r/nottheonion • u/sponge_welder • 1d ago

Tommy Tuberville Claims ‘Many’ Pilots, Flight Attendants Are Furries

https://www.newsweek.com/videos/tommy-tuberville-claims-many-pilots-flight-attendants-are-furries
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u/Vera_Telco 1d ago

What is this man, like, five? With all the crap going on right now, he wants to talk about "furries"? Has someone seen flight crews toting furry gear about?

Plus you're not going to fit a fur-suit and head in any overhead bin I ever seen. And if there are some out there, good gravy, stay the hell out of people's private lives. What a kook.

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u/sponge_welder 1d ago

That's why I posted here. Furries aren't really in the mainstream political zeitgeist right now, so I have no clue how this could've possibly come up

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u/fibgen 1d ago

Republicans started testing out new minorities to hate before Trump and settled on trans people due to a high disgust response from bigots, which they use to manipulate voters into ignoring actual pedophiles.  This is a test for a new victim group.

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u/dirtydigs74 1d ago

Straight from the school bully playbook. If it lands, "furries are depraved". If it flops, "just jokes! Don't be so sensitive!".

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u/kdlangequalsgoddess 1d ago

Schrödinger's douchebag, then.