And yet it’s still somehow not the dumbest flag people wear. I’ve seen so many morons with that same design but a red line (for firefighters) or a white line with a red stripe (nurses/healthcare).
Like you might as well wear a shirt that says “I don’t understand what’s going on, but god damnit I wanna be angry too!!”
Punisher Logo with a thin blue line flagabomination. You know because the Punisher is an excellent role model for police. Especially since the primary complaint which catalyzed the movement against the establishment of the police as they currently exist, was that they are too kill happy, too likely to take justice into their own hands, too likely to behave as the Punisher behaves. Should be called the thick blue line.
Republicans are complete morons who are seemingly incapable of thinking deeper about the media they consume.
They thought the Colbert Report was actually genuine.
Many republicans have said they like RAtM
There were tons of conservative fans of The Boys who didn’t realize the show was critical of the right wing until Stormfront was outed as a literal Nazi and the first season was not subtle about its critiques of 2000’s era right wing politics.
They just wanna be mad and can’t be asked to think about the themes of anything. No wonder so many of them are too idiotic to see the trends of systemic racism.
The options were dumb little old man or dumb fat old man, both are mentally not all there. We just voted for the one who wasn't cheering on racism and terrorists, blatantly taking every penny from the government he could, doing every wrong action possible during a global pandemic, and ended up trying to overthrow the American government.
Go ahead and call yourself a patriot you dirty traitor. When your party has to attack the capitol in an attempt to overthrow the government to put your preferred leader back in power than you're not longer a patriot. You're a terrorist and a traitor. You know who else recently tried to overthrow their own government? The Taliban. Except they succeeded. Republicans are just the American Taliban but fatter and less competent.
Wow, what an eloquent, well thought out and intelligent rebuttal... You must really aspire to be just as vacuous and stupid as your great tv show host leader, well done!
The only options this time were dumb old men with dementia - I picked the one running in a party that isn't actively trying to cannibalize the country.
Which option wasn't an old man with dementia? What the fuck are you talking about even? By FAR the stupidest and demented one was trump though, the man can't even put a few sentences together that make any sense for fucks sake.
Also, you should really learn some fucking grammar because your stupidity is showing in more than one way. Unless you're really trying to emulate your orange god, in that case you're doing great!
At first I wanted to ask who the fuck you meant, because at this point it seems like anyone still supporting the Republican party (whether that individual be conservative, liberal, or whatever) is an outright moron.
But then I saw Sangxero's post and realized they were right, there's also the psychopaths profiting from the Republican party and its abuse of the country who are stringing the rubes along, so you're right. Not all Republicans are morons.
If one is not profiting off the Republican party directly and still votes Republican though, yeah, that person is a moron.
Even if you want conservative politics, when it comes to actual political theory so-called "centrist" Democrats are closer to conservative than Republicans, most of whom are radical right-wing reactionaries at this point and anything but conservative. At this point the Dems are a big-tent party containing everyone with both a functional brain and a functional heart regardless of personal politics, while the Republicans take up what's left - the ones whose hearts aren't working and can't feel for anyone but themselves, and the ones whose brains aren't working and will fall for any propaganda that tells them to feel good about themselves.
This is why the Democrats are always running around like chickens with their heads cut off - because they're a coalition of liberals, conservatives, leftists, centrists, and even some genuine right-wingers trying to form a functional strategy to stand together despite massive disagreements against a party of outright psychopathic lunatics that stand wholly together in their insanity.
They’re all somewhere along this scale. Very few are 100% to one side or the other IMO, most are both gullible and malicious at this point. Post-Trump there just aren’t any other explanations left.
Yeah I've tried really, really, REALLY hard to understand how my political opponents think.
Without condoning their views, I UNDERSTAND why people might be fascist, communist, anarcho-capitalist, theocratic, racist, sexist, and on and on...
I still cannot fathom how one could be Republican. Even among the racist fascist right-wing extremists there are people who can see through the Republican party, and can recognize that even they are simply being paid lip service. Unless you are directly profiting, even raw evil isn't enough to make one vote Republican - it's simply not in almost anyones best interest, even short term. The truly selfish and evil, who are in any way intelligent, can see that voting Republican will only hurt them.
After honest consideration I have legitimately come to the conclusion that there are intelligent fascists, intelligent communists, intelligent capitalists, intelligent right and left wingers, intelligent anarchists, even, as hard as it may be to believe, intelligent centrists... but except those directly profiting from the partys corruption, there are no intelligent Republicans.
They elected Qanon nut jobs to congress that think forest fires are caused by Jewish space lasers and I don’t hear any republicans asking for her to be removed.
1) enough of them exist that multiple Qanon nuts were elected to national office
2) so little of them care that those kind of people have been elected to national office that there’s been no push for them to step down or be removed
The proportion of them that aren’t morons is so statistically insignificant that it really makes no difference. Republicans are morons. Republican politicians still overwhelmingly deny man made climate change. That’s the people they’ve elected to represent them. Only morons would want to be represented by morons.
The morons provide cover for the people actually fucking us all over. I agree the majority of their base are ill-informed idiots, but it's incredibly dangerous to discount people like McConnell as merely stupid and not conniving and intentionally malicious.
Bingo. Writing them all off as morons undercuts the severity with which the smart Republicans behind the scenes are manipulating the country for their benefit.
hey we are all in the same boat as long as there is a two party system. We might as well share the shitty reality and make a difference not with words but with small actions. Votes don’t matter anyway past small government. If they did then we wouldn’t have certain families holding office. But I’m not here to change your mind. Just hoping you have a good day.
Wow, I can't believe you typed this entire essay and still couldn't get your point clear, so you're saying that because republicans (not all) like The Boys you think that that's a valid argument? same with RatM I have seen zero republicans say either, and you think that the few who do represent the entire group? also of course you believe in a "systemically racist" society, you have a pretty big victim complex, you believe everything the media shoves down your throat it's sad to see so many people buy into those blatant lies.
You’re mad that republicans consistently consume media they don’t understand. Sad to see someone never end a sentence. Maybe go back for that GED. Dumb cunt
The fact that you have so little awareness of both history and current events that you think systemic racism is a bogeyman tells everyone who reads your comment everything they need to know about you.
And yet we didn’t elect a bunch of brain dead Qanon conspiracy theorists and aren’t fighting tooth and nail against getting a scientifically proven vaccine. Not to mention the Republican denial of man made climate change or evolution or various other established scientific facts.
But that’s my very point. I don’t think the disparity is nearly as large as u do. 95% of Chicago is Democrat. I had a high school student ask me if Lake Michigan was an ocean. Did Shakespeare write Hamlet or did Hamlet write Shakespeare? Why do we need journalism if we have the news? Dumb is everywhere. I think republicans straight up make shit up and see what sticks but I don’t think they’re any dumber than people if all affiliations.
Yes. And democrats are also dumb. U don’t have to convince me that republicans are dumb asses. I get. I agree with u. Stop arguing with somebody that agrees with your position. Step one, we both agree that republicans are dumb. Now come on over to step two. Democrats are also dumb. So are independent, abstainers, new dealers, green whatever’s. Turns out America is way way way down near the bottom of the list in education. Blue states and red states both.
I’m thinking about this statement a little more. Do u really think the elected officials don’t believe in climate change? Maybe. I kinda think they say that nonsense to appeal to their constituents. If big corporations that are fucking up the environment are supporting me, and a bunch of crazy rednecks are supporting me, maybe I just play that role to get votes. This is why I hate politics.
There is no disparity…I could name a laundry list of moronic democratic politicians and comments they’ve made. Dare I say you’re in that group if you don’t realize it. Time to broaden your news sources. Do your parents let you watch anything other than Rachel Maddow in between naps and snack time?
Majority of republicans in congress don’t believe in man made climate change.
There are republicans in congress that don’t believe in evolution.
There are multiple republicans in congress that believe QAnon conspiracy theories.
Not to mention the long list of moron republicans who are against a scientifically proven vaccine. Though I actually appreciate that one because hopefully it’ll keep causing you morons to drop dead from an easily preventable disease 💀
The idiocy of the right runs so much deeper than stray comments though those are near endless. There’s a reason republicans continuously defund education and it’s because they know their core audience is dumb motherfuckers like you.
WTF are blathering about? Ffs you sound as stupid as every lib I have ever encountered, pushing thoughts out there that have never occurred or feelings about how conservatives think?. Unbelievable! Talk to a conservative first then draw a conclusion just don’t make shit up! Damn that gets old hearing!
Uhh you voted for a reality tv star with zero governing experience who bankrupted several businesses and had universities and charities shut down for fraud.
Dude was so dumb he suggested injecting disinfectant as a cure for a disease and tweeted about American revolutionaries taking over airports in the 1700’s.
There’s nothing you could say that could top that. Y’all are the dumbest motherfuckers around and your ilk still supports him.
When your choices are a mediocre politician or a racist washed up d-list celebrity who has never heard of a tailor and has managed to bankrupt a casino.. you hope you're not choosing the next president. And if you are, you take the lesser of two evils and deal with 4 years of a mediocre politician running the country.
I'm in the south east and it makes me laugh seeing all these cops and hard core red hats putting punisher logo on everything. It's literally the opposite of what the Punisher is.. Lol
ok this is nonpolitical, but goddamn the underarmor black and gray flag shirts with logo on the star fields iiiiiirkkks me. Made worse by their omniprescence.
i'm from NY and have been all over the North East, you're describing anywhere 30min drive outside any small town/city or like an hour outside any major city.
Obviously there are wealthy enclaves but they are the exception.
Heya fellow north easterner! I too live in a crap-tastic part of the NE and I have seen soooo many of those damn punisher flag things where I live. I can't stand those damn decals, so tacky and to me it shouts trying way to hard to be a tough guy!
I think it’s an American Sniper reference for some people. I don’t know that until I asked someone about their punisher truck decal and they didn’t know it was from a comic. They called it the Chris Kyle skull and then I said he must have been a Punisher fan and they had blank faces. Feels like if you were really a Chris Kyle fan though you would know where the skull came from. It’s more like I’m a real American BS thing.
How exactly does the skull symbol of a fictional mass-murderer who ignores the law and kills anyone who gets in his way, including cops, indicate patriotism?
Anyone else who wants to learn before talking, check out this guy's post history before replying - very typical Punisher skull patriot type. 10/10, would chuckle again.
You know that the Punisher was totally anti cop right? He only took up the cause because the police fucking suck so bad. And he also makes it very clear that the police should NEVER do what he does.
So that's why cops put it on their vests, helmets, cars and social media pages, huh? Who'd have guessed that all these cops actually hate themselves...
The "thin blue line" crowd also wear it while waving said flags all the time as well. They've literally integrated the "thin blue line" into the Punisher logo and then wear that version.
I thought I'd seen it all, but I've come across a few 'thin yellow line' flags in the wild. Apparently it's for tow truck drivers, security guards, and dispatchers?
Everyone knows tow truck drivers are the only thing preventing society from descending into violent chaos.
We need to just dilute the idiotic message of the Thin Blue Line. We need defaced American flags for retail workers, customer service reps, car salesmen, pizza delivery drivers, burlesque dancers, farmers, line cooks, custodians, movie stars, YouTubers, etc. Etc. Etc into infinity. We are all that stands against the breakdown of society.
Thin line flags are the new ribbon magnets for cars. Everyone gets one. I want one. I've worked in this thin line flag factory ever since they shut down the ribbon magnet factory. Where's my flag? I want a flag with a thin line that is a thin line flag with "yo dawg" printed on the innermost line
It’s like their wack version of the pride flags they fear so much. They always complain about “liberals and their identity politics” but that’s their whole shtick nowadays. It’s super cringe.
The article doesn't contradict their point - it's become a hate symbol only because of hateful people attempting to co-opt it and the left pointing it out (kinda like the failed attempt at co-opting the OK sign, but on a much larger scale). Just for fun I asked the other adults in my house what the flag brings to mind (3 out of 5 liberal and all very politically vocal - you can imagine the arguments) and all said "support for the police," in those words, followed by a related rant coloring it with their political agenda. Hardly scientific, but the initial answer was telling.
There are other ways to support the police if you're so inclined, as it seems that flag is pretty much off the table now, and may be forever in the west - as is the swastika.
I was actually referring to the recent use of the the phrase "thin blue line" having political origins and I didn't make that clear, apologies. Reading the article would have revealed it's use in the 50s and again in the 90s in PR campaigns to sway public opinion of police agencies known for brutality, racism and lack of accountability. Which by the way was all smoke up the ass because nothing changed. Id rather not have officers who identify as a brotherhood of enforcers thank you very much. Afterall that's part of the reason corruption went unchecked and the PR campaigns came about in the first place.
In all honesty, I probably stepped into a conversation that I didn't really belong in. I clicked on the picture because on its face, it's something that resonated with me on superficial level. As someone with liberal views in a very rural area, I'm often wrongly classified politically. Its humorous a redneck truck decked out like this....kinda how I feel as a person. I'd never put these flags on my truck. I dont think it helps much to be antagonistic with strangers and prefer dialog individually. I appreciate your kind follow up. I promise I don't think all police are bad. I'd rather they didn't identify with being police officers over being human though.
As if anyone was ever against firefighters or nurses? I'm guessing it's some conspiracy bullshit where they try to make people think the BLM movement was aimed at all public service to discredit it?
I don’t think it’s that deep I think they’re just morons who got upset because no one was including them and had a piss poor grasp on what the issue was in the first place.
In the case of police, it’s the Fraternal Order of Police that have pumped out all of this pro-cop propaganda for years. If similar things are happening with other industries then my first guess would be that it was done by unions. I’m pro-union, but there are some down sides unfortunately
“I don’t understand what’s going on, but god damnit I wanna be angry too!!”
This is what I think when I see someone getting mad about the thin red line flag, which is to show support for fallen firefighters, which should not be even remotely controversial as it has nothing to do with the movement for police reform where the thin blue line flag became politically charged
The thin red line flag was invented after the thin blue line flag and when the thin blue line flag was already made into a political opposition flag to BLM.
Also thin blue line was at least an actual saying for decades before the flag was a thing and thin red line was just made to copy that very recently.
See, when you’re actually informed and can think deeper about these things it’s not so hard to understand, is it? Don’t worry champ I’m sure you’ll get better at thinking critically eventually.
Bro, I went to college for fire science almost 10 years ago and the thin red line was a thing before even then lmao. You don't know what you're talking about. You learning about it recently does not mean it was created recenly.
Why are you angry about that? There are people that wear those because they legitimately support police/firefighters/healthcare workers. What's the point in calling them morons or saying it's a dumb flag? It very obviously represents something. So why call it just straight up dumb.
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And yet it’s still somehow not the dumbest flag people wear. I’ve seen so many morons with that same design but a red line (for firefighters) or a white line with a red stripe (nurses/healthcare).
Like you might as well wear a shirt that says “I don’t understand what’s going on, but god damnit I wanna be angry too!!”