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Sugar Smack

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7. I think there's a difference in "acceptance" and "resignation".

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Thu May 25, 2017, 10:19 AM

May 2017

Personally, I'm angry. I'm aware that the GOP is poised to kill us & take our stuff. I've accepted that we have a cabal of essentially would-be murderers who call themselves the US government, but I'm not resigned to ever let that happen. My own "acceptance" of what's really happening to us fuels my fight.

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Americans are gradually adapting to the coup. [View all] kentuck May 2017 OP

much of the media certainly is - lots of normalization going on NRaleighLiberal May 2017 #1

Hunh? Not getting you. Who is accepting "abnormlalities"? And exactly what KingCharlemagne May 2017 #2

Not as much as adapting as being increasingly numbed by shock. Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #3

Abnormals? bresue May 2017 #4

I'm still at stage 2 world wide wally May 2017 #5

Not the majority who didn't vote for the asshole dalton99a May 2017 #6

I think there's a difference in "acceptance" and "resignation". Sugar Smack May 2017 #7