we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.

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So fucking gross
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The Republicans virtue signal all the time.

Only they call it patriotism, *christianity*, family values.

Others call it racism, jingoism, militarism, misogyny, ....
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Blech. May they all go to he he hell!
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Did they really have to photoshop the jack booted thugs in front of the APCs that the government already owns?
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Gee. Why are they hohoho-hiding their faces??
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Charles Dickens today:
It felt like everything was going wonderfully and terribly at the same time. People believed they understood everything, yet they were completely confused. Hope and despair existed side by side, and the world seemed full of contradictions, as if it were both paradise & hell.☮️
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ONE HUNDRED
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Now we have "Lack of Virtue" signaling
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OUT: Virtue signaling
IN: Vice signaling
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This administration is filled with some world-class sickos.
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These are the posts of weak, insecure men.
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Did we actually stop doing things those assholes called “virtue signaling?”
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Nazi, racist sadists
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It’s all a video game for these thugs. A game where you make a helluva lot of money for “wins”. The entire administration stepped out of the same video game. They’re all a bunch of 9-year-olds.
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They’re so insufferable.
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Kratocracy has won.
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They can get fuh fuh fucked.
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their brains so small, the only response people like them can muuster up is "Big words. Complicated speaking. ah. one of *those* that think they are big brain for using said words. ill ignore that and possibly make fun of it. i am internally 14 amd ive gaslit myself to thinking im not."

no point :/
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And if all goes well, many of these thugs will go to jail
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Performative shittiness is all they have.
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They all need to go Fa la la la la la la la fuck themselves.
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Some dickhole on local Facebook page has this as his background
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May the Lord Jesus give them everything they deserve this Christmas season. The sooner the better.
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Constant provocation in hopes of physical resistance on the streets
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They're going to Ho Ho Hell
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Nothing says Christmas spirit like forcibly deporting refugees.

I hate this.
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Cocksuckers, all,
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I like how the one guy is about to shoot the other guy in the back of the head...
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They want the freedom to be degenerates and no one can tell them no.
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Why do they need MRAPs to arrest illegal migrants?
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Why the military gear and assault rifles instead of LE gear and holstered handguns?

No one has violently resisted enough to warrant a draw down on someone.

Their whole presence is to usher in a police state. They should be completely defunded and disbanded in Jan 2027.
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The bane of the left is decency. We've failed pressing counter propaganda to out-cringe these asshats. I think it's time to throw decency under the bus and spam 'memes' that these morons feel they're out of depth in the mEmE GaMe
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These corny ass motherfuckers, I swear
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Did they forget the love thy neighbor and the good Samaritan story
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And yet again the asymmetry of it all -

Where 5 years ago your unforgivable virtue signalling was telling people you owned a Prius -

They get to be as cruel and heinous as they like. Like literally as racist as they want and kill people.
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Have we always been this deplorable and we just did a better job of hiding it?
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The concept of virtue signaling is, and has always been, asinine. The same people who whine about liberals doing it have stickers with "Support the Troops" or "Back the Blue" or some form of MAGA dipshittery on their vehicles. We all signal to the people we want to associate with. It's human.
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Speak for yourself
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#2 in the stack is gonna shoot his buddy in the back of the head
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This is a great picture!
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All of this was attempted before and we were never taught about it. In 1933, the billionaires of their time, tried to over throw the US goverment via military coup.

bsky.app/profile/isthiswhatwewant.bsky.social/post/3m7cln2gewc2p
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Same with "cancel culture". Back in the day in the UK when peeps behaved in an unacceptable way you "sent them to Coventry" by refusing to interact with or even talk to them. They were shunned until they changed the behaviour in question.
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pathetic
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Beyond despicable!
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Vice signaling is aimed at people with swastika tattoos feeling proud
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They wear camo to blend in with the terrain.
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The humvees will keep them safe from IEDs on the roads of Michigan
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I hope everyone in ICE goes to HO-HO-Hell.
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To every leftist that told us we were “losing people” over our insistence on tone and language policing- we were never “losing” them. They always wanted to talk like this and you started giving them permission….
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“Virtue signaling” is just another way of saying “pay lip service” but by incels.

Take action, call people out, etc - just be genuine and back it up.

If anyone accuses you of “virtue signaling” let them. You can be secure in knowing they’re wrong.
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The post isn't even true since they are sending people to random places. It's not home.
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Better to signal virtue than confirm vice
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Virtue signaling is a stupid phrase that is often used to silence people who are speaking out about a topic but it also references people who are basically sociopaths and just one attention and don't actually add to the conversation or help a situation.

Republicans probably made that phrase up.
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and you´re going to the HA HA HAgue
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I have found that people who complain about "virtue signaling" are invariably shitty human beings.
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Vice Signaling.
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I have found that many who call out virtue signaling are themselves “virtue signaling” in doing it.
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History will not look kindly on this shit
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Oh, for crying out loud. What idiot in HS came up with this bright idea? ...right, the same one that came up with all of ICE's other bright ideas.
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So very Christian of our Republican leadership. I have a hard time with the US being run by Pharisees!! Pope Leo is also disgusted with Trump as Grand Pharisee.
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"They're not Christians, they're big ol' Jews!" - you
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What is a "Grand Pharisee"? Can't be the president of the Sanhedrin, because that's the cohen ha-gadol, who I think was exclusively a Sadducee. Also, what about Trump makes you think he's an expert Torah teacher?
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I still can't wrap my mind around a mentality that wants to shout to the world, "Woo, I'm a raging piece of excrement!" As if that was something they aspired to be.
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Jesus, that’s bleak :(
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Wait until 2026 hits and these thugs get their new budget. I don’t think people are prepared for what’s about to happen.
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Those assholes won't be laughing if they continue pushing it to a point where we start feeling truly hopeless, and fight back for real.
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THEY'RE GOING TO HELL HE HE
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Ah yes, 'Merry Christmas' from the domestic war machine pointing guns at everyone. Strong Christian ethos.
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At Subway and the line is long, around half spoke spanish. One white guy was a policeman.
As God is My Witness, the cop did not arrest them. He did not accost them, beat them, cite them, or anything! He just stood there while these violent criminals queued for sandwiches.
Did he do right or wrong?
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hes pointing a gun at the back of his team mates head
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It's probably AI, but they ain't bright
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Something Something, Jesus being born in a manger as a foreigner.

Not that the lore matters to these bastards, despite them saying otherwise.
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Hot take: Virtue signalling was and is good, and the only people who are mad about it are those without virtue.
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What the actual fuck 😡😡🤦‍♀️
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We can't apply peacetime principles and rules to today. The world has suddenly changed from the last 50 years, new approaches are needed FAST.
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If me saying “Fuck these Nazis” is virtue signaling, so be it.
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I’m still trying to make fetch happen

I’m calling them MAGAzis #MAGAzis
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Like "ugh, virtue, so gross." Why do they hate it?
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Love how Christ-like this is. 😞

Fucking awful people. I am so ashamed of what our country has become.
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virtue signaling is absolutely a thing, however (much like the word 'gaslight') people misapply it and/or overuse it so much that the original meaning becomes meaningless.

but it is absolutely a thing
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Disturbing and disgusting. They are human beings 😡
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Disgusting
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This looks like an illustration to an Onion article about the "War on Christmas".
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Obviously they’ve outsourced their social media feed to terminally online edgelords who turned fascist “for the memes” back around 2016, making shit like cringe compilations.

With a side dose of ableism for good (bad?) measure.

I feel SICK!
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What I find interesting is that the administration’s deportation tactics are broadly unpopular, not just unpopular with lefties or Democrats. And in response, the admin just keeps cramming the worst of it down everyone’s throats.
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What a f@#ked">#ked">@#ked up society.
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And these new "agents" are going to "try try trial" ...

when they are charged with the crimes that they are committing.

Everyone with a conscience stands against their treason.
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some how they've managed to make their nazi dog whistles less cringe than this shit. wow. I never would've imagined it.
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bro aiming his weapon at the back of his buddy's head
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Why is he pointing his weapon directly at the back of a fellow criminal's head?
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DHS needs some serious weapons handling retraining...
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No honor among whatever they are.
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When insincerity reigns, wanton cruelty soon follows.
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So whose supposedly going home because Indiana is sending 300 national guard members to DC so it's not them 🤔
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Deplorable!!!!!!
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Oh, there’s no place for ICE for the holidays
No matter how far away they roam.
They’ll never be treated in a friendly way.
For the holidays, ICE should just go home.
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And stay there!!!!
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If every member of ICE died in a fire, I would a lot have trouble not laughing.
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Besides shooting each other in the back of the head and parking their trucks so none can move...ICE can...well, yeah, it tracks. Never mind.
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Even AI paints them as fat fucking lard asses who can't use a rifle properly.
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I thought, "they're sending our National Guard troops home for the holidays?" That's so American!
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When the Trump gang are tossed out, I want all their social media ghouls publicly named and shamed and cut off from any decent career opportunities. This kind of shit has to have consequences.
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And it's a race to the bottom
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I knew how badly white middle class Dems had lost any true will when they became afraid of the term virtue signaling. Fucking pathetic how they want right wing to like them. I volunteer, I protest, I donate, I boycott, I vote in every election big and small and help others to do so. Oh virtuous me.
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It was always a bad faith accusation. Cons engage in their own form of signaling: "cruelty signaling." Who is going to do the most harm to the most people in their targeted outgroups. Calling for the military to kill citizens in the street is not controversial 2 them. It's demanded by their voters.
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This is so gross
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Whenever I got accused of “virtue signaling” on Twitter, I always replied with “I’m standing up for what I believe in. What do you believe in?” They immediately got defensive and either ignored me, blocked me, or replied with childish insults. Really shows that it’s just political favoritism.
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I reversed it once. They wanted to protect the country from stuff like murdering & mutilating children, invading hordes of murderers, etc. I asked why dems don't want to do those same things. They didn't have an answer & also guessed it's spite for maga. All their propaganda is shallow as hell.
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“At least I have virtue to signal.”
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Thank you. Many years ago, people would dismiss something as "politically correct" and I'd say: "I believe in treating people with respect." (And then they would feel attacked.)
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Likewise. I never felt ‘cowed’ into not doing it. But I’ve noticed that a lot of media weather vane types seem to lack the moral compass to do what millions of ordinary people do all the time, and stand up for normal human decency.
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I had an old friend try the same thing on Facebook and I said the same back. of course that person was basically completely cynicized ("both sides" not perfect therefore the only moral stance is to jump on people for virtue signalling and lecture them)
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I'm on 65 lists called "Russian bots," "bad faith Trump helpers," and like "purity testers."

If refusing to sign my name to genocide is purity testing, then sure, I guess I do belong on those lists. Even suggesting we have a primary to see if people actually wanted Harris was a sin .
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See Also
"Don't make it political" -a cheap political point scoring refuge for people with no argument

..there are others but my mind just went blank
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I quickly learned that any attempt to have a serious interchange with someone on the "other side" on Xhitter quickly devolves into name-calling within 2-3 posts. They don't have serious arguments, just venom.
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It was far too late when I realized that these people used virtue signaling as this constant insult because they disbelieved the idea people could genuinely empathic and broadly desire good for other people and to model justice in society, regardless of whether they get anything out of it themselves
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I like to reply to such people with a simple "?", forcing them to explain themselves.
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Any and all accusations of 'virtue signaling' are themselves, by their own definition, virtue signaling.
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If you could kill someone with a right-click on their username we would ALL be dead but it might be an overall improvement.
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Vice signalling by this regime to appear strong tough and hateful, as well the loudest voice in the room, throwing out timeless virtues like the baby with the bathwater. A hard race to the bottom indeed.
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Small dick energy en masse.
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Fuck ICE.
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I bet the guy holding the shield’s belly jiggles like a bowl full of jelly.
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Kidnapping people and smuggling them out of the country… same old Hallmark Christmas movie plot.
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😡😡😡
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what makes it more pathetic is that this was clearly just a shitty photoshop job. all those hats are the same jpeg, so they couldn't even be bothered to get their cogs to pose for an actual photo. so it just makes them look lame ON TOP of being morally repugnant.
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The lying and lazy fakery is a power stance. Proof that they don’t need to make an effort.
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The modern day KKK Nazi Republican Gestapo is eerily similar to these guys.
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That’s why we must put the vice of cruelty first, according to Judith Shklar. She knew.
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Well... they certainly are a bunch of Ho's anyway... 🤨
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Sick shit
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America is so fucking DISGUSTING
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This is shameful 😡
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I'm so sorry that our government is now run by people who are emotionally about 13 years old.
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I thought it was agreed that it was 12 year olds, not 13 year olds. (Granted, I'd say younger in 10 year olds myself, but still...)
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Would be funny if countries started deporting Americans to say venezuala
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Disgusting. I don’t believe in religion, but I hope there’s a hell just for these people.
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So Christian
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Oh it was cringy. But these people suck 1000 times more than annoying cis people who feel the need to wear pronoun badges.
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I have no idea what got people to scoff at the trans rights equivalent to straight people saying “my partner”.
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These doctored photos are a tacit reminder that ICE being kitted out and wielding tactical gear isn’t for a physical need—it’s just costuming meant to send a message.
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Well, that is just fucking disgusting.
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It seems like all the MAGA regime is full of emotional stunt individuals frozen in the worst preteen phase were emotional maturity and empathy had never shine.
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It's amazing men with so much power still feel the need to have so much EDGE.
I bet they all have Canadian girlfriends.
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Natural consequences dictate that this aberration we're living through cannot last. Cruelty and illegality are abhorrent to most of us. As more people experience this in their daily lives, the more people will resist. Ultimately, democracy, as we knew it will be restored.
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Deport ICE agents to their "countries of origin"
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The true spirit of Christmas right here. 🙄🙄
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I never understood how "virtue signaling" was supposed to be a bad thing. The only time I can think of where it'd be bad is if you're saying one thing but doing another.

On that note, somehow the fact that I'm almost certain this was made with genAI makes me madder than the actual message.
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This administration simultaneously claims that violence and harassment directed towards it's personnel (like ICE) is solely because their critics calls them fascists and nazis, and how that "needs to stop" but also publishes intentionally antagonistic posts like this.
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And it's not like they're unaware that these types of posts piss people off; the alt-right has delighted in the belief that their "masterful trolling" is making "leftists' heads explode" for years. It's why they voted for Trump three times.

Hell, they're STILL using this image from 2016:
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I hope everyone involved in making this goes to ho ho hell
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Good news, pretty sure this is actual blasphemy and possibly the sin against the holy spirit.
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Jesus was a virtue signaler
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I'm not sure "we're keeping your sons and daughters and wives and husbands away from their families for Christmas" is going to excite their base quite as much as they expect.
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Are they going for “troll-funny” or are they serious with this shit?
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you're going to the Ha Ha Hague
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I am confused.
The 1st. picture shows one aiming a rifle at the others head.
The 2nd picture you see that he is behind that guy almost hidden. The caption reads "you are going ho ho home" like they are going to kill that guy!!!
At least that is what I got from this post. Anybody else?
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which is why it's not a great idea to use AI for your social media and marketing photos
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It's a War on Christmas.
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hope this terrorist end up in concentration camps teaching them respect for life and humanity.And they can‘t learn sent them into flaming hell.
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As if literally all religious services are not virtue signalling.
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I love how the AI still gave them a beer gut lmao these losers
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Nobody told the AI not to point weapons at each other’s heads.
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Either that guy isn't trained with his weapon or he wants to send the shield guy to He-He-Hell.
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Wouldn't you?
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The glee in their cruelty is unforgivable. Their base is just 17 yo incels apparently.
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Trump, ICE and MAGA are despicable monsters. Don't tell me that they're Christian: because they're not.
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Why is the agent in the first picture apparently about to shoot his shield carrying partner in the back of his head?
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Looks like they’re celebrating being able to say Merry Christmas again… in the most unChristian way… 🙄
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WWJD?
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These people are sick cowards.
Hiding behind their masks.
Ridiculing Christian teachings and values.
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Shameful!
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ICE is already on the naughty list for their nasty behavior
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Virtue signaling is expressly called for in Matthew 5:14-16.
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Sociopathy and psychopathy are a lot more common than psychologists are willing to admit.

Until we start screening for both in children and adults, and doing some serious research into therapy and/or medicine, not much is going to change.
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Well said!

I’m proud to be woke!

I try hard to be good and kind and fair
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To me virtue signaling is attacking people who make hard choices, compromises, as lacking virtue, not stating what the ideal is.
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The concept of "virtue signaling" as a pejorative is a direct reason, if not THE direct reason, that Trump was elected twice
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These are their virtues. They are doing what they called cringe a couple years ago.
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That Homeland Security post is so sick. And repugnant. And from a government agency, no less. Will there come a point we'll no longer be repulsed by something like this? I guess that's the intent. Merry Christmas, indeed.
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They trying to make us callous and only succeeding in looking like clowns.
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I was never cowed. I was virtue signaling like a mofo daily.
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I still am
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I can't believe they didn't at least go "you'll be home for Christmas"but I guess that takes more brain cells than any government worker could possess. This administration is just as much of a joke as the last one.
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There’s no virtue being signaled in this AI generated piece of crap. Ho ho home indeed. I wish they would go themselves.
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5th Graders kidnapping people.
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Conservatives never want to engage on issues because their beliefs are atrocious and hateful. When you criticize them, you are "attacking their free speech." When you talk about your beliefs, you are "virtue signaling."

They just want you to shut up while they do whatever they want.
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something we should remind these goons of is that they aren't ho ho home, either
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When this is over every ICE agent needs to be given felony level charges and gun ownership rights removed.
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That's not why ppl criticize "virtue signaling"..
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I think less about virtue/vice signaling and more about

Virtuous cycles and vicious cycles.
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Keep in mind, their actions are illegal so while they try to send you back to your country of origin, return the favor and send them to Jesus
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Pieces of garbage
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They're carrying out all these cruel acts and leaving so much misery in their wake and are jokingly about it? Wearing Santa hats and putting Christmas tree lights on their kidnap vehicles shows just how low a regard they have for the people they're persecuting.
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What the heck is “virtue signaling “?
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Nice spare tire on tubby holding the shield. Only the best people.
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And they're going to the HA HA HAGUE.
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I didn’t get cowed into that. I couldn’t give a shit if conservatives accuse me of virtue signaling. They’re just telling on themselves.
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Looks like the dude with the shield in the first pic is about to succumb to some friendly fire. Also, chuckling at the muffin tops poking out of the armor. It's like someone popped a tube of Pillsbury biscuits.
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Maybe it’s time to play by their rules?
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December 7, 2025

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Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons is calling for the removal of a nativity scene. Lyons told Fox News Digital in a statement. “The actions of the activist reverend, Stephen Josoma, are absolutely abhorrent and add to a dangerous narrative."
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Funny how quickly the whole notion/claim of Christianity being at the heart of all of what the GOP is doing right now flies right out the window like a failed Russian asset the moment a church does something they don’t like.

It’s almost miraculous.
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Icky first amendment letting those stupid peasants make fun of the government. That ain't what it's for, it's so racists can say the N word whenever they want!
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Not my joke, but… if you remove all of the Jews and Arabs from a nativity scene, all you’re left with is an ass and a handful of sheep.
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And the archdiocese isn’t backing them. How very Jesus like of them /s

They need to read James 2:15-17.

And many kudos and thank you’s to the pastor of that church for standing up for people under attack.
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The only real Christian church
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Revealing, not reshaping...
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He’s about to blow his buddy’s head off
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bsky.app/profile/genelisadaily.bsky.social/post/3m7kwl57q7r2i
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Nope; this is SATAN not SANTA!
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America is a fascist and racist nation.
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Klansmen
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Well THAT’s not going to traumatize Gen B in the cradle
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Only sadists could think this up
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vice is too kind of a word here.
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...and Ice is going to he-he-hell.

Even "republican jesus" thinks you suck, Itty bitty "proud boys".
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Still not heroes....
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This is so disgusting. Blasphemy! Literally
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The guy with the AR muzzle flagging the shit out of the guy holding the shield in front of him 🤦‍♂️
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The inhumanity is abhorrent
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0
1
YES!
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0
1
As if virtue is a bad thing.
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0
4