The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!

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Had to rescue my mom on Facebook the last few days from trying to tell her friends to stop posting "Stop the Steal" messages, and spreading lies. These people are deranged! I'm so spent dealing with brainwashed wannabe Christians who declare Antifa burned down churches in DC, the left rigged the election. I am beyond upset at what Trumpism has done to the US. 🥲
 
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Had to rescue my mom on Facebook the last few days from trying to tell her friends to stop posting "Stop the Steal" messages, and spreading lies. These people are deranged! I'm so spent dealing with brainwashed wannabe Christians who declare Antifa burned down churches in DC, the left rigged the election. I am beyond upset at what Trumpism has done to the US. 🥲

Social media is horrible, but it isn't the only way they get it. My parents don't touch any social media, but somehow they still get filled with all the nonsense the old fashioned way. Even just a steady dose of Fox is enough.

I have to call them up once a week and try to get some de-programming into them so at least they wear masks.

My biggest nightmare would be my Dad on Facebook or Twitter. I'd pretty much instantly be changing my name. Fortunately, he's so sure he's right that he doesn't bother telling other people about it.
 
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Had to rescue my mom on Facebook the last few days from trying to tell her friends to stop posting "Stop the Steal" messages, and spreading lies. These people are deranged! I'm so spent dealing with brainwashed wannabe Christians who declare Antifa burned down churches in DC, the left rigged the election. I am beyond upset at what Trumpism has done to the US. 🥲
So much blame to go around but he helped pack it into a group, these people wouldn't be falling for this stuff if they weren't so disillusioned with the way things have been going for decades, that and there are also just a lot of crazy people who can all connect with each other online now when they didn't have that option back in the day.
 
My biggest nightmare would be my Dad on Facebook or Twitter. I'd pretty much instantly be changing my name. Fortunately, he's so sure he's right that he doesn't bother telling other people about it.

My Dad sent me a friend request. Why now?

I've just stuck with my tiny group of like 7 friends with minimal political BS. My parents are pro-Trump Republicans and was FOX News or even fvcking NewsMax now.
 
To clarify what happened, my mother being bad with technology, apparently shared a meme about "#Stop the Steal!" repeated over, with no replies. After I clicked on the original post, I find my mom pleading with some friend to stop spreading Trump's and his followers' lies. I've A) never been so proud of my 83 year old mother, and B) just in complete shock at what Trumpism has done to our country. Very deeply saddened to argue with a human being with absolutely no grasp on reality. My mom has since, stopped sharing this meme. My mom is like a saint. Interestingly, she likes Bill Maher a lot. When I first saw what she accidentally shared, I was like OH NO!!! Then I saw she was pleading them, and I went into full protection mode.
 
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A story that is falling through the cracks is Pompeo pouring gasoline over every diplomatic situation with days left in office. To call it "diplomatic vandalism" would be accurate.

He's doing all sorts of crazy things that serve no purpose other than to wreck s*** for Biden:

-Declaring Cuba as a sponsor of terrorism (wtf?)
-Designating the Houthis in Yemen as a terrorist group (obviously making a complex situation worse)
-Treating Taiwan as a diplomatic entity, which is just poking China with a stick

This is basically turning on the gas and lighting a match from a diplomatic standpoint.

 
And then like clockwork Republicans will turn around and say "see big government doesn't work!"
 
And then like clockwork Republicans will turn around and say "see big government doesn't work!"

Yep, and they'll be screaming about the deficit too. Meanwhile, the deficit exploded under Trump, even before covid hit. Anyone who claims to be a "fiscal conservative" is full of it if they supported Trump.
 
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