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[quote=Anonymous]I could have written this. I’ve spent a career in public health and then DOGE comes along and illegally shuts down AID and now millions of kids will die from starvation and HIV. Me having to leave my job was very stressful but it is only a small part of what distresses me about what’s been happening.

Don’t tell me it was to save money when this administration has been wasting money nonstop on gilding statues and building monuments and dropping bombs.

I have a friend who I’ve been discussing politics with for 25 years. For a while now we’ve been disagreeing more than agreeing but it was never a problem.

However, once I realized she was supporting what Trump was doing and was unwilling to listen enough to understand what was really happening I couldn’t really engage anymore.

I can socialize with almost anyone but to be friends you have to have some common bond and at some point our values and understanding of the world is so different that it’s like what is the point— this just causing friction and hurt.

Again for comparison, I know plenty of people who vote Republican because they are anti-abortion (although I know some them have struggled with what to do when Trump was running) and they all expressed sympathy and concern about what was happening.

You don’t have to think exactly like me (and I certainly don’t agree with everything that happened under earlier administrations) but if you are happy, for example, that AID got shut down illegally without any planning then I no longer know what to say to you. [/quote]

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