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   Shapeshifting Bog Wren (wrenarcher@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 08:06:51 JST Shapeshifting Bog Wren

   I had a discussion yesterday with my wife about continuing relationships with friends and family who voted Republican.

   I said I wasn't going to maintain that connection anymore. I hate the phrase that is already being tossed around again... "We can have a difference of opinion and still be friends."

   Look... a difference of opinion is:
   — it's okay to put pineapple on pizza,
   — Batman could totally beat up Superman or
   — the ’77 Yankees were a better team than the ’96 Yankees.

   Those are differences of opinion.

   But if you voted for Trump and any other Republican, we have a difference of morals.
   You have told me with one action that you are a racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a xenophobe and a transphobe. You are complicit in helping to eradicate me. You have told me you believe bringing down the cost of eggs is more important than protecting basic freedom in this country.

   You are not worth my time anymore and I do not want you in my life.

   My wife doesn't understand. She thinks people can still be friends even though they disagree.

   FUCK THAT!!!

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     Shapeshifting Bog Wren (wrenarcher@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:07:55 JST Shapeshifting Bog Wren

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     • James Wells

     @nikatjef
     Yeah, there are a number of reasons *why* he won... one of those beings apathy and third party voters.
     But there were approximately 72 million fellow citizens who voted for him.

     The people who didn't vote and purity test voters... they suck!

     But to deliberately for a convicted felon and rapist, whose party platform wants to eradicate transgender citizens and who has said over and over he wants to dismantle the Constitution and is proud of eliminating the right to privacy a woman once had with her physician about her healthcare.

     I'd feel this way even if VP Harris were the winner.

     No. I'm done.
     I am done with that half of the U.S. including my friends and family.

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     James Wells (nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:07:56 JST James Wells

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     @WrenArcher
     While I understand your position and even agree with you, for the most part, please remember that the reason Chump won was more about voter apathy. Chump retained the MAGAt minority with nearly the same vote total as 2020, but over 1/3 of the US eligible voters chose not to vote at all. That is the real reason the orange shit-gibbon won.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.
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     🌻Knaughty🌻 (knaughty@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:16:07 JST 🌻Knaughty🌻

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     @WrenArcher a disagreement isn't what our differences with trump voters are. It's racism, misogyny & more. It's making anyone who isn't a white male a 2nd class citizen or worse.

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     🌻Knaughty🌻 (knaughty@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:16:07 JST 🌻Knaughty🌻

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     @WrenArcher just ran across this and it sums up the situation pretty good I think.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:16:22 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • 🌻Knaughty🌻

     @Knaughty

     #USpol #Elections2024
     Trust and the break-up of family ties

     Yes, and, though I will probably earn a lot of sh**t post for that, the 👉worst betrayal of trust was by post-menopausal women who have enjoyed that right for most or all of their lives and now voted for Trump to take it away from their daughters, granddaughters, younger sisters, and cousins.

     What makes it even worse, they voted for a despicable guy in full knowledge of all that! No MAGAT can MOT know...

     @WrenArcher

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:16:54 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • 🌻Knaughty🌻

     @Knaughty
     #USpol #Elections2024
     Trust and the break-up of family ties
     (1/2)

     Yes, and, though I will probably earn a lot of sh**t post for that, the 👉worst betrayal of trust was by post-menopausal women who have enjoyed that right for most or all of their lives and now voted for Trump to take it away from their daughters, granddaughters, younger sisters, and cousins.👈
     What makes it even worse, they voted for a despicable guy in full knowledge of all that! No MAGAT can NOT know...

     @WrenArcher

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:21:47 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • 🌻Knaughty🌻

     @Knaughty @WrenArcher

     Trust and the break-up of family ties

     (2/3)

     ...about Trumps personal shortcomings (in brief, he's a misogynist, transphobic, racist Dark Tetrad). And even so, they voted for his policies.

     //

     Here's the #AltText you are missing, btw:

     "Don't let politics ruin your
     relationships

     It's funny how this is almost always said by the same people who voted against
     your rights.

     I don't feel comfortable around you. The person that you...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 17:22:20 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • 🌻Knaughty🌻

     @Knaughty @WrenArcher
     Trust and the break-up of family ties

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     ...voted for is
     homophobic, racist, and hates women and none of that was a dealbreaker for
     you.

     It IS personal. We have a difference in morals and I do feel differently about you.

     You cannot tell someone you love them and then try to take their rights away."

     //