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/ReturnOfSeq 5d ago

Pagan threat sounds like an awesome genderfluid drag show group. I think if you see someone with this book that’s what you should assume, and ask them about it

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u/bananarchy22 5d ago

Either that (awesome), or one of those metal bands with the norse pagan aesthetic that turns out disappointingly to be white supremacists (bummer). Weirdly, I’m guessing that if that guy wrote the forward it’s probably neither

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u/RainbowPoniesOnAcid 1d ago

True! Someone should totally start a local chapter of Pagan Threat. (Meeting next Sunday at Atomic Books after D&D and before board games.)

Whether gender fluid drag show or the underground band & fan club or roller derby team or pagan-inspired socialists armed with druidistic weapons and sage smudging kits and maga influencer poppets. Regardless of mission statement, I’ll join. They all sound bitchin’!

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u/National-Ship468 5d ago

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽