They haven't turned into anything they haven't always been. If anyone ever thought otherwise their naive belief in human kindness was blinding them to reality. Republicans have always been horrifyingly evil. This was obvious to me as a small child in the '60s.
You took the words literally out of my mouth. We had one black girl in my 2nd grade class I was her only friend 😔 1964 I'll never forget how she was taunted and they yelled obscenities, pulled her braids. It was awful THEY are hateful awful humans.
My neighbor....whose wife had to ask him to leave...it's becoming a very sad and dangerous socioeconomic issue as well. The MAGA cultists are unlawful and unamerican.
Yes and there are different degrees of them. There are people you’d never believe voted for Trump like some of my friends back home and my older brother.
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If my parents didn't know the words of Jesus, they'd call him a heretic too. Despite knowing his words, they've decided that somehow right-wing politics & stanning Trump are compatible with the teachings of Jesus, & I'm like "HOW??????" I took Jesus' words seriously & am no longer a Christian 🤷
Oh, I wish I cared that much. Really, I wish I cared that much. Really, I wish I cared that much. Don't care if they're laughing. I despise my family and haven't spoken to them since 2016. It took me 22 years to talk to my ass-hole father, which I regret doing since he died. I will cut anyone off.
Me personally I care because it’s fuel and motivation for me to bring them down by hitting them economically. Also I’m sorry about your father and not in the “sorry for your loss” type of way.
For those who are saying but the Democrats. Don't wait for them. If you want to fight, fight, and be your own leaders. Democrats aren't going to react until you guys react.
Trump and his henchmen are trying to follow the East German model, turning the population into informers. It makes people afraid to speak the truth to their family, friends, or neighbors.
I'm an optimist, so I think we will survive him, but sometimes I wonder.
A rather peculiar example. You should never tell such things to anyone. Not because you don't trust them. But because you don't know if they won't succumb to torture. You don't know that about yourself either. So the less each individual knows on their own, the better for the safety of the hidden.
You can change that into an opportunity. Genuinely don’t know if they’ll ever listen to you, but as a family member you have a better chance than most. I’m sorry though, can’t be fun :/
I agree also. I've lost friendships over felon47 and his GOP goons, and some are life long friendships, friends that I've known since I was 3 years old .. we were like sisters ... but not anymore. 😔
I lost my older brother,a three tour Vietnam vet who I looked up to my entire life and was always on the same page with until t-rump entered the picture.I had to leave FB, a way I had to keep up with family far away because of how hateful he turned toward me when I had the nerve to disagree with him
what i find infuriating - is the very same institutions that supported Hitler - remain in power today - only this time blindly supporting another viciously ethnocentric state..
Or in many cases, can’t be trusted to protect their own family members. It’s abstract like Anne Frank for some. Others are Anne Frank in this scenario.
And if you or I were to tell those same people we grew up with, or are related to, that Fox NotNews has been feeding them constant lies and fear, I can hear them now...
What lies?
What fear?
What are you talking about?
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I tried, when my brother showed up for my daughter's graduation. I had to kick him out of the house because he decided sexual assault was just fine as long as he could keep voting for Trump. That's not coming anywhere near my home.
I understand, my mom brother also votes for the far-right in my country & is in the police force. We don’t keep contact, maybe a birthday sms and that’s it. You gotta stick to ur guns, believes & if an opportunity arrives try to talk some reason,even if I know from experience, it’s almost impossible
Tried to explain this to a long time acquaintance who considers herself "conservative" - she became angry when I didn't agree that we could be friends if we agreed not to talk about politics or what is happening. I will not remain silent to make her feel better about herself.
I learned a lot about a "friend" I had known for over 50 years when I trolled his Facebook account. By his posts I could tell he was not the Christian that he had always claimed to be. His politics destroyed his morals.
I was reflecting and trying to explain this today. I know I need to build the movement, however with new people. Because the old people have broken my heart and I can't bear them 💔 (tho, I continue to try)
I am at least proud to say that my family and I are aligned politically against Trump & the Nazis. I'm more disappointed in people I thought were friends and some of my neighbors. Always surprised to find out some are idiots and others are bigots.
Thankfully, most of my friends and all of my family live in Blue States.
My neighbors and friends here in Texas are a HUGE disappointment to me. I
can’t even begin to interact with them!
You never know. I don't talk politics with friends in person until I know them well enough. I've gotten more careful since Trump was elected. Figure I shouldn't make reporting me to the Gestapo that easy yet.
I'm not careful but I'm also a middle aged white man. If I see a TRUMPER I let them know that he's a RAPIST FELON GRIFTER POS SCUM OF THE EARTH. If they don't like it then tough shit. Come after me PAB'S! The ones that are nice and decent people I treat better but I still let them know what he is.
some people who ive gone to school with all my life have turned out to be either morons or utterly bigoted
i live in the caribbean. they support and defend trump.
You are blessed. If my parents weren't such decent people (sadly, they are both gone now) I would be hoping I was adopted. I have three really far right, Christian nationalist siblings who started out life middle of road, 420, concert going, fun loving people. Everyday I am like WT actual F?
You are very lucky. My entire family voted for this but me. My adult children (25 and 22) are just completely ignoring it. They just want to keep their heads in the sand. They didn’t vote. I’m very left and their father (divorced for 13 years) is a red hat wearing maga.
I am sorry. I am lucky and was raised to think for myself. I have all sort of other parental issues and problems with authority from the upbringing, but I'm at least on the right side of history. I would be railing against Kamala if she got elected too, just not every goddamn day like it is now.
My upbringing is why I think like I do. I’m GenX. I was and still am an avid reader. My mom didn’t care what I was reading because I wasn’t causing any problems. She allowed me to educate myself. Would Kamala be causing this kind of chaos? No. Her policy wasn’t perfect, but she’s not a dictator.
I've been DEMANDING a FORENSIC VOTE AUDIT since Day 1.
A LOT of us have.
The Republicans, and FAR TOO MANY DEMOCRATS, are simply allowing the fascist dictatorship to take hold and have entirely ABANDONED THEIR DUTY and their OATHS OF OFFICE to protect our nation and our people FROM ALL ENEMIES.
Which is exactly why we need to make some more noise about it. Organize. Protest. Make yourself heard. I have suggested a tax boycott in protest. Yes, those funds help us, but they are more often misused by gov, so they will be hurt more. What will they do when WE cut off their federal funding?
I'm under no illusions with these fascist wannabes.
This is the most dangerous time we have faced together as a nation, and a high percentage of his followers aren't bright enough to realize that in supporting him, they're working directly against themselves.
I ain't scared of those incel losers. I have had military training. If they really want to go that route, we can do that. But until then, we fight with every method and angle we can work. Hitler controlled his people by controlling the media. DROWN THEM OUT! Never be quiet!
I think you are also not considering all taxes... im talking federal sales tax too. You think they would not be in massive trouble if millions of businesses around the country just refused to collect or pay sales taxes?
Im talking half the country not just the swing states. If everyone that voted kamala did a boycott on taxes? That's literally millions upon millions of individuals and businesses. If that many people just stopped paying until we got a recount? You really think they would be able to manage that ?
People really showed their true colours during Covid when some wanted people who didn’t get the shot to lose their jobs, be ostracized from society or even wished death on them. Hard to believe those same people somehow claim to believe in freedom.
We were made a promise by our government and its officials, but when it came time to live up to their oaths of office, and PROTECT OUR NATION from a FASCIST Enemy of the State, they simply rolled over and WELCOMED him, DESPITE MULTIPLE CREDIBLE REPORTS of WIDESPREAD FRAUD.
There’s no doubt in my mind that, with the exception of my dad and stepdad, the whole WWII lot would be lost. One lost his arm and throat in the bulge.
This is Serbia.
BUT USA IS FULL OF COWARDS that would rather see Latino children being removed from the only life they know than to go stand on the streets w/ LATINOS THAT ARE BEGGING YOU TO HELP. But you're as complacent as the Germans in WW2. 🙉🙊🙈 COWARDS. Since it's not your family, right?
That is so damn true. I saw some old classmates of mine (Class '80) posting on social media "Happy Trump Day", on of course, MLK Day. It angered me to no end. I thought I knew these people. 😡
I agree, too. Most of my high school friends, my relatives, they all turned out to be people I don’t trust and apparently, don’t have the heart and brains I gave them credit for.
It is chilling, and I fully agree! More chilling is a man who was born in Amsterdam,1935, and had to steal food because he was so young the Nazis wouldn't shoot him. He voted for tRump.
I was just thinking right before I read this depressing thought, who knew & grew up with all these nasty & vicious people & were they always this way? Were they the kids in kindergarten who would wait for you to finish a tall structure with blocks just to get some perverse joy by kicking it down?
I blocked my oldest friend last night. I blocked her on Facebook & I blocked her phone number as well. She's too far gone & I can no longer ignore that she's part of the MAGA cult now. It hurts me that this person I've known & loved all my life is a stranger that I don't want to know.
I started getting that chilling feeling when people I knew shrugged their shoulders at an ongoing genocide where little kids were being sniped for funsies.
So sad but true, have we really learnt from the past. Power hungry people using lies to build a power base with the dissatisfied, left behind and people full of hate.
Democracy has always been vulnerable to conmen, dictators who weave deciept to gain wealth&power, spreading inequality to divide us.
I'm a naturalized citizen, a minority and part of the lgbtq+ family. Would I know when to leave? I've already put together the important things to bring with me.
The problem is deciding where to go. I'm in Oregon. And grateful to be here. We now have a democratic majority rule and some sanity. As LGBTQ I feel safe, well at least on the Westside of the Cascades.
These people are obviously garbage, but hyperbole doesn't do us any good. Let's be honest, these people are being sent back to their home countries, not to extermination camps.
I'm aware of how things started, but again, these people are being sent back to their home countries, not camps. Trump is a piece of shit, but I don't think he is planning on exterminating people. He's just racist trash.
You are aware of how it started, but sending people to foreign countries is how it started. Get out of here with your slow break up. https://youtu.be/jpUN0q35Lak?feature=shared
Their countries are full of abject poverty, violence, and corruption. That’s why they came here. Of course, we now are the same as those countries. They did us no harm. They came here to work hard and provide for their families. Let’s not make light of what happened to them.
He has intentionally made decisions that will get groups of people killed. He knows it and he is doing everything possible to make those deaths happen. Cutting of health care funds for old people and the disabled? That is pure fascism.
Oh Trump's a piece of shit, there is zero doubt of that. I'm just saying what he's doing to these people, and what Nazis were doing to the Jews are two very different things.
It’s awful but so true. I have trouble having conversations with some of my husband’s family. I actually avoid talking to them and yet at one time I considered them to be friends. 🥺
There comes a time in life where I had to separate myself from bad company corrupts good character. I don’t engage in “make believe” family reunions or family gatherings. I’m a wiser and healed version from Family of Origin. Glory be to God.
Any politician who suggests snitching on anyone for any reason is a budding fascist. In Ontario, people who ask for help are subject to spying like this. It started in the 90's with Mike Harris and people like Doug Ford think it's great. #NeverVoteConservative
I literally had this conversation with someone who agreed to be a source of refuge should it really be needed. I explicitly said if it were to come to that, I would not want my family to know where I was.
Thanks, @old55.bsky.social I sincerely appreciate that. I feel like everything and anything is on the table this time around. But I’m doing a slightly better job harnessing my anger this time around, so...
I should clarify that I feel like I’m harnessing my anger well for it only being like the second week. Today was particularly infuriating and all I want to do right now is hide! 😶🌫️
We get it. please stop sharing this crap. Get. It together. Millions of other people are WAAAAAY past this “realization” and don’t have time for it. And don’t come at me with whatever bullshit. Handle it, grab a shovel and fucking go birch!!!! 🇺🇸🏳️⚧️❤️💅🎉✊🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥
When they're your own parents and can't get them to understand their own children have the possibility of becoming an Anne Frank. I'm going no contact and not telling them where I'm going for my own safety
Omg I felt that to my core. It makes me so sad to look at some of the people in my life… thank god my family and my husband’s family are on the side of compassion… I don’t know what I would do if they weren’t.
It’s no surprise to me. No one blackened their Instagram screens when Jews were massacred in Israel and harassed and attacked in the U.S. Jews have always stood up for minority injustice; it’s not reciprocated IMHO.
As a black American many of us did. I have many Jewish friends and have been there for blk people. Have the same issues we are always there to help. What disgust me at this moment comparing Anne Frank/holocaust to the deportation of people who have come here illegally!
I sure as HELL wouldn't tell my Aboriginal partner or any of his siblings or any of his mates. Why the HELL are there Australian
😡😡😡 Trump supporters let alone First Nations Australians.
These are people who's Aboriginal mother grandparents great grandparents & hundreds of their Aboriginal relatives were all forced to live on missions & reserves, many were part of the stolen generation & spent decades fighting for stolen wages. Their white father was arrested & put in Fremantle
2 prison all because he fell in love with a Aboriginal girl.
The Voice to Parliament was what actually exposed their racism & their love for Trump & they are LNP voters, climate deniers & I would say, insane. 🤦
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Do you think his voters bother to read history? Five minutes of old reels on the history Chanel isn’t history but if they read the rise of Hitler they’d see the similarities. Lots of well educated people don’t read-aren’t interested in history.
I agree that the Republican Party depends on its base to be clueless about history and unfortunately the majority of the US population is uninterested in history.
I always thought we as Americans were arrogant about our government, like they were too good to fail. But in history, a nation with endless warfare and a corrupting political class usually resulted in the same outcomes.
I'm thinking...hey, I survived all those years (since 1947) for what? To live in a country I am ashamed of? A country where freedom, rights and justice mean nothing any more?
We all need to band together to support & aid one another. Solidarity and unity of purpose will carry us to victory over these craven and malicious bastards. We will suffer to be sure, but we must deliver justice and judgement to these irredeemables.
When we figure it out we’ll let the world know. Know why our constitution and all the checks and balances let us down. I hope the Dems have a plan. This can’t last.
This all comes at a time where those who fought against fascism and the Nazis are nothing more than a dim memory. Will we survive to keep their memory alive or will we and they fade into oblivion?
+ its only been 1 generation in time.
Humans are pretty suseptible to amnesia. I mean we were all taught about the Holocaust in school. I still remember.
My Mom lived it as a German. She was forced to join the specialized groups for young people. She was scared.
Mom told me "hitler is crazy"
He did it because he understood the world was threatened.
Individuals joining together to face an army driven by hate.
hitler's army and hitler's cohorts were far worse than the beer buddies that trump is relying on now.
But trump's cohorts are as twisted as hitler's.
History has a bad habit of repeating itself. It is sad that the only lessons humanity learns from it is how to make even more atrocities so others can suffer worse than they did before.
It’s saddens me on a daily basis, but what lies at stake is far too important. We are on the verge of losing our democracy to a 34 time convicted felon, who also happens to be a fascist nazi sympathizer. I will not be silent. We all need to show all the resolve we have inside of us right now.
It's not that there are genuinely evil people among us. We all accept that there are. It's just finding out how many of them there are that's so grim. They're all around us. Family members, co-workers, neighbors. Finding out so many will let others die rather than be inconvenienced is hard.
But what's harder is discovering that many of them will go further than that. Many of them will actively, violently hurt or kill others if they feel challenged or threatened. And those people aren't just some crazy serial killer on a TV movie with pinwheel eyes. They're all around us.
Right. I grew up when BTK came back to terrorize my hometown. I knew from a young age that there were really evil men out there. I just didn’t understand how evil most people are
In fiction evil is always pushing drugs, doing drive-bys that accidentally kill kids, stalking coeds in masks with big knives. Irl it's Uncle Irwin and his pals wearing their assault rifles to Target to 'own the libs'. It's the neighbor standing in his driveway with an assault rifle as BLM walks by.
It's not just the cops that kill for no reason except to 'show dominance', it's the cops with militia and copgang stickers on the bumpers of their official vehicles to say they're only going to serve and protect very specific people. It's the coworker who loudly tells you women are breeders and
the team leader who rolls their eyes and says "you're overreacting" and the HR rep who sends that co-worker back to the floor with you and now he knows you reported him and your car gets keyed and your tires slashed. It's the kindly aunt who leaves a message telling a black neighbor to 'report for
slavery'. It's the President who won't lead a resistance to an insurrectionist racist rapist pig taking the White House and it's public servants cowering behind phrases like 'no election deniers' and 'peaceful transfer of power' instead of getting into 'good trouble' and standing tall. It's the NRA.
We've all lost family and friends to this new regime. Don't let that dissuade you. Resist at every opportunity. Protect the vulnerable in your community. Assist mutual aid programs. Grow food for you and others. Above all else take care of yourself. You can't help others if you burn out.
Absolutely true. Five Quaker congregations are taking his ass to court for trying to strip them of their traditional place as sanctuaries for those harassed and abused by governments. Democracy Forward is on it. We can do more together than we can alone
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"Oh to be in Aa-merika..."
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I'm an optimist, so I think we will survive him, but sometimes I wonder.
I can only hópe we have enough literate people to understand Anne Frank is a symbol we are not allowed to betray.
And if you or I were to tell those same people we grew up with, or are related to, that Fox NotNews has been feeding them constant lies and fear, I can hear them now...
What lies?
What fear?
What are you talking about?
😤 😠 😡
Morals affect your politics.
If politics are affecting your morals your (general usage) morals are non-existent.
My neighbors and friends here in Texas are a HUGE disappointment to me. I
can’t even begin to interact with them!
Texas😪.
i live in the caribbean. they support and defend trump.
We need to organize! We need to demand a vote recount!
https://youtu.be/8NfY2I75fdI?si=mq6e9kZUu3smmdBR
A LOT of us have.
The Republicans, and FAR TOO MANY DEMOCRATS, are simply allowing the fascist dictatorship to take hold and have entirely ABANDONED THEIR DUTY and their OATHS OF OFFICE to protect our nation and our people FROM ALL ENEMIES.
I'm under no illusions with these fascist wannabes.
This is the most dangerous time we have faced together as a nation, and a high percentage of his followers aren't bright enough to realize that in supporting him, they're working directly against themselves.
Have been for DECADES.
We were made a promise by our government and its officials, but when it came time to live up to their oaths of office, and PROTECT OUR NATION from a FASCIST Enemy of the State, they simply rolled over and WELCOMED him, DESPITE MULTIPLE CREDIBLE REPORTS of WIDESPREAD FRAUD.
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BUT USA IS FULL OF COWARDS that would rather see Latino children being removed from the only life they know than to go stand on the streets w/ LATINOS THAT ARE BEGGING YOU TO HELP. But you're as complacent as the Germans in WW2. 🙉🙊🙈 COWARDS. Since it's not your family, right?
ICE
I haven’t stopped thinking about it all day.
I hope something horrible happens to Mr Trump and the sooner it does the better.
- Then comes the questioning your own judgment phase.
Democracy has always been vulnerable to conmen, dictators who weave deciept to gain wealth&power, spreading inequality to divide us.
They are willing participants to enjoy someone getting bullied , beat up or killed
It’s a fun event like gossiping
Seriously.
While I’m concerned about what I see & hear worldwide, & realize that antisemitism is on the rise, I hadn’t put it quite like that.
Chilling is the word.
Musk performing the Nazi salute, twice, & visiting w/Germany’s AfD neo-Nazi party, have increased my concerns.
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The religious right, mixed with Nazism, is a bad recipe for our country and the world.
Resist! 💙🇺🇸✡️
“Old 55”
Tom Waits fan?
On the political front, I am not harnessing my anger well at all. I do not handle total chaos well at all.
I should clarify that I feel like I’m harnessing my anger well for it only being like the second week. Today was particularly infuriating and all I want to do right now is hide! 😶🌫️
😡😡😡 Trump supporters let alone First Nations Australians.
The Voice to Parliament was what actually exposed their racism & their love for Trump & they are LNP voters, climate deniers & I would say, insane. 🤦
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And they’ve certainly forfeited their right to call themselves “American citizens” any longer. They’re the ones who should be deported.
Humans are pretty suseptible to amnesia. I mean we were all taught about the Holocaust in school. I still remember.
My Mom lived it as a German. She was forced to join the specialized groups for young people. She was scared.
Mom told me "hitler is crazy"
My grandfather was a WW2 and Korean War vet
He got his citizenship at 16, and he lied and said he was 18
Since he was an undocumented immigrant from the former Yugoslavia, his mother confirmed it. The rest is literally History.
Individuals joining together to face an army driven by hate.
hitler's army and hitler's cohorts were far worse than the beer buddies that trump is relying on now.
But trump's cohorts are as twisted as hitler's.
Be a soldier however you can.
of maga are life’s biggest
disappointment….
I suspect many of them have little more than a comic-book or video game grasp of 20th century history.
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