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Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, members of the KKK were hurt and offended when friends dropped them. Yes, if you can believe it, friendships ended over KKK politics. Crazy, I know. People have dealt with this through history OP.

KKK Politics? Is that even a term that anyone with any education would say? And did someone try to borrow a jacket and was offended after being handed a robe instead? Come up with lass absurd arguments. Yes, people don't like other people over their views on race but normally you find that out before you're at the 'need to drop them as friends" stage.

If you are against DEI policies and not enforcing existing immigration law then you are a racist and part of the KKK (2025 definition). You should be banished from polite society until you repent although a public struggles session won't work either because the internet is forever and you will get clubbed over the head with it until you die. See how this works?

What is your IQ level so I know, "how big words used should I?" Please admit you're in 7th grade. You obviously lack reading comprehension skills and you vastly overestimate how large the Klan is, which has between 3000-8000 members nationwide. I might just steal your (2025 definition) line every time I need to make something up.

Also, since you brought it up, it's not inherently racist to be against DEI because, if you don't realize, it discriminates against other non-white ethnic minorities, some of whom have lived worse lives than the everyone that DEI blanket covers. I'm all for helping groups of people who genuinely have a grievance and are equally qualified, but those positions should be in addition to, and not in place of, the very few seats at the table that certain other overqualified minority groups already have to fight over.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, members of the KKK were hurt and offended when friends dropped them. Yes, if you can believe it, friendships ended over KKK politics. Crazy, I know. People have dealt with this through history OP.

KKK Politics? Is that even a term that anyone with any education would say? And did someone try to borrow a jacket and was offended after being handed a robe instead? Come up with lass absurd arguments. Yes, people don't like other people over their views on race but normally you find that out before you're at the 'need to drop them as friends" stage.

If you are against DEI policies and not enforcing existing immigration law then you are a racist and part of the KKK (2025 definition). You should be banished from polite society until you repent although a public struggles session won't work either because the internet is forever and you will get clubbed over the head with it until you die. See how this works?

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Anonymous wrote:I never cared about someone”s politics until the past year. I would 100% drop a friend who still supports Trump after everything that has happened since January.

Yep.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, members of the KKK were hurt and offended when friends dropped them. Yes, if you can believe it, friendships ended over KKK politics. Crazy, I know. People have dealt with this through history OP.

KKK Politics? Is that even a term that anyone with any education would say? And did someone try to borrow a jacket and was offended after being handed a robe instead? Come up with lass absurd arguments. Yes, people don't like other people over their views on race but normally you find that out before you're at the 'need to drop them as friends" stage.

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Anonymous wrote:There's been studies over this, OP. Democrats are considerably more likely to ditch family and friends over politics than Independents and Republicans.

Do you have a citation for this?

DP. Of course not. PPP, pulled that lie out of the deepest crevices of her buttocks.

Anonymous wrote:Back in the day, members of the KKK were hurt and offended when friends dropped them. Yes, if you can believe it, friendships ended over KKK politics. Crazy, I know. People have dealt with this through history OP.

Anonymous wrote:It's not just Trump. They have been protesting Republican attorney generals, calling them fascist at least back to Reagan. I remember the protests in the streets that even blocked ambulances complaining about Ashcroft.
And comparing Republicans to Nazis goes back to Harry Truman.

Anonymous wrote:We have extremely nice, caring Christian neighbors with a completely disabled adult son (doesn’t walk, talk, or feed himself.) They are truly some of the kindest people you could ever meet.

And they are openly Trump voters. And I just can’t wrap my mind around it. They don’t strike me as stupid either.

We just avoid the topic entirely but I will never look at them the same. It was one thing in 2016. But this time around I just can’t get past it.

“Hey, pal,” Donald said. “How’s everything going?”

“Good,” I said. “I appreciate your meeting with us.”

“Sure, happy to do it.”

He sounded interested and even concerned. I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong.

“Those people . . . ” Donald said, trailing off. “The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

. . .

I said I’d heard the fund for William was running low, and unfortunately, the expenses certainly were not easing up as our son got older. In fact, with inflation and other pressures, the needs were greater than they’d been. “We’re getting some blowback from Maryanne and Elizabeth and Ann Marie. We may need your help with this. Eric wanted me to give you a call.”

Donald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation.

“I don’t know,” he finally said, letting out a sigh. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

Wait! What did he just say? That my son doesn’t recognize me? That I should just let him die?

Did he really just say that? That I should let my son die . . . so I could move down to Florida?

Really?

I’m usually pretty good at getting my head around things that other people say, even when I don’t agree with them. But this was a tough one. This was my son.

Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised to hear Donald say that. It wasn’t far off from what he’d said that day in the Oval Office after our meeting with the advocates. Only that time, it was other people’s children who should die. This time, it was my son.

I didn’t want to argue with him. I knew there was no point in that, not at the same time I was calling for his help. I tried to keep my cool.

“No, Donald,” I said. “He does recognize me.”

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Anonymous wrote:Ditching someone because they have different thoughts than you says more about you vs them. I’m not surprised the "tolerant left" is known to do it though

I ditched my parents after 30 years because they had different thoughts than me - they thought it was okay to verbally abuse me and never acknowledge nor apologize for the bullying, violent physical beatings and sexual abuse they’d subjected me to over the course of most of my childhood.

If I found the courage to cut those toxic losers from my life, why on earth would I feel obligated to maintain friendships or acquaintanceships with people with whom I don’t share DNA and who have abusive bullying violent mentality like most MAGA do? FFS, be real!

Sorry you were unloved and now so messed up.

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Anonymous wrote:There's been studies over this, OP. Democrats are considerably more likely to ditch family and friends over politics than Independents and Republicans.

Do you have a citation for this?

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Anonymous wrote:Ditching someone because they have different thoughts than you says more about you vs them. I’m not surprised the "tolerant left" is known to do it though

Yes! That’s exactly why Trump was such good friends with Epstein. Trump didn’t dump a close friend just because that friend had different ideas.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re the kind of parents who don’t really care much about who wins elections. We did vote for Trump, but either way it wasn’t a big deal to us. My daughter, however, was very upset when she found out. She’s glad we live in a very blue state. We knew he wasn't going to win Maryland.
This why we can't tell anyone who we voted for....

Her best friend has some Trump flags in her room, and now my daughter doesn’t want to be friends with her anymore because of it. I told her that it should be okay—that differences in political views shouldn’t end a friendship, especially since they’ve been close friends since kindergarten.

The girl is also losing many of her friends for the same reason. I even spoke with her mom. Most of the friend group is Latinas, so SHE NOT RACIST. but they keep telling she likes a "PDF" and a racist. m

How can I help my daughter understand that it’s okay to have different views, and how can I help the kids stop treating her friend this way?

Do you have a lot of friends that have different political views?

Back in the day, literally only 25 years ago, you could argue with your buddies and even almost get into fist fights over practically anything and still hang out the next day as if nothing happened. Something has gone seriously wrong in this country. Maybe it's the internet, maybe it's some kind of psyops or microplastics, or maybe it's just that our telomeres are getting too short. Who knows but society has become so vindictive and it's antithesis to how it used to be. I mean pretty much every single thing that people are shooting each other over today existed in some form back then as well. Can anyone name any topic (other than AI) that wasn't argued about in the past?