To be fair, they need the bandage just as much as trump does.
Like. A day or two after the attempt he was out golfing and didn't have a bandage or anything.
I think it was just a small nick and the blood thinners he's likely on just makes you bleed like crazy since they prevent clotting. A small scratch looks like a war wound, and would explain why there was blood everywhere but he still has a functional ear.
Like, if he really got shot in the ear, he'd be missing a part of his ear like in Preacher. It won't just heal back.
Projection is how Republicans roll. Remember when MAGA accused Joe Biden of wearing diapers and they found out their dear orange felon/rapist cult leader wore them instead, and started wearing them?
which is hilarious, because if you're whining about someone "taking away your masculinity," (OR if you're having panic attacks about someone else's masculinity) then you were never masculine in the first place.
Just a reminder, jd vance, trumps newest vp pick, has on many occasions been quoted in the past of saying "I didn't vote for trump", "I never liked trump", and "I'm a never-trump guy".
NOW he sings trumps praises, and kisses trumps ass.
vance is just another vapid muppet who'll get thrown under the bus the instant shit goes sideways and trump needs someone to blame for...whatever. just like all the other used-to-be-never-trumpers who are now fighting over who gets to be first to be facialed by trump
Getting the right ear pieced, also called the gay ear, is a way to signal to others that you are gay. I have no idea if it’s still a thing but growing up if you were getting a piercing the rule was left or both
I have two in my right, one in my left, and have been told many times that its the same thing. More in the right ear apparently makes me gay. Im definitely straight, but I kept my piercings like this for the last 15 years, and wouldnt you know it, the only people telling me thats gay are other straight people. This is certainly just personal experiences, but my personal experience is that its not a 'gay rule' as much as its a 'homophobe rule.' Like you said, pretty sure it was a style or signal in the gay community in the 80s or something, but any more it just feels like an urban legend perpetuated by bigots.
This was never a very reliable thing ever and certainly isn't anymore. The joke the OP makes is in reference to what it was used for, which was an attempt to attack / stigmatize anyone who did choose their right ear for a piercing perpetrated by small minds. Many of those small minds have now grown into the hateful old bigots that are the base of the GOP.
When has solidarity resembled anything like this? Wearing a fake bandage is a strange way to show it, it's hyper focused on the leader as opposed to the movement. It reads more as devotion than solidarity.
Devils advocate for the heck of it. Gonna be submerged in bad rep for this.
This is comparative to people wearing "I can't breathe" signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.
Sure they are all fucking stupid for not seeing the obvious flaws in their idol. But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.
You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.
Hear me out, showing solidarity to a slave owner attacked by his slave is different than showing solidarity to a slave who was just beaten. The power dynamic should not be ignored
But giving them shit for a pretty rational way of showing support to their idol is not the right use of your energy.
Laughing at idiots is never not the right use of my energy, thank you very much.
You are participating in the fragmentation of your nation by pouring your hate into simple stuff like this.
I'll feel guilty about it when it isn't fascists I'm fragmenting out of my country. If anything, I'm proud to make those fucks uncomfortable in my country.
The method of showing support might be similar to something like the George Floyd demonstrations. But I'm not giving them shit for their method, I'm doing it because of who they're showing support for. If somebody wore a bandage on their ear in solidarity with an innocent person who was shot in that spot by cops, I'd applaud them.
And as for fragmenting our nation, there is no tolerance available for fascists and their supporters. They choose to split us apart when they vote for someone like Trump who targets the vulnerable in our society.
Thank you for being willing to stick your neck out there and say what you feel and see.
On social media, especially sites where voting seems to happen in packs, it's risky to have a counter opinion. Too many people just don't say how they feel if it's counter to the mainstream, and then their voices are completely drowned out.
Perhaps your idea is more mainstream than you know but those who share it don't have a willingness to jump into the fire, leaving those with more extreme positions thinking they have agreement with most when they don't.
This is comparative to people wearing “I can’t breathe” signs after Floyd or waving a pride flag to show solidarity. You just give them shit because you do t agree with them.
i mean yeah, except if floyd was just, moderately bruised, and wasn't killed.
Like it's still bad, but he barely got hit, so it's literally just a flesh wound.
No, your analogy would require people having fake knees choking them out, which is as ridiculous as the ear patches. But what do you expect from people who wear a 3d model of their god being killed everywhere they go.
The left used their brain and all come to the conclusion that Trump is a shitty person all on their own, they didn't get their words from Fox News or their Republican cult leader
Almost like it's a mental illness or cult... But nope, perfectly normal. You are the one that's crazy! You should wear more diapers and ear patches about that.
"Even leading Republicans said yesterday that things went a little too far when they had to publicly repudiate the actions of a delegate who was handing out adhesive bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Mr. Kerry's war wounds."
"The bandages, distributed by Morton Blackwell of Arlington, Va., included a message that read, "It was just a self-inflicted scratch, but you see I got a Purple Heart for it.""
As a nurse this bandage trump showed up with looks totally like it is for show only. I would bet real money, that no healthcare professional was near this bandage and it was probably a PR person who sticked stuck this on him.
Can't wait to see some daring journalist ask Trump in a filmed interview to see the scar. I assume Trump will classify that under the "that's too personal" category of lies he doesn't want to defend.
As long as you don't tell your doctor to make the patch as big as possible like trump did, you should be fine in most cases. This looks more like the size of bandage you would get after ripping your whole ear off.
But are they doing it after shooting their ears with an AR-15* and my soon-to-be-sold commemorative 5.56mm Trump bullets (with tiny Trump fistbump engraving on the casing)? /s
Remember that time a bunch representatives wore bandages over their assholes because it was stylish to match Louis XIV's anal fistula bandage back in the late 1600s? Seems like they really think the have the Sun King again, the self-titled center of the universe
Imagine what they would have done if the bullet struck. Would they have also drank the metaphorical Kool aid in solidarity? That would have been convenient.
But it didn't work! Splinter rose to the occasion. In our instance he wants to ruin pretty much everyone's lives sure, but he's in splinters shoes now lol.
The fact that this was posted and there's more than one comment that's not just straight out hate is so refreshing. I switched here due to the supposed amount of bots on Reddit swaying opinions on products allegedly. But now I'm staying here because truly the bigger problem is how politics are inescapable on there. Thank you Lemmy for allowing people to actually speak and not argue constantly. Opinions are okay, have a discussion but the constant pitch forks being thrown on reddit for literally anything is insanity
I don't know what's dumber: This or listening to Democrats try and convince me I didn't see our esteemed president's brain melt in public on national television.
Both sides have their cultist devotees. That's how we got into this mess.
I'm the odd man out here. But I don't see the issue here. If the shoe was on the other foot and Biden got hit in the ear, and the Democrats did this to show support to Biden people here wouldn't deride them as they do the Republicans here.
There's many things these politicians deserve criticism for, solidarity for someone having been hurt isn't among them.
If Harris got cancer we wouldn't mock senators wearing little pink ribbons.
Wearing a ribbon is a lot different than wearing a pillow looking bandage. It feels a lot like a grift to sell product, especially if the My Pillow Guy was selling them.
If the situation were reversed and Biden was the one who got grazed I'd still mock the ear bandages, because they're stupid. You could just as easily wear an orange ribbon for mass shooting/ gun violence awareness.
A bullet nicked his ear BFD. How about solidarity for Corey Comperatore, the guy who actually died at the event?
If Harris got cancer Republicans would mock her for it. Don't pretend otherwise.
I'm fine with the down votes. Dissenting views are important even when unpopular or wrong. Many times in history those dissents have been used as a beacon, showing the way for future generations like Benjamin Curtis's in Dred Scott.
If on occasion it means I lose fake Internet point for ensuring spaces don't become echo chambers, that's a price I'm willing to pay.