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"Kids do stupid things," he continued. "Especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."
I was a young, stupid, conservative boy. Most of my jokes were Strong Bad related. I didn't at any time glorify Hitler.
These kids need an intervention, not apologia.
Exactly this. I grew up conservative and no, we didn't joke about Hitler or the Holocaust.
I did. I said all sorts of offensive shit with varying degrees of understanding how offensive. HOWEVER, that does not mean I didn’t expect and face accountability for my actions. That’s part of it. That’s how dumb young men grow into sane, understanding, and well adjusted people. We fuck up, we learn, we improve.
Yeah I said all sorts of shit I never believed. Felt like none of it mattered and racism wasn't real etc etc because I was a dumb privileged kid. Once I talked to people different than me and thought for like forty seconds I realized how stupid I was and how I'd been getting sucked down a right wing rabbit hole.
None of it excuses my actions and these dumb young Republicans are actively trying to enforce their racist beliefs.
My teenage friends and I were edgy to well past the point of being vile. The only one of us making "Hitler was right" jokes was a Jew who was complaining about his parents and we always told him to shut the fuck up.
I did. All my friends and I were a bunch of edge lords with upper middle class/old money backgrounds. We never said that shit in front of any adults though because back then it was still a bad thing to do at all. However, I grew out of it and they never did…
These are the same people who argue that spanking kids is necessary to correct them. It's interesting how selective they are about punishing certain things.
"Kids do stupid things," he continued.
Sure. I did stupid stuff. I never glorified the extermination of 11 million people though.
And these guys were 24 - 35. None of them were kids.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/republican-hitler-group-chat-nazi-politico/
“Focus on the real issues,” he said. “Don’t focus on what kids say in group chats.” He then suggested that whoever leaked the racist messages is a “scumbag.”
“Kids do stupid things,” he continued. “Especially young boys. They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do.”
I knew it! Did he quote those harmless jokes? Yeah, I didn't think so.
It also bears noting that while “Young Republicans” may sound like a group composed of baby-fresh, underdeveloped prefrontal cortexes, the national organization accepts members of the Republican Party between the ages of 18 and 40.
But this is much worse imo:
Vance (..) downplayed the texts by comparing them to a leaked message from Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia attorney general. Jones has come under fire this month after 2022 text messages in which he expressed a desire to shoot the former Virginia House speaker were made public.
“This is far worse than anything said in a college group chat, and the guy who said it could become the AG of Virginia. I refuse to join the pearl clutching when powerful people call for political violence,” Vance wrote Tuesday on social media. Jones has, in fact, been condemned by members of his own party. Jones is also one man, making condemnable statements, not a large group of politically minded individuals producing, sharing, and celebrating the very hate they claim to revile.
Exactly. Demeaning and violent slurs against big parts of the population, even calling for their extermination, is on a whole different level to one person saying they want one other person dead. It's no comparison, but it's clever propaganda.
focus on the real issues
Oh you mean like the fact that the upcoming new generation of YOUR PARTY is openly praising Hitler?
Seems like a pretty real issue to me.
You could predict what a Republican will say just by shaking a magic-88 ball.
These were NOT "kids". They were adults up to 40 years old. Most men have grown up around 25 years of age. These privileged cunts are well past the point of learning anything new, and maga doesn't do learning anyway, so they are typical, fat ass racist republicans now, all grown up.
These obese dumbasses, did this on record, and never had the thought that maybe, just maybe, recording their racism might be a bad idea.
These obese dumbasses all have political leadership aspirations, and guaranteed at least a couple will use the "growing up" excuse during their Senatorial confirmations, one day. If that was today, they'd be shoo ins for SCrOTUS or Cabinet positions. In the future, when their fat turns come around? Let's hope by then that the worm has turned, and fetid republican racism will no longer be acceptable, and these cunts get shown the door.
They deserve to have their futures fucked by their present. Racist, obese cunts, whose genetics are a curse on humanity. Fuck them, and all republicans. With a cactus. No lube!
I heard someone make a good, frightening point. Trump has been a political force for over a decade now. There are a generation of young people who only know MAGA politics. To them that is normal. They've never seen a functional government in their adult lives.
Idk bro. I'm almost 40 and I've never seen a functional government either.
Dogshit nazi cunt administration. The entire GOP should be welded in a box, prison is too gentle for these freaks
"Young republicans"
30-40 year old reject beasts trying to angle skin color as their claim to supremacy
Those definitely weren't jokes.
I wonder what kind of conversations Vance had with his wife about these kinds of things? Or his children…
"It was just a joke! Cantcha take a joke?" has been the go-to excuse from bullies, since the beginning of bullies. The minute I hear that, I know exactly who the bully really was.
MAGA logic…38 year old men “kids” . Twelve year old girls who were sexually assaulted “adults who should be punished with a baby”
I've heard what they say a thousand times usually after some drunk rapes a woman or he kills people driving recklessly. "He is a fine young man at the start of his life. You have no right to punish him for the rest of his life" That is a quote about a drunk asshole farmers son who crashed his pickup and left the scene with his dying date still trapped in the truck. This was before cell phones were common. She died and he walked away with no punishment.
I used the n-word on Xbox Live when I was 12. So i guess I get it.
"They were 30..."
😡
keep in mind a 30 year old conservative is mentally 10.
More lies from the Smiler.
Most of the fascists that were exposed as such are over 30+
25-35 year old humans are not kids.
"Racists jump to defend racists."
Yes kids do stupid things.
Traditionally they were punished for it.
Of course they would...
Conveniently ignoring the Hitler part and focusing on the bad jokes.
Organize the workers
This is good, because they're incriminating themselves