When he complained, rightwingers sent him homophobic taunts online.

Black gay Republican podcaster Rob Smith has claimed that “white supremacist” members of his political party called him “fa**ot” and the n-word during his Sunday night attendance of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest event in Phoenix, Arizona. Though Smith posted a video of his brief interaction with the aggressors, commenters on X (formerly Twitter) noted that the video didn’t feature the n-word and mocked Smith his membership in an anti-gay political party.

“Last night in Phoenix, I was confronted and surrounded by some White Supremacists that don’t like gays or blacks in the Republican Party,” Smith wrote in a December 18 post on X. “They shouted ‘nr’ and ‘ft’ at me to make their point. However, I served in Iraq. I never back down. Ever.”

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        If you throw an exclamation mark in front of it people can use it as a link with most of the apps.

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        Me as well. Every day dealing with my mask at work hoping that I wouldn’t be the small fraction of the population that still gets messed even vaxxed, then sitting down and scrolling through the long timeline of a goatee hat and sun glasses or religious-karen going from tough to vent.

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      Leopard eating faces on Reddit only allows one political direction, you’d get a ton of downvotes despite being an obvious case Leopard eating faces, if it doesn’t fit the political agenda of that community. Tldr, if a Leopard eating faces channel will be anything like on Reddit, we’re better of without it

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        I call bullshit - Let’s see a few examples of liberals/democrats getting their faces eaten by policies they support.

        “Oh noes, this free college is hurting me” “Oh noes, all this free healthcare, my wallet is too fat”

        Just to be obvious here, show me what laws liberals have actually been able to pass just how they championed for, and show me the face eating. I’m waiting.

        Inb4 something about an immigrantl/minority/female committing a crime (cause liberals are so pro crime)

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          I’m not an american. Without going into too much details, I’m talking about the insane immigration situation from the Middle East to Europe

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        Hot take: If leopards are only eating faces on one side of the political spectrum, maybe you need to consider that only one side is consistently voting for leopards eating faces.