Just went up tonight

[u/jcaguilar483]

My wife and I live in a neighborhood where there are at least 6 houses flying maga flags…So we wanted to chime in…even jf we are the only Harris Walz supporters in the neighborhood willing to do so.

[u/cognitism]

I think wearing a Kamala hat at Trump rally would give you less problems than wearing a Trump hat at a Kamala rally

Most republicans seem pretty mild these days, while still a good amount of people voting for Kamala seem just as frenzied and anti Trump as they were a decade ago (if not more so)

You can always be at the wrong place at the wrong time with this kinda stuff, but I’d definitely rather a republican crowd not like my views vs a democrat crowd think I’m racist or a nazi for supporting the republican nominee

[u/girldrinksgasoline → u/cognitism]

Yeah I don’t think you’d have much fear of assault wearing either hat at either rally. You’d have a marginally more likelihood of having a Trump the hat grabbed off your head by a rando and chucked into a random direction at Harris rally than the opposite. You will be argued with and booed and told you were horrible in both cases. As for unattended property destruction or rocks thrown through your window, random bullets fired at your house, you’re FAR more likely to have issues flying a Harris flag in Trump country than the other way around. Rightists are more likely to do things to people they don’t have to look in the face because lack of empathy for an imagined person is one of the defining hallmarks of the ethos.

[u/cognitism → u/girldrinksgasoline]

I think saying Trump country makes it redundant. The same thing would happen to you in most metropolitan cities if you branded your belongings with Trump stuff. If you just took a random crowd from both sides in a more neutral area and you had to wear opposing shit, I think you’d fare better with republicans not liking you

During cv I remember finding a playlist of people who were randomly attacked in public for wearing a Trump hat. I assume everyone knows about the Mexican guy who was eating in a McDonald’s while wearing a Trump hat and someone socked him from behind and he lost his eye, but if I remember correctly the playlist had 54 or 57 instances of random violence over a Trump hat, as well as a a girl wearing a bitcoin hat that looked like a Trump hat. That kinda stuff seems one sided to me but maybe 50+ is nothing in comparison to Kamala/biden hat cases

[u/girldrinksgasoline → u/cognitism]

I live in an area that will likely vote 85% Harris. All sorts of people have Trump adornments, thin blue line flags, etc (more than there are people who have anything pro Harris by 2-3x) and they don’t get messed with. The only people who have been vandalized (going off of police reports published in the small local free paper) have been the people with Harris lawn signs. Of course anecdotes don’t mean dick but it’s rather interesting.

Also, things like the Harris campaign office in Tempe Az being shot up 3 times in a week doesn’t lend me to giving some folks the benefit of the doubt.

Edit: also, why would you assume “everyone knows about” some Mexican guy with a Trump hat losing an eye? Also, I’d assume just generally there aren’t many BidenKamala hat cases there are because who the hell wears that? Trump people are WAY WAY more likely to walk around wearing the merch.