#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.

Assets:

[lem0nademouth]

according to the replies on this tweet literally every tv show has Zionist Propaganda™️ so i guess the hamasniks are just going to have to twiddle their thumbs for entertainment

edit: some of the nonsense from the replies

do not call yourself progressive or inclusive or revolutionary or anticolonial or whatever other fucking “I’m A Good Person” label de jour you’ve chosen if you say shit like this. you cannot talk like a Nazi and then insist you’re just an antizionist.

[starfish-spencer]

Tim Omundson once again being an absolute king on Instagram:

Thanks to @vertigoevolved for sharing this!

[unculturedmia]

and after all, we're only ordinary men.

"When the people shall have nothing left to eat, they will eat the rich." -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Kelloggs CEO says poor families should consider 'cereal for dinner'- cereal prices have risen 28% over the last 4 years."

[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

[sunnyschristiancottage]

Guys, I think we need to start unsubbing from DannyPhantomExe. The way he has started spewing uneducated political nonsense is starting to get annoying. I used to like this guy a lot when he made comedy videos, but now this is just sad. And of course, he's just gonna disregard the fact that democrats have done the exact same thing Elon did:

For the record, I'm not saying we need to cancel him. But maybe he isn't the greatest guy to support at the moment given the fact that he's just spewing uneducated nonsense out of blue rn.

[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

[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.

[we-are-not-a-number]

Many American subreddits organizing boycotts on X for Elon Musk's mulitple seig hiel salutes during Donald Trump's inauguration. Many state and city subreddits from r/NorthCaroline & r/Oklahoma & r/Seattle to subreddits unaffiliated with Americans specifiically, like r/MadeMeSmile are also banning all links to X and/or Twitter on their subreddits, eliminating any traffick over to X from these communities.

Link to Reddit of a GIF of Elon Musk's Nazi Solute

[wizardly-weirdo]

I’m not a religious person, I’m an ex cult member (I was raised in the Mormon tax grab faith)

I am in no means a Christian and in no way do I follow the Bible, yet I will share with you all my favorite verses.

Numbers 5: 16-31

16 And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:

17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:

18 And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:

21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:

26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

If you haven’t picked up on it, the priest is performing an abortion.

So, Christians, hate mongers, republican assholes: stop using the Bible to justify your hate if you have not read it. The Bible doesn’t say what you think. The Bible supports abortion and GIVES YOU A RECIPE TO RECREATE!!

Jesus wasn’t a MAGA gun toting, confederate flag wielding mongrel. He was a pacifist hippie who hung out with 12 dudes and a hooker, he has a kind soul who loved EVERYONE, not just whites and republicans.

I know someone is going to bring gays into the discussion because of Leviticus 18: 22.

It was purposefully mistranslated. It originally detested pedophilia, not homosexuality, originally translating roughly to “man shall not lie with BOY” not “man shall not lie with man.” Also, Leviticus doesn’t apply to modern Christians or else we wouldn’t be eating pork and shellfish or cutting our hair.

Plus, in Matthew chapter 19, Jesus states that eunuchs, castrated men (also at the time meaning gay and/or celibate men) are to be revered in the eyes of heaven.

So god never said you could strip women of their bodily autonomy and medical rights, nor did he ever say to hate anyone, not even the queer community.

[parkitaco]

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

[ghwosty]

ngl the outright hostility towards vegetarians and vegans is more annoying than the vegan straw-man that is supposedly forcefully evangelizing veganism