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It was kind of shocking seeing some friends openly turn so incredibly sexist and racist and generally horrible once Trump was elected. I don't regret the finding out, but it was a little surprising seeing I wasn't as good of a judge of character as I thought.
COVID broke people's brains too. don't know about your timeline but in my opinion while some people started showing their true colors, some people actually changed during that time.
People got stuck at home and were in need of answers and extremists are very good at finding very simple answers to very complex issues, so people got hooked to that
They just got really good at masking the shit in their head, don’t blame yourself
Had to cut ties with some family too (because I firmly believe family is a PRIVILEGE and not a RIGHT and if you're a shit bag you lose that privilege) but I had always known they were horrible people from the start at least.
This is my daily struggle. I mean... the ties are cut. The struggle is essentially grieving the loss of a parent as if they were dead.
I feel a little better when I hear that others have, to some degree, done the same.
Sorry, but there's something wrong with people that are supporting open fascism. This isn't people 'not playing nice' with fascists, it's protection against fascists. Everyone that is still sane should stay away from anyone openly supporting fascist themes.
Which is so fucking obvious that it should not have to be said.
They don’t see it as fascism. They just see that their “team” is “winning”, and the “other” people are losing. That’s all life is to them, winning over everyone else, even when it goes against self preservation.
Not just in colleges, but everywhere. I own a business, and I wouldn't hire someone who is openly MAGA. Clearly they are ignorant, make poor choices, and are easy to manipulate, and I don't want them to be responsible for any aspect of my business.
I own a business, and I wouldn’t hire someone who is openly MAGA.
I work in the O&G industry. Quite a few of the rank and file office folks are vanilla liberals. The senior execs are all Christian MAGA.
Silicon Valley has the same problem. The professional working class is liberal, while the senior sex pest corporate ice chewers are all in the same insane Scientology cults and Mormon tabernacle choirs and Longtermist Transhuman Collectives.
I've seen the same dynamic in health care, professional sports, Big Law, finance, heavy industry...
Great that you managed to break into the club as a Normal. But I don't see a future where I'm sitting on the board of a Fortune 500 corporation. A notable reason why is that I'm not working my way up the chain at Opus Dei.
Or, less generously, they enjoy the cruelty and hate.
I just switched my electrical contractor that does work at my job like every other day. Dude was making a grand a week easily just on the jobs I was giving him. Then he drives in one day with the maple maga bumper stickers and the anti science bullshit. Haven’t called him back in over 5 weeks, there are plenty of contractors out there and they’re not all nuts
Fuck yeah, has been (mostly) my approach and suggestion since 2016, don't be friendly with fascists. Now, the tricky thing has been sorting real fascists from those just so grossly misinformed by the propaganda network that they're basically decent but brainwashed. After 2024 though, doesn't matter, there's no way you don't know who he really is at that point, and if you supported him you should be shunned.
I've boycotted Republicans/Conservatives since at least 2000, when they decided that it was perfectly acceptable to steal the presidency.
Once they fully adopted the "ends justify the means" approach, I considered Conservatism to be a character flaw. I wouldn't be friends with people who physically abuse their spouses or their children, and by the same logic, I won't be friends with people who abuse our society, our government, or our citizens.
you would be surprised, only about half of the trump supporters I've met know about and support him for being fascist (among other things). The other half think that the deportations and basically anything negative about trump is fake news, a smaller amount also think they are voting for an imaginary non-maga republican party.
The Germans have a word for the people who supported Hitler for purely economic reasons and not at all because of the fascism or genocide.
That word is Nazi
"I voted for Mr Hitler because he would be good for the economy, but I didn't go in for all that Jew-killing stuff. You can't blame that on me."
inb4 the bullshit, bad faith "sO mUCh foR THe toLeRanT LefT!!1!"
Tolerance is a social contract. You break the contract, you don't get the tolerance.
It's a dumb line anyway. There's no obligation for us to tolerate their antisocial behavior in the first place. All that line does is betray that the fascist treats liberalist ideals as a game or a weakness, only a fool would humor their insincere appeals to liberalism.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Réflexions sur la question juive (1946)
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
I will tolerate anyone but the intolerant
I mean, it should be socially acceptable to punch Nazis.
We have moved a bit past 'affiliating with' and are well into 'being' when it comes to the fascism thing.
Ok, but look at Harvard's alumni. They seem to be the number one producer of real life super villains.
Wow, this will be devastating to the approximately zero Trump supporters at Harvard.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/19/shroff-harvard-trump-administration/
Not to paint with too broad of a brush, but a lot of Harvard students are entitled assholes from money and gobble up Republican ideology.
In what world do you live in where ultrawealthy people don't go to Harvard lol
Seeing as everyone is in their own social media echo chamber now and are separate offline it won't really matter.
Just as a slice of it, going to r/conservative is so eye opening. They ignore or ban any news that would directly conflict with conservative beliefs as they once were so they don't have to confront any of it, celebrate anything that makes the left look bad, and openly gargle Trump cum in every post as a badge of honor. It's a truly disgusting little place.
Shame them in every part of life.
Let them know their beleifs will lead to us having to put them down like rabid dogs for our own safety.
A tweet about a single anonymous post on an obscure forum with no info about the type of response it received.
This is nothing.
If I went to Harvard, and created an account, and then went and made an anonymous post saying cats are horrible and everyone should stop keeping them as pets; do you think that's an indicator that people are turning against cats? Do you think my single, anonymous post would be worth making a tweet over? Do you think that holds ANY relation to other people's options or the actions they will take?
