#ex republican

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

I feel like I never fully understand the “screaming liberals” I grew up laughing at until yesterday. They don’t scream because they’re stupid or they don’t have any actual arguments. They scream because what the fuck else can you do.

[the-potus-is-a-russian-asset]

This article and the quote from it directly below pretty much my feelings on what has happened to the Republican party.

“Today the Republican relationship to truth and knowledge has gone to hell. MAGA is a fever swamp of lies, conspiracy theories, and scorn for expertise”

[alexthepleb]

Advice for Ex-Conservatives

I was raised in a hardline GOP/Southern Baptist household. During my later teens, I deconstructed the beliefs I was taught, and I've spent my adult life as a bleeding-heart socialist.

I want to tell you the truth: you never stop learning.

I want to tell you the truth: you never stop deconstructing.

I was on Twitter back then. I followed every left-of-center person I could find. I was soaking up ideas like a sponge. I took every tweet as gospel, which turned out to be VERY unsustainable.

You see, progressives disagree with each other. A lot. About pretty much everything.

It's not possible to reconcile every idea. You can't please everybody. That's the biggest mistake I made when I was fresh out of the conservative bubble. It took me by surprise how much people who agreed on 95% of issues could turn on each other with such incredible venom. It's something you will have to accept.

You can't just sponge up everyone else's ideas. You have to take everything you read with a grain of salt. It's really okay to apply the same critical thinking you applied to your reactionary political and/or religious beliefs and apply that to what other progressives say. Test everything. Question everything. It really is okay.

On the other hand, you also want to avoid being an argumentative dick. People you agree with most of the time will sometimes express ideas you don't agree with.

If the ideas are genuinely odious (some form of bigotry) then just block them and move on. It's VERY rare to change somebody's mind online. For your own mental health, it's best not to engage unless you are doing so for the sake of others.

Yet what if the idea isn't absolutely odious? What if it's just a reasonable disagreement? In most cases, I'd still recommend not engaging. Instead, study what the other person is saying. See if it makes sense, or if you can at least learn from their perspective.

You can actually learn something from a bad idea. And you don't have to be 100% in alignment with someone to treat them with respect or learn from them.

In conclusion, my new ex-fundies and ex-reactionaries, remember two things. One, it's okay to think critically about the ideas other leftists have. None of us agree on everything! Two, it's better to block than to be an argumentative asshole. And, you can often learn something from folks you disagree with!

Let's make a kinder world!

[ivygorgon]

I updated the confederate flag with their current/past agenda.

[starfish-spencer]

Tim Omundson once again being an absolute king on Instagram:

Thanks to @vertigoevolved for sharing this!

[odinsblog]

I am endlessly amused at deplorable Trump supporters who feign outrage when they’re called deplorable, and the garbage ass Trump supporters who get fake upset about being called garbage. They call everyone else all kinds of insulting names, but they suddenly become delicate little snowflakes when someone calls them out by their rightful names. Somewhere deep down inside they must know they’re all deplorable pieces of garbage.

[britishtophatwithlondon]

1.Biden

2.Trump

3.Harris

[derekthesavage]

Real talk, Americans: If the Republican party keeps implying that it's gay to blow a trans woman's back out every night for fifteen months straight before dumping her over text on her birthday, I might have to vote blue in November.

[parkitaco]

got the friend i’m currently the most pissed off at as my secret santa dear god why must you punish me so

[davidtennantgenderenvy]

Thinking a lot lately about the weird loneliness and alienation that comes from being an artist who was raised conservative (and no longer is)

The strange impostor syndrome of constantly being afraid you’re doing something wrong or not doing enough even if you seemingly have all the correct opinions, and feeling like you’ll never truly belong with either family or your peers, feeling like you have to play catch up every day before you can even begin to make a difference because you feel like everyone else is already fully formed while you’re basically having to rebuild your whole worldview from the ground up. The way you feel like you can’t joke and cheer about politics the way all your classmates do because it is so utterly Not Fun and Not Funny both in terms of what’s actually happening and the pain you feel because of the growing ideological rift between you and the people who raised you. The nagging fear that even though I know I’m on the right side of history there’s still a part of me that, as messed up as it sounds, is afraid I’m gonna wake up one day and realize that somehow my parents were right about everything and I’m gonna feel so stupid, and then I feel like a bad person for having that fear because of course they’re not right, how could they be? And I’m really fucking jealous of the people who don’t have to deal with that, I really kind of resent people who just get to be Certain

[obsessivelollipoplalala]

And so many of the dog shit takes on American politics on here are by people who are not from here and refuse to learn how anything actually works because it’s all entertainment on their dashboards to them!

[limerence-leftovers]

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• This is where I openly post about topics surrounding trauma, limerence, grief, politics, and more.

• Also memes. And reblogs. I like to shitpost but also not really. Satire helps me cope.

• I’m AuDHD with an official diagnosis. Which is where I’d like to take the time to say self diagnosis is welcome here. You are valid. ♡

• Disabled: Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, POTS, and C-PTSD. I faint when I stand up too fast. 🫡

• CSA survivor.

• I block liberally and without shame. This is my corner of the internet, after all. I’ll cultivate it as I see fit.

• If you voted for Donald Trump, get the fuck off my page. I want nothing to do with you. Block me.

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[gxlden-angels]

Hey, hey dude I hate to be the bearer of bad news but uh, your boy is being killed in your own graphic. Like he's actively being murdered....yea idk what to tell you dude he's like Dead dead there

[triviareads]

bookstagram ick of the day: someone loudly proclaiming theirs is a politics-free page via post

[luna-is-out-there]

So many folks on here are from a country that's decided to rely on deterrence theory in criminal justice, but to most people that has just turned into "people deserve punishment if they break a rule", and combined with slavery being a legal thing to do with prisoners, as well as taking away their ability to live normal lives after prison (not to mention the state of the working class and their not being treated as people with needs that matter, plus unionbashing), you live in a place where it's become normal for humans to be disposable. Rehabilitation is a foreign concept. Of course you're all scared of doing anything anyone might perceive as wrong. All your society knows to do when someone makes a mistake is put them in a cage for the rest of their lives, hiding the problem for a couple of decades, of course it's difficult to be a person!

Some magical countries out there try a rehabilitative theory of criminal justice. I think it helps to know that if you were ever to fuck up in some way, what would happen is that you'd get help to figure out how to not fuck up again, and society would work on reparations for victims where possible. Your life isn't forfeit. That makes having healthy discussions about change and responsibility feel very different, because responsibility doesn't mean you get the electric chair if you step out of line, it means maybe you'll have to get therapy and study while confined in a place that's frankly better than most student housing nowadays. The punishment isn't the point.

Anyway, my point is that I think this influences internet behavioral patterns a lot. I think this is why some of us react to bad things by unfollowing, and others try to crucify and prosecute individuals. Fundamental cultural differences in perception of justice.