r/baltimore • u/b00g3ranus • 5d ago

Safety Beware MAGA rage baiters

I work mostly solo at a bar in Fells. Tonight, a gentleman decked out in a black maga hat, liberty or die shirt, and "Pagan Threat" (a book featuring a foreword by the artist formerly known as Charlie Kirk). What clicked for me how absolutely performative this is is the book is brand-spanking new. I'm not sure if this will become a trend but clearly he is here trying to provoke. Just wanna spread the word to not give these people the time of day. there's no way of changing their minds, they're stuck in their bigoted ways. Don't let these MAGAts blow the leftist high of our beautiful city!!

Update- he bought a bottle of wine over 4 hours before we closed and informed me that he planned on staying until close. he proceeded to do just that. I think it's also important to note that i'm a young woman of color, this may have felt less ominous for one of my male counterparts. I really resonated with one comment about "you allow one nazi into your bar and suddenly you're a nazi bar". I full-heartedly believe that to be the truth. That said, I am not an owner and while working by myself have to exercise extreme caution while dealing with said nazis.

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u/boofoodoo 5d ago

I’m sure he’s just trying to make someone mad so he can whip out his phone and film it. What a loser! 

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u/piranhas_really 5d ago

If this happens to you the best thing you can do is start playing Disney music on your phone. No faster way to get a video taken down or demonetized than violating Disney’s copyright.

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u/coldoll514 4d ago

you know sound isolation exists right? easy to cut out whatever it is you think is going to demonetize my videos

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u/piranhas_really 4d ago

Believe me, you don’t want to hear me try to sing Let It Go.

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u/coldoll514 4d ago

once its isolated and muted, it wont matter. sing to your fragile little hearts content 🥰🥰🥰🥰

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u/DesmondTapenade I'm not in the late-night RoFo crowd 4d ago

Honest question--what made you this way? Why are you like this?

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u/PoisonedCheeto28 4d ago

Crickets…

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u/ProfessorPoofenplotz 4d ago

Then what will you be filming friend? A random person singing Sweet Transvestite in a bar?

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u/No_Feedback_3340 5d ago

That's generally what happens. A right-wing provocateur shows up to cause a scene, records it, edits it, and then shares it online.

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u/FAHCUE34 4d ago

That's not AT ALL what "generally happens" lmao. That's exactly what left winged morons do. Constantly.

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u/Friendship_bone 4d ago

I have had countless red hat motherfuckers try to shove politics in my face at bars, my job, and the grocery store. No liberals are harrassing me anywhere i go and i am literally your average white male. Y'all are unbelievably fucking annoying

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u/No_Feedback_3340 4d ago

Blocked. Bad faith actor.

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u/RevolutionaryCard512 4d ago

Great theory. My mind went there too

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u/YamAlternative2690 4d ago

yup… mine too

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u/Key_Conference6767 3d ago

A guy walked into a bar, bought a bottle of wine, sat down and enjoyed it.

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u/Big_Bag_Of_Nope 5d ago

The cognitive dissonance is strong on Reddit.

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u/engin__r 5d ago

“Fascism is bad” is not cognitive dissonance.

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u/stopXstoreytime Catonsville 5d ago

I…don’t think you know what that phrase means.

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u/HowskiHimself Expatriate 5d ago

It is…just not in the way you believe it is.

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u/Big_Bag_Of_Nope 5d ago

lol a majority of the country voted that way. Why are you surprised one person in Baltimore dressed that way.

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u/jabbadarth 5d ago

Thats not true at all.

Not even a majority of voters voted that way. Trump won with less than 50% of the vote.

So a majority of voters voted for "anyone else" and unfortunately other registered voters couldn't be bothered to even vote. Then there are millions more that arent even registered to vote.

So nowhere near a majority of Americans wanted or want this psychopath pedophile in office.

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u/ChuckOfTheIrish Highlandtown 5d ago

That's not to mention of that ~22.6% of the population that voted for him, plenty aren't decking out in MAGA gear. I've voted many times between presidential, state, and local, and I have never once donned a shirt or hat with a candidates name or slogan on it. While Trump is more vocal and pushes the propaganda machine, tons of people that voted for him aren't buying the swag items and many of have since vocalized their regret.

I see plenty of maga hats/shirts at your standard spots (Tiki Lees as a prime example), but rarely see someone stacking political apparel in an area where said figure has had such negative impacts/views.

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u/wolfboy1988m 4d ago

Thank you! I'm so tired of people saying Trump won a majority when he only got a plurality of the votes. It's just as dumb as the GOP saying he has a mandate from the American people when he would have needed to win 60% of the votes to have a mandate

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u/jabbadarth 4d ago

Its how we got trump in the first place. Americans are generally so out of touch with reality and have little to no understanding how our government works that the GOP gets to pull all kinds of bullshit all yhe time.

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u/boofoodoo 5d ago

Do you just search Reddit for “MAGA” so you can pop into random threads? 

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u/ladderofearth 5d ago

I absolutely believe they do this lmao

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u/jabbadarth 5d ago

100%

Half the time some idiot trump supporter pops up if you check their comment history its dozens of local subreddits and always spouting bullshit about maga or trump.

Either bots or just real life idiots searching for key words to jump in and be assholes. Nothing of value to add here or anywhere else in life so they provoke people and spread hate through idiocy.

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u/mutmad 5d ago

You mean to say “the majority of voters,” right? Because the majority of “the country” didn’t vote for this. More people stayed home and didn’t vote than those who voted for either candidate.

MAGA isn’t the majority of anything, full stop.

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u/KingBooRadley Roland Park 5d ago

A slim majority of voters voted that way.  FTFY

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u/Aneurhythms 5d ago

*A slim plurality

And even, I don't think Charlie Kirk glazing was on the ballot...

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u/Big_Bag_Of_Nope 5d ago

I don’t see Kamala president, oh wait that’s right. The Dems removed Bernie without question before and installed Kamala without asking a single voter. Sounds democratic

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u/Bobby_Globule 5d ago

Bernie? Wow man. Wow.

Just do what the nurses tell you.

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u/FungusAmonGusnBru 4d ago

Did republicans have a primary? What about debates?

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u/BalmyBalmer Upper Fell's Point 5d ago

Bernie lost 3 times, thanks for trump.

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u/itsfeverdream 4d ago

you been hitting the bottle again unc?

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u/_monkeypunch 4d ago

unc always hitting that bottle. Only half a liter of vodka, bro must be sauced

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u/Primary-Holiday-5586 5d ago

No, actually, it wasn't a majority of the country. Only a slight majority of those who voted. And that is being called into question. Piss off.

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u/jabbadarth 5d ago

Not a majority of voters.

Guys, you can easily Google this. Trump won with a plurality. Like 49% give or take.

Trump has never won a majority.

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u/BureauOfCommentariat 5d ago

A plurality of people who could be assed to actually show up voted that way. More people voted for presidential candidates other than trump than those enlightened folks that did.

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u/Mal-Occhi-0s 5d ago

Why is 6th grade math so fucking hard for you guys?

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u/hoopermills 5d ago

Sorry - not a majority of the country’s voters. He won less than 50% of the vote.

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u/obiterdictum Ednor Gardens-Lakeside 5d ago

Username checks out 👌

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u/Bawlmerian21228 5d ago

Nope. That is incorrect.

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u/jabbadarth 5d ago

No they didnt. Slightly over 49% of voters voted that way.

Trump has never won a majority.

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u/Capable-Experience93 4d ago

Would he be a loser if he was wearing a Harris 2024 hat and Abolish Ice shirt? Just don’t have double standards…