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I love the part when he stopped wearing the ear patch because he just didn't feel like it anymore. Or maybe someone in his inner circle said it made him look weak. (slrpnk.net)

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[–] puppy 65 points 2 months ago

It's the same idiots who didn't want to wear a mask in public in 2020.

[–] espentan 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My oh my, this is up there with the dumbest things I've seen. I guess I shouldn't be surprised, as you have to be out of your friggin mind to show any kind of support for a person like Trump in anything, let alone his desire to be president.

[–] Speculater 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm just surprised they didn't go the extra mile and actually shoot their own ears in solidarity.

[–] Anticorp 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Remember during covid when that guy shot himself in the dick to own the libs?

[–] AngryCommieKender 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No? What? That had to be satire.....

[–] Anticorp 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I can't find the group anymore where they were doing it, but there was a Facebook group and a Twitter group, where trump supporters were posting pictures of them pointing loaded guns at their dicks to somehow upset liberals. There are a bunch of dodgy blogs with articles about it still, but I saw the actual group posts myself back then. anyways, some dude accidentally shot himself in the balls. There's a video out there somewhere of him bleeding through a towel, and he posted that he "may have fucked up".

Edit: someone else posted a Vice article about it. Here you go

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gun-enthusiasts-celebrate-man-who-shot-himself-in-the-balls-as-their-king/

[–] dejected_warp_core 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really, really, really want to believe that a troll or group of trolls started that and the occasional idiot wandered into the chat. But this so very neatly fits Poe's Law, we'll probably never know for sure.

Also, I don't know how nudity of any stripe is supposed to really trigger enough people to matter. It's the internet. There's naked people all over the place around here.

[–] Anticorp 3 points 2 months ago

They weren't nude, they were wearing pants.

[–] postmateDumbass 3 points 2 months ago

/c/shottheonion

[–] aesthelete 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/gun-enthusiasts-celebrate-man-who-shot-himself-in-the-balls-as-their-king/

In his defense, it was useless anyway.

EDIT: It makes all of the sense in the world that he lives near me.

[–] mumblerfish 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kinda like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle-pendant on: Just thinkin' of John, Jackie; just thinkin' of John...

It wasn't a fucking suggestion, you ghouls.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

Back and to the left

[+] Anticorp 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As much as I dislike the drama queen in chief, he really was hit by a bullet.

Yahoo UK has a pretty good article with evidence: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/fact-check-hit-bullet-glass-214700870.html

Simple fact is that the teleprompters weren't broken when Trump got hit. So there were no glass shards at that point.

Instead, he was very lightly grazed by a bullet, apparently causing minor damage to the helix of his ear. He was indeed a couple centimeters death here (although technically it's debatable how much damage a bullet causes to a hollow cranium). I mean, fuck that guy, but let's not trivialize things that did really happen.

[–] na_th_an 7 points 2 months ago

There's ample evidence that both teleprompters were unharmed after the shooting. I don't really care whether or not he was hit by a bullet or some shrapnel, but asserting that it was from the teleprompters just isn't factual.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Was it even his ear? I don't think the blood was fake, I think he actually did get injured. But, I'm not convinced it hit his ear at all, unless it was multiple really shallow scratches that all healed very fast and with no damage visible after a few days.

[–] DarkDecay 10 points 2 months ago

Fucking pathetic leadership. Thats the right for you, only the best

[–] edgemaster72 2 points 2 months ago

Still better than carrying around a cup of JD Vance's couch deposits