I finally met one last night

[Ohioboy]

I had an asshole tell me that he thought Putin would make a better leader than Biden. He said "Brandon" but I knew what he meant.

I knew there were people out there siding with Putin over Ukraine, but I had never actually met one that desired Putin as a leader.

This moron claimed he liked Putin because he was "more of a Capitalist than Marxist Brandon."

I felt like punching the fool, but didn't because I'm a peaceful man.

Not that long ago such a statement would have been totally unheard. It would have been considered unpatriotic, even treasonous. Now, morons sit on barstools and proclaim their desire for dictators.

This is not the America I grew up in.

[onecaliberal]

1. You should have told him Putin is recruiting. If he loves Putin so much he should head to Russia.

They need fighters.

[Ohioboy]

3. I never think of good come backs like that

I wish I'd thought of that. If it ever happens again I certainly will.

[True Blue American]

60. Ohio girl here.

They say things like that because they know it will get a reaction. The truth is they would run like scared rabbits if confronted.

You had what, a thousand who actually stormed the Capitol in the heat of the moment, brave because they were in a mob. Now the chips are down, the adrenaline is gone, in court they are whining like babies. Oh, consider my kids, my family,etc. I promise to be good.

Even that day most of the crowd left because they were too smart to get involved.

The Father who said Branden to the President on a Christmas call to his son was a poor example to his children!

[spooky3]

5. Ooh, that IS a good one. Nt

[Lonestarblue]

12. You could also point out that Putin's Russia has very strict gun control laws.

He wouldn’t be able to have assault riles under Putin.

[DENVERPOPS]

55. WRONGO

Putin would gladly give him an assault rifle, along with a Russian Military Uniform LOL

[2naSalit]

58. Yeah, a RUSTY one!

[calimary]

22. And I'm sure Putin would welcome the services of a self-proclaimed "capitalist."

Yeah. That’s the ticket.

[soldierant]

52. That was my thought

though Iwouldn't have phrased it quite as well.

If he really loves Putin that much, it would be reasonable that he'd like to do that.

[hildegaard28]

2. That's when you

Tell them they're Commies. Putin was born a Communist, served in high level positions in the Communist regime. His beliefs in Communism haven't changed. If he's supporting Comrade Putin, he's actually a Communist.

[grantcart]

50. I would use"Leninist" as Vladimir Putin is more obsessed with

the concentration of political power (ala Vladimir Lenin) than Marxist theory, Socialist policy or Communist ideology.

[gab13by13]

4. ...or the people in Russia don't have the freedoms that we have in the US.

Once we lose our democracy we lose our freedom.

[Ohioboy]

8. Actually, I did say something like that to him, but...

I don't think it made a difference. That is the depressing part.

He claimed Biden was "already a dictator", and that the insurrectionists who beat police on Jan 6 were in his words "political prisoners".


The right- wing propaganda machine has made logical discourse impossible in this country. So very depressing.

[vlyons]

13. They are delusional, and completely close-minded

They don't want to hear anything that pierces their delusions. Facts be damned. Evidence is all lies. To them, we are the evil "other." They make us wrong to make themselves feel "right." I feel very very sad, because I don't have the skillful words to get thru to them. I know that a big part that drives their hatred is plain ol' white racism. Add in "my religion is real, and yours is not." It's a cult.

[OMGWTF]

25. It's a cult indeed!

My RWNJ 68-year-old brother-in-law has actually said that he doesn't want to hear anything that will change his core beliefs. He's a homophobe, broke, driving a 25-year-old car he inherited from his late father, never had a girlfriend or any friends, living in an old mobile home on SS and nothing else. Thank Goddess he doesn't vote.

[Genki Hikari]

33. You can't get through to them

You can't reason a moron out of anything he didn't reason himself into.

Tell them they're braindead, anti-American trash, and walk away. Anything more is a waste of time and energy.

[vlyons]

35. No that is not my way

Anger is poison. Poison for them. Poison for me. Saying harsh angry hateful words brings no happiness or loving kindness into the world. It just creates more suffering and angry reactions. Best to not get sucked into bickering with them.

[True Blue American]

61. Best advice,ever!

Turn away wrath!

[KS Toronado]

14. You run into a MAGAt

Impossible to reason with them, they have illogical answers for everything.

[Evolve Dammit]

40. it's widespread sadly. The propaganda has been very effective.

[Samrob]

6. People like him long for the Gulag...for everyone else. nt

[Carlitos Brigante]

65. What their baby brains (no disrespect meant to actual babies) don't get is that the very moment

one ends up in that type of system. All someone else who dislikes them, for whatever reason, has to do is acuse that person of not being loyal enough. And boom, next thing you know. They'll end up in the very same gulag they were hoping for the rest of us.

[Vinca]

7. You should have reminded him that if he was in Russia living under Putin now, he'd be scooped up

and sent to the front and not necessarily trained or equipped. If he refused, he'd be making a nosedive out the window.

[TigressDem]

9. + 10,000 nt

[PatSeg]

11. Bingo!

[calimary]

23. This!

[PatSeg]

10. Yep more and more, everyday feels

like Opposite Day in today's world. I find myself using the word "bizarre" an awfully lot these days.

[Rebl2]

15. Should have

asked him why he wasn’t over there helping putin fight his war against Ukraine

[relayerbob]

16. It's still treasonous

Just because they say it out loud, doesn't change that fact

[markodochartaigh]

17. I'm happy for you

that this is not the America you grew up in. I grew up a half century ago in the reddest part of Texas. It is absolutely the "America that I grew up in". Much of the terminology has changed, when the people are not interested in introspection, much less in understanding the world, then terms are fungible or meaningless. People in those conditions organize their lives around gut feelings and beliefs. The underlying principle in Texas then, in Putin's Russia now, and in more and more of the US is authoritarianism. One characteristic of authoritarianism is its desire to metastasize, like many other cancers. If the US is very fortunate we may get a period like The Compromise of 1850 to prepare for the inevitable attempt to expand by the Authoritarian party, née Republican, and there may be enough US voters to overcome the gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and suppression of the Authoritarian party.

[Genki Hikari]

34. The America I grew up in as well

People who had the privilege of growing up in non-moron areas have no idea how much stupid exists outside of liberal enclaves.

[Evolve Dammit]

41. Damn. Can't imagine staying there. Did you move away?

[markodochartaigh]

62. Yes,

I'm gay and I have Asperger's. In seventh grade my classmates tried to set me on fire. The principal told my Mom that I would need to learn how to fight. In ninth grade my geography teacher told my class that I should be killed. I knew that I had to leave. After high school I worked for a year and a half at the slaughterhouse, the only unskilled job that paid more than minimum wage, to save money for college. Then, after I got my nursing license I moved to Dallas where I worked for thirty years. Now I have semi-retired to five acres of tropical fruits and flowers in Florida. For me it really did get better, I was extremely fortunate.

[Evolve Dammit]

63. OMG that is horrific. I'm so glad you escaped. You should write a book, but maybe too painful. Best,

ED

[DENVERPOPS]

64. YES

How I miss Molly Ivans, may she RIP

[Meadowoak]

18. You should have punched him, it's all they understand.

[FakeNoose]

19. Putin isn't a capitalist, we need to dispel that notion completely

Putin is one of the wealthiest men in the world, it's true. But his money doesn't come from capitalism, and he' has never run a business in his life. Putin came to power by systematically stealing the natural resources (mainly oil) of Russia. Putin put his friends in power and gave them financial/legal advantages that no one else got, and that's who the oligarchs are. They make money by stealing it in one way or another, and they all give half their income to Putin. That's why he's wealthy, and he never did a thing to earn it except plunder the natural resources of his country.

It sickens me the way Repukes worship him - it's so wrong and misguided. If the Russian people ever found out what he has done to Russia since the "revolution," he'd get the Mussolini treatment. I'm certain of it.

[Evolve Dammit]

42. Well said.

[Beartracks]

44. I think that's how they understand "capitalist": "rich person...

... who doesn't give a f*k about laws."

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[ificandream]

20. The Magats have been overtaken with propaganda from right-wing media. It's disgusting.

[SheltieLover]

21. I met a young maga couple at the dmv, shortly after moving to this red hellhole (TN)

The young man struck up a conversation with me, because, well, they cannot ever shut their mouths.

He began spewing how much better russia is than the USA because they don't have to pay taxes.

I told him I don't know a lot about russia because their govt always has lied consistently about conditions there. I told him, though, "one thing I do know is they don't have access to food like we do here." That got his interest.

I continued, asking him how he would like to stand in line for hours to buy only a loaf of bread. Then, when it was his turn, only to be told there was no bread for him to buy.

All the color drained from his face. Lol

I continued, but if you really love russia, I'll buy you a one-way ticket so you can live your dream. (Of course, I wouldn't, but I could see this kid, skin & bones, likely loaded with parasites from the pervasive pattern of walking around without shoes on, would have quite an aversion to hunger.)

He declined the offer.

[IronLionZion]

28. Russian Army needs conscripts. He could go there and volunteer

[SheltieLover]

29. Works for me!

This incident happened a few yrs ago, long before pootin's brutal war against Ukraine. I sure would have tossed that into the mix if it had been a factor at that time.

Gawd, I wish we could ship all the maga folks over there, starting with all the ruskie assets in Congress!

[Aviation Pro]

24. How old was this fuckhead?

…..

[Ohioboy]

30. Mid to later 50s

[Aviation Pro]

31. Figures.....

Loud-mouthed, fucking RW GenXers are quickly replacing my Baby Boomer generation as the worst of America. Stupid fucks.

[IronLionZion]

26. The Interceptor film on Netlix covers this deranged thinking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interceptor_(film)

Racist idiots think it's "patriotic" to help Russia attack the United States. They're claiming the US has gotten too diverse and woke and feminist and needs to be punished.

RW idiots have been using violence and intimidation against American citizens for political agenda for a while now. At some point we need to admit these people are domestic terrorists.

[Ilsa]

47. I've seen it! It's really extreme hero stuff, but the plot was

very thought-provoking.

[debm55]

32. Not to be snarky, but some of us, me included, have them as neighbors. My one young neighbor who has

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a flag that reads ==Don't blame Me, I voted for Trump. On the other side is the neighborhood drunk, who sits on his patio and screams Lets go Brandon. I don't say anything because I'm afraid they will hurt my Dolly Dog.

[Harker]

36. Right or wrong.

Love it or leave it.

[SouthernDem4ever]

37. Haters gotta hate

I have come to the conclusion that people who have experienced a lot of trouble in their lives have to find something or someone to blame. Most magats I meet fit that bill. Their lives are so shitty, they needed someone like Rush Limbaugh or Tucker Carlson to tell them it's all the fault of the liberals- and they suck it up. It makes them feel better about the problems in their lives to hate others. I guess I would call them sociopaths who have been brought together with a weird commonality sparked by fascist assholes on the radio or TV who only care about making money off of them. All of them I meet seem to have that in common. Fascist elite corporate owners have learned how to use them for their own gains. They are just too stupid to realize it.

[ffr]

38. You should have told him to get behind our president in a time of war. Unpatriotic bastard!

Then, you could tell him to FO!

[Joinfortmill]

39. The U.S. has been here before. Listen to ULTRA, Rachel's new podcast series. It's hair raising.

I knew some of the history she is relating, but not the extent of the fascist traitors during the WII era.

[Evolve Dammit]

43. Does she comment on whether it's worse today?

[Ilsa]

45. I'm on episode 2. Scary shit!

I knew there were people, including some in my family tree, that wished we had sided with Hitler. I was too young, too late, to comment on it to them.

[Ilsa]

46. Tell him to move to fucking Russia, then. Tell him

you hope he likes borscht and zero tolerance for speaking his mind there. If he said "Biden is a better leader than Pootin," he'd be in jail.

[BigmanPigman]

48. He is mentally ill.

Punching him would make me feel happier but these crazy zealots are sick inside and outside. A lobotomy may have more of a positive outcome.

[czarjak]

49. The Rich. The Wrong. Republicans. He hates everybody they hate.

Including their own country.

[grantcart]

51. The hilarious part of this is that for 40 years Senator was an advocate

of Delaware's aggressive protection of it's unique corporation laws, especially credit card companies.

He did it with social responsibility but he pursued policies that benefited Delaware's business interests

[sarcasmo]

53. That idiot hates the same groups as Putin. Like hate between the GOP and Vlad.

[pansypoo53219]

54. fux gnews has been pimping putin for years.

[Martin68]

56. "This is not the America I grew up in" You noticed?

[Heather MC]

57. And the battle between light and darkness rages on

Which one will be defeated?

Only November will tell

[Emile]

59. After 4 years of Trump the very last person I want to hear saying anything about President Biden is

a god damn Trumpy! I get right back in their fucking face!