Current Events > Have you cut off contact with family members that support Trump?

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So to anyone who voted yes, when trump looses do you plan to never speak to those family members ever again over a election?

Incorrect. Cutting off bigoted pieces of shit is incredibly smart to do and wonderful for your mental health

Out right never talking to family members who voted for trump ever again.

Not necessarily true. Ever since I started leaning liberal my mom kinda quit talking about politics.

If you don't bring up politicians and just talk about the issues themselves she is surprisingly liberal herself but she was indoctrinated as a kid unfortunately. So was I but somehow I managed to open my eyes on my own.

They voted for a racist pedophile rapist who actively wants to dismantle the country and legislate LGBTQ+ folks out of existence and set women and minorities back in terms of rights by 100 years.

Fuck those pieces of shit who voted for him.

Good for you? It's still 100% true.

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so the answer is hating each other?

no, precisely. some relatives did. family is family, politics dont divide family

no, precisely. some relatives did. family is family, politics dont divide family

no, precisely. some relatives did. family is family, politics dont divide family

so the answer is hating each other?

Just so we're clear, you believe that trans people need to be tolerant and friendly towards those who want to exterminate them? That minorities need to do the same?

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No, that would be idiotic.

if u wanna be clear, dont answer a question with another question. speak plainly, is the solution hating each other?
and to answer u, absolutely not, not be tolerant and friendly towards them, but wanting to exterminate them back wont do fuck all. fighting their toxic ideas step by step on the long term may be a better method than just hating the people themselves and leaving it at that

Yeah I'm never cutting off my mother. I don't know who she voted for this time around since we don't really discuss politics anymore but she has always been there for me through thick and thin. And I just accept she was indoctrinated. She actually has a lot of liberal views but she was raised to believe the Dems where the bad guys.

Honestly kinda wish my grandad had been alive for Trump he was a die hard Republican but I have a hard time imagining him thinking trump had any form of intelligence. Hell my mom disliked trump till he won the primary in 2020. It's simply and unfortunately choosing a team and sticking by them mentality.

This is what most people in the country have experienced.

Dont be convicned that what you're seeing on CE is representative of the normal experience because its not. Most well reasoned people can still talk to their parents despite political disagreements, because political disagreements between different generations is a tale as old as time. This didnt start with Trump, won't end with Trump.

Id go as far as to say that most people who are willing to cut off family members like parents and siblings over strangers neither has ever met, already weren't that close with them. Its everyone's right to make that choice for themselves though.

Why are you downplaying the bigotry and hatred spewed by MAGAs as "political disagreements"?

Why are you downplaying the bigotry and hatred spewed by MAGAs as "political disagreements"?

I didnt downplay anything.

I'm just going to ignore the rest of your post since you decided to open up with this lie and then proceeded to downplay things again.

This is what most people in the country have experienced.

Dont be convicned that what you're seeing on CE is representative of the normal experience because its not. Most well reasoned people can still talk to their parents despite political disagreements, because political disagreements between different generations is a tale as old as time. This didnt start with Trump, won't end with Trump.

Id go as far as to say that most people who are willing to cut off family members like parents and siblings over strangers neither has ever met, already weren't that close with them. Its everyone's right to make that choice for themselves though.

I've functionally cut off contact with my mother. We might speak once a month for 10 minutes, but only about trivial topics like the weather. After this election, I might have to cut her off completely. She has stated, directly, that she doesn't believe in civil rights, doesn't believe in human rights, and that marriage should only be between a man and a woman. She has also said (these words are burned into my brain): "the opinion that 'Jewish people should be herded into death camps' is a perfectly fine opinion to have." This was her absolutely monstrous attempt to present herself as a free-speech absolutist. She considers Trump to be the greatest president in US history, of course.

Since I disagree with her on these issues, she's "ashamed to have me as a son." But she still expects me to come around for the holidays and smile and laugh like everything is normal. I haven't seen her in person in two years. I don't tell her anything about my life. If she knew who I was dating, and the GOP instates more bounty programs in the future, I'm worried she might report me or my partners to Trump's version of the Gestapo.