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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

A Trump voter imprisons your neighbor it’s law and order. Kicks their gay kid out its religious conviction. Shoots you dead it’s self defense. Kidnaps you, it’s border security. Invades your town, it’s fighting crime.

Tell them you don’t like them anymore, it was all just “political views.”

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  2. petekotz.bsky.social profile picture

    Pete Kotz @petekotz.bsky.social

    One might assume the no votes are so high because they're the ones on the receiving end. Imagine the ridicule Trump fans are getting when they dare step outside the cocoon.

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    Electro Josh @electromjosh.bsky.social

    Another irony is I know people who absolutely say you shouldn’t cut off people for “political differences”* and yet have done it countless times. They only had a problem with it when it was done to them.

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  6. artificialmcb.bsky.social profile picture

    Flames on the side of my face. @artificialmcb.bsky.social

    Numbers only guys so rarely interrogate their bias in Framing questions that it renders their numbers useless. These guys insist they know the world best but because they have no functional understanding of their own ideology, they can only reproduce that ideology.

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  7. petticoatdespot.bsky.social profile picture

    Jen Larkin @petticoatdespot.bsky.social

    They do it to other people and cla8m that it's due to their religious beliefs, but to them, no one else has beliefs, and people keep disowning them "for political beliefs" so they dislike it.

    They have simply framed it as "ok when I do it, bad when done to me."

    Harris voters are honest about it.

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  8. juliusgoat.bsky.social profile picture

    A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social

    Being a Republican means demolishing the planet and still expecting to get invited to dinner. They don’t believe in cutting people off socially over politics—they believe in murdering people over politics. Keeping normal relationships with whoever’s left is how they tell themselves they’re ok.

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  9. tylerhower.bsky.social profile picture

    TH @tylerhower.bsky.social

    I don’t think it can be overemphasized that Jain’s training in computer science gives him none of the authority he’s taken upon himself.

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    Tim @tjrbare.bsky.social

    This survey is infuriating to me, because literally every single person I know who voted for Harris (myself included) who has "cut off a family member over politics" has done so very simply to avoid being admonished that they are going to hell at family gatherings because they are LGBTQ+. That's it

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  12. edoverbeek.bsky.social profile picture

    Ed Overbeek @edoverbeek.bsky.social

    This made me think of your parable about changing the locks. The party of Sally and Mary feels differently than the party of Thomas and Abe, go figure

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    Kerri Coombs @kerricoombs.bsky.social

    They say "only group of people" like it wasn't half of all the people who voted.

    Obviously people who voted for actual Nazis don't feel a need to cut off people who want more funding for public schools or whatever. If you specifically voted for more organized cruelty toward minorities fuck you.

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    Chloe @wat3rm370n.bsky.social

    This is wishful thinking that if you can just get people to acquiesce and give up, then there won't be a civil war. But the civil war, brother against brother is already here. It really doesn't matter if you still go to thanksgiving or not, people are already dying.

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  18. iziziz613.bsky.social profile picture

    Rild @iziziz613.bsky.social

    I work in therapy.... A lot people who have trauma, get that trauma from family. You have the right to advocate associate with anyone you wish.

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    Keith M Ellis @kmellis.com

    It's all just reality TV, isn't it? None of this actually hurts real people. I was assured by the leopards that no one I know will have their face eaten.

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    MegaForte84 @megaforte84.bsky.social

    And their separations often get reframed as 'they tried to get me to abandon my religion' or 'they were trying to teach my kids to reject my religion'.

    When one side of a political debate teaches their kids it's a religious offense to vote for the other side, you have to ask about both reasons.

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    lakecounty1975 @lakecounty1975.bsky.social

    Overturns your vote, takes away your healthcare, sends your daughter back to the 1950s, attempts a coup, incites an insurrection, defunds your college, cancels your cancer research, bankrupts your business, nullifies your marriage, restricts your insulin...

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  26. bbirdiman.bsky.social profile picture

    bowerbird @bbirdiman.bsky.social

    "do you think having opposing political views, like becoming a practicing nazi, is ever an acceptable reason to cut off contact with a family member?"

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  27. dkbuddychrist.bsky.social profile picture

    Dan @dkbuddychrist.bsky.social

    People supporting horrible shit don’t think there should be consequences for supporting horrible shit.

    Shocking

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  28. bruuklin.bsky.social profile picture

    Bruuklin @bruuklin.bsky.social

    We ARE different. They think we’re opposed to “making America great again” and we know they’re “enthusiastically destroying America for the rest of our lives and ruining the future for our kids”. So sure they feel a lot less anxiety about their opposing family members.

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  29. mxhrad.bsky.social profile picture

    mxhrad @mxhrad.bsky.social

    Also, Trump voters are only thinking of themselves as the shunned people.

    If you ask them “would you stop seeing a family member who’s liberal?” I bet you get a whole different result.

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    monarch of ashes @cephalopod.bsky.social

    "i acknowledge that both sides define what encompasses 'politics' differently but somehow i still insist it's only one side who's cutting the other off" okay man. whatever. glad he gets paid the big bucks for this kind of insight.

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    Jane @janetea4.bsky.social

    When i ended family relationships over tRump, it wasn’t the reason but it was the final line too far.

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