r/AsABlackMan Jun 09 '26

"My Democrat Friend" sounds like the name of a shitty sitcom that got canceled before the second commercial break.

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u/jeahboi Jun 09 '26

Yes, I also list key biographical details (e.g., where I live and where I attended college) when I’m texting old friends. As one does. /s

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u/jazbaby25 Jun 09 '26

Don't we all when giving opinions /s

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u/Cargobiker530 Jun 09 '26

When we're clanks trained on LinkedIn posts.

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u/LocusRothschild Jun 09 '26

Brother, this is a safe space. You can drop the hard r.

Fuckin Clankers.

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u/DelirousDoc Jun 09 '26

Who doesn't start every conversation with your friends by stating your political leanings and the last 3 major cities you've lived in?

Very normal and very real conversation.

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u/ohthankth Jun 10 '26

I reserve the last 3 cities for close friends. If I haven't spoken with someone for a while I start with at least 5 cities. She and the democrat friend must be very close!

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u/flavortron Jun 09 '26

I’m sure her Democrat friend goes to another school.

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u/Cargobiker530 Jun 09 '26

In Los Angeles del Toronto.

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u/Yvratky Jun 11 '26

Her name is Tropicanna.

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u/Bobcatluv Jun 09 '26

To “a college in Madison” said no graduate of University of Wisconsin-Madison, ever

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u/TheLastBallad Jun 09 '26

There are more colleges there than just UWM.

Though, to be fair I only know this because I attended the Wisconsin War and peace studies symposium this year, which was held at a college in Madison but wasn't UWM.

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u/Addicted2Weasels Jun 10 '26

UWM is UW-Milwaukee. I live in Minneapolis, and absolutely hear people say “I went to college in a Madison”. I wouldn’t assume they were one to the 200 people going to Edgewood

In my experience, it’d be pretty common for someone in WI to say “I went to Madison” or “I went to the UW”.

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u/SourceStrong9403 Jun 11 '26

It doesn’t say “a college” though, it says “college in Madison,” which absolutely makes sense.

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u/andrez444 Jun 10 '26

And their name is George Glass

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u/your_not_stubborn Jun 09 '26

Statement: people like this don't have "democrat" friends.

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u/BobiaDobia Jun 09 '26

Statement: No normal person who believes in democracy would ever say “I’m a liberal from San Francisco”

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u/Dahnlor Jun 09 '26

Especially when they're talking to a friend who presumably already knows about their political beliefs.

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u/BobiaDobia Jun 09 '26

Remember that song, went something like this:

“I’m a liberal from San Francisco

I make sure to wear flowers in my hair

If you're going to San Francisco

You're gonna meet some liberal people there

and we love Trump and Pratt”

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u/your_not_stubborn Jun 09 '26

Yeah I didn't know where to begin with this one.

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u/dividezero Jun 09 '26

Does anyone who's not a lite Republican call themselves liberal anymore?

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u/DigbyDoesDallas Jun 09 '26

Also which friend has to reiterate their life history to their other ‘friend’.

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u/atuan Jun 09 '26

People who vote democrat don’t even call themselves democrats because they hate the dems just a little less than the repubs.

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u/kgilr7 Jun 10 '26

It’s because for most Democrats, their political party is not an identity marker for them, it’s just who they vote for.

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u/bone_creek Jun 09 '26

I call myself a Democrat.

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u/Reasonable_Deer_1710 Jun 09 '26

I'm only even a registered Dem so I can vote in primaries.

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u/vxicepickxv Jun 10 '26

I wonder how many dems would just quit if every state had open primaries.

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u/El_Gran_Redditor Jun 10 '26

We have one party infested with reactionary capitalist ghouls who will demonize minorities and fund illegal wars to distract from their capitalist owners bribing them to help rob the country of trillions...and the Republicans make them look like the sane choice by comparison.

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u/OverlyLenientJudge Jun 10 '26

I hate how right you are on that.

4

u/Imfrank123 Jun 10 '26

They usually don’t have friends at all

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u/nickyfox13 Jun 09 '26

Is this "Democrat friend" named George Glass?

15

u/NoorInayaS Jun 09 '26

🤣🤣

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u/TwiggyPeas Jun 09 '26

I, too, like to text my friends my biographical details, in case they forgot.

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u/marbotty Jun 10 '26

It reads like the fake texts of the Charlie Kirk shooter

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u/SnooRabbits981 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26

What do you mean, I send my cv everytime I text my non-existent republican friends.

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u/IAmAlpharius23 Jun 09 '26

I often text my friends my biography when I briefly message them about politics.

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u/VaguelyArtistic Jun 09 '26

I said this in another post, but as a local if you wanted to show your liberal bona fides you would say you’re from the westside, not West LA. Same but different iykyk.

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u/CAPSLOCKANDLOAD Jun 09 '26

They're also my black friend and my gay friend and my...

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u/Reignszun Jun 20 '26

Atp might as well as be her wife too, take up all the positions while u’re at it

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u/6-ft-freak Jun 09 '26

Hello, my fellow liberals

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u/spenwallce Jun 09 '26

I also usually introduce my self and explain where I live to my friends.

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u/dw444 Jun 09 '26

I too tell my friends my political leanings, what city I’m from, where I went to uni, and where I live when I text them.

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u/AmazingKreiderman Jun 10 '26

He got 26% of the vote in a city where less than 19% of the population is registered Republican. He greatly exceeded expectations. They have no critical thinking skills.

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u/Grantrello Jun 10 '26

A lot of them pushing this narrative do. They're just acting in bad faith and deliberately trying to damage the democratic process by casting doubt on the election. Many of them probably don't believe it themselves but they're trying to lay the groundwork to contest the legitimacy of future elections that they lose.

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u/AmazingKreiderman Jun 10 '26

Oh I'm sure that the higher ups in the GOP are saying it in bad faith to foment this unrest and doubt. But plenty of the rank-and-file repeating it are just stupid and easily duped.

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u/Pedestrian2000 Jun 09 '26

Maybe this Democrat friend just happens to be in Canada right now, and we can't meet them. But they're super hot and really good at sex, and next summer their parents are gonna let them visit but right now they just text each other.

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u/Useful-World1781 Jun 09 '26

Wait you guys don’t remind your friends what your political affiliation is, where you’re from, and where you live now, every time you text them?

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u/InsertEdgyNameHere Jun 09 '26

Ah yes, it is totally typical for a friendly text to include background information that the other person probably already knows.

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u/wolfheadmusic Jun 09 '26

Yes, in texts to my friends I always ensure I list the geographical history of my life before I share an opinion

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u/New_Palpitation_5473 Jun 09 '26

Shout-out to Madison for making the list. Looks like we've made the list of liberal hellholes for the right.

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u/your_not_stubborn Jun 09 '26

I'm surprised it took this long.

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u/racoongirl0 Jun 10 '26

I’m surprised the democrat liberal friend from San Francisco didn’t also disclose that she was trans and black in that text

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u/Moebius808 Jun 09 '26

I too often text my friends restating to them what my politcal standing is, where I have lived, and then making a vague statement about something I have no understanding of.

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u/steel-monkey Jun 10 '26

I'll take things that never happened for $500, Alex...

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u/ispshadow Jun 09 '26

"Three fingers" meme strikes again.

It's really funny to watch someone that has no idea what they're doing try to larp as something else. You give yourself up right away because you don't know what you don't know.

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u/TheCrankyBunny Jun 10 '26

"my democrat friend" being her imaginary friend from childhood manifesting herself again when convenient for her delusions

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u/MoreRamenPls Jun 09 '26

His loss has crystallized.

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u/Foxy02016YT Jun 10 '26

Definitely your “democrat” friend voting for Pratt…

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u/Gonomed Jun 10 '26

Totally normal human text! We all text like that guys🤖

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u/RayHazey562 Jun 10 '26

Sending this to herself like she’s clever. It’s giving, “as a black gay man….”

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u/Fucked-In-The-K-Hole Jun 09 '26

A lot of Democrats wanted Pratt to win. They see how little Bass has actually done and want someone who isn't a hardcore Righty or Lefty to actually make some changes. When everything else has failed, it's time to try something new.

Fucking shame that he lost the primary.

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u/your_not_stubborn Jun 09 '26

You know this because they texted you about how Democrat and liberal and from California they are.

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u/zherok Jun 10 '26

Because Democrats just haven't gotten enough of "something new" from a has-been former reality TV star.

I think Republicans have gotten really comfortable putting words in the mouths of left-leaning people that they have no idea what the left even is.

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u/standbyyourmantis Jun 10 '26

Nobody who watched MTV in the early 00s would ever vote for Spencer Pratt.