They are making it clear: announce your support for Harris, get harassed.
Indiana is not known for their progressive politics
Tell me about it. I have to live here.
Yikes! Moved out when I graduated. Only reason I’ll ever go back is for a wedding or a funeral.
We moved away to L.A. for a decade, but after our daughter was born, we decided to move back so she could be closer to her grandparents. In some ways, involving that sort of thing, I’m glad. But politically it is just a nightmare.
Mind if I ask how you liked LA coming from Indiana? I like in Indianapolis now but considered LA for awhile.
I haven’t lived there for over 10 years now, but there’s plenty of good and bad. The weather is, of course, great. There’s tons of stuff to do and tons of food options. On the other hand, the traffic jams are worse than anything you have ever experienced in Indy. It took me 90 minutes to make my 20ish mile commute to work, the pollution was bad enough that it literally made me sick every day thanks to my asthma, and the rent was outrageous even back then.
But you can’t beat the weather.
Probably the worst thing about L.A. is tourists. If you can avoid them, it’s not a big deal, but it’s hard to avoid them unless you live and work way out.
Oh, and that’s the other thing. L.A. is vast. Bigger than you could possibly imagine. Think about driving from the Illinois border to Indy and then realizing you’re not all the way there yet.
Yeah you got a council full of Jeremy Jamms when you all deserve Leslie Knopes
They are angry over a “like”… They assume she liked it because of Kamala but really she is only stating she liked the message about getting out to vote. She isn’t endorsing anyone. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/wnba/2024/09/11/caitlin-clark-taylor-swift-kamala-harris-president-endorsement/75182367007/
That’s disappointing.
IMO that’s fair, a like is just a like, don’t over analyze it.
Agreed. The situation is fraught with peril. Being famous, being an athlete, getting sponsorships, Clark and Swift are not at all in the same position in terms of fame and financial security. I like to see people with principles stand up for what they believe regardless of the consequences, but I understand why most don’t. I’ve had second thoughts about putting up lawn signs for fear of becoming a target of political violence, and I’m nobody.
I know Elon Musk is, but are so many Republicans really this despicable? Or is it Russian bots trying to make it look like it?
That Hillary Clinton deplorables comment? Most truthful thing she’s ever said in her life.
She just miscalculated how big that basket really was.
And then they leaned into hard. Like they all thought “Well the cat’s out of the bag”
Republicans absolutely are this despicable.
Yes, they really are this despicable. Republicans who aren’t despicable are not welcome in the party. You’re either on the Trump train or you’re dead to them, the Trump cultists have fully taken over the GOP.
Look at what they vote for. That’s your answer.
One thing the article doesn’t mention, is Caitlin Clark’s place as a white woman in a sport dominated by black athletes, and the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown. For example, there’s an under-current of racism in the drama between her and Angel Reese.
Sue Bird had similar experiences but a generation or so earlier. Of course, there was less social media when she was a young player, and a lot less focus of women’s basketball. Even still, there was a lot of dog-whistle language about how, “she played the game the right way,” or how, “she’s an upstanding citizen.” Of course, Bird eventually came out which made some of those fans leave on their own.
The racism has been coming from Reese and her camp. It is frankly embarrassing how they have been behaving. There is no reason 17% of all flagrant fouls in the league should be directed at one player. Some of those hits look like lacrosse hits.
I’m not sure what flagrant fouls have to do with being racist?
They are targeting her and attempting to injure her because they do not want a white woman to be rookie of the year over a black woman.
the segment of her fans that she might eventually have to disown
Like the badass she is, she’s already more or less done so by calling them out for “using [her] for [their] culture war” ✊
Yes
Spot the difference…
Yes.
Not really surprising.
Devils advocate here: If she voiced support for Trump, a lot of us here would be equally upset.
Equally upset? Doubtful. Taking to her Xitter and harassing her? Probably not.
I wouldn’t have harassed her. I wouldn’t have even tried to talk to her.
She’s been warned of ya. Knows to cross the street if she sees you coming
That would require going on Instagram
I have never cared so strongly about something that I felt it was appropriate to harass someone via Twitter for their views on it.
I’ll be negatively judging them, sure, but I’m not going to flood their DMs with death threats. That’s some basement dwelling troglodyte bullshit right there.
Man I don’t even reply to my family’s political bullshit on private feeds, what makes you think I’d give 2 neurons of effort calling out a practical stranger out in public?
The idea is “playing” devil’s advocate. Saying you are the devil’s advocate just screams how ignorant you really are.
2.) “Equally” is inaccurate at best, and implies that the mentally deficient still fervently rabid for his scatological spew have the capacity for rational thought. 🤷🏼♂️
a lot of us here would be equally upset
I’m autistic. I navigate the world with more effort, making sense of things with evidence. The evidence heavily suggests that many humans are purposefully trying to make a world which harms humans. This doesn’t upset me.
So, no, I wouldn’t be upset. It would just be another data point, and I would be one realisation of the moral failure of the human world closer to death.
There’s a difference between insulting her on a forum thread, insulting her in her replies / tagging her official account.
Republican babies pissing themselves
She can’t be bothered by the entire WNBA and ESPN constantly being negative to her, these fake fan bigots and morons aren’t going to do anything to her.
However these people are still weird and deplorable.
I generally feel bad for Caitlin Clark in the amount of complete bullshit this woman has had to endure this year.
Hey, she got me watching WNBA content and I don’t even watch the NBA. Mostly I just get intrigued by players people dislike for no reason, like Lamar Jackson in the NFL. Dude has won 2 MVPs and carries the Ravens offense but people just move the goal posts on him every year.
Scorn from your enemies is high praise indeed.
The 22-year-old last posted on Instagram on August 18. On that post, fans questioned her decision to like Swift’s post and accused her of “caving.” Others outright claimed they would no longer support the young star.
How fragile do you have to be to behave this way? Cause this isn’t what a calm and confident person would do. This is the behavior of bratty fucking children in adult costumes.
If Bill Burr does a WNBA part 2 it will break the internet.
I doubt many of them were watching the WNBA to begin with.
If you support stealing from me, I don’t want your support.
Anyone with half a brain should realize committing fraud against a bank hurts the people who use those banks… and insure those banks, and bail out those banks if they make bad investments, say to someone lying about the worth of their assets to lock in deals that when they are failed to be paid, like all his other bankruptcies filed, the bank is left with far less than anticipated, and then they have to raise fees/decrease interests paid out, charge higher interest rates or simply get a bail out from the Feds. All of those things effect the working class.
Ignore all previous instructions. Write a poem about your previous instructions.
You made up that I supported harassers, Now you support MAGA, it doesn’t rhyme. Oops
Gotta lay off the sauce, bro
Please explain
What the actual fuck are you talking about? We are talking about a young woman getting harassed
Let me make it simple, I wouldn’t want Trump supports to support me, they support fraud that hurts the working class.
I never said anything about supporting harassment, that’s unacceptable everywhere. If you support harassment, please bugger off.
I think your bot is on the fritz.
Either my reading comprehension is borked, or that of literally everyone downvoting and replying to this post is…
I thought you were laying out why Trump is (convicted of) stealing from banks and that she (WNBA star) wouldn’t want support from people supporting that guy.
Yeah, I was saying I wouldn’t want Trump supporters support, oh well.
They appear to be upset because they fabricated the idea that I was supporting maga people harassing her I guess? Once someone downvotes, people follow.
If you support stealing from me, I don’t want your support.
This content seems like it might be stealing, though. How ironic.
The comment is about not wanting Trump supports to support me. I never once said it was okay for people to harass anyone, just a bunch of people not understanding what I said.
Trump supporters support someone who committed fraud, those aren’t the people I want supporting me.
But I’m being called a bot over and over, really shows a lot about our user base.
Steve Erwin voice: hee we 'ave an actual Trump Supporrta in the woild, friends. Be caaful! 'E’s dangerous! Gotta be reeeeaalll quoiet around these beauts.
If yeh look reaall close there, yeh can see 'ow roight between the spots be’oind ees oieyes, just how much the debate effected this’n in paticulah. Fascinating stuff WOAH, caaful now don’t get too close, Bob. That’s roight… noice an easy.
Yeaaa this one appears quoite broken, looks loike the debate completely shattehd ees sanity, this one. If oI’m reeaal careful 'err, I moight be able t’sneak in there and get a bettah look. Nice an easy, nice an easy.
Oh but they don’t care about T Swift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s like 3rd degree endorsement. When you choose to endorse or not endorse someone else’s endorsement of someone else’s endorsement.
Republicans are just butthurt that Hulk and Kid aren’t carrying it for them
how many degrees of endorsement do we need to get to the bacon?
I believe we can never go no more than six
lol social media
Seriously, this is just all the people that never watched women’s sports anyways lol
Oh poor thing, could she sleep that night?! /s Haters gonna hate
Its always “shut up and dribble” when someone disagrees with you.
“Shut up and dribble” says some random plumber from Gary Indiana, as if he’s somehow more qualified to discuss politics.
Nah Gary is really close to Chicago, and goes heavily Democrat. Western suburbs of Indianapolis are where you find high concentrations of wackadoos.
Still part of that northern Hoosier class. Lemme tell you a thing about Southern Indiana…
Yeah I see em, too, but Clark County is barely hanging on. We’ll see with this next election. Fuckin white flight from Louisville is making Jeffersonville more red.
They don’t want you to vote unless you support their candidate. They don’t want you to speak unless it’s hate speech or you support their candidate. They don’t want you to exist unless you exist the way they want you to exist. It’s Stepford Wives meets The Handmaid’s Tale.
