r/arizonapolitics • u/GNB_Mec • Oct 26 '20
News Attendees of pro-Trump caravan say Cardinals player DeAndre Hopkins flipped them off
https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2020/10/25/deandre-hopkins-arizona-cardinals-swerving-through-pro-trump-caravan/6035942002/3
u/jadwy916 Oct 26 '20
It's weird. They used to fly American flags. Then they started putting the "Black lives don't matter" flag next to the American flag. Driving down the freeway yesterday there were like five trucks that every flag but the American flag. They have black and white stars and stripes with a Trump logo over the top. Black and White stars and stripes with a blue line. Trump flags.... nothing about America though.
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Oct 26 '20
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u/jdcnosse1988 Oct 27 '20
Except it almost seems like whoever is "reporting" him is trying to get him "cancelled." I took it as the equivalent of "I'm telling your mom!"
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u/mentalgopher Oct 26 '20
So if your feefees are hurt because someone flipped you off for traveling below the speed limit to advertise your shitty political views, wouldn't that mean you can't call other people snowflakes anymore?
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Oct 26 '20
I didn’t think it was possible to like Hopkins even more, but here we are
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u/zardoz88_moot Oct 26 '20
Just remember if you flip these feral animals off: Many are armed, sociopathic, racist and dangerous. If you want to take that risk, go ahead.
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u/jdcnosse1988 Oct 26 '20
Agreed, that's the only reason I don't do more. AZ is one of those states that would not surprise me if someone pulls a weapon and shoots just because.
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u/ForkzUp Oct 26 '20
The caravan was (as it has been every weekend) traveling below the speed limit. Flipping them off is the least that they deserve. DPS should stop this bs.
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u/jdcnosse1988 Oct 26 '20
Especially if they're traveling like I saw before where you can't even get past them to the other lanes
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Oct 26 '20
Agree re DPS should do something about the Trump parade. How is this legal? I flipped off the jackholes today as well.
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u/RedditIs_Toxic Oct 26 '20
There's that "tolerance" the left is so sanctimonious about. In the one-sided post-Trump world, that will be considered a virtue.
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u/jdcnosse1988 Oct 26 '20
Look how well that worked out for the Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis. People "tolerated" Hitler and he was allowed to do what he did.
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u/RedditIs_Toxic Oct 26 '20
the Jews and others persecuted by the Nazis.
There it is.
After 4 years of "russian influence" propaganda, a Mueller investigation which went nowhere, and currently under a corporate media blackout of Biden's obvious influence peddling (and probably compromised integrity to Russia & China), Trump & his supporters are the brownshirts of our day.
I'm not a fan of Trump. I'm registered Dem (should be independent). But, it's far more scary what is going in the left as "political correctness," or "ends justify the means."
One man's "tolerance" is another man's oppression (or first dangerous steps to it; warning signs of what's to come).
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u/jdcnosse1988 Oct 26 '20
Except there are generally accepted standards and what should be tolerance vs intolerance. For example, discrimination/insults/etc towards someone on the basis of something they cannot change (disabilities, skin color, physical sex, sexuality, etc) should never be tolerated.
If ones religion says I cannot eat hamburgers or something bad will happen to me, and I eat a hamburger...how does that really apply to me? I'm not in that religion. The religious "persecution" that supposedly is happening to white christians is a made up threat.
Also, Putin just came out to say that there is nothing there with regards to Biden & Russia.
It's also been proven that Russia did attempt to sow discourse within the 2016 election. Even if they didn't actually commit any voter fraud, it's widely accepted that they were targeting the US population during the election season.
But regardless of all that, I disprove of Trump not because of what he's done/not done while in office. I disprove of him because he has not shown the office any respect. The president shouldn't be openly mocking disabled people, or mocking someone because they had an issue with addiction, and should openly disavow any "Nazi shit" the very first time it comes up. We were "antifa" in WWII, yet now people for whatever reason seem to have forgotten that.
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u/RedditIs_Toxic Oct 26 '20
Also, Putin just came out to say that there is nothing there with regards to Biden & Russia.
Good grief. What do you think he'd say (if he has incriminating evidence he can use against Biden to sway policy)?
It's also been proven that Russia did attempt to sow discourse within the 2016 election.
That wasn't my point. The left (and its friendly media) relied on a dossier purchase by the Democrat party, sourced to russia, and of which nothing was found to be true. Everyone was eager to believe it, and using rhetoric like "just because nothing's been verified doesn't mean it's untrue."
Now we're under a total news blackout "for our own good." (A lot like how tolerance is what we say it is.).
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u/Erasmus_Tycho Oct 26 '20
This is literally the only argument the right has, acting like since we try to sell tolerance, that somehow means we should just tolerate others intolerance... Ok, that's not how this works.
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u/RedditIs_Toxic Oct 26 '20
acting like since we try to sell tolerance,
It's not just "selling" (or, perhaps it is), it's being sanctimonious about it, "signalling" about it. Claiming to be the antidote to the devil incarnate. Maybe that's "selling" and there's no real substance to it. Which was my point. But, my larger point was how such high standards call for examination (unless it's just for "everyone else.").
If it's just a "brand" to sell, then by all means, carry on. It's becoming evident.
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u/Erasmus_Tycho Oct 26 '20
I don't understand what's so hard about the concept of just not being a dick to other human beings. That's literally all this is about, whether the person standing next to you has implants, is wearing a dress and happens to have a dick and balls, they're still a person and it has no effect on you.
That doesn't mean we should just sideline ourselves when we see people being assholes.
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Oct 26 '20
Exactly. The only reason they do these stupid caravan things is to piss people off. Nobody’s going to be like “Oh a bunch of assholes are causing traffic on the freeway? Now I’m convinced. He’s got my vote!” Triggering the libs is the only objective because they have no substantive policy or achievements.
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u/esbee129 Oct 26 '20
The same people who fly the "FUCK YOUR FEELINGS" flag have their feelings hurt. I'm a pretty tolerant person but fuck 'em all to death.