I actually see "I am a racist" most of the time. I strongly considered buying one of these in 2020, but I didn't think I could handle the number of people who would probably not actually read it. (tbf, I pretty much look like a maga)
I'm a middle aged white guy. It's really not that bad. The look of betrayal when they figure out I am in fact mocking them is hilarious.
I’m a middle aged white guy. It’s really not that bad.
Me too!
The look of betrayal when they figure out I am in fact mocking them is hilarious.
That's what attracts me about the idea, but I know I steer the other way as soon as I see a red hat these days. I would never be able to stop wondering about the conversations I wasn't having with people.
saaame. I am very unintentionally Maga coded. I went to a pride event recently and to get in I was walking past it to get to the end of the line. walked past a single guy (white, little pudgy, your average 20 something Maga) holding Trump signs and I walk past and he goes "hey brother! wanna--" and goes to hand me a sign and I couldn't help the look of disgust I gave him with a little "ugh.." and he seemed absolutely gutted. he was gone when I got back to the same corner while in line. I like to think he saw me waiting in line and couldn't face the threat of conflict over his mistake.
I tried to help deescalate a little tussle at a San Francisco nightclub where a progressive-minded young woman (who’d had a few drinks) became very upset seeing a red hat on a guy at the back of the dance floor. It was a parody hat!
(Upon learning you mistook a parody for the real thing, you’d hope to apologize instead of trying to save face by declaring yourself to still be in the right… but, alcohol.)
I have one of those!
A walking red flag
A modern dunce cap.
No joke, I see someone wearing one and I walk the other wsy. Anything to avoid conversing with lunatics will make your day better
Same. I love the fact that they all festoon their car and house with Trump/Brandon/Fuck Biden stuff, between that and the hats, it lets me know who to avoid in so many situations.
The bumper stickers and FJB badges on the back of pickup trucks dictate my behavior on the road. "Oh, this truck wants to merge. Wait a tick, is that a MAGA window decal on the rear window? Fuck you, buddy, you ain't getting in here."
"I stopped learning in the fourth grade and have no understanding of anything more complex than a toaster. I am about to impress upon you, in no uncertain terms, just how painfully unaware I am of my own ignorance; whether you want me to or not."
From a woman's perspective, I see "I don't respect you or your body and want you to be my TradWife".
Republican incel hot off the latest Jordan Peterson choir-preaching sermon: "Why don't women like me!? It must be them!"
Tim Pool literally said this on his show.
what's the difference between a klan hood and a maga cap?
the klan hood is actually made in america!
The Klan hood also hides your face. The MAGA hat displays your shamelessness.
More like “I am a boot licking fascist”
All red baseball hats are probably going to have this association for many decades to come. That being said, so few people wear baseball hats lately that it's certainly not a big loss.
Good thing I'm not the only one who cringes just a bit by seeing an all-red hat.
There’s a new one in my area that says ULTRA MAGA.
I’m really not sure what that’s supposed to mean.
They subscribed to Fascism Platinum. You still have to lick the boots but now they're premium leather.
Now I just see “I’m a weirdo who is going to pick a fight with my niece during thanksgiving.”
Can we popularize the Make racism wrong again hat?
I've found it's almost irrelevant what the hats have of them. What these people desire is the attention it draws.
For obvious reasons most of these people would be completely unnoticed by society suddenly become the center of attention when wearing this stuff.
I saw one, once. I live in Canada. Googled the dude's name, he was listed as an actual terrorist.
I see it as "this is my brown coat, cant wait to be a storm trooper"
Very true.
Make America Geriatric Again?
Make American great again- Dump The Chump!
The emperor has no ear wound...
This is true.
I've lived in a couple of countries and an interesting thing I found out is just how attuned we are for the country we grew up in to certain markers (accent, clothing, the kind of words people use, etc) of Education, Social Status, City/Countryside origin and so on, but not at all for other countries since most of these things tend to be different from country to country and it takes some time living elsewhere to start reading such things on the locals, and even longer before it becomes instinctive.
(Mind you my experience was just Europe, which can hardly be said to have a vast cultural distance between countries - I mean, it's varied but it doesn't have, say, Japan-to-India levels of contrast - and yet all 3 of the countries I live in for years - Portugal, The Netherlands and Britain - in general have significantly different cultures and vastly different markers for such things)
So it's funny how this specific item has become an amazing signal for people abroad of Uncut Low Education status for Americans.
They've really fallen off in popularity over the years. I remember back in 2017/2018, it wasn't unusual to see people wandering through downtown Houston in a hat or t-shirt, declaring their allegiance. You'd even get the odd jacked up F-350 with a giant American flag and a ton of pro-Trump graffiti just doing laps on 610 or crisscrossing downtown, particularly on national holidays or after big sporting events.
Now, I'll see a bit of that shit up in the Woodlands or our in Clear Lake. But its nearly extinct in downtown, even when there's a big gun show at the George R. Brown convention center. MAGA stock has tanked.
Not inaccurate
"...and also a hateful piece of shit"
I think a lot of team MAGA might listen at this point to actual reason. We might slow down the ridicule and ramp up the reason.
Team MAGA is a cult, they're never going to listen to reason. You might get through to people who are traditional republican voters who never quite bought into the Trump cult.
I just want to say, I have a pretty nice Nike cap that I got from a previous employer. It's embroidered with the company logo, but otherwise it's pretty much blank. I don't typically wear caps, but this is one of a very very small collection I have (I think it's the only one that I know where it is), when I do.
I can't wear it anymore, and I haven't been able to for years. It's red. The same bright red as the Maga caps. The company logo is white, and square on the front of it, just like where the text is on the Maga caps.
From a distance, they're indistinguishable.
I can't wear it because I don't even want to be confused for one of these Maga jerks, even from a distance. They've basically ruined red ball caps.
Instead of wearing the ball cap in summer, I went and picked up a Tilly hat. It's fine I guess. Not red, which is a big feature.
It sucks because I really like that hat. It fits well. Most Ball caps don't fit right and I'm uncomfortable. I finally found one that's not a literal pain to wear, and I can't wear it anymore because Trump.
Red hat dunce caps!
Wow. That is very clever
How would you know?
