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Last week I went in to work with a shirt that said, "I'm Pro-America and Anti-Trump." The shirt was mostly an American flag with the writing above and below. After a few hours I was told by the powers that be that I needed to go home and change my shirt or turn it inside out because it was offensive to "someone."

This, coming from the "F your feelings crowd."

Anyway, there are regulars who have been working there for more than 10 years wearing "Don't Tread on Me" shirts and the like. None of on the left ever once expressed being offended. We believe in freedom of speech. I just think it is funny the bizzaro world Trump has put us in. Literally everything they whine about the Left is actually true of the Right.

Sporting political shirts while manning the drive-through at Burger King? That's a recipe for a Whopper of a situation! Didn’t they give you the memo on that one when you signed up?

Vēritās wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:38 pm

Last week I went in to work with a shirt that said, "I'm Pro-America and Anti-Trump." The shirt was mostly an American flag with the writing above and below. After a few hours I was told by the powers that be that I needed to go home and change my shirt or turn it inside out because it was offensive to "someone."

I get where you're coming from, but what would you have done if one of your co-workers had come in wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat?

Hey Veritas, as someone who identifies as progressive, do you find it concerning that black men are beginning to recognize the contradictions within the progressive movement and are shifting their political allegiance to MAGA? In your view, do you consider black men to be MAGA snowflakes?


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Vēritās wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:38 pm

Last week I went in to work with a shirt that said, "I'm Pro-America and Anti-Trump." The shirt was mostly an American flag with the writing above and below. After a few hours I was told by the powers that be that I needed to go home and change my shirt or turn it inside out....

They sent you home to change? I thought The View was a live broadcast.

Hound of Heaven wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:00 am

Hey Veritas, as someone who identifies as progressive, do you find it concerning that black men are beginning to recognize the contradictions within the progressive movement and are shifting their political allegiance to MAGA? In your view, do you consider black men to be MAGA snowflakes?

If someone acts like a MAGA snowflake, then they’re a MAGA snowflake. Does it matter if they’re a black or white MAGA snowflake? : D

Vēritās wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 30, 2025 7:38 pm

Anyway, there are regulars who have been working there for more than 10 years wearing "Don't Tread on Me" shirts and the like. None of on the left ever once expressed being offended. We believe in freedom of speech. I just think it is funny the bizzaro world Trump has put us in. Literally everything they whine about the Left is actually true of the Right.

I don't think "Don't Tread on Me" is overtly supporting a particular candidate or ideology. I'm largely centrist (or at least I think I am -- others probably would put me in the Marxist Socialist Leftist Liberal Progressive camp), and I had a Gadsden flag parody decal on my last truck ("No Step On Snek"). The LGBTQ+ self-defense organization Street Patrol also used a variation of it. After a conservative extremist murdered a bunch of gay people in Florida back in 2016, a rainbow Gadsden flag became a symbol for people to rally behind.

While I know it's generally associated with right wing terrorists, like the conservative couple who murdered police officers here in Vegas, the Gadsden flag is one of those symbols for freedom that is somewhat malleable. It's a symbol for freedom, and I don't think any particular political party gets ownership of that kind of symbolism.

I think that things (clothing, flags, decals, banners, etc.) that advocate for or against a given politician, or a specific political party, should generally be eschewed in three particular spaces. Church, bars, and work. There's too much potential for acrimony. Those spaces should be free from politics as much as possible, in my opinion. I'd personally never wear anything pro-or-anti a given political candidate in any of those spaces. Nothing good can possibly come from it.

My $0.02 (not adjusted for inflation)

I thought it was always clear that MAGA was founded on snowflakism.

For example, here are some MAGA views expressed as quotes:

"But this is a Christian country!"

"You brown people need to go home to your own countries!"

"Someone had an abortion, I need to kill the people responsible!"

"There was a tranny in the little girls room, someone save me!"

"Someone said, "Happy Holidays!" It's a war on Christmas!"

"They are teaching that we came from monkeys at the public school! I am removing my kids right now!"

"I don't feel safe unless I have a large collection of assault rifles!"

"I am scared that Jews are starting fires with space lasers!"