solidarity at all. It’s one of the most common ways to show solidarity.

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            Solidarity with a movement or organization is different than solidarity with a person.

            Like everyone in your office might wear a company logo sometimes to show your affiliation, but if they all put on a bandaid everytime the boss got a paper cut it would seem a bit cultish.

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    Devils advocate for the heck of it. Gonna be submerged in bad rep for this.

    This is comparative to people wearing “I can’t breathe” signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.

    Sure they are all fucking stupid for not seeing the obvious flaws in their idol. But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.

    You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.

    For all I care go ahead. I’m European.

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      Hear me out, showing solidarity to a slave owner attacked by his slave is different than showing solidarity to a slave who was just beaten. The power dynamic should not be ignored

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      But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.

      Laughing at idiots is never not the right use of my energy, thank you very much.

      You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.

      I’ll feel guilty about it when it isn’t fascists I’m fragmenting out of my country. If anything, I’m proud to make those fucks uncomfortable in my country.

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      Who’s giving them shit for the way they are showing their support and not just for who they are supporting? 🤨

      If you support a tyrannical moron, even if the way you show it is rational, I’m still gonna give you shit for supporting a tyrannical moron.

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      The method of showing support might be similar to something like the George Floyd demonstrations. But I’m not giving them shit for their method, I’m doing it because of who they’re showing support for. If somebody wore a bandage on their ear in solidarity with an innocent person who was shot in that spot by cops, I’d applaud them.

      And as for fragmenting our nation, there is no tolerance available for fascists and their supporters. They choose to split us apart when they vote for someone like Trump who targets the vulnerable in our society.

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      One guy died as a result of police oppression. The other got his ear cut for being an asshole.

      • One is solidarity as a memorial.

      • One is solidarity with an idiot.

      SAME THING EVERYONE!

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      Thank you for being willing to stick your neck out there and say what you feel and see.

      On social media, especially sites where voting seems to happen in packs, it’s risky to have a counter opinion. Too many people just don’t say how they feel if it’s counter to the mainstream, and then their voices are completely drowned out.

      Perhaps your idea is more mainstream than you know but those who share it don’t have a willingness to jump into the fire, leaving those with more extreme positions thinking they have agreement with most when they don’t.

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      This is comparative to people wearing “I can’t breathe” signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.

      i mean yeah, except if floyd was just, moderately bruised, and wasn’t killed.

      Like it’s still bad, but he barely got hit, so it’s literally just a flesh wound.

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      No, your analogy would require people having fake knees choking them out, which is as ridiculous as the ear patches. But what do you expect from people who wear a 3d model of their god being killed everywhere they go.

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      Has a shit grasp of logical fallacies, much less elementary logic

      I’m European

      Hunh. Did not see that coming.

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        Nah. That’s not true at all.

        There are tons and tons of videos on social media of people literally praying to Trump.

        We don’t do shit like that.

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          There is a lot of truth to it. Just criticize or bring up one of the many objectively bad things Biden has done and then wait for the Blue MAGA individuals to come out of the woodwork telling you he’s “the most progressive president in modern history” and that he deserves our unwavering support just because he has a (D) next to his name.

          I’m sure a lot of this is rooted in fear around him losing the election, but these people have their heads buried in the sand and can’t see that the Democrats are handing the election to Trump just like they did in 2016 because they’d rather maintain the status quo and push right wing candidates like Clinton and Biden than help the American people by allowing a real progressive into the office.

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            There’s a huge difference between saying someone is doing good, and literally praying to them in their absence. Like, have you seen the videos of people filming themselves praying to Donald trump to free them of <whatever>? They exist.

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        The left used their brain and all come to the conclusion that Trump is a shitty person all on their own, they didn’t get their words from Fox News or their Republican cult leader

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            sheep is led by a shepherd, people who make their thoughts on their own are the opposite of a sheep. You need to educate yourself more, at your current level of intelligence, you’ll swallow anything the Republican shit out