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Literally nothing is going to happen to them. If we're lucky, Trump doesn't go full dictator and we just have another election where they back whoever the candidate is and fully support whatever it is they want to do. There is no world where they face any sort of backlash/accountability for their actions that they haven't already from family/friends.
If history has anything to say about them, it will be like Germany where in a decade or so suddenly "no one" voted for Trump. No one admits it
Spent years convicting the people that tried to directly overthrow the election and he just mass pardoned them. Republicans will just follow that precedent.
I have to sit down at family events knowing my dad fully would have voted for trump if he could (hes not American) and it makes me have 0 respect for him. But its not enough to cause me to break the civility, which is why I wondered if it would be enough to break civility for people in the us.
I'd like to think if I were in the US I'd continue being unhinged towards trump voters even Years after trump but it would probably be to hard to overcome social civility norms.
Both my parents voted for Trump. My mom thinks that January 6th was okay because the economy was good.
I'm barely being civil, mostly because at one point in my life they were empathetic, kind people before Fox News and the likes of Glenn Beck fucked them in the head.
I pretty much always try to push back on their insanity ("'they' let immigrant murders go free!" Well that doesn't sound right, where did you hear that?) I'm hoping eventually something will shake them free, but I'm not holding my breath.
At least now I can (and have) used the most cutting, awful phrase they would say to me when I messed up as a kid...
I'm not mad, just really disappointed in you.
Fuck that. I'm pissed. I'll make their lives miserable until the day I die if I can.
Well I know people have broken ties with their family, but I refuse to let propagandists ruin my relationship with my family.
I hate the fact that most of the people in my family voted for Trump, but I blame the propagandists at Fox news and Newsmax. They've convinced an enormous amount of people that Trump actually cares about them and that everything around Trump is terrible because of Democrats, that any legal actions meant to actually have Trump face the consequences of his actions are completely unwarranted and "fake," and that if Democrats won any real power they'd take away everything that the common person cares about...
People like my father truly believe only criminals are being deported and no one innocent is being affected. He's not ruthless and lacking in compassion, he just drank the Kool aid and 100% believes everything fox news says that he wants to believe. I've tried to show him how they lie and bend the truth, but if it's not coming from Sean Hannity then he doesn't believe it...
I don't generally wish death on people, but if there's one group of people I'd actually go watch be put to a firing squad it's people like Laura Ingram, Sean Hannity and the chucklefucks on Newsmax. Absolute scum of the world.
"One day, everyone will have always been against this." –Omar El Akkad