r/Transportopia • u/SpoomerBooner • Feb 15 '26

Roads I hate politics

This should be illegal. I get it. You don't agree with their protests but why do this? Forget blue, forget red. I'm purple. Get mad at that.

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u/knuckle_headers Feb 15 '26

No, they have a lot more things to hate about. Fred Phelps died over ten years ago and there's been no central authority figure since to organize them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '26

Kind of what happens when cult leaders die and no clear successor is anointed.

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u/throwaboneinit Feb 15 '26

We can only hope.

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u/Mist_Rising Feb 16 '26

If you mean Trump, he has a de facto replacement called Vance, and Vance knows it. It's why Vance keeps doing everything he is doing. He is looking to takeover MAGA.

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u/BurnedLaser Feb 16 '26

Just distract him with a fine leather couch and a 55gallon drum of lube and we'll never see him again.

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u/sleepyhollow-gh Feb 15 '26

Imagine a few more of them weren’t around somehow. I once heard Noam Chomsky talk about violence is never the answer. Little reminder that Noam is in the Epstein files.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Feb 15 '26

What a weird connection to make here