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      It’s the worst. Even on the state level. People in the state I’m from used to have a positive stereotype about them, so that I felt good about sharing where I grew up in conversation.

      That state turned red and they’ve been legislating against anyone who isn’t a white, straight, rich person. If people find out where I’m from, I have to do extra work to make sure people don’t assume I’m a hateful idiot.

      So that’s what it’s like, but on the international level now. I wish I had dual citizenship so I could at least travel internationally with a different passport (or relocate altogether). I know Americans have had a reputation of being rude or entitled abroad, but that’s far better than people assuming I’m a Trump-loving, delusional, fascist.

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    Trump has said that although he was “confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian.”

    Uhhhh…he’s not even Catholic? That’s kinda a prerequisite for THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

    He’s completely trolling, right? I mean it’s gotta be cover for something happening that he wants to distract people from. He can’t be that stupid that to think he can actually be Pope…can he?

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    I think he wants to put the idea out there that he could “step in” as pope if needed.

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      Exactly.

      It’s all meant to make people outraged and distracted, and we all keep falling for it.

      Please let’s not entertain completely absurd shit like that.

      Imagine every time your boomer aunt posted that same shit Trump does on her Facebook it ended up in the news-- it’s clearly delusional and giving it attention gives it validity even if it is only criticisms.

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        This is so frustrating, right? The king of the baboons is insane and addicted to attention, so he throws shit around and spits at everyone who comes to close. And all the other baboons circle around him, watching every move he makes so they can jump and scream as soon as he does.
        Stop reporting, stop reacting, it doesn’t accomplish anything, it’s a waste of time.

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        Yep and they’ve already moved onto Trump as sithlord for May 4th. This just isn’t news. They’re little Internet creeps and they intend to stay that way. People need to stop caring about what “memes” the “official Whitehouse account” posts.

        Edit: Ask yourselves, is it really news that this guy typed a sentence into an AI image generator?

        Steven Cheung

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    He’s distracting from the fact that he called for all Democrats to be removed from Congress. It’s a smokescreen bc of how ludicrous it is.

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      Why should the call for removal not be a smokescreen?

      What is the thing that the upper class does that doesn’t receive any attention but should make us worried?

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    These people fixate on the weirdest shit. People like my mom that lives in rural Oklahoma thinks ms13 is gonna kidnap one of her grandkids cause of these idiots. I can’t even fight it anymore, some people WANT to live in fear

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    If Obama had made a stupid meme dressed as the pope, “Christians” would have burned the White House to the ground, it would have literally started a war. Its absolutely INSANE to me how much this man gets away with. He’s right, you really can do anything when you’re rich.

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            I definitely think there would’ve been more outrage if it was Obama vs Biden, but this is a tribal thing, Democrats are ‘them’ and any perceived slight by ‘them’ must be countered in the strongest possible terms, so there would still have been plenty of outrage at Biden too.

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          I think with Biden they would have been pissed and took to the internet and Fox News about it, but the pure hatered for Obama was something that people are very easily forgetting these days. People legitimately believed he was the Anti-Christ and a Muslim. They would have actually rioted in the streets.

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            Sure I get that loads of people really hated Obama for lots of reasons. I sincerely don’t think this is a racial thing though: it’s a tribal thing, us vs them. Republicans are perceived as being on the side of Christianity (us) so they are given a lot more leeway in these matters, where Democrats (them) are the enemy of Christianity and every slight however small must be countered in the strongest possible terms (see: ‘the war on Christmas’ and other stupid shit.)

            Would the outrage have been greater if it was Obama instead of Biden? Absolutely, I’m not questioning that at all. I’m just saying don’t think there wouldn’t be outrage against Biden just because he’s not black.