25-35 year old humans are not kids.
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My kid said Boruto is better than DBZ guess I’m standing Kakashi now. Freeza to the freezer
These were NOT "kids". They were adults up to 40 years old. Most men have grown up around 25 years of age. These privileged cunts are well past the point of learning anything new, and maga doesn't do learning anyway, so they are typical, fat ass racist republicans now, all grown up.
These obese dumbasses, did this on record, and never had the thought that maybe, just maybe, recording their racism might be a bad idea.
These obese dumbasses all have political leadership aspirations, and guaranteed at least a couple will use the "growing up" excuse during their Senatorial confirmations, one day. If that was today, they'd be shoo ins for SCrOTUS or Cabinet positions. In the future, when their fat turns come around? Let's hope by then that the worm has turned, and fetid republican racism will no longer be acceptable, and these cunts get shown the door.
They deserve to have their futures fucked by their present. Racist, obese cunts, whose genetics are a curse on humanity. Fuck them, and all republicans. With a cactus. No lube!
I heard someone make a good, frightening point. Trump has been a political force for over a decade now. There are a generation of young people who only know MAGA politics. To them that is normal. They've never seen a functional government in their adult lives.
Idk bro. I'm almost 40 and I've never seen a functional government either.
Republican fossils are old enough to be actual Nazi party members.
Yeah, fuck obese people!
(Am I reading this right?)
I think you missed the bit about racism......
It reads like you’re at least as mad about them being obese as you are about everything else.
Or are you just using obese to mean bad?
Might want to work on your messaging.
We don't kink-shame around here. Go for it!
I wonder what kind of conversations Vance had with his wife about these kinds of things? Or his children…
Probably "Be Whiter!" to his kids.
Vancer says, "Don't be not white kids!"
You could predict what a Republican will say just by shaking a magic-88 ball.
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"Kids do stupid things," he continued. "Especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."
I was a young, stupid, conservative boy. Most of my jokes were Strong Bad related. I didn't at any time glorify Hitler.
These kids need an intervention, not apologia.
Exactly this. I grew up conservative and no, we didn't joke about Hitler or the Holocaust.
I did. I said all sorts of offensive shit with varying degrees of understanding how offensive. HOWEVER, that does not mean I didn’t expect and face accountability for my actions. That’s part of it. That’s how dumb young men grow into sane, understanding, and well adjusted people. We fuck up, we learn, we improve.
Yeah I said all sorts of shit I never believed. Felt like none of it mattered and racism wasn't real etc etc because I was a dumb privileged kid. Once I talked to people different than me and thought for like forty seconds I realized how stupid I was and how I'd been getting sucked down a right wing rabbit hole.
None of it excuses my actions and these dumb young Republicans are actively trying to enforce their racist beliefs.
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My teenage friends and I were edgy to well past the point of being vile. The only one of us making "Hitler was right" jokes was a Jew who was complaining about his parents and we always told him to shut the fuck up.
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These are the same people who argue that spanking kids is necessary to correct them. It's interesting how selective they are about punishing certain things.
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"Kids do stupid things," he continued.
Sure. I did stupid stuff. I never glorified the extermination of 11 million people though.
And these guys were 24 - 35. None of them were kids.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/republican-hitler-group-chat-nazi-politico/
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"Young republicans"
30-40 year old reject beasts trying to angle skin color as their claim to supremacy
Dogshit nazi cunt administration. The entire GOP should be welded in a box, prison is too gentle for these freaks
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Those definitely weren't jokes.
“Focus on the real issues,” he said. “Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats.” He then suggested that whoever leaked the racist messages is a “scumbag.”
“Kids do stupid things,” he continued. “Especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do.”
I knew it! Did he quote those harmless jokes? Yeah, I didn't think so.
It also bears noting that while “Young Republicans” may sound like a group composed of baby-fresh, underdeveloped prefrontal cortexes, the national organization accepts members of the Republican Party between the ages of 18 and 40.
But this is much worse imo:
Vance (..) downplayed the texts by comparing them to a leaked message from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general. Jones has come under fire this month after 2022 text messages in which he expressed a desire to shoot the former Virginia House speaker were made public.
“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” Vance wrote Tuesday on social media. Jones has, in fact, been condemned by members of his own party. Jones is also one man, making condemnable statements, not a large group of politically minded individuals producing, sharing, and celebrating the very hate they claim to revile.
Exactly. Demeaning and violent slurs against big parts of the population, even calling for their extermination, is on a whole different level to one person saying they want one other person dead. It's no comparison, but it's clever propaganda.
focus on the real issues
Oh you mean like the fact that the upcoming new generation of YOUR PARTY is openly praising Hitler?
Seems like a pretty real issue to me.
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I used the n-word on Xbox Live when I was 12. So i guess I get it.
"They were 30..."
😡
keep in mind a 30 year old conservative is mentally 10.
Men 18-40 spouting racist, bigoted, and antisemitic things are "young boys".
However, when it's girls, minors, that are sexually assaulted, they are "young women."
That really is quite the uncomfortable double standard.
Until they get older and get a job where they need to be taken seriously. Then they'll transition to girls again.
Vocabulary matters. You're pointing to a very similar journalistic/political bias. The most obvious of which is that "Israeli citizen slaughtered by terrorists!" vs. "253 Palestinians lost after strategic Israeli strike"
My favorite is the "Israeli Kidnapped from tank". Not even kidding.
Describing IDF soldiers and illegal settlers (prisoners of war) as "hostages" vs. Palestinian children, adults, all held without trial by Israel in what could only be described as concentration camps, as "prisoners".
Once you start noticing this type of passive/active language bias you start to recognize it everywhere.
Some of it is unconscious. A result of living in patriarchy and white supremacy. Most often from normies that have been trained to use that language. But, when it comes to media, it is almost always intentional to manufacture concent for the narrative they are trying to form.
Check out "title history" of news articles and you'll see in real time how this language adapts to the response of viewers or internal critics trying to ensure the correct conclusion is reached by the reader.
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Sort of like how RFK Jr could just dismiss sexual assault allegations from when he was in his mid 40s as being part of being a "very rambunctious youth."
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These nazis are so gross. I saw a "In memorial" billboard with nasty charlie kirk on it today. Disgusting! Where were all the billboards for the children gunned down in school? Nowhere, because the GOP are nothing but immoral hypocrites.
"Racists jump to defend racists."
"It was just a joke! Cantcha take a joke?" has been the go-to excuse from bullies, since the beginning of bullies. The minute I hear that, I know exactly who the bully really was.
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I've heard what they say a thousand times usually after some drunk rapes a woman or he kills people driving recklessly. "He is a fine young man at the start of his life. You have no right to punish him for the rest of his life" That is a quote about a drunk asshole farmers son who crashed his pickup and left the scene with his dying date still trapped in the truck. This was before cell phones were common. She died and he walked away with no punishment.
Obligation statement that Nazis are bad and indoctrinated with hate. Not exactly shocking.
Vance is such a question mark in all this. He’s clearly being groomed to be Trump 2.0. He’ll have the full force of billionaires, Silicon Valley, and old media behind him to make him look legitimate. I just don’t know if the Trump people will bite.
The cult is built around the Fuhrer. His probably imminent death is occurring at a difficult time. There is no clear successor. If Trump himself named one a long time ago, it’s probably Ivanka. These days, who knows what he promised. Hegseth who could have prevented 9/11 with him? He’s lost it
Vance is going to make his move, but will MAGA go with him? He doesn’t have Trump’s charisma, not even close. We have a turnkey fascist state in the making that is about to lose its leader. Also interesting to note is that if Vance is disqualified in any way, the Speaker becomes president.
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More lies from the Smiler.
Most of the fascists that were exposed as such are over 30+
Because of course they did. Is this even news anymore?
==Headline 1941 Germany== "Nazi Leadership jumps to defend Hitler youth beating on Jews and homosexuals!"
wait, did one of them really write "magger", as in "i want to make MAGA a slur for anyone but us to say"?
Young Republicans were a group of fat fuck incels like JD Vance, who call themselves alphas. No wonder he's supporting them.
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I continue to believe that Vance is literally a Nazi. I don’t mean ‘Nazi’ as shorthand for a racist right wing shitbag, or even just a run of the mill fascist. He is those things too. But, I mean an actual, sieg heil-ing, has a swastika flag in his basement, occasionally dresses in the brown shirt, arm band wearing Nazi.
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Of course they would...
MAGA logic…38 year old men “kids” . Twelve year old girls who were sexually assaulted “adults who should be punished with a baby”
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