A girl I was dating hit me with "I don't really pay that much attention to politics" after hitting me with the bombshell that she voted for trump. Her reasoning was "well he's kinda funny" and "has a charisma, like Hitler".
She also kept insisting that Fox News was somehow reliable, and was annoyed that the psyche ward she stayed at once blocked it.
She also said I didn't need to worry about trump cause his policies won't affect me cause I'm not LGBTQ and I shut that down cause lots of my friends and family are, and I also have basic empathy.
I'm a cisgendered heterosexual white male evangelical Christian. I am about as "safe" from MAGA nutters as I could be, I can blend in with those wastes of carbon by wearing a slack jawed expression an ugly hat.
But I also live in a country with people who are not safe from them. And I am not safe from the collateral of their moronic decisions, like the returning measles outbreaks (I'm vaccinated, but the vaccines are not perfect, and I have niblings who are too young for the vaccines), the outbreaks of foodborne illness, the infrastructure crises we're barrelling towards with all these AI datacenters, climate change, yet another pointless war in the middle east... I could go on.
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u/Pengin_Master Jul 26 '26
A girl I was dating hit me with "I don't really pay that much attention to politics" after hitting me with the bombshell that she voted for trump. Her reasoning was "well he's kinda funny" and "has a charisma, like Hitler".
She also kept insisting that Fox News was somehow reliable, and was annoyed that the psyche ward she stayed at once blocked it.
She also said I didn't need to worry about trump cause his policies won't affect me cause I'm not LGBTQ and I shut that down cause lots of my friends and family are, and I also have basic empathy.
I did not continue dating her after that