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JustAnotherGen

(36,668 posts)
16. Agree to disagree
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 09:16 PM
Aug 13

I have two nieces and two nephews in America.

From them I have 2 great nephews and 6 great nieces in America.

They are all a mix of Black, Latino/Latina and European descent.

They all appear as Black.or Latino.

Your baseball buddies might have voted for lower taxes -

But their vote is an Existential Threat to the children in my family - age 1 to 32. Existential. And the reality is - your friends don't care.

My husband has dropped every single friend who voter for Trump. He's a 56 year old white man from Italy - who became an American in 2020. He lived 8 years in the Bronx as a kid then the family went back to Italy. He's a blacksmith, owned and sold for a tidy profit several trade businesses, turned his Iron works into an employee co-op, and now only takes specific clients for our on property studio and is moving back to sculpting.

My husband based on appearance - has heard every snotty racist thing the magapubs have thought to spew. He's my inside guy. The white male who can get in and around their spaces? Vociferously disagrees with you.

Your idea may be well intentioned - but my littles don't have the luxury your baseball friends have of not paying attention to "Politics and current events". Your friends are the Default Setting. The game right now? It's rigged in their favor.

It has been since 1877. It's rigged For Now against my descendants.

Maybe they need to understand what it's like to not be the Default Setting. You - since you still rub shoulders with them - can tip them off. One last head start in AmeriKKKa.

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Agree wholeheartedly, love DL always have Eliot Rosewater Aug 13 #1
Thet cannot be trusted. Dawson Leery Aug 13 #2
I oppose it JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #4
Couldn't agree more. This isn't about politics. It is morality. Whyisthisstillclose Aug 13 #3
If you are on Threads JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #5
Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look. It is hard Whyisthisstillclose Aug 13 #6
The difference between JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #8
Original at TMZ usonian Aug 13 #7
Thank you JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #13
Safari reader (cleans up text, readable by old farts) fails. usonian Aug 13 #14
I can only speak for myself, a white male born 1957 in Chicago Martin Eden Aug 13 #9
Re This: JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #10
I don't have your experiences, and don't question it Martin Eden Aug 13 #11
They aren't a bloc of voters JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #12
What you describe is a monolithic bloc in the sense they are unified by hatred of the same people. Martin Eden Aug 13 #15
Agree to disagree JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #16
I rub shoulders with some Trump voters, but they're not my friends. Martin Eden Aug 13 #18
So.would you suggest JustAnotherGen Aug 14 #19
ABSOLUTELY NOT is my answer to your first question Martin Eden Aug 14 #20
They deserve no forgiveness or redemption JustAnotherGen Aug 14 #21
I like everything you wrote here, except one paragraph Martin Eden Aug 14 #22
Yep JustAnotherGen Aug 14 #23
Careless People JustAnotherGen Aug 13 #17
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