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Its mixed.
Kid was a Republican from a rural area of the country (that is often Republican). Kid was also wearing pro-gun T-shirt and also wielding AR-15.
There's also $15 to a progressive (aka: left) cause in this kid's name. So its not all right-wing stuff. But the myth of "kind" rural people who are responsible with their AR-15 long-range rifles is clearly going to be demolished by this turn of events. (In case Uvalde Texas didn't prove that yet....)
They think the donation was made by someone else with the same name.
I think that blonde dude who they were spreading pics of that made that video about hating repubs /Trump and having the same name /not being the right guy probably made the donation.
This dude
Doesn't matter, kid was a Republican that shot his homie. Gotta stop saying shit about the donation. Don't let any doubt seep in, the bumblecans are leopards eating faces.
Real life doesn't matter. Feelings and emotions do. We need to seriously think about messaging that works, and its not necessarily the truth.
If we go this route, the best chance we have is to discuss the kid's T-Shirt. "Demolition Ranch" is a well known right-wing pro-gun Youtube Channel.
Push that. We need arguments that win, not arguments that are true. (And this one: Demolition Ranch and AR15s is one that is both true and one I feel like we could win).
This is some blue MAGA shit.
There's no such thing as blue maga
Unlikely.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm a Republican. From my perspective, Republicans simply understand politics better than Democrats who are too proud to use straightforward and well accepted techniques to get ahead.
Japanese acknowledgement of the Rural vs Urban divide was a huge part of why they created the Emperor and crowned him as the divine messenger of Amatarasu (a Japanese Goddess). Rural folk would actually believe in the myth, while Urban folk (who were largely atheist) accepted the myth as a way to get the rural folk on their side.
Democrats are fighting with one arm tied behind their backs. They refuse to use any kind of "manipulation" in their minds. Alas, politics is a manipulate-or-be-manipulated world.
Or what, you think all Republicans actually believe in MAGA or other ideologies? A huge number of Republicans are simply people using it to further their own goals. If you don't use these techniques, Republicans will simply capture more-and-more of the captive audience because the hypnotic techniques fucking work.
Lol
The donation wasn't him
Source? A lot of my sources suggest it was him, but maybe there's new developments this week....
Because the donation shared his first and last name and journalism is dead, or else they'd have noted that 17 year olds can't make political donations in Pennsylvania.
Fair point.
Perhaps he was just a true patriot and saw what trump is doing to the country and wanted to stop it by any means.
Not the fake ass republican "patriots" who fly trump's flag and vote for destroying the country.