Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑

Heard from an old friend I hadn't talked with in a decade. Didn't take long to realize he was MAGA. I cut the conversation short; didn't want to get into it.

I don't think politics can be put aside anymore in personal relationships. It's not like the 70s when there were reasonably minor policy differences. Now it's about an entirely different vision for what kind of country we want to live in and who's allowed to thrive in it. It permeates nearly every part of daily life.

#MAGAGOP

Feb 21, 2023 at 10:40pmWeb
Show threadStrange TimFeb 21, 2023
@rgulick "I think the current spending on tax breaks for the rich is bad" is a political opinion. "I think gay people should be exterminated" is not. I support your unwillingness to engage with people who are acting in bad faith in order to oppress, exterminate, and subjugate.
Show threadbenniFeb 21, 2023
@rgulick you mean "reasonable minor policy differences" like in "should we keep fighting a war on the other side of the world with endless civil victims which we are loosing rapidly"?
Show threadLilWoofFeb 22, 2023
@benni @rgulick LOL - you obviously get your info from Faux Nudes. Sit down stupid MAGATrash.
Show threadNed YeungFeb 21, 2023
@rgulick Now you know how we felt when we said ACAB. ;)
Show threadEagle Globe & FlankerFeb 22, 2023

@rgulick

About Retired Admiral William H. McRaven:

"A good leader sets the example for others to follow," McRaven added. "A good leader always puts the welfare of others before himself or herself."

"Your leadership, however, has shown little of these qualities," McRaven wrote of Trump. "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

Show threadLilWoofFeb 22, 2023
@BikeyBike @rgulick the MAGATrash WANT division - not unity.
Show threadCollin DonnellFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick I always wonder when people say it wasn't like the 70s when there were minor policy differences. I mean, wasn't that when the GOP was starting to go all in on the southern strategy and racist dogwhistles? Conservatives are definitely more detached from reality now, but haven't they always been pretty bad?
Show threadCollin DonnellFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick And then in the 80s the Reagan administration was toppling South American democracies to install dictators while ignoring the AIDs epidemic and putting black folks in jail as part of the war on drugs. Is what they're doing now really worse than that? I don't know. Feels like you've got to go back a lot further to be able to say these are two equally-reasonable choices that reasonable people can disagree about.
Show threadDarwin WoodkaFeb 22, 2023
@collin @rgulick I think it's more that at least things seemed based in reality that both sides kind of agreed existed then, rather than just completely made up bullshit imagined by one party and the other living in objective reality.
Show threadLucius Annaeus SenecaFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick
I have to agree. I couldn't be friends with a #fascist. I can be sad for losing the friendship, but some worldviews are simply immoral. The MAGA worldview goes far beyond policy. It is antithetical to fundamental democratic and American values. Sometimes "both sides" are not equivalent.
Show threadStephen ShermanFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick Agree. There has been a fundamental shift, not only about what kind of country we want, but also about reality itself, (“The 2020 election was stolen.”) #magagop is a huge problem.
Show threadArmy GirlFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick it breaks my heart when I learn someone I respected has gone to the dark side. One particular friend was definitely radicalized by her church.
Show threadSpacecoast WaltFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick I'm the same way...I've kicked many a Magat to the curb
Show threadKoschFeb 22, 2023
@rgulick
It is difficult to maintain relationships with folks if they live in a completely different reality.
Rather than minor policy differences, we now have people that believe the, most unhinged, "truth".
Show threadAlexFeb 23, 2023

@rgulick @jiva Yeah, “disagreeing about politics” used to mean stuff like “I think unions are a good thing” vs “I think unions exploit workers too”. Not “I think all humans should have the same rights, opportunities, and respect” vs “you want to keep a record of teenage girls’ periods”.

There’s no real middle ground there.