Trump supporter in Takoma Park getting dragged on social media

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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 without impunity but how dare it go both ways!

What snowflakes.

Did the person who posted the sign say any awful racist, sexist or horrific things? No....

The candidate whose name is on the yard sign did - and continues to do so.

Then shame THAT person if you must.

So your position is that I can put out a yard sign in my yard, publicly expressing support for a candidate, but you shouldn't criticize me for publicly supporting the candidate? That works out great for me, but why shouldn't you be able to criticize me for my public support of the candidate?

The point is, why must we go around criticizing people at all?

Because of free speech. Trumpers aren't the only one's allowed to criticize.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

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

If you had seen the Facebook posting about this man, yes, it was hostile, perhaps hateful.

Newsflash to people outraged in Takoma Park over the Trump signs - more than 32% of Takoma Park voters voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

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

If you had seen the Facebook posting about this man, yes, it was hostile, perhaps hateful.

Newsflash to people outraged in Takoma Park over the Trump signs - more than 32% of Takoma Park voters voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

Right, and the point here is that the other 80% of TP who finds that repugnant gets to express their opinion about it, including by talking about it directly online.

Under what circumstances DO you find it acceptable to publicly comment on someone's political actions?

[Anonymous]

Shocker. Human beings are awful to each other.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Republicans: I want to exercise my constitutional right to free speech.

Also republicans: How dare you exercise your constitutional right to free speech in response to my speech! I expect the freedom to do what I want without consequences while also complaining about democrats having any rights.

I’m a Harris voter and I am anti bullying and anti doxing. Plastering somebody’s lawn sign in front of their house all over social media is docking and driving us apart.

Sadly, so many people in our party are not listening to what Harris is preaching, which is unity. Doxxing is driving us further apart.

This is not doxxing. The person did something openly in public. This isn’t even a situation of something occurring in public where the facts/video have been distorted.

I would not care if the whole world knew I had a Harris sign in my yard.

Now if someone is threatening violence or to bully that person’s kids or egg their house or whatever that is emphatically wrong. To my knowledge that isn’t happening right?

The Takoma Park man who was slammed on Facebook for his Trump signs has had his political signs moved and damaged.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

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

If you had seen the Facebook posting about this man, yes, it was hostile, perhaps hateful.

Newsflash to people outraged in Takoma Park over the Trump signs - more than 32% of Takoma Park voters voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

Right, and the point here is that the other 80% of TP who finds that repugnant gets to express their opinion about it, including by talking about it directly online.

Under what circumstances DO you find it acceptable to publicly comment on someone's political actions?

DP, there are ways to express opposition to someone's politics more effectively by not slamming someone as an absolute monster for having a Trump sign. You didn't see the Facebook posts, so you don't really have full information upon which to make a judgment.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

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

If you had seen the Facebook posting about this man, yes, it was hostile, perhaps hateful.

Newsflash to people outraged in Takoma Park over the Trump signs - more than 32% of Takoma Park voters voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

While I agree with your sentiment, Takoma Park most certainly did not vote 32% for Trump. It was Biden +90.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html

The 32% for Trump was probably the State of Maryland, I think Biden won 60-35

[Anonymous]

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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 agree with you. I live in Takoma Park and I know the man who was doxxed. He is more thoughtful than others I know in Takoma Park. You would not meet him on the street and recoil in horror, saying he is a fascist. I think you have to look at what is behind people's support of Trump. Perhaps they feel alienated by their communities and feel failed by government.

What we ought not do is what so many people did on Facebook to this man.

The average German Nazi supporter wasn’t exactly murdering babies in the streets you know. Stop making excuses for these people.

“And some of them, I assume, are good people.” -Trump talking about actual neo Nazis.

[Anonymous]

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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 without impunity but how dare it go both ways!

What snowflakes.

Did the person who posted the sign say any awful racist, sexist or horrific things? No....

The candidate whose name is on the yard sign did - and continues to do so.

Then shame THAT person if you must.

So your position is that I can put out a yard sign in my yard, publicly expressing support for a candidate, but you shouldn't criticize me for publicly supporting the candidate? That works out great for me, but why shouldn't you be able to criticize me for my public support of the candidate?

The point is, why must we go around criticizing people at all?

Because elections are not the World Series. Would it have affected my life if the Yankees had won the World Series, instead of the Dodgers? Not really. But it will affect my life, in many different ways, every single day for the rest of my life, if Trump becomes president instead of Harris. And yours too.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Yes, people who don't think Trump is a good person but will vote for him anyways because he's better for their wallet are no different to those Germans who brought Hitler to power.

Are you kidding with this rhetoric??? What is wrong with you? Unfortunately, both candidates are incredibly flawed, but this type of reference is disgusting.

nope and nope

Libs are so worked up right now because they know it does not look good.

we're worked up because it's a close race and your guy is a fascist who rapes women and takes away our rights. yeah, the stakes are high - and people who support this doddering fascist rapist, and make that support public, are going to see their neighbors' feelings about that! f your feelings? is that how it goes?

[Anonymous]

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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 agree with you. I live in Takoma Park and I know the man who was doxxed. He is more thoughtful than others I know in Takoma Park. You would not meet him on the street and recoil in horror, saying he is a fascist. I think you have to look at what is behind people's support of Trump. Perhaps they feel alienated by their communities and feel failed by government.

What we ought not do is what so many people did on Facebook to this man.

The average German Nazi supporter wasn’t exactly murdering babies in the streets you know. Stop making excuses for these people.

“And some of them, I assume, are good people.” -Trump talking about actual neo Nazis.

Sorry, I mixed up my Trump quotes! That was when he was talking about the criminal Mexicans. I think the Nazis were the “good people on both sides” line.

My apologies for the mix up!

[Anonymous]

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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 agree with you. I live in Takoma Park and I know the man who was doxxed. He is more thoughtful than others I know in Takoma Park. You would not meet him on the street and recoil in horror, saying he is a fascist. I think you have to look at what is behind people's support of Trump. Perhaps they feel alienated by their communities and feel failed by government.

What we ought not do is what so many people did on Facebook to this man.

go read the banality of evil - i think you might have forgotten its lessons

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate has no home here.

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

If you had seen the Facebook posting about this man, yes, it was hostile, perhaps hateful.

Newsflash to people outraged in Takoma Park over the Trump signs - more than 32% of Takoma Park voters voted for Trump in the 2020 election.

Right, and the point here is that the other 80% of TP who finds that repugnant gets to express their opinion about it, including by talking about it directly online.

Under what circumstances DO you find it acceptable to publicly comment on someone's political actions?

DP, there are ways to express opposition to someone's politics more effectively by not slamming someone as an absolute monster for having a Trump sign. You didn't see the Facebook posts, so you don't really have full information upon which to make a judgment.

You’re right, I didn’t see the posts. I don’t actually need to. I’m fine with people who publicly support Trump being called out for it. I don’t subscribe to the “meek tolerance is the only moral stance” liberal line. These people are bigots. They support fascism. They shouldn’t be welcome in the community. The community is under no obligation to be kind to someone who publicly shows support for a tyrant.

If the person with the sign didn’t want to stir up exactly this drama, they would not have put up the sign. That is a provocative move in TP, not a neutral one. Suggesting otherwise is disingenuous

[Anonymous]

I saw the facebook posts in question and to be fair the posts were not all that bad. Something along the lines of "Oh what a scary Halloween decoration!"

Also, if you are putting up Trump signs or Trump flags in Takoma Park, you know exactly what you're doing. You are seeking attention and getting it. That said. s/he should not be doxxed and my fear is that some agitators would egg the house or something. Leave people's property and privacy alone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fascists and those who support them should be named and shamed. Sorry, not sorry.

This is why you will lose on Tuesday. Just watch