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Nothing helps stop Trump bleeding support from the senior woman demographic quite like a young whippersnapper punching a 70-year-old woman to the ground for her support of Harris.

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[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 278 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Big tough guy sucker punched an old lady. Trump would be proud if it were possible for him to give a shit about anyone but himself.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 324 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not only that:

According to witnesses, Bossio said, the 17-year-old was walking away from a separate altercation with a male Harris supporter when he struck Tomasko and knocked her to the ground.

He did it because he was pissed at a male supporter but was too big of a wuss to throw hands with someone who could plausibly fight back, so to solve that, he sucker-punched an old lady. They're not just abusive garbage, they're pathetic cowards.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 61 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Trump supporters are lower than snake shit.

[–] Breezy@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I told my coworker today that there is no good trump supporter. They'll are either ignorant, selfish, or vile. The first group i dont blame because they're idiots, the other 2 groups can go fuck off to the void.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago (13 children)

The scared, stupid, and selfish model. You don't have to be all three, but any one of them and Trump will take advantage of it to bring you over.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

I am all three but I am still not a vile enough piece of shit to choose Donald.

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[–] auzy@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Snakes at least keep rat populations under control

Trump enthusiasts generally are rats

[–] zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ahornsirup@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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About as courageous as his role model.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Now That's Republican Toughness! ^TM

[–] crunchyoutside@lemmy.world 95 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Domestic terrorist. She was attacked by a domestic terrorist. This crime would seem to meet the DHS definition.

We need to start calling this crap what it is.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Damn right it does. This individual needs to be charged and prosecuted.

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago

When I think of conservatives, I always think of youths sucker punching old Asian women in the back of the head because of Covid. This is typical.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 149 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The lil shit isn't even old enough to vote

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 104 points 4 days ago

He's certainly old enough to get real time if they try him as an adult for aggravated assault.

[–] Shirasho@lemmings.world 84 points 4 days ago (1 children)

At this rate he will never be able to vote.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Honestly, I hope he gets to vote in the future. Everyone should serve their punishment and get the chance to learn from it.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Emotionally I dislike your reply. Logically it’s correct. What good is “paying your debt to society” but never being forgiven when you live a better life after punishment.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

You should just never lose it. Voting isn't a privilege to be awarded for good behavior, never mind that laws are sometimes themselves unjust and often disproportionately applied. Should people in prison for weed possession be unable to express their opinion about whether weed should be illegal?

Voting is both important and generally not that critical. The idea matters a lot more than the actual impact most votes have. There's just not much in the way of compelling benefit to denying prisoners their vote and plenty of risk of the law, either intentionally or unintentionally, being an implement that can affect who gets to vote on the people that make and enforce the law.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 99 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Little dummy must’ve been watching Andrew Tate.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 106 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Oh, 100%, society is underestimating the terrible influence Tate, Peterson, and similar grifters are having on men (especially younger men).

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Jordan Peterson is really bad because the carnivore diet he promotes would starve the chud’s brain of nutrients.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 64 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Peterson is bad because he appeals to lonely blue collar millennial men who, if they had positive male role models or better friends, would have a real chance of being actual decent people.

Tate is bad because he appeals to young men and boys who lack the life experience to know the guy is a loser and a grifter.

My opinion anyway.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The harm I notice Peterson doing is setting back men's mental health movements. A big barrier I run into working in mental health is not having enough male role models either locally in my area or public personalities online who are willing to discuss things like medication and therapy, but also to discuss the important lifestyle changes that have to be made, particularly in terms of healthy relationships. A big part of men's mental health needs to be men supporting men instead of competing for women to then use as their sole emotional support. In addition to placing an unfair burden on women, it's just frankly a burden that can't and ultimately won't be carried, leaving men with inadequate support when there's a better solution to be had. Instead you have peterson (and others, but Peterson has a fancy psych degree to hide his bullshit behind) perpetuating these antiquated ideas that men should be competing with each other. Men deserve better.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

I run into troubled young men a lot, unfortunately. I was raised female so I often lack the context to truly empathize with their life experiences, and I'm really hurting for coworkers to consult who can.

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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 94 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don’t need to keep being reminded that Trump supporters are the absolute worst pieces of shit on the planet.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But, we can’t ever forget.

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I think we all deserve at least a little bit of forgetting every day. We’ve been enduring this bullshit for the better part of a decade. We don’t owe that asshole 100% of our attention all the time. Fuck him. And fuck everyone of his followers, too.

The Nerenberg trials got it right by executing the lot of them. We need more of that after this election cycle. There is no value in keeping them around. It’s not like any of them are launching rockets or anything.

Oh, fuck…

Yeah, I think we all deserve at least a little bit of forgetting every day.

come join me in a state with legal weed

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

A minor, get his shitty MAGAT parents in the courtroom too.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 29 points 4 days ago

Glad he is charged. What a jackass.

[–] ATDA@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

What an absolute weak turd holy hell.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

just MAGAt shit.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 32 points 4 days ago (4 children)

These damn DEMOCRATS need to Learn how to Tone Down their Rhetoric!

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I'm going to stand in line to vote tomorrow...should I take my can of Fox 5.3?

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

more of that to come if the angry orange gets installed

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Or if he doesn't.

There's going to be violence. More people will die because of him, and i can't do anything about it and I'm going insane.

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[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Oh hey, it's a Trump supporter practicing what Trump is preaching. What a surprise.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

He's just doing what donnie told him to do.

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