• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      31 minutes ago

      Absolutely. These aren’t just “differences of opinion” as conservatives would pretend. Jews, gays and intellectuals didn’t just have “differences of opinion” with nazis in Weimar Germany.

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      1 hour ago

      Yes, absolutely, and I think anyone who says otherwise is a liar, given shitty enough candidates in an election

    • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
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      20 minutes ago

      It really depends.

      I’m in Australia so while I detest our conservative party leader (not presently prime minister but probably one day), he’s not really as abhorrent as Trump.

      If someone very close to me who I care about quietly mentioned that they voted for someone as awful as Trump, that wouldn’t be immediate irrevocable dismissable from my “inner circle”, but it would certainly change how I thought of them.

      Perhaps oddly, it would be a bit like someone saying they believed vaccines were harmful or that the earth is flat. They’re not stupid (necessarily), but there’s some complex and concerning psychological stuff going on.

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      3 hours ago

      Tough question, but you spend though time online and you hear stories of abuse from Trump parents and people ghosting them. It’s not so much about the voting choices though, but who those people are— which of course is correlated.

      That said, you shouldn’t think in absolutes. I certainly quarantine family to once-a-year if they’re terrible, if even that. It’s not as direct as making a pact to never see them, you just avoid unpleasant people. That just happens to be Trump supporters lately since he appeals to the worst kind of people, but before that it was my folks like my grandpa who called Obama the n word and kicked my dad out at 15.

      That make sense?