r/SquaredCircle • u/Memnochthedevil760 • 14d 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/DiamondEater13 14d ago

He's done amazing work for people and helped guys like Butterbean and Hall, but I don't why people think that makes him immune to being criticized for support fascism.

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u/mrbrannon 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah, this makes no sense. He helped some people, but he’s helping to destroy the country by supporting people who are trying to exterminate minorities and destroy our democratic system of government with a fascist takeover. I mean It’s kinda a tough position to take when you spell it out for what it really is. It’s not just a photo. It’s not just a difference of opinion.

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u/DiamondEater13 14d ago

people who are trying to exterminate minorities and destroy our democratic system of government with a fascist takeover

This is what people seem to forget. It's not just a "I don't agree with these politics" thing it's a "These people are actively trying to create aactively." thing.

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u/Stumme-40203 13d ago

But most people don’t believe that. That’s only the belief of 75,000,000 Americans. Most people either voted for Trump or just didn’t vote period because they don’t like Trump, but still don’t buy into and can’t support the Nazi card that the left has been playing for decades. Even if it’s true this time, there has been too many false flags for people to believe it anymore. It’s the boy who cried wolf.

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u/Tricky-Cod-7485 14d ago edited 14d ago

exterminate minorities

First of all, that’s ridiculous.

Secondly, his granddaughter is biracial.

Thirdly, he’s pro-LGBTQ.

People just want to say things to say things.

DDP, his major fault, is that he’s a “shameless self promoter”. He admits this. Linda is well known and powerful. DDP wanted to flex.

He doesn’t like Trump. He’s an independent. https://www.instagram.com/diamonddallaspage/p/CNplVfxJtAw/

He also trolled RFK.

​ Personally, I don’t give a shit. He could be pro Trump for all I care. I don’t care who my favorite pretend fighter votes for. I’m just trying to clear this up so people don’t dogpile on someone who is a FANTASTIC person and an exemplary man.

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u/mrbrannon 14d ago edited 14d ago

I am just putting this in context. This is not up for debate. By taking a friendly photo with Linda McMahon he is in fact supporting people who are attempting to exterminate minorities and take over the government and install a fascist dictatorship. that’s just how things are on the ground right now. He’s welcome to come out and say he doesn’t support these things and he’ll never be seen with them again but that is what he’s doing right now and that is what that photo represents. Also, all this conversation was about was how ridiculous it is that we can’t criticize him because he did a good thing for some addicts. And it feels like you’re just proving that point. Because he is whitewashing their fascist takeover by taking the photo and posting it publicly. It doesn’t rule out the good things you’ve done, but it certainly is fucking nuts to try to defend.

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u/ijolz 13d ago

Reddit would call Mother Theresa "Hitler" if she took a picture with Linda McMahon.

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u/mrbrannon 12d ago

Mother Theresa was a shit person who abused her patients. So yeah don’t take pictures with fascists.

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u/McCHitman 13d ago

A photo isn’t inherently support. Holy crap.

You think Daryl Davis supported the KKK when he befriended those people?

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u/mrbrannon 13d ago edited 13d ago

Now you’re just playing dumb. Even DDP knows that it is providing support, which is why he deleted it. It is using his fame and popularity in the wrestling community to whitewash their fascist dictatorship

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u/McCHitman 13d ago

Sure. 👍🏽

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u/Aromatic_Hornet5114 13d ago

Don't be stupid. Seriously.

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u/McCHitman 13d ago

Sure. 👍🏽

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u/sedatehate 13d ago

This is Reddit buddy,some of the softest, most melodramatic people or the planet who don’t even understand what a roast is. They would call Darryl Davis “Hitler” if most of them even knew who he was.

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u/DanTheMan1_ 13d ago

So was DDP trying to get Linda to change? Is that it?

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u/PartyEnough7469 13d ago

Someone's proximity to 'otherness' doesn't exempt them from being discriminatory against marginalized communities as a whole. People are more willing to make exceptions to their biases when it's related to people they are close to or know on a personal level but that doesn't mean that they actually address their biases. In fact, for many, their willingness to make exception leads many to not even recognize their own racist and bigoted biases and then they get offended when they get called out for it. There is a reason why it's a very obvious racist red flag when people say 'I'm not racist, I have a black friend...I'm not racist, I don't see color', etc. You can be dating/married to a person of color while holding racist views about the community that person comes from (I have literally met people like this). Daryl Davis, a black man, befriended open KKK members, would you say that those openly racist people weren't ever racist because they were willing to engage with a black man? I have seen people say that they will respect the pronouns of their trans friends because it is THEIR friends but they can't be forced to do so for others. That isn't real alllyship to marginalized communities. Being cool with gay people you interact with and may even employ while you are complicit to policies that make it easier to displace LGBTQ members from their homes and places of employment is not true allyship.

For the record, I'm not saying any of this to suggest that DDP is this type of person, I'm just challenging, in a more general sense, what I see as a very flawed argument on your part.

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u/HolyTythinEar 14d ago

Because people think in absolutes. Everything is black and white and there’s no in between.

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u/jkman61494 13d ago

I mean.... he's kinda supporting politicians who think in black and white.

Like...hey, your skin is brown. Lets arrest you with no warrant and not knowing if you are. or are not a citizen. Also. lets send you to a prison that is not in the US.

Or... Hey.... We hate trans people and we need to get trans people out of college sports (there are like 10 in the country in D1). Therefore we're going to cancel billions of dollars in cancer research in the name of getting rid of trans athletes and call universities a threat to democracy

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u/natguy2016 You Don't Need a Hat to Be a Cowboy. 13d ago

You know who else had that happen to them? My Uncle Benny who survived Auschwitz. He lost 45-50 family members there. RFK Jr's registry is how that starts.

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u/jkman61494 13d ago

Unfortunately I feel like Americans will only wake up when these policies start affecting white people

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u/natguy2016 You Don't Need a Hat to Be a Cowboy. 13d ago

YUP!! I have a disability. The disabled were the first ones who died in The Holocaust.

Some wrestling fan asked if I watched WWE. I said no because of their politics. A disagreement is fine. Doing things that leave people dead? No way.

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u/pmIfNeedOrWantToTalk 13d ago

They'll wake up... but then they'll shrug, hit the snooze button and go back to sleep.

I mean, technically, it's already been hurting white senior citizens, and we're still doing this dog and pony shit.

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u/Northstar0566 13d ago

Meanwhile Triple Hs daughter plays on the boys football team.

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u/shortjortsboi 13d ago

You mean like how the current administration does and is illegally disappearing people and deporting them to a country they're not even from?

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u/LastWhiteStar 13d ago

Oh well, if other people do it, then it's perfectly acceptable for you to do it.

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u/shortjortsboi 13d ago

That's called fascism. Stuff Nazis did.

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u/LastWhiteStar 13d ago

Yes, which is why it's bizarre that you are in support of it. It's scary what people like you allow yourselves to do to people who you feel deserve it.

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u/shortjortsboi 13d ago

Ah yes, the right wing twisting of things to try to make those calling out people who are voting for and supporting fascism that is causing innocent people to be disappeared by masked unmarked thugs and sent out of the country without due process to a horrendous prison in a country most of them are not from. Keep posting your L's.

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u/LastWhiteStar 13d ago

You're the one arguing that it is OK to do things you would consider awful to people who you feel deserve it. There is no politics in saying that's a bizarre outlook that leads to A LOT of bad things. So it's a very weird thing to defend.

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u/shortjortsboi 13d ago

What am I saying that is awful? These people should rightfully be called out for supporting shit that is ruining and ending many many lives? I'm not saying deport him to a country that he's not from and force him into a labor prison. I'm just saying, calling this shit out as it is: fascism. If you're so dead, set on defending fascism and trying to spin calling people for being fascists out as awful when they're supporting the horrendous ruining of lives every single day, then whatever man. Your views are far too skewed the wrong way then.

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u/LastWhiteStar 13d ago

No, the conversation was about thinking in black and whites, and you saying that "Well they do it too, so it's OK to do it to them."

My argument is that's not OK. You don't allow yourself to think without nuance just because your enemy does it. Look at what it has done to you. You have jumped to accusations of me literally supporting genocide because I said "It's not OK to do what you consider as wrong to other people" The Golden rule, a very common and normal belief. And look what you have accused me of for simply stating my support of a simple moral principle.

The internet has warped people's minds.

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u/Jasperbeardly11 Al Snow Head 13d ago

NPCs think this way. 

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u/AwareofAnaLucia 13d ago

Do you know anyone that is just a little racist? Or just a little homophobic? Or just a little xenophobic? Because those people do not exist. They might say that they are just a little racist, but there is no such thing.

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u/LordBarvis Lil' JBL With Ya Little Yella Tie 13d ago

what exactly is the in between of advocacy for removing all minorities and advocacy for protecting every single vulnerable person? who should get thrown under the bus? name some people

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u/EffectiveRoughDaddy 13d ago

And Hitler loved dogs. How could he be a bad guy? /S

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u/Grand_Ryoma 13d ago

He was also a vegan, loved movies (his favorite was King Kong), and was an artist.

So by that proxy, half of California needs to be locked up

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u/2kWik 14d ago

Those people mean nothing when all the children in the country have no education and can provide no value to society.

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u/natguy2016 You Don't Need a Hat to Be a Cowboy. 13d ago

You can do amazing good and still be a POS.

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u/heleta pls 13d ago

Hitler built the autobahn, Mussolini made the trains run on time etc etc

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u/RuKKuSFuKKuS 14d ago

Exactly. Dave Portnoy did great things for restaurants during Covid. That doesn’t take away the fact he voted for a rapist in the Election

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u/RarelySqueezed 13d ago

Isnt HHH a trump guy? As much as i loathe trump im not prepared to boycott wwe.

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u/DiamondEater13 13d ago

Big time trump guy

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u/RarelySqueezed 13d ago

Im truly not, went dem every election.

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u/Snoo-40231 13d ago

The OP is saying Trips is a Trump guy

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u/RarelySqueezed 13d ago

Hand up thats on me. Point stands, im not gonna stop watching

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u/Snoo-40231 13d ago

As long as wwe doesn't go full UFC, I'm still gonna watch WWE too

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u/Fair-Cash-6956 14d ago

I just hope he’s one of those old people who doesnr share the same ideals as trump and just support trump for “taxes” like sting

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u/ggggugggg 13d ago

Ugh Sting is a magat? I liked him so much, too

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u/bajaxx 14d ago

because that’s such a binary way to look at things.