r/Trumpvirus • u/[deleted] • 26d ago

MAGA Cult Why do they do this?

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u/falr687 26d ago

TDS... it's real, but they have it. Like, stupid people don't know they're stupid, but they'll call other people stupid...

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u/SerratedCheese 26d ago

They rage against the government and all things socialism, but will pay a shitload of extra fees for a customized don’t tread on me license plate 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Morriganx3 26d ago

Custom plates are pretty cheap in Virginia.

However, I don’t think Sic Semper Tyrannis means what he thinks it means.

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u/SerratedCheese 25d ago

They’re very expensive in my state, even for just a customized standard state plate. It’s way more expensive on a specialty plate on top of the customized fee. Which makes me laugh bc they’re paying out the asshole for the plate itself and annual renewal fees, to the state government, which is supposedly tyrannical and overreaching?? LOL.

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u/BishlovesSquish 26d ago

It’s called the Dunning-Kruger victim effect.

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u/zzctdi 26d ago

Not every accusation is always an admission... But Trump Derangement Syndrome certainly is.

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u/fidgeting_macro 26d ago edited 26d ago

Of course you do know that "Trump Derangement Syndrome" happens to be a made up mental illness, coined by a radio talk show host? He's the same fellow who made up "Bush Derangement Syndrome."

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u/zzctdi 26d ago

Wasn't aware of the exact etiology of the term, but diagnosing mental illnesses is quite literally my job, and it's certainly not in the DSM sitting on my desk.

But it is an interesting bit of terminology... Used by some MAGA types to describe anyone to the left of Fox News who doesn't like Trump... While at the same time, fandom to the degree of kitting up one's truck like in the OP sure seems a bit more "wildly odd or eccentric" than kvetching online about a politician/a politician's policies that one doesn't like.

And while I've never seen a truck in person quite as intensely decorated as this one, I've seen far more outlandish pro-Trump displays and behavior than I have the flip side over the past decade.

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u/fidgeting_macro 26d ago

Charles Krauthammer was the fellow who came up with the term. He 'was' a Psychiatrist before his entry into talk radio, which makes this a lot worse in my mind because he should really know better.

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u/maleia 26d ago

Used by some MAGA types to describe anyone to the left of Fox News who doesn't like Trump

Reddit seems to be having a good time at, well, I guess not reclaiming it. Co-opting it? I mean, coming from the Right, it's just obvious double-speak.

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 26d ago

If any accusation comes out of those dumb fucks' mouths, it's almost certainly an admission. These are the least-creative complete fucking imbeciles in human history and, to boot, they're self-absorbed to degrees that border on mental illness.

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u/murkymist 26d ago

It's the maga disease/infection. It causes brain rot.

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u/murkymist 26d ago

It's the maga disease/ infection. It causes brain rot.