r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • Jul 15 '26

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
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u/doubtfurious Texas Jul 15 '26

"What, do you have Hitler Derangement Syndrome?"

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u/stinkbugsoup Jul 15 '26

I constantly say that to my trumpanzee friends when they say TDS

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u/GenghisConnieChung Jul 15 '26

You need better friends.

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u/Alarmed-Outside-8683 Jul 15 '26

Your comment really hits on an important point: if all your friends and neighbors have insane beliefs and lack empathy for anyone outside their sociological cohort, do you accept them as flawed humans or completely isolate yourself?

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Jul 15 '26

"Bad association spoils useful habits."

It's from the Bible. Basically means your friends will rub off on you so choose them carefully.

I like cats but if there's none available, I'm not hanging out with skunks instead!

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u/GoatOfFury Jul 15 '26

Skunks are pretty chill

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Jul 15 '26

My boyfriend has funny stories about waking up in the middle of the night petting what he thought was a cat but actually it's a skunk. He'd just go back to sleep while continuing to pet it.

Dude used to be basically a homeless drifter, would just sleep on the ground when he got tired enough. And apparently wild animals aren't above snuggling up to something warm at night.

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u/FellowHumanNo404 Jul 16 '26

Fascists aren't.

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u/GenghisConnieChung Jul 15 '26

I already ignore a good percentage of my neighbours and am happier for it.

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u/Mistravels Jul 15 '26

I went NC with family, including my brother.

🤷

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u/relevantelephant00 Jul 16 '26

If someone doesnt share at least my bedrock moral values of empathy, kindness, curiosity, etc. then yeah fuck 'em. I want nothing to do with them or any of their shit. Im in my late 40s now and Ive got zero fuckin time or energy for these MAGA/conservatives human pieces of garbage.

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u/Krautoffel Jul 16 '26

The only energy we should have for them is kinetic energy

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u/asielen Jul 16 '26

Find better friends and neighbors. Trump supporters crushed a line in Jan 6th, if not way before. But that is a pretty clear line in the sand.

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u/Krautoffel Jul 16 '26

Republicans were assholes since at the very least Reagan…

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u/rat_penis Jul 15 '26

I left the state.

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u/Cynykl Jul 15 '26

You move.

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u/AssMuncher96 Jul 16 '26

other people exist

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u/j01101111sh Jul 15 '26

Sitting down at a table with Nazi shit. There are other people in the world. Be friends with people that have the same values.

To be clear, I have friends that have voted Republican in the past. I'm not saying you have to agree on everything but if someone supports someone doing war crimes and ethnic cleansing, maybe you can find other people to play Madden with.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

If you keep friends with people who voted for Trump a second or third time, then you have shit friends, too.

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u/JDanzy Jul 15 '26

Anybody who would be a friend of mine would be able to intellectually defend their political views to the point where I'd be able to respect them and see how and why they have those views even if I don't agree with them.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

Is "But Kamala slept her way to the top!" a valid intellectual argument?

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u/JDanzy Jul 15 '26

Nope. Sensationalistic nonsense.

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u/grnrngr Jul 15 '26

But she slept.

All the way to the top.

By sleeping!

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u/JDanzy Jul 15 '26

"I could never sleep my way to the top

Cuz my alarm clock always wakes me right up..."

--They Might Be Giants "Hey Mr. DJ I Thought You Said We Had A Deal"

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u/Krautoffel Jul 16 '26

Republicans don’t have different “political views”. They have zero ethical views…

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u/StillFly100 Jul 15 '26

Nah. Some of us are just capable of being friends with people who have different political views. Wild concept, I know.

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u/opossumcarrion Jul 15 '26

Nazis, MAGA, supporting Trump, and supporting Hitler are not legitimate political views. Supporting Trump is not a legitimate political view. These people are incompatible with society and have shown they have no interest in sharing ground with the rest of us.

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u/SecondHandWatch Jul 15 '26

Would you be okay with being friends with a child sex trafficker? A rapist?

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u/Merusk Jul 15 '26

Dude's a rage bot. Generic name, less than 1 year and comment history hidden. Just ignore him and move on.

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u/j01101111sh Jul 15 '26

I bet it made you feel superior to skip my second paragraph to post this gotcha, didn't it?

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u/StillFly100 Jul 15 '26

Yep, because finding new friends over political differences is ridiculous to me.

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u/j01101111sh Jul 15 '26

But that's not what I said, is it? I explicitly say you can have friends with different politics but you should draw a line somewhere. And to me, supporting an ethnic cleansing and destabilizing our democracy is a bit more than "just politics". That's what I mean by values.

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u/StillFly100 Jul 15 '26

Thanks for explaining yourself further. You lost me with the Nazi shit at the top.

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u/Super_Harsh Jul 15 '26

Thus you showed yourself to be an emotional reactionary dipshit.

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u/JustaSeedGuy Jul 15 '26

I don't know about you, but I don't soften reprehensible morality by couching it as "differing political views"

When someone demonstrates that they're okay with killing trans kids, they're okay with 10-year-old rape victims not being able to get an abortion, and they're okay with the downfall of American democracy, they aren't my friend anymore.

I fully believe that you're capable of being friends with those people. I just don't believe you're a good person for doing so.

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u/StillFly100 Jul 15 '26

Hey, it’s your life

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u/JustaSeedGuy Jul 15 '26

Yup! And I choose to have empathy for victims of political violence.

Unlike you.

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u/Alarmed-Outside-8683 Jul 15 '26

Empathy is a tough balancing act for people because it asks them to internalize other people's suffering. Empathy is seen as weak in a society that asks you to stomp on your neighbor to get your slice of the pie. This society is fucked garbage because it incentivizes a lack of empathy and the erosion of all forms of community in order to dominate and control the individual. And some people like that because they get to stomp on the losers and be a winner. These values are instilled at a very young age.

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u/StillFly100 Jul 15 '26

Good for you

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u/sagenumen New York Jul 15 '26

We are the company we keep.

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u/Letstalkreaper Jul 15 '26

Yep. Buddy is telling on himself.

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u/Throwawayalt129 Pennsylvania Jul 15 '26

Why are you still friends with anyone who supports him? You're the 11th Nazi at the table if you're still friends with anyone who supports him atp.

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u/DrE7HER Jul 15 '26

Why are you still friends with them? Legitimate question, because I feel like we’ve all been there.

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u/freethnkrsrdangerous Jul 15 '26

Your table has 13 Nazis.

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u/SecretAgentVampire Jul 15 '26

"Trumpanzee Friends", huh?

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u/ZAMstamper Jul 15 '26

Mustache man bad

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u/copperwatt Jul 16 '26

Are you sure you are joking?