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The first thing my conservative acquaintance wrote was "I hope you re ready for another 9-11" because now its coming" They are really scared eh
Yet conservatives get mad about Kirk jokes and wonder why they get kicked off platforms.
Or just jail them even when quoting their supreme pedo leader.
(Probably not the best source link but a quick search will surely find more)
So in conservative brain damaged logic, Giuliani was a Muslim, Socialist Democrat somehow responsible for 9/11.
You need better acquaintances.
This was my comparable train of thought.. Giuliana was elected so 9-11 could happen! He is fully responsible no? /s
Is that a threat?
Did you ask them why they think that would cause it?
That would be because of photos with the Imam Siraj Wahhaj.. Who according to conservatives was organizer of the 1993 wtc bombing.. but was not indicted or convicted of anything related to it.
To be fair, this is a personal 9/11 for every conservative piss baby who lives in an imaginary world where every paranoid delusion they have about Mamdani is real.
They don't even think of New York City as "real America" in the first place. Connecting this to where 9/11 actually happened doesn't occur to them.
Why do you have conservative acquaintances?
Because thats what adults do, they are capable of communicating and being near people with different values and opinions.
"if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
The "acquaintance" needs a punch in the fucking face and a goodbye.
Thank you.
You do realize that having witty quotes doesnt change anything right? It might be rhetorically effective at face value, but there is no value other than hate at display here.
If hating nazis is wrong, I don't want to be right
Not every conservative is a MAGA cultist nor a nazi, it’s ok to have friends and acquaintances with different political views and belief systems from yourself. You’re doing the “everyone I disagree with is a nazi” thing.
Never said they were.
Unless their beliefs say that others are lesser, or wrong, like LGBTQ people shouldn't exist.
Really not though, not sure how you think that is the case
Good, because I fucking hate nazis. Do you?
Demonizing people “not like us” is exactly how we got Trump. Not every conservative is a racist monster, most of them are just confused, or heavily gaslit from years of Fox News style propaganda. I’ve personally got a few of my conservative friends and family to see the problems with Donnie Cheeto and openly rebuke his decision making. “Punching someone in the face” for making a poor choice isn’t going to do shit for us when shit gets real, changing their minds will. Not saying everyone on that side of the fence is clear, and I sure as hell hope people complicit with these horrific ice raids etc get locked the fuck up for a long time. Same with all of trumps lap dogs.
Nah, at this point there's no excuses. If you're uninformed today, it's malicious. If you actively support a party of traitors and domestic terrorists, you're super malicious. All nuance has been strangled and trampled down to mush about 9 years ago.
I don’t want to live in a world where we find others with opposing views as hopeless. Anger and hate only lead to darker places. We need to hold people accountable but we should never let blind rage control our decision making.
I agree with you. But how many times does a friend need to bicycle kick you in the balls before you stop calling them, and possibly call the police?
You're kicking off over an acquaintance?
You shouldn't exclude people from your circles for different political views.
How are you going to reach them and get some sense back into their boggled minds if you distance yourself only?