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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

What a great outreach plan. Anyone that votes for Rapey McTinyD over sneakers [1] is a fucking idiot, in any case.

Maybe they can get a stupid t-shirt to go with the sneakers: "I bought Chinese footwear and funneled money to and/or voted for a fascist and all I got was this Chinese t-shirt and the loss of freedom".

[1] The entire "fashion world" is a complete load of nonsense anyway, going back to its roots and used as a mechanism of control from the outset. People that are supposedly "woke" but then fall into this trap seems to be almost a cliche at this point. I'm sure "sneakerheads" honestly think "the street" is what are setting these trends (lol), but....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Someone what's to call Black people "basketball Americans" so bad.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I really shouldn’t be surprised by this but… woah

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Is it an appropriate response at this point to shake my head, sigh, and say “Jesus Fucking Christ?”

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

We’re all doing it, so absolutely!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

yea I think so

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Klaus Nomi is on fox news now? Wild.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Don't do Klaus dirty like that. (I totally see it though)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Trump actually does have a lot of- very misplaced, truly unfortunate- support from young black men. It makes about as much sense as one of his speeches, and is as upsetting, but it’s true to some extent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They must be under serious delusion about what the con movement really is about. That, or they think that under a con world order, they'll be treated like one of "the good ones". And they even might be. For a while. There was a Jews For Hitler group, too.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago (1 children)

trump is absolutely both stupid enough and racist enough to think he bought the black vote by offering gold shoes.

hes grifter scum through and through

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Not to mention narcissistic and egotistical

[–] [email protected] 146 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How is this not satire? How do real, breathing people think that, not only is this a real thing that will work, but that blabbing it out on live tv is a good idea?! Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The whole thing is pretty basic. And perhaps that's why it's so horrifying.

People like you and I that find this insulting and absurd? We weren't voting GOP anyway, no loss.

People watching Fox News? They're nodding their heads, "Yeah. That makes sense."

See? Fox isn't losing voters it didn't have anyway, and at the same time, they're making their viewers more comfortable.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do real, living breathing people continue to -watch- this garbage?

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

He actually made great increases in Hispanic votes

no one ever went, broke, underestimating the vast mass of people

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