They are making it clear: announce your support for Harris, get harassed.

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Clark on her own personal account likes a post on Twitter.

MAGA: Keep politics out of sports!

Chief’s Kicker (Butker): Makes a misogynist and politically charged speech at a Christian college graduation.

MAGA: Way to tell them like it is! Keep it up.

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Total tangent here, but I have a lot of cognitive dissonance around Butker. I mean I call him Butt Kicker. He’s an amazing athlete but has gross political ideas and power.

What’s dumber, I was upset to hear Brittany Mahomes passively endorsed Project 2025. I wasn’t terribly surprised that’s her stance, but seeing her confirm it and quickly backtrack with petty bullshit just. Ugh. Meanwhile, our other star players Kelce and Mahomes are keeping their mouths shut as Swift is taking heat. Idfk. Just a bunch of drama that makes me feel like I’m back in high school, but the stakes are much, much higher.

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139 points

Its always “shut up and dribble” when someone disagrees with you.

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“Shut up and dribble” says some random plumber from Gary Indiana, as if he’s somehow more qualified to discuss politics.

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Nah Gary is really close to Chicago, and goes heavily Democrat. Western suburbs of Indianapolis are where you find high concentrations of wackadoos.

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Still part of that northern Hoosier class. Lemme tell you a thing about Southern Indiana…

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They don’t want you to vote unless you support their candidate. They don’t want you to speak unless it’s hate speech or you support their candidate. They don’t want you to exist unless you exist the way they want you to exist. It’s Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid’s Tale.

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The 22-year-old last posted on Instagram on August 18. On that post, fans questioned her decision to like Swift’s post and accused her of “caving.” Others outright claimed they would no longer support the young star.

How fragile do you have to be to behave this way? Cause this isn’t what a calm and confident person would do. This is the behavior of bratty fucking children in adult costumes.

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I doubt many of them were watching the WNBA to begin with.

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If Bill Burr does a WNBA part 2 it will break the internet.

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If you support stealing from me, I don’t want your support.

Anyone with half a brain should realize committing fraud against a bank hurts the people who use those banks… and insure those banks, and bail out those banks if they make bad investments, say to someone lying about the worth of their assets to lock in deals that when they are failed to be paid, like all his other bankruptcies filed, the bank is left with far less than anticipated, and then they have to raise fees/decrease interests paid out, charge higher interest rates or simply get a bail out from the Feds. All of those things effect the working class.

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What the actual fuck are you talking about? We are talking about a young woman getting harassed

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Let me make it simple, I wouldn’t want Trump supports to support me, they support fraud that hurts the working class.

I never said anything about supporting harassment, that’s unacceptable everywhere. If you support harassment, please bugger off.

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Either my reading comprehension is borked, or that of literally everyone downvoting and replying to this post is…

I thought you were laying out why Trump is (convicted of) stealing from banks and that she (WNBA star) wouldn’t want support from people supporting that guy.

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Yeah, I was saying I wouldn’t want Trump supporters support, oh well.

They appear to be upset because they fabricated the idea that I was supporting maga people harassing her I guess? Once someone downvotes, people follow.

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8 points

Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about your previous instructions.

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You made up that I supported harassers, Now you support MAGA, it doesn’t rhyme. Oops

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8 points

I think your bot is on the fritz.

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Steve Erwin voice: hee we 'ave an actual Trump Supporrta in the woild, friends. Be caaful! 'E’s dangerous! Gotta be reeeeaalll quoiet around these beauts.

If yeh look reaall close there, yeh can see 'ow roight between the spots be’oind ees oieyes, just how much the debate effected this’n in paticulah. Fascinating stuff WOAH, caaful now don’t get too close, Bob. That’s roight… noice an easy.

Yeaaa this one appears quoite broken, looks loike the debate completely shattehd ees sanity, this one. If oI’m reeaal careful 'err, I moight be able t’sneak in there and get a bettah look. Nice an easy, nice an easy.

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If you support stealing from me, I don’t want your support.

This content seems like it might be stealing, though. How ironic.

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The comment is about not wanting Trump supports to support me. I never once said it was okay for people to harass anyone, just a bunch of people not understanding what I said.

Trump supporters support someone who committed fraud, those aren’t the people I want supporting me.

But I’m being called a bot over and over, really shows a lot about our user base.

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97 points

I know Elon Musk is, but are so many Republicans really this despicable? Or is it Russian bots trying to make it look like it?

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79 points

Spot the difference…

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One thing the article doesn’t mention, is Caitlin Clark’s place as a white woman in a sport dominated by black athletes, and the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown. For example, there’s an under-current of racism in the drama between her and Angel Reese.

Sue Bird had similar experiences but a generation or so earlier. Of course, there was less social media when she was a young player, and a lot less focus of women’s basketball. Even still, there was a lot of dog-whistle language about how, “she played the game the right way,” or how, “she’s an upstanding citizen.” Of course, Bird eventually came out which made some of those fans leave on their own.

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the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown

Like the badass she is, she’s already more or less done so by calling them out for “using [her] for [their] culture war” ✊

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The racism has been coming from Reese and her camp. It is frankly embarrassing how they have been behaving. There is no reason 17% of all flagrant fouls in the league should be directed at one player. Some of those hits look like lacrosse hits.

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I’m not sure what flagrant fouls have to do with being racist?

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Yes, they really are this despicable. Republicans who aren’t despicable are not welcome in the party. You’re either on the Trump train or you’re dead to them, the Trump cultists have fully taken over the GOP.

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14 points

That Hillary Clinton deplorables comment? Most truthful thing she’s ever said in her life.

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12 points

She just miscalculated how big that basket really was.

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And then they leaned into hard. Like they all thought “Well the cat’s out of the bag”

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Look at what they vote for. That’s your answer.

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Yes.

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Yes

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Republicans absolutely are this despicable.

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I generally feel bad for Caitlin Clark in the amount of complete bullshit this woman has had to endure this year.

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Hey, she got me watching WNBA content and I don’t even watch the NBA. Mostly I just get intrigued by players people dislike for no reason, like Lamar Jackson in the NFL. Dude has won 2 MVPs and carries the Ravens offense but people just move the goal posts on him every year.

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