Trump supporter in Takoma Park getting dragged on social media

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As much as I deplore Trump I agree with the sentiment here. My republican friends - some of whom are voting for Trump - are much more tolerant and respectful when it comes to the freedom to vote for WHOEVER YOU WANT than my democrat friends. They either don't ask or don't care. Meanwhile it's a constant barrage of contempt and insults from my democrat friends about "trump voters."

Sure they are tolerant for you voting for whoever you want, as long as you are the “right person”

Listen to Apple News Today about the VA voter roll purge happening where the directions were to investigate anyone registered in the last 30 days with a Hispanic sounding name.

You mean the people who selected “not a US citizen”?

[Anonymous]

There’s one Trump supporter on my street with a huge flag. Personally, I prefer that they out themselves versus someone who votes that way in secret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s one Trump supporter on my street with a huge flag. Personally, I prefer that they out themselves versus someone who votes that way in secret.

Me too. Now I know who the crazier are.

[Anonymous]

Trumpers are always in favor of free speech until it actually affects them. They only want to be able to say whatever awful racist, sexist, horrific things without impunity but how dare it go both ways!

What snowflakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Trumpers are always in favor of free speech until it actually affects them. They only want to be able to say whatever awful racist, sexist, horrific things with* impunity but how dare it go both ways!

What snowflakes.

Typo.

[Anonymous]

Please. Some MAGA sheriff said people should write down the addresses of homes that have a Harris sign on social media.

That's a lot scarier, IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Diverse, tolerant, welcoming Takoma Park at it's finest... I will not link to the posts and add to the doxxing, but multiple social media posts in Takoma Park community groups have featured a photograph and commentary mocking local who dared to put out a Trump 2024 sign in their yard. At least one of them had the decency to edit out the street address. The posts garnered hundreds of laugh react emojis and hundreds of comments dogpiling the Trump supporter with only ONE defending the resident's freedom to express their own voting preferences. In a city that... I looked it up... the Democratic candidate usually gets 90-95% of the vote, the Green party getting 2-4% and the Republican getting 2-4%, that's still hundreds of Trump voters. There are still probably more Trump supporters in Takoma Park than individuals who identify as transgender, and nobody would mock a transgender person for being out about their identity.

If you wake up shocked next Wednesday morning, this is why. People are so defensive of their groupthink bubbles they couldn't imagine that even 1 out of 20 voters doesn't think like they do. Guess what, on an average grocery shopping trip to the Takoma Park food co-op, you probably saw a Trump supporter and you don't even know it. And the rest of the country thinks you're obnoxious.

I highly doubt anyone in Takoma Park is disputing this person’s freedom to express their voting preference. However, these people are exercising their freedom to respond to that person’s expression of their voting preference.

There is no right to put a Trump sign in your hard and have all your neighbors and community members treat you the same as before and remain silent about their opinions. For many of us, a showing of support for Trump is an expression of being ok with a party that expresses sexist, racist, ableist, homophobic, and xenophobic views. None of us have to be ok with this.

And news flash, the reason republicans have the luxury of not having to hate their liberal neighbors is because their liberal neighbors aren’t trying to take away their civil rights. It’s disingenuous to act like the stakes are the same.

[Anonymous]

I say this as someone who generally rolls my eyes at the Takoma Park brand of liberalism: do you really think the reverse wouldn’t happen with a Harris sign in a heavily Trumpy area?

[Anonymous]

Hate has no home here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as someone who generally rolls my eyes at the Takoma Park brand of liberalism: do you really think the reverse wouldn’t happen with a Harris sign in a heavily Trumpy area?

No. It would be worse. I have Harris-supporting friends in heavily Trump areas and their signs are stolen, or burned, or they have threats left on their property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say this as someone who generally rolls my eyes at the Takoma Park brand of liberalism: do you really think the reverse wouldn’t happen with a Harris sign in a heavily Trumpy area?

Dp, but I really don’t. Not the social media doxxing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this as someone who generally rolls my eyes at the Takoma Park brand of liberalism: do you really think the reverse wouldn’t happen with a Harris sign in a heavily Trumpy area?

Dp, but I really don’t. Not the social media doxxing.

What do you mean social media doxxing? he has a sign on his front yard. He is doxxing himself!

[Anonymous]

This is such an old and tired argument...people who believe in tolerant and inclusive society do not have to be tolerant of those who are actively espousing racist, misogynistic, transphobic views and whose candidates want to codify their intolerance into laws.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

Exactly. Expressions of hate via political sign will not be tolerated by the community. If you’re voting for a candidate who is endorsed by the leader of the KKK perhaps you should question which side of history you are on.

Growing up I always wondered how in the world things like slavery and the holocaust happened. Not anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

It's hatred to criticize people's yard signs?