• nocturne
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    3 months ago

    But will his voting base care? My brother is a disabled vet, and him and his wife (a Covid conspiracy theory nurse) are always trumpers.

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      3 months ago

      Are they like the Trumpets in my family? No matter how bad Trump gets they just focus down on trans people in sports and washrooms.

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        3 months ago

        How can I worry about the economy and healthcare when the boxer in the Olympics looks man-ish?

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        It’s such a weird thing to focus on. How many of your (or my) family members are competing in sports? I have a few, but they’re co-ed adult leagues, so who the hell cares.

        And nobody looks at each other in bathrooms. I’ve seen literally dozens of women use the men’s bathroom in my life. We don’t care. She goes to a stall, I go to a urinal, I wash my hands, I leave, I never see her again

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          It’s a defense tactic. They are confronted with potentially upsetting threats to their hate world views and so they immediately shut down and pivot to comfortable territory.

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      I’m terribly sorry. Trump nearly destroyed my relationship with my mother. A hard no-politics rule saved us.

      I overheard two people talking outside a shop a couple years ago. The guy said how his brother wouldn’t listen to his rhetoric. The brother apparently said, “I just came from a funeral of a friend who died of covid.” The lunatic replied, “died with covid. Blah blah crazy shit.” It made me so angry that I couldn’t enjoy the fun thing that I attended a few minutes later. I’m very against violence and was appalled at my own thought that I would condone violence in that moment. It really fucked my head.