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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

This article is rage inducing.

The 70-year-old Venezuelan cannot say that he is “regretful” of having voted for the Republican Party, a faction that, he says, aligns with his interests as a Christian and a conservative. But he no longer knows what to think. He arrived from Venezuela in 1994 and, once he had obtained American citizenship, his first vote was for Barack Obama, a guy who seemed “charismatic” to him; he liked the idea of the first African-American in power. But in the following two elections he distanced himself from the Democrats. “Because of the debauchery of the Joe Biden administration,” he says. And by “debauchery” he means issues of gender identity in education or the participation of trans people in sports, with which he does not agree.

So, fuck this Asshole especially very much. Enjoy the deportation you voted for you intolerant dick.

For Ferro, the reasons are clear, and almost the same as those of a community like the Cuban diaspora, settled in the south of Florida, where 68% voted for the Republican. “We Venezuelans have a kind of post-traumatic syndrome with the dictatorship, and that makes us dream that a messiah is going to come to save us from the misfortunes that people are experiencing in our country. That is what made many Venezuelans dream,” he says.

Because dictators NEVER come with messages of being the messiah. What a fucking shocker 😐.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Honest question: how much of the homophobia/transphobia is centered in Religion?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's repressed self expression. They would find another reason if they had to.

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