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Never let them distance themselves from him. Let maga be a tattoo on their forehead for the rest of their life. Like Nazi tattoos.
I can forgive people for changing their minds once they've learned and experienced more. However, at this point, I don't think that there is actually any excuse for not learning or experiencing enough to not know who or what they're supporting. MAGA should be carved into their foreheads à la Inglourious Basterds. Make them advertise forever that they were dumb enough and hateful enough to fall for helping the most obvious con man imaginable to become a fascist dictator. At least the oligarchs have legitimate reasons to believe that they could benefit from him having power through cutting regulations and taxes for them. What the fuck do the millions of peasants in shacks in flyover states have excusing their donations and votes?
Yep, and that includes all these chucklefucks cozying up to Dems (even though Dem leadership seems thrilled to get more conservatives in the party) now that the ship is sinking. Every one of these "I'm a former Trump voter who is voting for Kamala" commercials gets that same reaction from me - where were you when he still had a grip on the party? Was all his bullshit too much for you then? Were you writing letters to your representatives then to ask them to stop inviting all the crazies in and stop moving towards facism and white supremacy?
If not, then I hope you help Kamala get in, but I give no shits after that. You were happy to let all the "right" people be hurt by Trump's policies all the way up to now. You were happy to lie in that bed until it was clear the ship was sinking, and all you really seem to be doing now is bringing echoes of the same shit to Democrats as Kamala and the rest welcome you to pull the party even further right in the name of votes.
The man might be president elect tomorrow. Don't get ahead of yourself with this kind of "sinking ship" talk. It might be true but it doesn't help anyone to talk about until the election is behind us.
Zero people are going to change how they vote today based on anything I type here right now. His ship is sinking whether his basket of deplorables still has enough bread in it to pull off an unlikely win today or not, and that's why (some of) the rats are deserting the ship. The man can't put two sentences together, and was frankly every bit as bad as this (and worse than Biden) when Biden dropped out.
The scary part isn't what will or won't happen to Trump. The scary part about Trump driving out all the not-entirely-batshit Republicans is that now Democrats are becoming even more conservative as they pander to them.
Everyone dogpiled the guy who posted the ratchet meme a day or two ago, but he was spot on. Trump destroying R had the net effect of pulling D to the right, and pushing progressive goals even further away for all of us. I will openly wear my disdain for what these shitstains have done to the country and to our near-future until old age takes me.
As you should. Trump and his supporters are the worst thing to happen to America in my lifetime at minimum. Still, your original post seemed to be getting awfully close to discounting the possibility that they might win and that's not assured. If that's not what you were getting at then by all means, carry on.
All good, I get your point. They might win. I don't think they will, but they might. If they do, I'm not going to waste a second about having publicly presumed they would not though. There will be bigger fish to fry. 🙂
Brands...it will hurt more...
Inglorious Baterds carved tatoo
Something interesting I never considered: would branding, that is over in a second or two, really hurt more than a 2-4 hour tattoo?
Side note, has anyone seen that horrific video of the college kids branding each other and the one held the iron on someone’s chest for like 10 seconds and pushed down and you could actually see it sinking into the persons body?
It’s fucking vile and I had finally forgotten about it but now I just remembered and I fuckin hate it
I'm a fire/sideshow performer, have been burned (and unintentionally branded) many times. Also have many body mods.
If it's done right, the metal only touches the skin for about a second. The burn will hurt for a few hours, but will heal in 2-3 weeks. However, it's very easy to overdo it and turn it into a deeper burn that will hurt for far longer and take significantly longer to heal. Around Nazis, I don't particularly care to be precise.
Tattoos hurt in the moment but once they're done, they're done. I'd honestly rather get a tattoo of equal size than branded.
Edit: and yeah that video, that was nasty. He probably died from it.
I've been burned, (i had a few layers of skin melted off my fingers because of steam) and I've got multiple tattoos... you don't see people going for multiple burns too often. burns don't stop hurting after the actual burn... it just keeps going. tattoos feel a bit like a sunburn and then itch. the burn sucked far more.
Saw that video and never found any info on if he recovered. My first reaction was holy shit that's going to hurt and be messy, but some comments were saying about the heat of the iron (it's not supposed to still be glowing bright red, it was WAY too hot), length of time, pressure, and proximity to vital organs means that he likely wouldn't survive it...
Naw i never even saw the full vid of that. Only saw the firs couple seconds but that shit is haunting.
To the first question tho. Compressing pain in a temporal sense doesnt really work i think. Some people experience migraines for their whole lives so those people would by that logic be some of the most pain resistant people on earth.
But also a branding would hurt for weeks/months until its healed and might get infected and shit. Human skin isnt like cow skin, that shit will instantly get destroyed permanently.
Where is Lt. Aldo Raine when we need him?
The only quality of gangrene that matters to me is that it's growing.
A nazi is a behavior, not a person.