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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Not just one of the worst but arguably the worst.

One day Trump wont be president but his supporters will continue to be around after him. They'll continue to make up 31% of the voter eligible population.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

They’re not sending their best.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Honestly it’s not a bad thing to be able to see all these humans who are about as useful as smegma. See them, single them out, and when the time comes, well, you know lol…..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Koolaid man went crazy...

[–] [email protected] 176 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They were always here.

I escaped from the south to the coasts, but I always tried to warn people how vile the worst of us were.

Nobody coukd believe it, but remember, Hitler wrote about the south as the model for Germany in mein kampf, and the nazis copied the Nuremberg Laws from Jim crow almost verbatim.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

They also took inspiration from the Catholic Church and the inquisition. The Church did ethnic cleansing long before the Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 week ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

She's damn sure old enough to know better. 😡

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Without a doubt this is the worst part. It was an immediate and irreversible swing from being an optimist who believes in the good of people to the complete opposite. I now believe humanity is fundamentally flawed and will destroy itself.

Watched too much Star Trek as a kid I guess.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

I used to think similarly. The outright hatred, apathy, hostility... its sickening.

But I stand by Mr. Rogers' message. Look for the helpers.

Humanity has always grappled with its angels and demons. No fictional evil could ever compare to the cruelty and apathy of real humans being real shit. But despite all that, humans keep trying, and have always kept trying.

This isn't the worst it's ever been. This isn't even the worst it's been here. This isn't even the worst it's been, here, in living memory.

If you know someone over the age of 60, you know someone older than the civil rights act.

Even in a life where discrimination wasn't possible so much as it was fundamental in society, John Lewis and MLK Jr. still had faith in humanity. They still believed in its potential. They still had faith in the face of all of that hatred and ignorance. Faith that a better nation and a better future could be forged in their lifetimes.

And you know what? They were right.

Even today, with all of these threats to return to a time when America was "great"... even now, this is still a better nation than the America of 1963. That is undeniable truth, and it is in large part thanks to heroes like them.

If they could believe in the potential of humanity, I think it's arrogant of us to disagree.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

It didn't take Trump to make this real for me.

I remember how our country treated Muslims after 9/11. I remember how we treated people with AIDS and HIV when I was little. Right now I'm watching Nazi salutes on national TV and no one's getting punched even though the room is packed with the supposed opposition, and the people who consider themselves progressive are unironically enjoying people's families inability to afford food staples.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Progressives are becoming more radical as a response to right wing extremism.

I was raised republican and was completely caught up in their propaganda. During that time I would've let you starve to death while holding food if I was told you were part of the 'bad' group. You need to treat Republicans as the dangerous entity they are, don't bother being empathetic, they won't ever reciprocate.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"Basket of Deplorables" -- as I'm tired of repeating, Hilary was right.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (14 children)

She was. She was John the Baptist but wanted to be Jesus. Opinion on her was fully established so even if she was 45% positive you could never move the dial on the 6% you needed to push her over the top.

She would have been an outstanding attack dog for a fresh candidate if she could have put her ego aside and accept that it wouldn't be her.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dang, looks like that one guy on the left got a “TRUMP” tat on his NECK. I’m sure he won’t have any ragrets down the road.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'll never recover, personally. The way my world-view was shattered by how many not just nameless strangers, but people I actually know and interact with, are the worst sort of hateful monsters.

My world is a different place now, and I don't think I'll ever feel the same.

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