Ray Gulick, he/him/wtf 🇺🇦 ❌👑Feb 21, 2023

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

Show threadCollin Donnell
@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?
Feb 22, 2023 at 1:57amWeb
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.