• @[email protected]
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    978 months ago

    Imagine growing up in a household that shit talked Republicans hardcore, and then 12 years after leaving home finding out that dad is a Trump supporter 😮‍💨

    • Waldowal
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      398 months ago

      Did he hit his head? The lead kick in?

      I’m only half joking. I had a neighbor who I used to describe as slightly conservative-leaning. He suffered a brain injury on the job and is now a full tilt QAnon MAGA goofball.

      • @[email protected]
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        148 months ago

        Too much fox news.

        It happened to my dad too. He got hurt and was basically sitting in front of the TV all day being brainwashed to hate “the left.”

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          68 months ago

          My parents were always a bit right but they still could function. Could have a normal conversation or do an activity with them. 2010 thanksgiving was the last time I saw them and fox killed whatever was left in them.

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          What you are saying is this:

          Couldn’t hear the endless barrage of republican dog whistles. Too subtle for his mind to capture.
          Heard the shrill, blunt whistle loud and clear.

          Because everything this orange asshole is saying directly, is what most previous republicans have been implying for decades.

          They’ve been incredibly successful when they’ve been subtle, too.
          For example - calling the war on minorities “the war on drugs” and filling it with “refer madness” propaganda. They’ve gotten the taxpayer to foot the gigantic bill for decades now.

          Social media broke peoples’ brains, that fucking algorithm is tuned to keep users anxious for unnaturally prolonged periods of time.
          They were warned they were the product, not the customer. They didn’t listen, they were too busy paying attention to what the algorithm was throwing their way.

          • @[email protected]
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            38 months ago

            This feels like you’ve hit the nail on the head!! I just can’t believe I didn’t see the signs growing up. 😮‍💨 But there’s nothing i could do anyway. So hopefully i am better off without him in my life (10 yrs so far).

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        78 months ago

        I knew a guy who was a philosophy major and his friend group was a bunch of atheist skeptics, so he knew all about logical fallacies and so on. He took a hard right turn into Pizzagate territory once Trump took office and now believes everything short of Flat Earth. (And maybe that, too. We haven’t talked in a loooooong time.)

        The only way it makes sense to me is to think that if you have no moral compass, you’ll go whichever way the wind blows. Humans like to think that we’re rational, logical beings (even if nobody else is), but the truth is that we’re all driven by emotion. Strong values, such as a love of truth and hatred of bigotry, are what keep people from descending into this nonsense, not mere logic.

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    438 months ago

    One of my old MMO friends came out as a MAGA after a year of raiding together. Tbh, it kind of didn’t matter since we were killing shit in a game and it just didn’t come up unless I was mentioning watching certain political satire shows. He wasn’t an outstanding guy, but I’ve played with much worse people and would still consider him a friend.

    Don’t play with him anymore, but that was because of his other terrible life choices, going all in on playing League.

      • idunnololz
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        48 months ago

        Hey I’ve been playing since season 2 and… Anyways I’m not a Republican.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 months ago

          Like, yes, people that run it down deserve the death penalty, but they also deserve a fair trial as free of prejudice as possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      108 months ago

      A guy at my D&D table went that way. Kinda glad the nights he doesn’t come tbh. Just feel dirty associating with someone like that outside of work.

      Oh hi it’s you. My wife is an immigrant, my sister-in-law is trans, I’m an angry atheist and my life work is in the environmental sector. You hate my wife, my religion, my sister-in-law, and my career. Yet here I am spending time with you freely.

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        38 months ago

        It helps that in my case, the guy was mostly just enthralled in the cult of personality. Union guy, not religious, etc… If someone you know was part of a cult, you can either express concern and try and help, or leave them be. I ended up doing the latter, especially since back then maga was still a new term.

  • @[email protected]
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    299 months ago

    I’m sorry that happened to you. It’s a mental disease that hopefully gets recognized as such before everyone’s dead including them, by their own hands.

    • @[email protected]
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      48 months ago

      Did he attempt to Make America Great Again and fail? Or did he make it great, it immediately stopped being great once Biden took office, and now it has to be made great again?

  • @bdp
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    238 months ago

    oc

    TWO watermarks

    Yeah okay

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    8 months ago

    An “awful wallful” is when you log back into Facebook for the first time in a decade and your entire friendlist have become QAnon believers.

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    148 months ago

    If you ever see me in a sincere political hat, feel free to strike me down. It’s just so weird.

    Wear a cowboy hat if you want people to assume you’re conservative.

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    78 months ago

    Not in person, but I see on Facebook an old mate who seems to flirt with homophobia/transphobia.

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    I would like to think they wore it in the Larry David sense…maybe they just don’t like you that much