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[–] [email protected] 196 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 178 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Translation: "I like police (when they beat colored people) but will resist when they tell me to follow rules"

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much. I usually assume folks aren't aware of their motivations. This is no exception.

Not that it is likely true - it just makes my existence a bit smoother.

[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Seems pretty consistent. The dude knows that cops are there to uphold white supremacy, he is white and therefore not in danger of being murdered by them. “Conservatism is the belief that laws are there to bind an outgroup but not protect, and protect an in group but not bind them” paraphrasing the quote.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for introducing me to Wilhoit’s Law:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

It is a really good quote that crystallized for me what conservatives were all about. It just didn’t make a fuck of a lot of sense to me beforehand. Why vote against your interests over and over again?

That, and I also now understand that there is something like 30 percent of the population that doesn’t believe in positive sum games. They think that with every transaction there must be a winner and a loser. Don’t quote me on that exact amount. But it is just a startling amount of people that have some very weird beliefs that lead to fascism.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

Fascists are strange creatures indeed.

They claim to be all about logic and rationality, but even a little bit of either blows apart their entire worldview.

"They're taking all of your jobs" while "they're lazy and stealing all of the welfare money".

"It's simply the natural order" yet "we need brutal enforcement to keep it in place".

"It's free speech" yet "ban the books, ban the journalism, jail the journalists".

"America did not do anything wrong" yet "we cannot teach portions of American history".

"War is terrible" yet "we'll blow them to smithereens".

"College education is useless liberal indoctrination" yet "I was incredibly smart which you can tell because I went to Wharton" and "I graduated from Yale".

"Thoughts and prayers are all we can offer for shooting victims because bans won't work" but "let's ban abortion".

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

The dude knows that cops are there to uphold white supremacy, he is white and therefore not in danger of being murdered by them

That may be this man's belief, but he's mistaken. Cops murder black/brown Americans at a disproportionate rate, but in absolute numbers, poor white folks catch the majority of State violence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

poor white folks

4matic

I guess he thinks he's good.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Should have used this flag

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Ah, the Downbadsden Flag, a national cornerstone of the USA!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I always find people that think that pictures using skeletons makes them more badass really funny. It's like the little kid version of scary. OMG it's a hand but it's a SKELETON HAND! VERY BIGLY STRONG.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ironically it's very specifically weaker, without muscles.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Truth. BUT IT'S SCARY BECAUSE I SAW IT AROUND HALLOWEEN AND MY INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT STOPPED AT 12 YEARS OLD!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

🎶🎵spooky, scary skeletons will flip your neighbors off🎵🎶

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

It makes me think of bars, trailers, rusty motorcycles and drug abuse... for some reason.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Gotta love conservative double-think. A guy who lives up the street from me has a big "come and take it" sticker on the back window of his truck flanked by two thin blue line Punisher skulls.

Like, my brother in Christ, do you not understand who they're going to be sending to "take it?" I swear these guys think Kamala is going to personally come to their house to demand they give up their guns.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Zone out at “Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses”

Turn it up to 11 at “fuck you I won’t do what you tell me”

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love two things: freedom ... and cops.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And German luxury automobiles…so three things

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just missing the punisher skull with Trump hair to complete the stupidity

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's a real thing, isn't it?...

ಠ_ಠ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The only thing Donald Trump has ever punished is a bucket of KFC.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

more likely his pants judging by all the smell statements

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

And he's exactly the kind of corrupt scumbag the Punisher fights against.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah it's absolutely absurd especially when combined with the thin blue line... Nothing like a vigilante to say "I respect the law and officers of the law."

Funny enough my immigrant coworker has this on his "new" truck, but only because he just bought it off some jerkwad that had it on there lol he didn't know what it was.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure it’s on the other side.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (21 children)

I can appreciate when people put labels on their car indicating how hazardous they are and how far to stay away. Just the other day I saw a car with similar stickers, including a "We the People..." and one endorsing the Trump / RFK Jr. ticket.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Same, it's really helpful especially because I'm trans and those type of people can be anything from unpleasant to downright dangerous. I was actually assaulted by one of those right-wing assholes because a little girl bumped into me while I was walking, they then yelled "Groomer!" And ended up punching me really hard in the face and kicked me in the stomach, asshole literally broke my nose.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It could also be seen as very literate and they are very much giving the finger to the "thin blue line."

However, I feel like the "God bless America" sticker on the upper left says that isn't the case.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I WILL NIT COMPLY

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

People just put those stickers on their car to get out of tickets.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Needs a Trump mugshot with "NO SURRENDER" under it too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A car powered by a perpetual whiplash mechanism, like dropping a slice of toast buttered on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Enough with cold fusion, more research needs to be done on harnessing the power of hypocrisy. It's such an incredibly rich resource right now.

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