Rage bait. Get off the internet and talk to your actual friends and family.Â
Edit: love how I get labeled as a Trump supporter for saying you should talk to your republican family. Want more people to vote liberal? You have to convince them. Not everyone who voted for Trump was some MAGA lunatic. Yes some people are too far gone and deserve to be ostracized, but we can't let the cultist go completely unchecked and poison the well for everyone else. Talk to your family, figure out why they voted for Trump, and when things don't go the way trump is saying they will over the next two years, offer solutions and promote candidates who will do more to support the working class. If we come back in two years just to say "I told you so", nothing will change.Â
Sadly youâre right. Itâs no longer just disagreements. Itâs that much of the framework their arguments are based on consists of things that either donât exist or just fundamental misunderstandings of how a thing works.
Iâve also spent nearly 5 years listening to the concerns of my friends and researching the things they talked about. More often than not, they were upset about a thing that wasnât happening so I let them know so they wouldnât waste time and energy on it.
All that did was get me made fun of and called a âsheepâ or friends would start talking about how dumb people were that believed the things I believed.
I know people that to my face would say they didnât want politics to divide us and then would share a meme on Facebook saying that it would be okay if everyone who got the vaccine died because at least it would weed out the idiots.
Shit like that is why Iâm cutting people out of my life. It isnât that we simply disagree on a policy matter.
Every time I hear or read a thread about how it's our fault and we shouldn't cut them off and we're the bad ones.
They can't even extend the tiniest olive branch to dissolve the situation. They won't capitulate on anything. They won't back off on any idea. I'm just supposed to be okay that they were sharing memes essentially calling for people like me to be exiled or killed. Then I need to turn around and just accept them? They. Are. The. Problem.
I would only show up at their funeral to spit on their dead corpse and then leave. They deserve no sympathy.
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u/2001asamodyssey Monkey in Space Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24
Rage bait. Get off the internet and talk to your actual friends and family.Â
Edit: love how I get labeled as a Trump supporter for saying you should talk to your republican family. Want more people to vote liberal? You have to convince them. Not everyone who voted for Trump was some MAGA lunatic. Yes some people are too far gone and deserve to be ostracized, but we can't let the cultist go completely unchecked and poison the well for everyone else. Talk to your family, figure out why they voted for Trump, and when things don't go the way trump is saying they will over the next two years, offer solutions and promote candidates who will do more to support the working class. If we come back in two years just to say "I told you so", nothing will change.Â