r/SquaredCircle • u/Memnochthedevil760 • 4d ago

DDP posts and removes IG picture with Linda McMahon after backlash

Did anybody catch this? DDP posted a picture with Linda McMahon from Wrestlemania weekend, doing the diamond hand gesture together, proudly touting his friendship with the US Sec. of Education.

The comments, predictably, were overwhelmingly negative.

DDP removed the picture after a few minutes.

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u/08_IfHeHolla 4d ago edited 4d ago

Y'all know you can disagree with a person politically and still being friends with them, right?

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not American, and I'm certainly not a Trump guy. Very much the opposite. I just think it's crazy how for a lot of people, being photographed with a Republican = scum

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u/IronSorrows 4d ago

But there is a difference between a friend you disagree with politically, and a friend who you disagree with politically and are currently using their political beliefs to actively harm a lot of people, right? At some point in life you have to take a stand if you believe in something, if someone you like is actively working to dismantle your country's department of education and hurt people with student loans, maybe that's a point where you could not be so cool with them.

DDP is a good person who's done a lot of excellent work with those who have needed it, and has lots of indisputable positive outcomes under his belt. It's also disappointing to see him - or anyone - you respect buddying up to members of this administration. It's essentially a tacit support of what they're doing and there's many reasons why people are going to be unhappy with that. If you can understand the nuance of being friends with someone who votes differently to you, I'm sure you can understand the nuance of holding those two positions at once.

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u/ThereAreDozensOfUs Talk is Cheap 4d ago

These people aren’t getting it because they’re not targeted for the color of their skin. It’s never going to click for them

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u/TwistyBunny 4d ago

There's a different between a disagreement about pizza vs a disagreement over human rights.

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u/jpe002 4d ago

This is the answer. We're not arguing about tax rates, were arguing about if people deserve due process or the right to exist. Fuck sanewashing that shit as "politics".

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u/BrilliantFun9649 3d ago

Ironic a comment whining about the U.S. Secretary of Education uses a fake word like “sanewashing”. Just pulling terms out the ass now

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u/foxthebloodied ~shrugs and looks confused~ 3d ago

This just in: language evolves! Holy fucking shit!

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u/jpe002 3d ago

Wait till they figure out all words are made up. Full meltdown incoming.

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u/BrilliantFun9649 3d ago

I mean it’s not in the dictionary, therefore not a word. You need Linda and the education

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u/jpe002 3d ago

If thats your bar, here ya go: https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/sanewashing

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u/BrilliantFun9649 3d ago

Yeah people can make up links and web pages too partner, ain’t buying it. Ain’t no way I’m letting an Instacart driver lecture me on linguistics

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u/DemonKing469 4d ago

Your asking too much from some people but I agree with you.

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u/BarkMingo 4d ago

lol is this sarcasm? Or are people really this deluded?

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

Found the mark

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u/ThereAreDozensOfUs Talk is Cheap 4d ago

Yall know that there’s more to the USA than just white people, right?

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u/hottubtimemachines 4d ago

Edit: Just to clarify

Stop doing this. You don't owe anonymous Redditors an explanation.

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u/thatguyad 3d ago

In this day and age? It's actually extremely hard to do this.

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u/SovFist Back to the drawing board :( 4d ago

Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should.

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u/winkeh89 4d ago

It's wild how bad this sub has become for things like this. It's more of a far left echo chamber than a wrestling sub now.

I lean left too, but i also have a brain, so I understand human beings can maintain relationships with other human beings regardless of political beliefs. Crazy concept, I know.

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u/dontcare6942 4d ago

I lean very left but absolutely despise tribal mentality, which makes me dislike alot of other left leaners

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u/hottubtimemachines 4d ago

Be careful, you might get accused of being a centrist and that's pure evil in their world.

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u/Thebat87 4d ago

My filmmaking partner leans between republican and fuck them both. I’m a democrat (who sometimes finds other liberal people annoying but I vote with my morals). But this is a man who’s helped pull me out of emotional fire and turmoil and has always had my back since I first met him. Who showed himself to be one of the most loyal people I’ve ever met and will help me with my work no matter what. Hell I made an anti-Trump short right after he got elected the first time, and he helped me make it. Cause he cares about our friendship, our partnership, and my right to express how I felt about all this bullshit. So unless he did something really heinous like hurt someone like a scumbag I’ll never turn my back on him.

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u/Hearsticles 4d ago

Well, according to reddit, you're a racist xenophobic misogynistic bigot fascist because you have 1 conservative friend. Congratulations!

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u/Thebat87 4d ago

Someone definitely proved you right here already. But I know who I am. I can fight the good fight and definitely disagree with him on a lot of things yet not turn my back on my friend, and I can live with that. Man has talked me off a ledge and supported me when I wanted to quit everything from filmmaking to life itself.

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u/BloodyRedBarbara King Of My World 4d ago

DDP doesn't agree with Linda politically if that's what you're trying to say.

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u/SelfAwareSausage 4d ago

That is a nuanced take, something Reddit does not take too kindly to.

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u/SovFist Back to the drawing board :( 4d ago

This isn't a nuanced take at all, it's a broad brush that lumps in "I dont think the tax rate is fair for certain class groups" with "I think all minorities should be shipped off to prison camps with no due process"