This is the way we can get people united

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ll get right on that after they finish screaming some other lunatic shit about how Jan 6 is both a fight to restore patriotism, a tourist event, and a false flag all in the same sentence.

      It’s always some optimistic viewpoint that “Oh just talk to them”.

      Like when? During their calls for violence? When they threaten to shoot up political officials? When they harass Americans who just happen to be gay or black or a woman and send them death threats?

      “Oh just talk to them they’ll change their minds!” You mean like the constant times when they agreed with a policy and still fucking voted against it because it’ll “hurt the libs?” Like COVID? Like a fucking magic medicine that stops a infection from killing you that in no way should have been political but here we fucking are?

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      I can get behind that on principle, but I can’t ignore the part where they still support the guy that tried to dismantle American democracy.

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        Yup it’s getting harder and harder to have that conversation. Having a civilized discussion with these people and finding out they mostly have the same thoughts the other side have is nice and all, but at the end of the day, who are these people voting?

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      I wish I had your level of optimism.

      However life is short and I won’t be using my limited breaths trying to convince folks their hatred is unjust.

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        I’m not that optimistic, but I try to be. I’m just so sick and tired of politics in this country. We have on each other. We fight each other and both sides are overworked, underpaid and getting fucked in the ass all the time by billionaires and our politicians are making millions laughing at us. I’m just so fucking sick of it all. I’m so sick of people listening to the shit politicians and MSM say. It needs to fucking stop. I’m just one guy, what can I do.