• Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      It’s tougher having a special needs dad. As in “I’m special and need everything my way.” When what he really needs is a large injection of empathy.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    14 days ago

    Slightly off topic:

    When my parents divorced, I was bummed out that I had to attend two thanksgiving dinners. The second was not turkey. We charred hot dogs over an open fire (lived in the midwest at the time) and made smores. It was pretty great.

    This had nothing to do with the election. It’s just a nice memory.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      Grant, who put in more effort than any other president would for the next 70 years to create a more racially equal government, appointing numerous minorities into government positions and advocating for a purely secular school system, free of Christianity or any other religion.

      He’d be decried as a woke DEI liberal globalist if conservatives actually knew anything about the past.

    • Madison420@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      They’re convinced the party flip never happened and their race based white Christian nationalist bullshit is “patriotic”.

    • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      Well you see, in order to throw America away for a traitor felon, you have to brain damaged enough to believe the union busters lies about helping unions.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Wrong use of union there but good spirit

        Union in the context of their comment means “The North” during the Civil War, its the United States (Union) of America vs Confederate States (Confederates) of America

        They were pointing out how contradicting it is to have a Yank general (specifically Unconditional Surrender Grant, a PRESIDENT who fought for the North) is their PCP while being a MAGAt (usually pro-confederates)

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    As much as I want to boycott my parents thanksgiving dinner, my dad is almost 80 and I only got so many days left to even hang out with him. Plus my mom is cool so I got that going for me.

    • glimse@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Noooo if you don’t disown him, you’re letting Trump win! You have to cut every loved one who voted Trump out of your life RIGHT NOW!..

      …at least if you want to follow the advice that was repeatedly thrown my way when I expressed a similar sentiment about not abandoning my elderly father

      • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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        15 days ago

        I’m honestly so much happier to not have those people in my life. You do you, centrist/troll man, but a lot of us can see the mental health benefits and are happy to burn the bridges.

      • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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        15 days ago

        People are going non contact with people who are toxic, not just because of how they voted. Dude in the screenshot clearly has more going on than just how he voted that drove his daughters to go no contact. You can read his reaction and recognize that

        • glimse@lemmy.world
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          15 days ago

          Yes, I’m aware. I’m referring to OC’s comment and the response I got when I said something similar (that I was struggling to talk to my dad after the election but I didn’t want to disown him over it). The same hyperbole I’ve seen dozens of times here.

          It’s the political version of the awful relationship advice from reddit.

            • glimse@lemmy.world
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              15 days ago

              “My girlfriend cried the other day and I don’t know if I did something wrong or she’s upset about something else”

              BREAK UP WITH HER, HIRE FACEBOOK, DELETE THE GYM, AND HIT A LAWYER

      • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        And I respect your choice. I’ve just never had that bad relationship with my dad. He’s a fucking idiot that doesn’t understand what the hell he even voted for, but he’s not a terrible person. Not a good person, but not a terrible person. My dad’s ignorant, not a fascist. Which I’m sure a lot of people that voted for him fall under that category. Even if it is unfortunate.

        But I fully support your choice. If your dad is anything like the dude in this post he’s probably not a good person.

  • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    “My kids don’t want to hang out with me after I dismissed their opinions as a mental disorder and the party I voted for tries to control their bodies! Why must I suffer? I didn’t do anything to them directly! These kids today are so unfaaaair!”

    What a jackass.

    I hope his kids have a great holiday. Good on them for standing up for their beliefs.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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    14 days ago

    With lines like “[your political opinion] is a mental disorder”, why is he surprised they aren’t coming?

      • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        Touché

        It’s kinda sad that we ended up in this political division. It’s also sad that increasing hate and and anxiety (and missing education and reasoning) fuels this dumpfire of societal development. That doesn’t really increase hope in the future, as stuff like climate change further accelerates this…

        • refalo@programming.devEnglish
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          14 days ago

          I don’t see it so much a political division as it is that most of the world is simply not very intelligent.

          • fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world
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            13 days ago

            It’s both, and not a contradiction? But I’d say the USA is indeed more progressed with this. Like both sides. They got really intelligent people but a lot of dumb people. Compared to other western societies, more, the toll of slowly erroding education and the split between poor and rich is progressing harder. Same with things like obesity which as we know of research is bad for brain development (rather the food that leads to this).

            • refalo@programming.devEnglish
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              13 days ago

              Yes I think intelligence is a spectrum and that neither side is more “correct” than the other.

              I think there’s good and bad ideas from both sides depending on your perspective, and we have to concede that nobody has all the answers, and that we don’t know what we don’t know.

        • refalo@programming.devEnglish
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          14 days ago

          I’m just pointing out that both sides think the other is dumb.

          And I don’t think either side is correct.

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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            13 days ago

            You think I’m unaware that some Harris voters would say “Conservatism is a mental disorder”? Is that your point?

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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            11 days ago

            And this is exactly why I don’t affiliate with either major party.

            I used to consider myself Republican because I was frustrated at the majority party (Democrat) always messing stuff up in my home state. I ended up moving for school to a red state, and the majority party there was always messing stuff up. It was then I realized that the problem isn’t with one party, it’s with politics in general.

            I registered with the largest third party in my state (happens to be Libertarian) and I vote for whatever candidate I think is least bad. In 2016, that was Gary Johnson, in 2020 it was Joe Biden, and in 2024 it was Chase Oliver. It doesn’t really matter who I vote for because the R candidate will always win with at least 20% margin, so I vote my conscience.

            I’m not saying both sides are the same, I’m saying both sides age liars and massive disappointments.

  • xor@infosec.pub
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    15 days ago

    what people keep missing is that some things, even though actions of a government, aren’t political.
    e.g. trump’s a convicted rapist… it’s not politics to hate someone that is permissive of a rapist just because they think he’ll help your tax bracket (he won’t, and he fucked the economy last time too).
    racism isn’t politics, destroying the environment isn’t politics… they’re moral imperatives….

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I can understand beef between third party voters and Biden/Harris folks. For the life of me, I cannot understand the beef between Harris and Trump voters.

    Their platforms were nearly identical. They’re both genocide supporters. And pretending Harris would’ve been better on productive rights has no basis in reality. Biden/Harris have refused every call for them to use federal workarounds to grant abortion access to those in red states, but we’re supposed to believe she would’ve suddenly done something about it after election?

    At least the Trumpers are openly fascist maniacs. Dem voters are not being honest with themselves about what they’ve been supporting.

      • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        And Harris was endorsed by 200+ Republicans that support the Heritage Foundation mission (who authored Project 2025).

        • Bremmy@lemmy.ml
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          15 days ago

          Being endorsed by people vs actually implementing a platform are entirely different things

          Trump was endorsed by all Nazi and white supremacist groups. That’s irrelevant with our conversation

          • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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            15 days ago

            Not irrelevant at all. If you believe Project 2025 to be a threat, you should be concerned with any of the authors of that plan endorsing the candidate who’s supposedly going to fight it.

            Not that Harris was claiming to be a left alternative to Trump. She outflanked his right on a number of issues.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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      15 days ago

      There was never a more obvious troll post in the history of trolling than this one right here.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
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    15 days ago

    If more women had held men accountable for this shit over the last 8~ years he wouldn’t have been reelected. Don’t tolerate these POS’.

    • beebarfbadger@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      Oh nonononono - you see, when Trump does it, he gets the good words: HE is “good at nicknames”, “strong” and “tells it like it is”. When anybody Trump doesn’t like does the exact same thing, then they are being childish, rude and it is altogether absolutely inacceptable.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Idk who needs to hear this but:

    Your children don’t owe you self assurance, if they chose to cut contact with you fully then that’s their right.

  • Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    The missing missing reasons.

    This time he actually listed the reason then called the non sequitur “a disease”.