Leopards Ate My Face

They were stupid for supporting trump, but in truth, many of my friends are stupid and I love them anyway (and I hope they feel the same way about me). This act of stupidity is harder to forgive, but I suppose if they've come around I can learn to accept them as allies.

It is interesting for sure, it does seem like "blue ocean strategy" in terms of finding a marketimg niche. The shopping cart on the front page makes me think this might be somebody who found it too difficult or had too much conscience to keep the lies churning in maga space.

On the other hand it does feel a lot like something that might help a lot of apolitical extroverts who sort of found their communities saturated with maga people and converted for that reason'

I think it's totally fine to be suspicious and not trust these people on account of their morals. I do also think that anything we can do to find where we share common ground in order to help remove those who are in power and ultimately our "true enemy" (not to say these people aren't also our enemies in a sense) is a good thing. If we can work together for that and achieve SOME level of class solidarity, we should take that opportunity.

I asked my sister-in-law who worked for the VA (retired a few months ago) about the end of the road emails, literally I asked "Hey I heard that a bunch of crazy emails went out to all federal employees, did that happen to you at the VA too?" and she went off on how everything has been nuts since trump took over and how people are being removed from W2 and made all gig workers with 1099 so they don't have to pay out insurance or benefits or earn time towards a government pension / retirement, and how lucky she is she gets to retire before that fully takes affect and how its "all Elon's fault". Saying it was all Elon, and Trump had nothing to do with it, is some serious mental gymnastics... This was August of last year.

Literally everything on the site is $85, the T-shirt the hat everything. I mean are they including the tariffs in that price? 🤣

Holy shit I thought you were kidding. This site is a grift man! Look at this fucking hat. $85!? For a bad MsPaint job with uncentered text?

My Mom recently left MAGA. Rest her soul.

Same with both my parents.

While I was helping with my father's home hospice care he told me that he likes watching Newsmax because "it's pretty much in the middle". FFS. He was about 5% conspiracy kook already but really took the bait once he started listening to Rush Limbaugh. Then it was anti-Clinton bumperstickers everywhere, and stuffing crank political into every conversation he could. Went downhill from there.

I very much understand you anfd feel you

Having said that, let me play devil's advocate for a second.

A very simple point: we still have to live with these people. They're our neighbors, our families, "friends" and co-workers. Is it wise to hate them all forever? We still have to live with them, we can't "simply kill" every Republican in the country (as many magas would like for all the Democrats) as it's dozens of millions

These people are not victims, but they have been ~~misled~~ brainwashed by literally decades of Republican propaganda through Fox News and others. The US government allowed that. For decades. Fox News suing to be able to lie as a news organization should never have passed, but it did. Citizens United effectively ended your democracy, it should never have passed. But it did.

I think this is like the Stanford prison experiment. Some became prisoners, others guards, but all played by the rules set by those in control

I think our hatred should be reserved for those that really caused all this shit, not your every day maga. Republican law makers (on federal, state, and local levels) caused this. Billionaires funded all of this for their own gains. Those are the ones that should be locked up forever, those are the real Nazis. Take ALL possessions and money away from all billionaires and the setup a hard cap of 1-10 million dollars, anyone having a networh of over that gets 100% tax on their income untill they're below again

No more millionaires no more people with the single handed power to fuck over a country for their own gains

Then require news organizations and journalists to always be truthful, by law. Fund them from an independent foundation that only cares about factual news

Then you'll have to rebuild your democracy from the ground up. American elections are a shit show, and have been since WWII. Get a parliamentary democracy, get rid of your presidents

Hell, while at it, let's end super powers. Right now is a great time for that. Russia is on its last legs before death, the US is shooting itself in the face multi times now, and China is about to feel the real force of the demographics freight train hat is about to hit it. Split all super powers up into small states, te US included, with it's 50 states. Form a United nations with teeth that can smack any non democratic government down as replace it with democracy world wide.

Sounds like a pipe dream? Maybe, but its better than eternal hate

They will literally collect names and addresses for shipping Merch.

Getting your record cleared allowing you to get jobs again while also still living in the same places with the same people who enabled and or supported these people it's very unlikely there would be any benefit to not accept the pardon. Nothing gained but a moral high ground. The person who rejected the pardon already was done with their sentence and was retired in her 70s

No. we're at the beginning of step 3.

Let's first get this over, once we are done with the cheeto we can squabble about what to do with Maga. At the very least it should be designated a prohibited domestic terrorist organization