Woah I didn't realize Hawaiian shirts were so politically charged. I just thought they looked cool lol
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Yeah, they've been a boogaloo thing for a while.
Unfortunately for me I have always liked Hawaiian shirts
And I'm a white guy, with a shaved head, who works in 911 dispatch so I'm police-adjacent, with some outdoorsy hobbies like hunting and fishing, with a pet malinois (free dog that fell into my lap, didn't go out seeking a super police/military dog breed, but that's the card the universe dealt me)
I'm practically a walking conservative stereotype in just about every superficial appearance, except that I'm not a conservative.
Pisses me off to no end that they've co-opted things like Hawaiian shirts and tiki torches.
I feel ya brother. I live in a conservative small town, have a big beard, wear my hair in a high and tight cut, drive a truck and I can go on. I get mistaken by these people all the time as one of theirs. Thing is I couldn't be further from them. My kids godparent (for lack of a better term) is trans. I call myself an equalist because I believe everyone should enjoy the same rights and treatment that I as a white cis male enjoy. It's annoying as all get out that my personal aesthetic is so closely tied to these assholes
Fortunately, unless you’re marching around with the tiki torch, no one is going to think you’re a fascist. It’s fine to set them up in your back yard or campsite, like they’re meant to.
And I imagine/hope that as long as you don't wear any military adjacent gear with the Hawaiian shirt it's fine
Good point, I hope.
Oh sad face, currently wearing my camo painting shorts and threw on a hawaiin shirt while I BBQ. I line up with punk nazi punchers much more than anything in my heart. I'm not gonna let them take my hawaiin shirts away from me! Fuck them.
I thought that was extra interesting with the whole Gabbard deal. Not sure if there is a connection.
I believe what you wrote... But if your experience was true, I also think it’s rare.
Every article published has an agenda, & this one’s seems a tactic to get people to vote. Trump lovers will never let us queers just live our lives. They will invade our homes & murder us like they always have.
VOTE
FWIW, a few weeks ago I went to a Midwestern county fair. The state went blue in 2020 but this particular county voted 60% Trump, higher than the one in the article (56%).
Before I arrived I braced for the worst.
Nothing. No one sold Trump merch. At most I saw one or two people who brought their Trump hats or t-shirts. There was a monster truck show and the announcer never mentioned politics. I counted a handful of Trump bumper stickers in the parking lot.
Zero Trump yard signs spotted on the road back to where we were staying, even though there were lots and lots of yard signs for various county or municipal candidates. So they weren't completely disengaged politically.
I'm sure many of the people I saw will vote for Trump again this year. But they weren't so willing to advertise that.
Awesome... That's the thing with these people. They will never admit they were wrong, but sometimes they will shut the fuck up.
It probably is regional. I live in a heavily conservative area, and for multiple months now, folks who have been rocking big flags or personal billboards have been displaying them, and then they will take them down. After a while, back up, and then eventually back down. Not sure what is happening. Our fair is in a couple weeks...
It's bad in the south. People wave Trump flags from their homes and cover their cars in garbage. I'm trying to get out of here or at least find a hidden sanctuary amongst the bull shit
Down in Palm Beach county there's still occasionally people who hang out on overpasses over I-95 holding Trump banners on the bridge over rush hour traffic. This was happening in 2023 when we weren't even in election season.
It used to make me angry. Now I just laugh. Allow the fools to show themselves so that I may avoid them
Noticed something similar this past memorial weekend. I went boating in a deeply red part of a very blue state and saw significantly less trump flags compared to last year.
Random guess but that wouldn't happen to be Deep Creek Lake would it?
Negative
I went to visit family in New York about a month or two ago. I wouldn't say it was a "deep red" part of the state, but definitely pink at the very least.
We passed by a house that the owner had covered in Trump slogans in spray paint. Literally a two story home covered in Trump graffiti. And I've been told that since our trip he's added to it. Hey look, if you want to support Trump, you do you and all that. But I don't care what your political views are.....why the fuck would you destroy the value of your own home like that?
People starting to realize how weird all this Trump obsession is. I have people that don't know shit about politics and barely graduated high school cheering for Trump like it's a fucking super bowl game. And these are stupid, stupid people with no education. It's weird for them to even be talking about politics or having political opinions, let alone be mainlining Fox News and talk radio for fucking twelve hours a day.
these are stupid, stupid people with no education. It's weird for them to even be talking about politics or having political opinions
Ironic you put it that way since a lot of Trump's appeal is to people who are sick of elitists putting them down all the time
Yeah they are stupid. They are making decisions against their own interests because they're too proud to admit they don't know shit and to just butt out. Let the experts run things.