• Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I was so well-behaved these midterms I brought up these elections to no one

    But boy did they bring them up to me…

    I was supposed to finally enjoy a short little moment of peace and instead I’ve slept a total of 8 hours in the past two days…

  • Stolas@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    Mine are too delusional for it to matter. They’ll just talk amongst themselves about how it was rigged and how the country is doomed.

    And I’ll just hide away in my room because I’m not interacting with that.

  • Waterpumpee@lemmus.org
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    9 days ago

    I guess celebrating is just right but being annoying to people with different opinions like calling them nazi for every reason possible is what got trump voted in the first and definitely second place. Just fyi. Do what you want but you might be hurting your cause being a bitch about it.

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      8 days ago

      We call them nazis because they act like nazis and do nazi shit and enact policies literally from the nazi playbook. We call em nazis because they’re fucking nazis. What I’m the victim-blaming fuck are you talking about?

    • bold_omi@lemmy.today
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      8 days ago

      If they don’t want to be called Nazis, they should not:

      • support Nazi policies
      • spout Nazi propaganda
      • hold Nazi views
      • act like Nazis

      Calling them Nazi is what got Trump voted [into office] in the first and definitely second place[s].

      Calling them out on their actions and beliefs wasn’t what put him in power. Their actions and beliefs were what put him in power.

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        4 days ago

        People bended the term nazi to label anything they dont like. What’s a nazi policy? Don’t you support policies against animal cruelty?

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          What does animal cruelty have anything to do with that I said? No, the Nazi policies they support are things like the funding of an American Gestapo (ICE) that rounds up people born in America and forces them into concentration camps where many are raped or die of illness, based on their skin tone.

    • DonJefe@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I’ll be just returning the favor. Those MAGAts won’t shut up about Trump either

  • j5y7@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    If I’m lucky they’ll finally shut the fuck up about “Somalians”* and talk about football instead, even though I don’t really care about football.

    *(I understand “Somalians” isn’t a what they’re called, but the racists in my family never bothered to learn that.)

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      8 days ago

      For those unaware of the correct term:

      Somalis overwhelmingly prefer the demonym Somali over Somalian, which may be viewed as incorrect[68][69] since the former is an endonym, while the latter is an exonym with double suffixes.[70]

    • Dae@pawb.social
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      8 days ago

      Honestly this is my hope too, that they’ll just shut the fuck up about politics. I really hope these next two years remind my family how to be people instead of walking propaganda machines.

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      9 days ago

      That’s my experience. They just shut the fuck and don’t want to talk about it when they lose, but when they were winning (just barely) it was all they could ever speak about.

  • Gpennyhigh@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I welcome anyone to come to the good side and encourage the healthy policies that work and people want them when asked about them.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Going to buy a bottle of Blue Curacao, and learn some delicious blue cocktails.

    Offer a Blue Wave to all my Uncles :)

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        9 days ago

        That’s a good start, but it would be even better to think of some ‘woke’ themed twist on it that makes it into a Blue Wave. I’m drawing a blank on what that twist would be, but I’m sure someone who’s better at cocktails and/or wordplay than me could think of something really good. My first thought was replacing white rum with a diverse mix of rum tones, but that would kind mess up the blue colour.

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          9 days ago

          make it a blue sour, shake it with an egg white, then get enough different nerds that you cover the whole rainbow and garnish the egg white foam with a sprinkle of them

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          Oh, also, if you want to really go hard with this, blue curacao, orange vodka (or rum, or liqueur), white creme de cacao, with heavy whipping cream.

          Mix the blue curacao 2/3 to 1/3 with the orange liquor of your choice. Preferably shaken with ice. Fill a shot glass 2/3, or a tumbler 3/4. Now take the creme de cacao and mix it with the heavy cream separately. Then carefully pour that in the glass over the back of a spoon. It’ll taste like a dreamsicle but look like cum in a glass of mouthwash.

    • chunk6235@piefed.social
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      9 days ago

      One that sounds amazing to me is Electric Iced Tea. It’s basically a long island, but replacing triple sec with the blue Curacao and cola with sprite or something.

  • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    I spend atleast an hour each week trying to convince my mom UFOs are almost always light reflecting off shit. It’s been 20 years. When people believe in the mystery more than the reality it’s hard to change their minds.

    Today was “But your uncle saw 3 lights in a triangle pattern over the golf course and they just disappeared!” … The golf course just off to the side of the flight path of a major international airport. Said golf course is on a hill with a river at the bottom. It was a plane landing or taking off ffs.

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      7 days ago

      My conservative aunt, a registered nurse, still believe that if women eat cottage cheese enough when pregnant they can influence the outcome of the gender.

      “Something to do with the lactic acid” or some shit.

      Anyways, my repeated assertions, backed by her license and degree and testing she took (and one of her text books I pulled of her shelf) that shows that chromosome is deposited by the male … well.

      It’s no wonder she also believes that “empty oil wells refilling” isn’t actually “improved technology making that bit that wasn’t economically viable before now economically viable” and/or high pressure seepage but rather “the hand of god providing for his people”

      Anyways. She doesn’t get my delicious turkey this year, they aren’t coming … something to do with being a little bitch.

    • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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      UFO believers in 2026 are somewhat hilarious to me. You mean to tell me we have thousands of ultra high resolution satellites around the globe, every airspace is fully mapped for security reasons, we are actively working on astronomy for the entire observable universe, measuring gravitational waves from things millions of lightyears away, and you think we’d miss some alien airplanes hovering in our clouds?

  • HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I don’t visit the rightwingers of my family and the leftwingers of my family don’t really intermix with them so I’m spared even having to talk to them.

    Actually, there is one “both sides bad” centrist that I get along great with, my brother. I think his politics are very dumb but he is genuinely a well intentioned person. I feel like a hypocrite for tolerating him though considering my lack of patience for anyone else with similar politics.

    I suppose maybe I’ll really see once he finds out I’m trans. Don’t know if I’m coming out this Thanksgiving though. It wont be obvious by then so I likely will fall under the radar.

  • rabber@lemmy.ca
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    8 days ago

    I’m no contact with my conservative relatives. My family is shattered over politics and will never have a large family gathering ever again.

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      My family is shattered over many things, hatred, queerphobia, racism, misogyny, lust for violence, supporting pedophilia, supporting genocide. The magats can frame it as “politics”, but I’ll call it out for what it is.

      I would never disown a family member over politics.

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        Fair. Politics can get real messy without ever reaching the the things you listed.

        I have my hills to die on like free effective mass transportation in every city & I’m extremely anti car centric infrastructure but I’m not calling anyone fucking removed (despite me calling myself a removed) over that let alone going no contact. I went no contact because she’s an abusive narcissistic pathological liar.

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        8 days ago

        Most of my family are Alberta separatists so political in my case

        Those people are largely those same descriptors you said too though lol

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          I’m not surprised. I have never met a conservative that isn’t. The world over, it’s never synonymous with equality, understanding, support, and acceptance.

  • SplitTheUSInFour@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Once you get older this stuff becomes really stupid. You realize that time wasted is a great loss to you.

    There comes a point where you have to be able to stand your ground in silence. You have to realize you cannot change others. You must accept who you are and once that happens, these arguments and the frustration that comes with hearing odd opinions disappear.

    If it bothers you, it’s because you want others to believe what you believe and why is that? For right or wrong, do you really believe a world can come to fruition where we only have bliss, peace, and love?

    How do you even measure those things once the balancing act of right and wrong no longer exists?