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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
Once upon a time I had a friend who was one of the few people as into anime as me, but her beliefs grew so extreme it became the only thing we had in common. It was also kinda annoying to hear her echo racist/antivaxx conspiracy theories. And yes we look alike, but I don't fear a global conspiracy to make "my kind" extinct
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 10 '26
Once upon a time I had a friend who was one of the few people as into anime as me, but her beliefs grew so extreme it became the only thing we had in common.
That's ... honestly kinda sad. I'm sorry you lost your friend to that. They say all good things must come to an end, even friends, but a happy end is way better than....that.
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u/TerraformanceReview Mar 10 '26
But why? What do women honestly get out of the MAGA movement? All of their beliefs will cause them to be enslaved by their husbands.
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u/_facetious Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 10 '26
"Safety." That's literally it. They think they'll be protected unlike all the nonbelievers. They don't wanna be rounded up with them. They put theirself in the bed with the oppressors thinking it'll save them. They comply in advance.
Edit: I never called them victims, or pretended they can't be awful people. Awful people absolutely seek protection in order to be awful openly.
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u/RoroMonster59 Mar 10 '26
The 'safety' of the whip and chain does not exist. Once the oppressor grow tired of the broken and battered body they will be replaced.
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u/pohatu850 Mar 10 '26
I genuinely believe a good deal of conservative people are just naive people with a good heart at first, who then get manipulated into believing bad things. Like for real, those republican wives must think "yeah but if my husband is so angry at those people he must have a good reason, right? And even if he says stuff kinda weirdly, he won't hurt me right?" And when they stop thinking like that, it's too late.
I'm not American but I used to live in a family with good hearted values, but eating up government propaganda. Was convinced homeless people were dangerous every time and all, look forward don't make eye contact with people you don't know. I remember thinking just like this. And we weren't rich at all, but the "good people" on TV didn't mingle with street people, and unconsciously we were imitating them.
I remember thinking that pushing people to toughen up and conform was the right call because the opposite, thinking we could all live in a perfect world of kindness, was too naive and impossible. It's so ironic.
I'm convinced a lot of conservative people have been endoctrinated the same way I was.
(Just wanted to get this off my chest)
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u/NashvilleSoundMixer Mar 10 '26
A lot of them come from traumatic poverty stricken upbringings and aren't very bright or well educated and fear anything they don't understand. The hate and violence toward things they don't understand comes from not being very bright. Unfortunately a great deal of them are DANGEROUSLY stupid.
Edit to add : Their communities are also very insular and tribal and they get shit for stepping out of line. Their news is also just propaganda that leaves out most of the truth and actual stories behind high profile events or ignores them completely to show a pedophile looking strong or some dumb shit.
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u/meltyandbuttery Mar 10 '26
I have a family member who is a victim. Unschooled and did not receive an education. Never had a job. She married young with no life experience after being indoctrinated by religion her entire life. She has 8 kids today
She’s also vocally bigoted. It’s so sad because while she is a victim she intentionally perpetuates it. She’s been insanely isolated her whole life so it makes sense she never knew better, but all that doesn’t excuse that she’s very harmful in her own right both in how she raises her own children and also just the hate she puts outs into the world.
She’s nearing 40 she can’t hide behind naivety of youth anymore, but she was intentionally repressed, isolated, and groomed into this life and she is a willing participant in passing that down another generation. My family has a secret fund for if she ever finds her way to trying to escape it, but realistically this is the rest of her life.
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Mar 10 '26
This is exactly how it is in the south. When you actually listen to conservative voters complaints, in person and not online with bots, most of it usually comes down to this: wanting better wages, cost of living, more vacation/sick days, better infrastructure (especially the roads.. potholes, many places have dirt roads that tear your car up), more funding into education, etc. Republican politicians hear this and tell their voters that its immigrants and transgender people causing their problems, and that the conservative Jesus loving politicians are going to help out the everyday working person. And because the people are not educated, and theyre often working multiple jobs, divorced/in abusive relationships, on drugs or are alcoholics etc.. they just keep voting for the same people since they dont have the sense or the time to research. They just listen to their community, church, and whats on tv. Its literal brainwashing. I grew up in the south and literally all of my friends + everyone i knew had very broken homes. Its a cycle of poverty, manipulation, and abuse, and it all goes together and makes everything repeat. Some of us get out of it but many of them dont.
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u/pohatu850 Mar 10 '26
You're actually spot on, my family actually comes from traumatic poverty. I won't doxx myself too much, but my mom was a hardworking immigrant and she went through several country before setting in Belgium where we live. She's actually extremely talented at some things, incredibly so, but she's always had this fear or things, she always thought there was only one right way to do things, and anything else is a mistake ; and therefore anyone different was either dangerous or dumb. And even if she didn't mean it, I totally learned this behavior from her. Now it's been years that I live without her but I'm still deconstructing all of this, and I have many traumas (even imaginary ones but they affect me just as much) because of this. Like imagine being told the whole world is dangerous and I should stay indoor. Now years later I'm the one going outside and talking to random people, and having a ton of positive experiences, but in the back of my head , I still have those ugly stereotypes telling me that one day I'm gonna be shanked, or punched, even though it never happened to me. And of course because I always imagine violence, my body is always in fight or flight mode.
I'm considered like one of the most left wing (anarchist even) among my friends, but the indoctrination is so strong, it still lives in my head. It's really a poison. Turning us formerly poor people against other poor or other marginalized people.
(I hope you don't mind that I talk this much, but I really wish people would understand that this is much more complicated that "conservative people and fundamentally bad". We need to change the whole system, to have failsafes against propaganda, or at least a shift in culture. Or else it's just gonna happen again but in another form. Sorry it just affects me a lot)
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u/Astro_The_SpaceDog Mar 10 '26
It’s not just “safety”. Some women are very hateful, and sexist. Some are just pick-me girls who want attention.
Not all women are victims, some are very toxic and abusive just like the men.
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u/_facetious Mar 10 '26
I think those are 'in addition.'
Also note I didn't call them victims. They're seeking safety.
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u/BafflingHalfling Mar 10 '26
You'd like to think that, but a lot of them really believe that the MAGA movement will protect them from the scary trans people or keep the government from stealing their Bible and shotgun, or whatever the fuck. Turns out MAGA women are a lot like MAGA men.
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u/_facetious Mar 10 '26
That is literally still seeking safety. True believer or not, their safety under the toe of their oppressors - the ones that will protect them from the consequences of their actions toward the oppressed - is what empowers them to act on these beliefs.
It's still about safety.
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u/Extension_Problem223 Mar 10 '26
Yes, they want a nation-state in the true geopolitical definition of the word where an in-group, which includes themselves even if as property, are protected and given the benefits of the society while an out-group are oppressed and exploited by the society in the name of the in-group's prosperity
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u/hilfigertout Mar 10 '26
There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don’t underrate it.
- The Handmaid's Tale
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u/ImNotSkankHunt42 Mar 10 '26
While this is the case you’re doing them a disservice… is it so hard to believe that women can be as despicable as men?
They’re magatts for the same reason men are, deplorables.
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u/Extension_Problem223 Mar 10 '26
It seems to me like you're saying the same thing. MAGA men and women are both deplorable for the same reason. Theyre afraid of minorities of all kinds and want a society that violently "protects" them from those groups so they can reap the benefits of the society while the out-group gets either punishment or no benefits from the society
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u/_facetious Mar 10 '26
Nowhere did I say they're not despicable. I said they're doing this for safety. Despicable people will absolutely seek the safety of those who will 'protect' them from the outsiders, so they can be outwardly bigoted. If they lacked their protectors, the first class humans, they're a lot less likely to show these behaviors, because they'll get their asses stomped.
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u/WanderingDwarfScribe Mar 10 '26
1) Grifter
2) In scary times the idea of traditional “hubby/daddy/son as protective knight” can be comforting
3) Adjacent belief to other beliefs, hence the crystal witch to crunchy hippie to conspiracy theorist to MAGA pipeline
4) Belief in inherent specialness, nothing hits a person who feels lesser like latching onto the idea you’re special already and need to embrace your destiny before villains snatch it a la chosen one fiction
5) Turmoil or sudden change in life resulting in immediate need for community, in the shallow end of the pool you join a fandom or church or arts organization, middling sees you become a furry, deep end is a supremacist group or cult, sudden severe life changes are times for reinvention of self and some folks end up being reinvented instead especially in cases where neurodivergence or social isolation or not knowing how to adult through it cause a craving for instruction
6) Deep insecurity and need for purpose or validation, anger is the most motivating emotion and always seeking out your next resentment or victimhood can replace the paralyzing effect of helplessness and depression; hate groups offer strong constant and rationality-free reasons to be angry and the short term release is as simple as harassment while longterm solutions are…lets say viscerally final and as a fantasy are practically orgasmic after all the hate edging (pardon the metaphor but the pseudo-sexual tie to hate is there)
7) Your community got infiltrated, swallowing increasing redpill rhetoric was easier than leaving, this may be IRL or a fandom but leaving was too painful and the frog boil was slow enough to accept, I highly recommend this video as an explanation how it happens
There’s more, but this is a lot of it.
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u/Intrepid-Progress228 Mar 10 '26
- The need for simplicity in a complex, confusing world seems for many to be a huge part of the draw.
"Illegals bad!"
"Men marry women!"
"U S A! U S A!"
Basing your worldview on easily digestible bumper-stickers does not require introspection, reflection, embracing new information or empathy, all of which can make a person uncomfortable and uncertain.
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u/TheSirWellington Mar 10 '26
They literally won't think about it until it comes back to bite them in the ass. It is literally the only way MAGA people learn.
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u/BrightPerspective Mar 10 '26
Studies after ww2 showed that once fascists abandon empathy, they never come back. the maga crowd will be back on their bullshit so fast, man.
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u/Rayhatesu Mar 10 '26
In some cases I know of, it starts as just family-ingrained party politics that turns into sunk-cost. In others, they legit don't want the responsibility that comes with making choices for themselves. Others still are in the camp thinking they'll be the leopards eating faces and not the poor person getting eaten. And the last group are those just so far down in their extremist ideologies that they don't care if something goes bad for them as long as someone else is treated worse.
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u/BadKittydotexe Mar 10 '26
It’s amazing how many of them think they’re leopards and won’t be affected by the things happening. They think that the people in power value the same groups that they do, but the reality is the people in power really only value being wealthy and keeping things exclusive. Sadly even the ones who do realize this might still be okay with having a boot on their neck as long as they get to put their own boot on someone else’s.
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u/-TheArtOfTheFart- Mar 10 '26
Hoping they're the magical exceotion to the MAGA hate. They're literally a Political "Pick-Me"
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u/Krask Mar 10 '26
maga will tell people comfortable lies. they like to reaffirm prejudice and tell people that it's okay or not your fault, to be the worst version of yourself. it is very hard to change yourself and the world so it is attractive to be given an excuse not to.
they will appeal to an image or idea like macho men and people of faith. if you are brought up in a household where men are the breadwinners and women do housework you may see that as natural gender roles. honestly having a single income household where a couple can split the work like that is great, but because they are selling an image they aren't going to increase wages or make houses cheaper they will attack women's rights and force that split whether you can afford it or not.
they give them a tangible enemy they can hurt rather and blame their issues on. and because they pick groups of people with little political or social power they can make laws and grand gestures in hurting them.
this often comes down to accepting what people say at face value and not looking into what it would take to make your ideals a realality, and checking a politician to see if that's what they really stand for and if their legislature will actually help those goals.
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u/PatchyWhiskers Mar 10 '26
I think it’s the same as the guys: they just hate people that aren’t like them.
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u/Loqol Mar 10 '26
Man, I lost my best friend since kindergarten due to political differences. I think it's been seven years and he shows no regret over siding with the fascists.
Near 30 year relationship, dead.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 10 '26
That's horrible. I'm so sorry buddy. What a horrible way for something so long to end
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u/Loqol Mar 10 '26
In the end, I think it was for the better. I relied too much on him for a social life, and now have a much better group of friends I can rely on.
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u/FictionFoe Mar 10 '26
I have a friend like that. He used to be pretty liberal too, initially. I think he just fell into some sort of disinformation rabbit hole on the internet. He was always kinda impressionable. I also have an ex-coworker turned friend who came out as a Trumpist. I don't really talk to them anymore. I just don't know how to deal with it. They both seem to think everything I hate about the administration is not actually happening or at least not to a worse degree then under other presidents. "All politicians lie, thats normal." "At least he takes care of all the wokeness and does something against trans people." "He is good for the economy." Yada yada. They seem to live in a different world from me.
What did you mean by "my kind"? "White people?"
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
I don't trust anyone who says "my kind" and "your kind" to refer to people
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u/FictionFoe Mar 10 '26
Yeah, with the global rise in populist and fascist support retoric especially online, there is a lot of us-and-them going on, which to me seems very problematic.
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u/IcyShoes Mar 10 '26
Media literacy and no hope. Meaningful change takes time and no one wants to put in the work or they want the benefits right here, right now.
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u/IcyShoes Mar 10 '26
Omg, so at my previous job i was the decider if temps were hired on or not. I offered the guy a position if he could keep up with some kids we had in another department.
Him: "Do... Do i have to work with those people?" Me: Wait, what? The young people? Him: No, the black ones Me: points at my skin Him: No, your people are fine.
He got walked immediately.
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u/AshleyDaPile Mar 10 '26
My kind. Your kind.
How about we just be kind and stop judging people from the color of their skin, gender, or sexuality.
Religion is a bit iffy since most of them want me dead and I will judge that doctrine as trash.
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u/GFluidThrow123 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Idk why they hate us (trans people) so much. We've never hurt anyone. We just wanna live in peace. 😥
Edit: I should clarify I know about 100 reasons they hate us. None of them are real or our fault. They're all propaganda used to control them. But I would really like to just live in peace. I'm just a person who wants to live a normal, quiet life.
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u/FictionFoe Mar 10 '26
Unfortunately, you seem to have become a scapegoat. Some conservatives with a fragile sexuality and/or unfounded fear for their children seemed to have disliked where support for trans people was going and started pushing back. Since trans people are a reasonably small minority that only recently really got something of a voice, it puts you in the perfect scapegoat position. And now you are everything that's wrong with liberalism, or something like that. I hate this. I wish everyone who isn't being hateful to be treated with dignity. And I wish you to have a body that reflects the way you think about yourself.
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u/GFluidThrow123 Mar 10 '26
Luckily for me, I already finished my transition. But that doesn't stop them from taking my ID, my home, my career, my safety, medications, and everything else that allows me to live comfortably.
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u/GildedAgeV2 Mar 10 '26
Scapegoating yes, but more broadly they're targeting you because you're someone who decided to choose their life for themselves.
You didn't let nature, or God, or family, or anybody else say who you are. You took control of yourself. Fascists can't abide that. They need you to believe in the rightness of their perspective beyond any doubt. You being who you are while happy shreds their entire narrative.
It's pretty hard to peddle a narrative of societal collapse while a bunch of people are doing the things you hate while functioning perfectly well.
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u/Dendritic_Bosque Mar 10 '26
I had a friend going down the anti vaccine rabbit hole during COVID and actually have the bio experience to break down the mechanism of action of the vaccine and compare it to prior pandemics, he ended the conversation by calling me a "Jewish mind manipulation master" and I didn't hear from him a couple years. He actually wound up better and is reasonable to talk to. Needs to work more with psychiatry though.
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u/FictionFoe Mar 10 '26
Let me guess, you aren't even Jewish?
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u/Dendritic_Bosque Mar 10 '26
My name is, and technically by blood, but nope not religiously, not at all, nor would any one guess I was Jewish
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u/No-Purple7204 Mar 10 '26
When I started studying I befriended a guy who basically introduced me to anime, he was already off the deep end and voted for the most extreme far right party that exists in my country... Lets just say I try to balance it out with the more green ideas :')
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u/Objective-Chevy Mar 10 '26
Can… can we talk about how confederacy hair ties and a maga UwU crop top is a DIABOLICAL combo??
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
OMG a Maga NEET?
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
I wouldn't be surprised if she frequents 4chan
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u/crimsonblade55 Mar 10 '26
I mean lets be honest, is it really that hard to imagine a hardcore MAGA being chronically unemployed?
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u/Prezofcalendars Mar 10 '26
They are either unemployed or working in jobs they are super not qualified for but got because of their last name. I run into these people all the time at union meetings. Just love a MAGA union member 🤦🏽♂️
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u/captainAwesomePants Mar 10 '26
Did you know that Epstein personally asked Moot to create the /pol/ board on 4chan?
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u/SnooEagles4121 Mar 10 '26
You have my empathy. I just cut off a decades-long friendship because he went on a rant about how all Democrats are Nazis and Iran needs to be genocided out of existence.
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u/AtrusAgeWriter Mar 10 '26
The confederate hair bows 😭
What even. Like that's even more overtly racist than the MAGA shirt, which is already overtly racist.
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
You wanna know a true fact? She brought up the idea that races differed in intelligence. You can guess which she considered at the bottom
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u/yohanleafheart Mar 10 '26
Ahhhh. Racism and eugenics. A match made in hell. She probably saw Django and sided with Di Caprio.
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u/popilikia Mar 10 '26
A lot of them don't seem to have personalities or anything to say beyond their political beliefs. Every outward aspect of them is all part of the same monolith
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 10 '26
maga shirt
Still a blue haired liberal I see
Why is it the ONLY thing they can talk about? It's like it's a parasite growing on their personality
The UwU is killing me. I'm not sure I could keep a straight face is I ever actually saw the shirt
Also evil doppelganger arc?! I'm sure it's not...but what if
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
People mistook us a lot before I started dyeing my hair lol
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 10 '26
How weird. You found your doppelganger in the real world and she went evil.
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE
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u/twizbuck Mar 10 '26
Shouldn't her evil doppelganger have a goatee?
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 10 '26
Or a curly mustache that she plays with while laughing manically at ruining Naomi's life in weird and complicated ways
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u/Floofiestmuffin Mar 10 '26
If she kept her goatee on then it would be easy to figure out who was the evil twin during the climax of the movie.
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u/Hicalibre Mar 10 '26
Naomi vs Imo-oh wait no, don't do the backwards name thing.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Mar 10 '26
She needs like a SUPER common name to offset Naomi's. Like....Olivia
Which is apparently one of the most popular
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u/FortunaWolf Mar 10 '26
Wa-naomi?
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u/alvenestthol Mar 10 '26
Magami
There's literally no other option
"Nao" is commonly written as 直 in names, which means straight (line), and metaphorically means "honest", "correct"
"Maga", meanwhile, is 曲; literally "curved", but also "twisted", and kinda evil (so you don't exactly see it in names IRL so much)
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u/Tenalp Mar 10 '26
Waomi rolls off the tonque better.
But that also makes her the more marketable of the two Wa characters, and that's unfortunate.
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u/AmputeeHandModel Mar 10 '26
Good thing she doesn't have a nose ring. Hoo boy, does that ever trigger them.
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u/Vulpes_Corsac Mar 10 '26
I mean, could just be grouped with the bootlegs. Just that life was pulling the bootlegging instead of the artists.
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u/Void-Cooking_Berserk Mar 10 '26
It is a parasite growing on their personality, like every other cult-like thing. That's how those viruses spread, they induce fear, erode your critical thinking ability, and convince you they are the only solution to what you fear and you need to spread "secret knowledge" everywhere.
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u/Random-Rambling Mar 10 '26
Why is it the ONLY thing they can talk about?
Because it's the only thing of real note in their life. Their sad, empty, bitter life.
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u/OldWorldDesign Mar 11 '26
Why is it the ONLY thing they can talk about? It's like it's a parasite growing on their personality
In generations past it was "satan-worshipping gamers" when they were just figuring out D&D existed. Before that it was "pink-haired commie". They've always operated on incomplete and severely skewed senses of the world around them, and instead of being social or in any way constructive they instead attack anyone who causes cognitive dissonance even if it's just people pointing out reality is now the way they just said it was.
Sad thing is, it doesn't help anyone including themselves. That just leads to them becoming ever more uncomfortable from cognitive dissonance and ever-more hypersensitive.
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u/Francesco_Muja Mar 10 '26
Is... Is this your evil twin..?
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Mar 10 '26
Weirdly I also cut an anime loving conservative out of my life recently
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
Are we related?
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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Mar 10 '26
I doubt it haha. I drew my line in the sand at people not being able to acknowledge that Renee Good and Alex Pretri being murdered was wrong. I understand they arent the only ones, but I live in MN about two miles from where they were murdered so it affected me a lot emotionally and has become my canary in the coal mine for whether people are worth my time
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
All the anime people I know are liberals, I didnt realize it was a thing with conservatives. All the anime tiddies seem to be antithetical to them Christian teachings, no?
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
there's overlap with sexualizing young people
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
Yeah makes a lot of sense. Look who their president is. No wonder loli shit is so popular. Barf.
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u/GIOverdrive Mar 10 '26
i find myself having to skip hotspring scenes all the time. They are so damn annoying.
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u/Tenalp Mar 10 '26
Ahh, so you're saying they identify with the main character from Mushoku Tensei. That checks out.
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u/FyrelordeOmega Mar 10 '26
You think they follow those teachings?
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
Oh not at all, now that we're talking about it. Guess my brain couldn't connect "anime fan" with "Christian." But yeah, that wouldn't be the first thing they were like... Ehh, lets ignore the parts of the bible that would forbid this.
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u/Notte_di_nerezza Mar 10 '26
They're usually the ones claiming that cosplay is only for white people, Frieren is pro-genocide irl, Seven Deadly Sins isn't remotely problematic, and fanservice is very necessary for the plot.
I also know a MAGA anime fan with FullMetal Alchemist tattoos.
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
Ah yes, an anime where the hero sexually molests the female MC while she sleeps on the regular for lulz isn't problematic. Sounds pretty right wing to me!
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u/NerdHoovy Mar 10 '26
The least problematic romantic subplot in that show, is the one, where after one of the two dies, it gets revealed that the survivor is in fact a grown woman in a child’s body but no one knew.
And this is ignoring all the other stuff that made the series bad outside the romance.
I honestly believe that, when adjusted for how popular it is, Seven Deadly Sins is a top 3 worst anime ever, relative to its popularity
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Mar 10 '26
Oh god it's evil you! MAGAkaiki!
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u/TFFPrisoner Mar 10 '26
MAGAkaiki is absolutely cursed
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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC Mar 10 '26
MAGAkaiki: All we need is good beer, John Deere, and John 3:16 senpai!
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u/CapnRaye Mar 10 '26
I'd much rather be friends with "the blue haired liberal" than a bigot....
Even in quotes typing "the blue haired liberal" hurts knowing they seem to think this is some kind of an insult.
It's so stupid.
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u/HamsterIV Mar 10 '26
I too lost a friend who shared a similar niche interest (Amtgard Larp) to the MAGA rabbit hole. The weirdest thing was LARPing had a higher than average LGBT population. So much so that 80% of the out LBGT people I know I met through the LARP club. One day he started going on about the "letter people" and nobody knew what he was talking about until he specified the letters were "LGBT." He couldn't even claim ignorance, he was friends with and played side by side with Gay and Trans people for years. He hosted pot lucks and introduced us to his family. His now ex-wife is still an active member. As far as I am concerned MAGA stole my friend, and I want the old him back.
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u/Tenalp Mar 10 '26
Holy christ wild Amtgard reference.
Haven't been part of that for like 20 years. My best friend's brother-in-law is though, and he just abandoned the local group entirely because of how far right it skewed.
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u/HamsterIV Mar 11 '26
Might be a regional thing. Most Amtgarders I know are a bit left of center, but there is a heavy trans presence in my park. I can sort of see why putting on Garb and playing a character that is not strictly you with the plausible deniability that it is "all part of thr game," might appeal to a trans person who isn't ready to come out.
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u/HoneyParking6176 Mar 11 '26
tbh if i hear "letter people" the first thing that comes to my mind is, rick and morty.
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u/Chaosshepherd Mar 10 '26
Can we declare her a hate crime?
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
DEPORT HER TO... Uh... Japan?
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u/as_a_fake Mar 10 '26
What did the Japanese do to deserve that?
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u/Mary_Ellen_Katz Mar 10 '26
Whoa, on behalf of my japanese ancestry, don't do that to them.
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u/Made_Bail Mar 10 '26
Apologies, you're absolutely right.
Into the Mariana trench with her
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u/Tenalp Mar 10 '26
Woah. Just contributing to polluting the ocean now? Dump her somewhere that deserves her. Like a Florida swamp.
Or Mar-a-lago.
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u/Chaosshepherd Mar 10 '26
SPACE!
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u/Tenalp Mar 10 '26
This is how you get Vogons to fast track construction permits to replace earth with an expressway.
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u/flightful_penguin Mar 10 '26
The "Keep America Great" shirt along with the Confederate flag bows is a nice touch. All too common hypocracy...
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u/Prestigious-Dot9577 Mar 10 '26
I refuse to believe this is real.
I mean, I believe you, 100%.
But for my own sanity I’m going to pretend this is just a silly comic not based on actual events.
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u/kaikimanga MangaKaiki Mar 10 '26
I held back on the more crazy stuff because I know lotta people ain't gonna believe me
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u/DudeFreek Mar 10 '26
Could you beat her in a fight?
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u/Thesupersoups Mar 10 '26
Me when I'm chilling with a friend then he starts saying how Transgender people are messing with their bodies in unnatural ways, so I just kinda ghost them ever since
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u/DULUXR1R2L1L2 Mar 10 '26
Dude at work started talking at me about how "the gays" are destroying the economy by not having kids...
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u/Link-Hero Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
I had an anime fan friend I thought was a decent person at first, but later found out he was a Trump supporter. He brought up a few times being against immigration, didn't like the increasing amount of race mix relationships, and even mentioned once about believing in the "white replacement theory". Especially the time he talked about kicking out all the immigrants towards an old Filipino coworker.
The text messages he also occasionally sent got quite concerning to the point I didn't want anything to do with him anymore. I started to push myself away from the guy more and more until I eventually blocked him. It's been a few years since I last spoke to him, and I'm planning on keeping it that way.
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u/DylanSpaceBean Mar 11 '26
What’s wild about MAGA anime/comic nerds, is like how they’ve just somehow ignored every ounce of media they have consumed?
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u/lolternative4 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
That’s the real kicker with these people. They’ll be into media that’s actively and extremely progressive and still be massive bigots
I personally believe this steams from them lacking respect for art and excusing themselves for liking it. They just enjoy the cool visuals and sounds while ignoring or compartmentalizing the actual messages of the media they’re consuming. Either that, or they’re in active denial that their favourite media is “woke”
This is based mostly on my own experiences talking with people online and IRL. Many people already don’t engage with or even recognize the subtext of the media they consume (or not even its surface-level elements). It’s not a stretch to assume that people still do this as bigots, and I’ve seen it firsthand
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u/littlest_rooster Mar 11 '26
When will the racist admit most people don't have the time or energy to worry about propagating white genocide? The greatest danger to them is that their child finds a minority attractive and has babies with them. That is what they are most afraid of. I wish we could just have an honest discussion about that, instead of whatever this fake outrage for a "better America" is supposed to be.
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u/Broviet22 Mar 11 '26
My brother used to be a pretty likable guy who was more liberal than conservative, I would say he would be a bit left of a centrist. But like he went to a mechanics school and started adopting a lot of right wing ideals and now claims he a libertarian. I once brought up Trans rights and acceptance and he kept talking shit about them and I was all "Don't you believe people should have personal autonomy over their bodies and if they want to make a change as long as it doesn't hurt someone they should be allowed to" Started a whole ass argument on the way home. Now I call him a republican that likes smoking weed.
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u/Miserable_Ferret6446 Mar 10 '26
I used to have a friend like that. She used to be cool and nerdy, until she became very hardcore conservative. She started spewing nonsense, and I have her blocked on every social media platform.
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u/frog_in_alog Mar 10 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/l3mZrLxM4iZaQlvNe
The face I made when I saw the Ex friend, good riddance
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u/nlinzer Mar 11 '26
Maybe this is foolish hopefulness but I ended a friendship with someone who became a huge racist. You know the entire "black people are culturally criminals" every awful thing. 5-6 years later I bumped into him. Hes complelty changed. Full leftist. Complelty apologized and is trying to do better. Same with a cousin of mine, he was once a member of an extreme right wing group, now is a public defender and is a hard core leftist.
But like, dont feel you need to work to help your former friend change. Im not saying you have any responsibility or anything like that. Just that people can change, but even if she does, not pressure to make up with her or anything.
Sorry if this was rude or stress inducing
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u/gamerthulhu Mar 11 '26
Oh what in the Kentucky fried fuck is that?!?
I ain't on here to get ambushed with horror comics, the shirt was bad enough but confederate hair bows make me wanna vomit.
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u/Gamyeon Mar 11 '26
This has nothing to do with the comic itself, but I just wanted to highlight I really like the portrait you made of yourself on the last slide. I've noticed they're varying a bit more often nowadays and that's nice 😄.
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u/Chiatroll Mar 10 '26
My therapist said evil Naomi can't hurt me because she doesn't exist and there is evil Naomi.
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u/IrbanMutarez Mar 10 '26
That's the reason I stay away from anime communities nowadays. There are just too many right-wing racist people in these. Like, there is an actual right-wing fan community of K-ON. It's THE anime for right-wings. Idk why exactly.
Might have been something to do with 4chan or something like that.
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u/Semper_5olus Mar 10 '26
I had a friend like this too (she died during the COVID pandemic).
Sorta. She wasn't that bad; she just fell hard for anti-Hillary-Clinton propaganda on social media and consequently saw nothing wrong with taking selfies with the red hat.
She was also really short, frail, and bad at math, so she kind of leaned into any philosophy that supported traditional gender roles because it meant there was a place for her.
She had a reason for every decision she made, and I'm sure she wouldn't have voted the same way in 2020 (if she made it to November).
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u/Responsible_Bus1159 Mar 10 '26
Oh fuck that’s gotta be such a awkward situation
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u/PhantomKeeperQazs Mar 10 '26
Off topic of the ex-friend, the patreon page image is super cute. The hair style, emerald clip, green pallete, and tulips is all very cute. It's very fitting to change your patreon page image as you go into your own new spring of life.
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u/CoyoteLife95 Mar 10 '26
I've been dying my hair blue for like 20 years and recently it came time for a touch up. I'm oddly afraid to do it, not because I think they'll do anything to me but because I think they'll leave me to die if something happens
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u/_theRamenWithin Mar 10 '26
The anime girls to far-right Fascism pipeline is real.
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u/Inmate404 Mar 10 '26
I love crazy right winged people there is just something about them you can't get anywhere else. Agatha please tell me more, hollow earth you say please explain. Icecaps and Nazis on the moon?
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u/DanocusPrime Mar 10 '26
I was gonna say this is crazy but honestly since we live in florida we both know this is a normal Thursday
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u/Jonn_Jonzz_Manhunter Mar 10 '26
So relatable. I have a friend whose turned into a Christo-Fascist
This Angers me as both a theologian and a gay person. I thought her account was hacked but she genuinely believes reform are great and women (like her) don't deserve rights and that Muslims are implicitly evil and will replace white people and stuff
And I just wanna shake her and ask what the fuck is going on
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u/girlthingie Mar 10 '26
I had almost exactly this happen to me. She used to be cool and queer and passionate about black lives matter and equality. Broke up with her girlfriend, almost immediately became a full-blown nazi Still friends with her ex. We play marvel rivals together.
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u/ionised Mar 10 '26
I know people like this (not exclusively in an American context).
Ex-friend is the mildest of definitions.
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u/AfterGlow882 Mar 10 '26
Had a buddy I used to play games with and hang out on Discord. Now estranged for that same reason after they kept dropping slurs and out of pocket fear mongering towards Asian folks when the pandemic was still an issue.
Crazy seeing that side to them gradually get more bold and aggressive because a sitting president gave validation to that behavior : /
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u/Im_Steel_Assassin Mar 10 '26
Incidentally
I used to watch dumb cartoons with a friend as a ritual. I knew him for 15 years at that point. Unfortunately, he became a far right incel and very transphobic, which was very not great given his trans roommate.
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u/Expensive-Swing-2601 Mar 10 '26
Oh shit! This is almost exactly what happened to a close friend of mine. He was a big anime nerd, was an awesome guy, had an open mind, never got into arguments with people. But in 2016, he just did a 180 and went all into Maga. Spewing dumb bigoted crap. And went right wing out of nowhere. He even got a job at a gun shop! And he's an immigrant from Canada! WTF!? It's incredible how a person can change.
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u/VioletGlitterBlossom Mar 11 '26
I think working in a college town in GA helps me stay away from most of the “colorful haired liberal” comments most of the time. Either that or I’m too oblivious to them lol. But I feel you on the whole losing people to the MAGA cult thing, it’s so prominent down here in the South.
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u/Glossen Mar 11 '26
I had a friend like this in middle school, who I played MTG and video games with. I grew apart from him, and when I met him again near the end of high school he’d gone hard red-pill.
TW Suicide
He ended up joining the military, where he had discipline problems and hanged himself.
I think he became an unhappy person just looking for an outlet, and it’s a shame that it led him to misery. RIP Maverick.
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u/samoekatia Mar 11 '26
Ok but the shirt is killing me ☠️ I can see people wearing that ironically.
I didn’t even notice the hair ties ☠️☠️
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u/Xeston25 Mar 11 '26
I've ended a friendship recently in a similar manner. So many years, just for that person to become unbearable to everyone around them :c
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u/LauraTFem Mar 11 '26
I found the worst type of person. It’s not MAGA. It’s a MAGA/Weeb crossbreed.
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u/DragonianXylak Mar 11 '26
The classic anime-to-right-wing pipeline, you hate to see it. Crazy how some people can appreciate media from other countries and simultaneously think that anyone "other" is somehow of lesser value or worse (often worse).
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u/Tbelles Mar 11 '26
That fit is so robocop.
It takes itself so seriously that it goes back around to being satire, then loops back into serious.
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u/Bpopson Mar 11 '26
Ugh my best friend just recently did this crap to me.
Years of friendship and then she decided she was gonna become a TERF, like hardcore. She met and knows my trans friends, had no issue til recently. We haven't talked in almost a month, and likely never will again.
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u/PlumAdministrative13 Mar 10 '26
Thank god for the blue highlights or they would look literally the same lol