More like, "guy everyone is supposed to like is republican, people shocked."
Don't learn too much about the people you like on TV.
Chris Pratt is a republican?
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Don't learn too much about the people you like on TV.
Oh God I can't believe it
but when this era's through I'll say that's it.
Edification will take place.
Pull up the reigns and get out of the race.
My bros are down for the Unity.
311 is down for the Unity.
Unanimity of the Unity.
The Gadsden Flag is the universal symbol for "I'm a privileged white asshole who doesn't understand how the world works".
Yes it does, especially when that person has expressed other problematic views.
yes, you are "correct" trump is far right republican. Just like there are Christians or Muslims and extremists that think most Christians or Muslims are not hardcore enough. Trump is a extremist. The problem though is even if most republican think he is too extreme they don't speak out on him because "he is from our party" most Republicans think he is crazy, but only if the camera is off.
Let's see just how far we can stretch expectations, folks!
Not everyone knows this. Not everyone even believes this. And, frankly, if people wouldn't let shitty movements like that freaking take symbols like this and then abandon them at the first sign of terrible, things like this, Pepe, and, apparently, the circle game wouldn't be seen as alt-right symbols and could live on being whatever the used to be.
It didn't used to be, but more and more its associated with the right wing or alt-right. It used to be pretty common in New England because it was a revolutionary war flag. I don't think it'll ever become a GOP symbol, but if someone is flyign this flag/symbol today there's a pretty good chance they're either ignorant (which I'd imagine Chris Pratt falls into) or a Tea Party leaning conservative. Prior to 2008 it would have been associated with, generally, an independent minded person ... moderately anti-government, perhaps anti-war, perhaps pro- drug legalization, maybe pro-gay rights, but also maybe right leaning but not necessarily right leaning, etc. I would have associated it with like, a liberal anti-government type person from New Hampshire... Someone whose idea of individual liberty is no broader than cheap cigarettes and legal weed. But around/after 2008, it started to widely get co-oped by the Tea Party to be anti-government, which meant anti-Obama, which meant anti-Liberal, which became the alt-right.
I'm worried about 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' going the same way. It's a fucking anti-slavery abolitionist pro-Union Civil War fight song that Martin Luther King Jr famously quoted just before he was assassinated.... But the fucking Right has been trying hard to co-opt it hard for decades. FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS, man
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Yeah theres plenty of people in denial or who were too stupid to grasp it. (See: Cilliza, Chris)
Dont step on snek was a tea party thing.
I hate that the Dont Tread on Me thing has been co opted, I have a Navy Jack on my wall and have for years(since I was in the Navy and all, the flag actually came from my last ship and was given to me by the navigation officer) and I've had numerous people question me about it. I'm not a tea party nutter I promise, I just feel a connection to my time in the Navy is all.
It's rather recent, too. US Soccer had gear with "Don't Tread On Me" for many years.
Heck, Clint Dempsey even rapped about it:
Then the fucking Tea Party came and co-opted it.
I was JUST about to mention that. The snake and the language is used a lot for Philadelphia sports teams as well.
Sorry can you elaborate? You want like 30% of the world to be cancelled?
From my understanding its exact meaning has become kind of vague, but it ultimately is a call sign for some form of far-right, anti- government nationalist politics.
Nothing wrong with either of those tho, it's the rest of him that sucks and his specific branch of christianity that seemingly forgot to mention to treat others as your neighbor and not to hoard wealth
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But if you don't stand against him and his policies, you are complicit.
With his brand of christianity (i.e. super homophobic and against wealth redistribution) and what the Republican party is in 2019 it absolutely fucking does.
It was bound to happen with someone in the MCU, there's probably a few more that just keep it quiet, can't all be as cool as Cap
Wouldn't this shirt make him more likely to be a libertarian? (Not that there's much of a difference really...)
Can you imagine still pulling #NotAllRepublicans in this day and age
I could never
Utterly unsurprising after his bible quote tweets.
He's exactly the goofy dude who has his fun when he's younger, then gets some money, joins a church, and gets more (openly) conservative. It's a tale as old as time.
He's exactly the goofy dude who has his fun when he's younger, then gets some money, joins a church, and gets more (openly) conservative. It's a tale as old as time.
As long as Pratt doesn't become the next Reagan I don't care. Some people in Hollywood are Republicans, it happens.
I thought it has already been talked about that the church branch with the hateful sermons was the NY based one, and not the LA based one that he attends.
Didn't Ellen page call him out for going to that church or something?
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Has he ever publicly said anything or is this thread just everyone jumping to conclusions based on... a t-shirt?
My comment wasn't really about Chris Pratt just about people assuming immediately one is awful and horrible right after learning they're republicans.
Knee jerk reaction much?
Maybe somebody just likes the aesthetic. The design has a history of Being in support of liberty - which I can't speak for the community, but for myself on this - which I have zero qualms with. I fail to see how he should be vilified for wearing this shirt.
Also, what's the big deal if he is Republican? That doesn't make him a bad person inherently. I just don't get what the big deal is.
Maybe somebody just likes the aesthetic. The design has a history of Being in support of liberty - which I can't speak for the community, but for myself on this - which I have zero qualms with. I fail to see how he should be vilified for wearing this shirt.
Also, what's the big deal if he is Republican? That doesn't make him a bad person inherently. I just don't get what the big deal is.
Give it time. Wait until he isn't getting many roles anymore. Then you'll see the face beneath the mask.
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You mean supporting the party doing what they're doing in your country right now. With Trump?
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