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In reply to the discussion: Just had a terrible confrontation w/ a friend: Damn Fox "news" to hell! [View all]Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)45. Bingo!
We always try and excuse the individual by saying that Fox News made them this way, or Rush Limbaugh made them this way. No, being this way is a choice. Fox News didn't hold a gun to anybody's head and make them be a Trump cultist. They chose that path because somewhere inside of them the hate that Fox News tapped into was already there. And it's long past time we start holding individuals accountable for it.
I say this as someone who has lost several, life long friends over Trump. But the funny thing is, I don't miss them. I would rather spend my life with people who share my values. Anybody stupid enough or hateful enough to be taken in by Trump is not someone I'm proud to call a friend.
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BComplex
May 2020
OP
That was another one of the things she said: that the liberals created the virus.
BComplex
May 2020
#14
No. Up until more recently, our friendship has been mostly professional, so we never discussed
BComplex
May 2020
#20
An ex boyfriend from high school who has a PHD recently contacted me on Facebook
womanofthehills
May 2020
#68
Can confirm that's what a lot of rural white Southerners who have been terrorized...
Different Drummer
May 2020
#63
There are people like that. If I were you I would just ignore her opinions and move on. n/t
totodeinhere
May 2020
#16
My advice is to rethink your friends. She's crazy even for a Trumpanzee.
Downtown Hound
May 2020
#17
So true, 90%Jimmy. I'm going to keep your quote: "Behind every great fortune is a great crime".
BComplex
May 2020
#37
I've wondered the same thing. Seems like there should have been a boycott a long time ago.
BComplex
May 2020
#79
He does that himself, like ordering "Live and Let Die" to be blasted while touring a factory making
SammyWinstonJack
May 2020
#86
It's a shame to lose a friendship, but toxic people must be shed for your
Totally Tunsie
May 2020
#30
I think that was what shocked me so. That, and the contorted face, and the hatred in her eyes.
BComplex
May 2020
#58
Last week I found out one of my neighbors went to the Huntington Beach protest.
Initech
May 2020
#40
I won't be meeting her for lunch again, but she's part of my circle, like what you said.
BComplex
May 2020
#57
If they are, none of them have ever said those "key words" like you hear rightwingers say all the
BComplex
May 2020
#78
As I said above, it has been mostly professional, until she started being interested
BComplex
May 2020
#61
Why do top administration officials get tested daily, and why do White House aides wear masks?
struggle4progress
May 2020
#85