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Yeah, I’m no tattoo guy myself, but I think they’re quickly becoming socially acceptable. I personally know plenty of highly respected professionals with full sleeve tattoos, chest, back, and leg tattoos
Yeah I think equating a maga hat to a Vietnam vet wearing the Vietnam hat demeans those veterans who have already been unreasonably demeaned.
2 seperate statements. I think very highly of both. I usually thank vets for their service and am very grateful for them. I am very proud of MAGA wearers as they gave us Trump and we avoided a Hillary disaster. It is brave for them to wear it because of all the hateful morons who can't stand Trump.
I think MAGA hats are a lame attempt at a response to the Obama apparel that was around the first few years of his tenure.
Yea, Obama really played up that he and his followers against the rest of the world rhetoric.Thunderlips said:
I live in hipster central, Williamsburg (Greenpoint is about 150 feet away so I claim dual citizenship.) Folks wear lots of hats ironically around here. But MAGA would be the equivalent to...wearing a hat with the N-Word? Dunno if that’s the best equivalent, but like just saying it wouldn’t be clever or funny or snarky. It’d be saying “I’m saying I’m racist af.”
Yeah, maybe MAGA hats will get picked up after he's out and the country starts to heal. Or maybe they'll always be too socially radioactive that they can't be used as an ironic accessory/behavior. Thanks for the field report @BobbyLayne
Guy in my church owns a production company that shoots mainly commercials. I remember last winter they were doing a project & he put up posts on FB, IG & Twitter asking if anyone had a red MAGA hat they could borrow for a shoot. I asked him later if he found one, he just laughed & said “naw, had to go in another direction.”Yeah, maybe MAGA hats will get picked up after he's out and the country starts to heal. Or maybe they'll always be too socially radioactive that they can't be used as an ironic accessory/behavior. Thanks for the field report @BobbyLayne
Oh no, make no mistake, he's hated. I think he's a scumbug traitor who enlisted a foreign government to get him elected (or rich), he's now helped sweep a journalist's murder and dismemberment under the carpet, mocked disabled people and gold star families, and bragged about sexual assault, left thousands of Puerto Ricons to die. That's not Republicans. That's just him. I hate McConnell more though. Because he knew exactly what he was doing with Garland, and he did it anyway.
Because Trump rallies are nothing but huge pep rallies honoring hatred and racism. And that's where you see the hats. At one time, the confederate flag wasn't a sign of bigotry either. But flying one over your trailer today is sending a clear message on what your beliefs are. Same with the MAGA hats.
I don't inherently disagree with you on these points. A person certainly can choose to wear this attire and nothing should happen to that person because of that choice. But, I find it 1) weird to wear the what is essentially the apparel of a political figure (I found it equally weird to see somebody wearing an Obama shirt or the like); and 2) I find it incredibly unlikely the person's motive in wearing the apparel isn't, at least in part, to inflame others with opposing viewpoints.
Calm down, Chomsky. The initial video, objectively speaking, made the kid look like a #####. It's incredibly unlikely that there was some coordinated effort by mass media to manufacture some narrative. If that were the case it's unlikely that the mass media would be acknowledging he contradictory videos like they have been the last 24 hours.
that's your opinion on hatred and racism and it all tied to Trump and MAGA, I see liberals as the haters and racists and sexists so now what?
I'm not upset Zow - in fact, it amazes me still how a 15 second clip or even an image released the right way by media can turn the feelings and views and ideas of 1/2 the nation
I'm not certain I'm following the bolded. Which feelings/views/ideas were turned?
To me it means you support a president who has been a lifelong bigot and misogynist who exploits xenophobia and turns Americans against each other. And that you want to broadcast that support.
where is the apologies to those MAGA hat wearers? I didn't see any did you ?
1. Apologies? From whom? I think the way the initial video was portrayed was fair. It would have been really bad if the media didn't also report the later information that came out that certainly changed the way the situation appears to have gone down, but suggesting an actual apology when there wasn't an initial ill-will is comparable to suggesting a prosecutor should apologize to a defendant if a jury acquits that person at trial.
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I don't think it triggers very many people. In fact, I wish more people would wear them so that I can more efficiently dismiss them as not worth dealing with.
1. apologies from news media for making those young men look like something they wasn't - that's a start. Yes, media DID report the additional footage after calling those young men out based on a snippet of info. Can you imagine if FOXNEWS had done that to a group of black men, portraying them as racists and hate filled and instigators when they really wasn't ?
a hat doesn't trigger IMO unless media really sets the stage for it ........... and if the media says "jump" at a certain hat, liberals will say "how high"
If CNN went a week without negative Trump reporting they wouldn’t be a news channel any more, because he does several awful things every day, and not reporting on any of them for a week would be absurd. Whether they would lose any viewers would depend on what they replaced news coverage with, I guess.
