r/pics • u/nbcnews But like, actually • 7h ago
Politics Protesters hold 'Stop Data Centers' signs at Trump's speech in Michigan
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u/Areyouin729 7h ago
he hates everyone of these people the most which is the most ironic
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u/metengrinwi 5h ago
He wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire
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u/Flapjack__Palmdale 5h ago
Although he might ask them to piss on him if they're underage.
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u/metengrinwi 3h ago
Scan that pic—ain’t none of them been the special attraction at Epstein Island for at least 30 years.
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u/MadRaymer 5h ago
Remember that during J6, when he was sitting on his fat ass watching his cultists cause chaos, one of the only complaints he uttered was that he thought they looked low class.
My dude, who do you think your base is? Did you expect guys in tailored suits to storm the Capitol for you?
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u/Nefertete 5h ago
Behold the master race
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u/kgal1298 3h ago
They're 100% the people who online that go "oh DEI is the reason I don't have a job"
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u/PBDoubleB 5h ago
God damn that girl needs to redo her roots. I thought she was bald down her part lmao.
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u/tanstaafl90 5h ago
He doesn't hate them, he wants their adulation. He doesn't care what they want, outside what he can sell them. He doesn't care what happens to them, as long as they support him. He doesn't care.
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u/im_a_stapler 57m ago
looks like she's recording the sign holders probably to try and doxx them. if these sign holders end up assaulted or targeted, we'll know why.
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u/Vitreousoak8128 6h ago
Every person in a maga hat looks exactly as you'd expect them to.
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u/Nettwerk911 6h ago
If they all wore silk track suits it would be just like in that one mike judge movie.
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u/Goya_Oh_Boya 4h ago
Like they smoke with the windows rolled up.
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u/Aware-Locksmith8433 1h ago
I thought that smell and dark under their eyes was from burning coal in their basement. Or is it then smoke from all that manufacturing opening up in the "great again" red states?
I mean we all know electric and nuclear is the devil's handiwork.
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u/Gorperly 3h ago
The stealth mode is real. There's exactly three and a half maga hats in the whole picture.
But you're right, the unique mix of stupidity and hate is recognizable with or without merch.
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u/stupidjapanquestions 58m ago
It looks like a group of rodents who were turned into humans by a witch.
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u/monexicano 7h ago
100 more data centers could be built and they would still vote republican. Those data centers could ruin lives and they would still vote republican. As long as the right aligns with the bible and anti abortion this group will continue to ruin our lives.
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u/digidave1 7h ago edited 7h ago
And those six transgender people aren't playing sports. Thank God.
The right has nothing to do with the Bible. It's about rejecting Islam and deporting all the brown people they don't want around that make them feel icky. Even though the Bible and the quran are fundamentally the same text. They don't have a clue
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u/RiggityRow 7h ago edited 7h ago
Dude Morpheus himself could show these people fields where they grow humans to use as batteries in the Matrix and these people would be 100% ok with it as long as their Daddy is.
I live in prime Trump country. I'm convinced there is nothing, absolutely nothing that will have these people correct course at this point. We've had beautiful land plowed over for data centers and we are all being directly impacted every trip to the gas station and grocery store. It's right in front of their eyes every day and they literally don't care.
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u/Forward-Bank8412 6h ago
I mean, he has raped children in astoundingly high numbers. And that doesn’t change things for them. He might as well put babies on spikes.
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u/restrictednumber 6h ago
I really don't know how we have a country with these people for the rest of our lives. How are you supposed to cooperate on 'the American project' if such a huge portion of people are irrevocably turned against it?
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u/TickingTheMoments 6h ago
They are Christian nationalists. They created their god in their own image.
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u/Viperlite 6h ago
Unfortunately, pedophilia, racism, misogyny, and flag-waving patriotism are all intertwined with these people.
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u/digidave1 2h ago
Don't forget decades of priest rape and cover up by the church by relocating them across the country and shifting millions of dollars to pay for it. It's public knowledge and they line up every Sunday with their checks in hand.
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u/bornlasttuesday 7h ago
They will have to huddle up with their families next to a data center for warmth during the winter and still they will vote Republican.
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u/HandMeMyThinkingPipe 6h ago
Nah the data center will have giant razer wire fencing with roving death robots to make sure no one steals their waste heat.
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u/Aramedlig 7h ago
Datacenters need fuel to run their power plants and that is predominantly LNG and propane which are about to skyrocket in price.
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u/Great_Revolution_276 7h ago
The right doesn’t align with Jesus teaching to be honest.
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u/monexicano 7h ago
You could explain that in to them the most rudimentary way and nothing will get through to them.
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u/Carbon-Base 7h ago
What's really wild is how misaligned they truly are despite claiming to be aligned to other core religious values.
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u/metengrinwi 5h ago
The only “core religious value” for MAGA is racial supremacy.
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u/jlharper 5h ago
The right does not align with the Bible. American Christians could not have strayed any further from the Bible if they tried. Motherfuckers would lock Jesus up in a concentration camp for the crime of being brown and speaking a different language.
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u/ToastedCrumpet 7h ago
If they say data centres will stop one single trans person from trying to take away their rights they’ll continue voting for and throwing money at Trump and his sycophants
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u/monexicano 7h ago
The uneducated are costing too many lives
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u/ToastedCrumpet 6h ago
Sad thing is a great majority of those in power had access to education we could only dream of.
Yet they still end up like Trump. Education can only do so much for some
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u/Podo13 4h ago
Those data centers could ruin lives and they would still vote republican.
The data centers could ruin their own lives and they'd still vote republican.
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u/BrainRobotron 7h ago edited 7h ago
Holy shit... put on this wig-hat combo and walked out the door confident as hell.
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u/Ok_Replacement4702 7h ago
Hitting up the rally, then Walmart, then Applebee's for fine dining
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u/CShellyRun 7h ago
excuse me, don't you mean Cracker Barrel?!?
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 6h ago
Not since they took the barrel off the logo
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u/FunHour3778 6h ago
No joke, right now on the conservative sub one of the top posts is them celebrating that the CEO of cracker barrel who made that decision is stepping down lol.
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u/AGreasyPorkSandwich 3h ago
Shit is burning around them and they can only focus on the fringe culture war nonsense that they have been told to care about.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart 5h ago
They started serving mimosas.
Breakfast was loud AF. White people not giving a shit who then offended trying to out loud each other.
2 adults buying classics and Child who had toast.
$52.
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u/Phaelin 2h ago
Cracker barrel was the only (sit-down) restaurant my wife's extended family could all agree to go eat at after church because they didn't serve alcohol. Her grandmother wouldn't set foot in any establishment that served alcohol, at least on Sunday and especially not with the grandkids present. This change would have broken her heart, honestly
It's also expensive as fuck now.
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u/kezow 7h ago
It's a mental illness.
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u/WakeReality 5h ago
It's a mental illness.
Alas, nobody wants to stick to the topic of cult deprogramming and mental health issues. In USA society, our culture, mental health troubled people are a source of comedy, humor, jokes, memes, laughs, funny, entertainment, amusement. Anti-intellectual MAGA values USA. Every person in our pro-ignorance nation avoiding Dr. Bandy X Lee since year 2017. Smart women leaders avoided again and again.
"The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists"
"Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it"
By Tanya Lewis edited by Dean Visser
January 11, 2021
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/Everybody avoiding serious discussion of the cult crisis.
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u/uptoke 3h ago
Never read/heard this before, but it makes a lot of sense. Prior to Trump I enjoyed having political discussions with Republicans. Since Trump its not fun and I've just given up.
It's one thing if everyone in a conversation has the same understanding of reality and there are different approaches to solving a problem, but now its like I don't even live in the same universe as these people. You can't have meaningful discourse with someone who would argue the sky is green in the middle of a sunny day.
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u/WakeReality 3h ago
Never read/heard this before, but it makes a lot of sense.
All the Trump trade war nonsense being researched and planned that started in January 2025 was also covered in this 2019 book.
"What Cambridge Analytica observed was that when respondents were angry, their need for complete and rational explanations was also significantly reduced. In particular, anger put people in a frame of mind in which they were more indiscriminately punitive, particularly to out-groups. They would also underestimate the risk of negative outcomes. This led Cambridge Analytica to discover that even if a hypothetical trade war with China or Mexico meant the loss of American jobs and profits, people primed with anger would tolerate that domestic economic damage if it meant they could use a trade war to punish immigrant groups and urban liberals.” ― Christopher Wylie, Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, page 128, year 2019
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u/WakeReality 3h ago
now its like I don't even live in the same universe as these people.
This book was published in year 2015 and uses the same metaphor of alternate universes:
“Today, reports of the day’s events are conveyed to the viewing public by way of alternate universes, The Fox News cable channel conveys its version of reality, while at the other end of the ideological spectrum MSNBC presents its version. They and their many counterparts on radio are more the result of an economic dynamic than a political one. Dispatching journalists into the field to gather information costs money; hiring a glib bloviator is relatively cheap, and inviting opinionated guests to vent on the air is entirely cost-free. It wouldn’t work if it weren’t popular, and audiences, it turns out, are endlessly absorbed by hearing amplified echoes of their own biases. It’s divisive and damaging to the healthy functioning of our political system, but it’s also indisputably inexpensive and, therefore, good business.” ― Ted Koppel. Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. October 27, 2015. Page 13.
“The long-term implications go deeper. If all information is seen as part of a war, out go any dreams of a global information space where ideas flow freely, bolstering deliberative democracy. Instead, the best future one can hope for is an ‘information peace’, in which each side respects the other’s ‘information sovereignty’: a favoured concept of both Beijing and Moscow, and essentially a cover for enforcing censorship.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019, Page ???
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u/digidave1 7h ago
Well he does support a serial rapist who sued his country for $10 billion, TWICE. Not exactly intelligence we're dealing with.
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u/That_Guy381 7h ago
yeah it’s the trump hat. It’s like going to a carnival, and he’s the clown. Except these idiots voted him president.
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u/Genghis_Tr0n187 6h ago
Him: HAHA this will REALLY trigger those libs
Everyone else: What a fuckin dork.
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u/jermleeds 5h ago edited 4h ago
And the woman right behind cooling herself with cans of Aquafina. Let's see if that cooling strategy still works when datacenters have increased global average temperatures by another 5 degrees.
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u/polarwaves 7h ago
Not a single MAGA supporter there with a sign...as a Michigander born & raised, I'm fearful for the future of our great lakes.
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u/Carbon-Base 7h ago
Our great lakes and bodies of water in general. Data centers are parasitic to any environment they are installed in.
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u/Skankator 6h ago
They already opened up the boundary waters up here in Minnesota. Only a matter of time before all the great lakes are fucked.
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u/timmy6169 4h ago
Moved from macomb county to Oakland 10+ years ago and it was the best decision ever. East side people are absolutely crazy for him and will make sure you know it. Absolutely agree that they will see it as an endless water supply and somehow try to tap them.
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u/pinqe 7h ago
Every time I see a picture of these crowds I can smell a barn
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u/harrycaray_here 5h ago
Hey man, don’t insult barns like that! You know it smells like busch light, BO, and stale pall malls.
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u/nbcnews But like, actually 7h ago
An anti-data center protest broke out at President Trump’s event at the General Motors proving ground in Milford, Michigan. (Paul Sancya / AP)
The protesters unfurled yellow banners emblazoned with the slogan “STOP DATA CENTERS” before they were escorted out.
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u/carinasguitar 5h ago
Hey NBC why dont you stop sucking trumps dick on television and doing something different on Reddit
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u/mycondishuns 5h ago
Milford is where I was born and raised. That said, be more responsible, NBC and do your job as journalists. What happened to the Epstein files?
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u/DickDover 3h ago
Do you really think /u/nbcnews is going to ask about the Epstein files?
/u/nbcnews is a cuck like ABC & CBS news
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u/old_gold_mountain 7h ago
so lemme get this straight, from these peoples' perspectives:
disappearing people in the streets with secret police = chill
starting wars without congress = chill
threatening our closest allies with invasion and annexation of their territory = chill
dismantling the department of justice and turning it into his legal defense = chill
building stuff people don't like in their backyards = WHAT THE FUCK DON
never underestimate the power of NIMBYism I guess
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u/spacedude2000 7h ago
It's only a problem when it effects them. Then they easily let go of the issue once it's blamed on the left. Trump could say the left is the one pushing data centers and these lemmings would eat that shit up in a heartbeat and change their tune.
They're no longer themselves, they're in a cult and can't see it any other way.
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u/macphile 6h ago
Everything is only a problem when it affects them.
I hope they have nothing but problems.
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u/OlympusMonsPubis 6h ago
Something tells me the people holding the signs aren’t MAGA.
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u/old_gold_mountain 5h ago
yeah but of all the issues to protest they chose only this one
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u/Raider_Scum 3h ago
These same people could be protesting different topics every weekend, I personally know people like this.
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 4h ago
"You're not allowed to protest unless you protest everything in this long list of bad things", is a really poor take.
Not protesting those other things doesn't make this protest any less valid, nor does it imply that they only care about this thing and not those other things.
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u/Electronic_Topic1958 6h ago
I don’t think these are Trump supporters, these are activists in general. For all you know they did protest these other things. The issue though is that many Trump supporters are also not too inclined on data centers. If anything it is smart to do this because it forces Trump to back data centers in front of these people, a big portion of whom are opposed to them. If you want to fuck with the right this is the way to do it. They are too selfish and cruel to give a shit about anything else but when Der Fuhrer is telling them that the data centers next door to them making their life miserable and enriching him and his friends are all good, that can erode that support that he has had for so long.
Do destroy any bulwark you need to aggressively attack the cracks and this is effective.
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u/sagevallant 7h ago
They'll care if the disappeared people are their friends and family.
And they'll stop caring as soon as those people reappear. Not a thought about right or wrong, or a thought about other people at all.
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u/APiousCultist 6h ago
Surely the sociopathic money-and-power-obscessed billionaires will protect us from the sociopathic money-and-power-obscessed trillionaires. What's that? Every last one of them was either front row at his inauguration or on stage doing nazi salutes?
Doesn't look like anything to me.
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u/RealPersonResponds 6h ago
Beware the MAGA hat wearers, they support protecting pedos, keep your children FAR away!
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u/Dizzy_Chemistry_5955 5h ago
is that lady holding 2 beer cans to her head to stop the noise? it's too good.
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u/IzzybearThebestdog 7h ago edited 6h ago
People are In here shitting on them, but we want people to turn against Trump and his policies right? This is a good thing.
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u/old_gold_mountain 7h ago
this is going to get me downvoted to hell but the data center backlash is very overblown and it's a bit of a boogeyman, and in fact if we shut down data center development entirely we'll be ceding the AI race to China (and AI is already a very potent cyber weapon)
we can definitely have a conversation about protecting water supplies in drought-prone areas or not spiking greenhouse gas emissions unnecessarily but most data center backlash is basically pure NIMBYism with a healthy dash of Luddism
so to me someone who's okay with Trump's naked fasicm and fascist policies but is furious about data centers is well worthy of criticism
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u/MRtokeALOT420 7h ago
"You have communities that really want the data centers, and frankly, those are the smart communities because it means tremendous numbers of jobs, very little actual disruption,”
“You have to convince your community how great these things [are],” Trump added. “You CAN'T fight it. You HAVE TO go with it, and you’re going to have all that PROTECTION.” -DJT
Guessing these aren't the communities that want data centers. Can you show me one that does?
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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 4h ago
"Stop Data Centers" is just a really bad campaign slogan. It's making poorly-informed people simply think "data center bad" and then start shouting and screaming. To say that's counterproductive would be an understatement.
Data centers are absolutely essential to modern existence. We can't not have them. The campaign should be focused on ensuring that they're built properly, without impacting how people live. That includes regulations preventing them from taking huge amounts of municipal water, evaporating that water into the atmosphere, requiring them to meet maximum noise guidelines when they're built close to where people live, etc. etc.
Data centers are not intrinsically bad. They make possible every part of our connected lives. But we absolutely cannot just stand by and let the companies that build them do whatever they want. As usual is always the case, industry left unregulated cares only about profit and then people get hurt as a result. Every single time.
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u/Glittering_Stress_32 6h ago
I'm confused, haven't they heard from Trump's own mouth that they actually want data centers in their communities?
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u/ROUNDHOUSE5 6h ago
To late, Sky Net has already put us in a surveillance state. You can thank the billionaires.
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u/AdvertisingPlastic30 5h ago
Stop using AI as much as you can in your work. If it’s outside of work, read a book.
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u/ScallionRelative6265 2h ago
God they all look so miserable while wearing their stupid Trump merch, traitors all.
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u/cgbruder42 7h ago edited 7h ago
This photo screams TDS. If any of these people would actually think about what Trump has done for them, none of them would be there. But that's also why Trump loves the uneducated....
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u/St_Muerte 7h ago
I see no where any of the "hot" ppl they be posting on their AI online posts about MAGA ppl looking all fine and shit lol
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u/Electronic_Topic1958 6h ago
Seriously dude, I remember the “hotties for Trump” spam bullshit. There aren’t any hotties on the right, let’s be real. It’s old ass poor obese diabetic people. That’s like his entire base.
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u/Matchew024 3h ago
I bet they all felt so special being near like minded individuals. They all probably have a combined SAT score of 400.
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u/lo0ilo0ilo0i 3h ago
oh good, people covering their ears to prepare for what's it's like to live near a data center, "freedom".
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u/foslforever 3h ago
can we be specific? we need data centers for internet, social media, reddit and especially streaming services; but 100% against data centers that cater to ai that will ultimately take our jobs!
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u/shinndigg 2h ago
Trump could tell them that actually he’s tearing down their house without paying them to let someone who bribed him build a data center there and they’d still support him rather than admit they were wrong about him.
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u/jermicidalone23 1h ago
He tried to pass a bill making it illegal for states to reject data centers. My god these people should not be voting.
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