r/politics • u/Arrest_The_President • 7d ago

Will Trump chicken out of the presidential debate? Probably. He's a Grade-A coward. Soft Paywall

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/06/25/trump-biden-presidential-debate-cnn-rigged/74195698007/
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u/_magneto-was-right_ 7d ago

How dare tweeter man sully the name of Bruce Campbell.

This tweeter is without honor. He has forgotten the face of his fathers. May he stand in line, forever waiting for a customer service associate to approve his choice to skip bagging his milk.

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u/SarcasticCowbell New York 7d ago

I keep seeing this same "BruceCampbell123" user quoted. Is this a prolific poster over there? And why's he gotta do Bruce Campbell dirty like that?

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u/OneWholeSoul 7d ago edited 7d ago

He's someone I was close friends with in real-life for a bit over a decade, then stumbled on him on Reddit using the same username he always did when we gamed online, and I was disturbed by the sort of things he was posting and how aggressively he was posting them, because he thought he had anonymity.

"Blacks have lower IQs but they're better at physical labor."
"It's OK to discriminate against blacks as a landlord because blacks lower property values."
"Women should be subservient to men, especially if they're married."
"All gays are coming from your children and need to stop shoving their existence down our throats. They're lucky we don't stone them to death like Islam does."

And so on, and so on.
I confronted him about it and told him that what I was seeing him say online was impossible to reconcile with being his friend, especially as a bi-racial gay man, myself. His response was to tell me that he'd never said any of that, and I pointed out it was literally all in writing, so that wasn't going to work. He countered that it's my own fault for being too sensitive and "choosing" to make this "something that affects our friendship." Also, I'm a stalker.

I check in on his commenting every once in a while to see if he's changed at all or - as has actually happened - to see how much further he's fallen. If this is who he wants to be, then clearly he wants people to know since he's voicing it online, and I'm just helping him out by signal-boosting him and making sure people know who he is when they're debating and conversing with him, instead of who he pretends to be to appear to have a moral high ground.

This is someone I watched for years angrily railing against "materialism" and "money-loving" and insisting that there's no such thing as systemic racism, casually professing that he wholeheartedly supports systemic racism if there might be money in it.

Oh, I almost forgot:

"Chinese and Indians are an inherently dirty people. Have you ever been to the bathroom in a Chinese restaurant?"

I think a lot of it might be externalized self-loathing? At least on the gay parts? He's always been a huge proponent of gay conversion therapy, like, to a weirdly invested and insistent degree, and one day I was just flat-out like: "Why is something so horrible such an important thing for you to always defend?" and his response was this weirdly cagey "Some people just really depend on and need it," and suddenly I'm remembering things like he telling me I can sleep on his couch for the night before I hit the road after turning in the keys on my own apartment that day but then a gay comedic scene coming on in the movie we were watching and suddenly he shuts off the TV and is like "Well, I should head to bed, you can let yourself out." So I just, like...lifted my suitcase and box and slept in my car.

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u/BigCopperPipe 7d ago

I was positive I was gonna read about Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell in a Cell after going through this comment.

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u/DadJokeBadJoke California 6d ago

Lol, I had to do a quick scan, too.

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u/Theyalreadysaidno Minnesota 7d ago

He gaslit the hell out of you. Sorry you had to go through that. Thanks for spreading the word about him, though.

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u/Wild_Harvest 7d ago

I hope that you spread far and wide his real beliefs so that everyone can see who he is. Although that may be a step too far.

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u/obamasrightteste 6d ago

Fantastic response, I love it

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u/Nope8000 6d ago

Geez. What an absolute vile person.

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u/yourmansconnect 7d ago

Tell your old friend I said he's so far in the closet he's practically in Narnia

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u/midwestia 6d ago

Epic gamer moment 😎

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u/MethForHarold 7d ago

You know who he is, that means you could silence him. Think about the damage he is doing by spreading his hate to millions. Don't be afraid.

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u/b_i_g__g_u_y 6d ago

How are you proposing he silences someone else?

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u/OneWholeSoul 6d ago

Right? It's kind of the opposite.
I can't stop him from saying these things, but I can get as many to hear him doing it as possible.

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u/Special-Affect-7928 Tennessee 6d ago

I'm a moderate myself. I have friends on both sides. Since 2016 I've watched my Republican friends slowly lose their sanity with each new conspiracy theory, to the point I don't even like talking to them because its always about Trump. It's always "Look at this email!" or "Look at this fox new reel!". I keep telling them their in a cult of personality. No one should be that loyal to a politician.

To top it off, as a Christian myself, it irks me how conservative Christians will post meme on social media basically comparing Trump to Jesus. Trump supporters literally think this man is their modern day savior from the wealth elite, all the while not realizing many of Trump's friends ARE the wealthy elite.

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u/roehnin 6d ago

Silenced? His mic will be on during his time.