the right has long labored under the misconception that ordinary liberals have always hated them and their way of life with a burning passion, something which is only just now becoming true
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We generally ignored them, occasionally rolled our eyes and laughed at them. Perhaps, to them, that was/is worse.
aug 25, 2025, 1:13 am • 6 0 • view
I feel like this is kind of how an extinction burst works in sociology. One side builds resentment of a stronger other side, gains momentary power, tries to tear the other side down, and unleashes a torrent of real anger, resentment and contempt against itself that was imagined before.
aug 25, 2025, 4:49 am • 6 0 • view
I always said one day liberals would treat conservatives the way conservatives treat everyone else.
aug 25, 2025, 12:52 am • 14 0 • view
the right's loudest mouthpieces for so long have been their freaks that most non-affiliated and democratic voters have always given the benefit of the doubt to "reasonable republicans" and "moderates" and that benefit of the doubt is simply gone
aug 24, 2025, 9:30 pm • 27 0 • view
one of the maybe long-term optimistic expectations of the post-trump reconstruction
aug 24, 2025, 9:30 pm • 19 0 • view
maybe it was an aspiration, not a misconception
aug 25, 2025, 1:04 pm • 2 0 • view
That’s one of the points of everything—to say ‘SEE HOW ANGRY THEY ARE? So they are your enemies! We will protect you from them.’ Then crush everyone who gets in their way. They will also fleece the shit out of the rubes who believe them.
aug 25, 2025, 2:54 am • 1 0 • view
Conservatives have hated Liberals for decades saying we are not real Americans, Demons, Human Scum etc... And what they have done is manifested this back on themselves. I had genuine like and friendships for Conservatives in the past. Now I avoid and loathe them with the fire of a thousand suns
aug 24, 2025, 9:11 pm • 54 3 • view
War on Christmas becomes real motherfucker
aug 24, 2025, 9:32 pm • 19 0 • view
aug 25, 2025, 5:23 am • 2 0 • view
Exactly this.
aug 24, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Can confirm.
aug 24, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Some of us hated these “people” before it was cool
aug 24, 2025, 9:43 pm • 24 2 • view
I have been honestly alarmed about the religious right since I first read about “The Moral Majority” in the news around 1980 or so. My only consolation was that surely the American people would never let them come anywhere close to implementing their narrow-minded, mean-spirited theocratic agenda…
aug 25, 2025, 1:55 am • 4 1 • view
I was raised deep in the theocratic right and then moved decisively left post college and henceforth lived in deep blue areas for the last 15 years. By far the most jarring thing was seeing liberals more or less treat my upbringing as some sort of urban legend rather than a real and growing danger
aug 25, 2025, 3:23 am • 7 0 • view
After years of Republicans talking about how Obama was a Muslim socialist who was born in Africa, we got Zohran Mamdani. Now they're going to get Democrats to want a government that hurts down Republicans for sport.
aug 24, 2025, 8:45 pm • 132 13 • view
Good. It's about time the hunters became the hunted.
aug 24, 2025, 9:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Long have I fantasize about the D presidential primary debates and someone standing up there saying “Work with Republicans? No, I’m going to destroy them” and “America doesn’t need a strong Republican party, it needs NO Republican party” and “Sanders was the compromise and that time is over”
aug 24, 2025, 10:02 pm • 18 2 • view
Tired: Vaccines should be legal. ICE should be abolished. Wired: Hold them down and vax them. Everyone who worked for ICE or CBP gets Nuremberged
aug 24, 2025, 10:34 pm • 6 0 • view
And every single national guard member who didn't throw down their weapon in protest.
aug 24, 2025, 10:56 pm • 2 0 • view
The Hunt but based
aug 24, 2025, 8:46 pm • 41 0 • view
The Southern Baptist Convention will be divided up among Unitarians, Methodists, and Quakers. History books will be rewritten to say this happened during Reconstruction under President Grant.
aug 24, 2025, 8:58 pm • 38 0 • view
A heavy duty, but we UUs do love a good working committee meeting
aug 24, 2025, 9:31 pm • 7 0 • view
Funny, because I was coming here to say, speaking for UUs, that we don't want them under any circumstances - even as sexton staff. As Tevye says in Fiddler on the Roof, "May the Lord bless and keep the Tsar...*far away from us.*"
aug 25, 2025, 12:27 am • 5 0 • view
Need multiple truth commissions before you could even start the reconciliation phase.
aug 25, 2025, 12:37 am • 4 0 • view
"Biblical marriage is between one man and one wo--" Oh too bad, Episcopalians took over your church and are putting up a Pride flag you can see from space.
aug 24, 2025, 9:02 pm • 56 1 • view
Your children will receive wine from the chalice and Luprone from the discretionary fund
aug 25, 2025, 12:26 am • 12 0 • view
Not much sport. They're pretty fat.
aug 24, 2025, 9:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Fitting retribution for their love of shooting game from helicopters.
aug 24, 2025, 10:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Honestly, I think a lot of them knew that liberals just laughed at and mocked them. And, somehow, that was worse for them. They can handle the hate - it’s their general world view, after all - it’s the ironic smirk that sends them into mental palpitations.
aug 25, 2025, 12:01 am • 8 0 • view
So true. Unless they overthrow democracy and poison our society with lies and corruption, we mostly ignore them.
aug 24, 2025, 10:24 pm • 10 0 • view
You are not wrong, heh. My main window into it is my Facebook feed with a number of enthusiastic normie Dems on it. Extended family, people around town. And yeah the mood is…volcanic.
aug 24, 2025, 8:33 pm • 103 1 • view
My mom was one of those Facebook normie Dems, but she’s tacked hard left since Jan 20. And good for her.
aug 24, 2025, 9:30 pm • 30 0 • view
I couldn't even call it a "leftward" swing, since pinning regular voters on something like ideology is notoriously impossible. It's more just "towering fury" than anything.
aug 24, 2025, 9:36 pm • 53 0 • view
(The bad news is this also means more conspiracism. Which is something you're never going to be RID of; it's just a natural human tendency. But as responsible people we have to crack down on it on "our" side when we can.)
aug 24, 2025, 9:37 pm • 33 0 • view
Gently. Sometimes they get more into the conspiracy than the policy or goals and need to be gingerly pried out of it or they dive into it harder and wind up a neo-Bircher. Ask me how I know.
aug 25, 2025, 4:45 am • 5 0 • view
I grew up in a very evangelical household and even in the 90s, the persecution complex was strong. Then I went to college and saw that nobody cared. Something probably about projecting here
aug 25, 2025, 1:07 pm • 6 0 • view
It might be just now becoming true of white liberals, but black liberals always have been much more hostile to the right because they are much more hostile to us.
aug 24, 2025, 11:50 pm • 13 1 • view
Something something sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind
aug 24, 2025, 8:48 pm • 20 0 • view
I don’t think they are prepared for when the cities en masse wish to inflict real economic and cultural damage on them
aug 24, 2025, 9:28 pm • 32 0 • view
Meanwhile, most Republicans actually *do* hate liberals, where they live, and how they live.
aug 24, 2025, 10:31 pm • 11 0 • view
to be fair, they also hate other republicans.
aug 24, 2025, 11:47 pm • 7 0 • view
aug 24, 2025, 8:33 pm • 37 0 • view
Exactly.
aug 25, 2025, 2:15 am • 2 0 • view
Ordinary liberals, encore un effort
aug 24, 2025, 8:28 pm • 16 0 • view
And this assumption is a cornerstone of their identity! They aren’t going to love when it gets thrown in their face!
aug 24, 2025, 9:03 pm • 11 0 • view
We're going to do the reverse of the down to the countryside movement, we are going to round up republicans at bayonet point and make them drink oat milk lattes in the cities
aug 24, 2025, 8:37 pm • 83 5 • view
And so help me fucking God, they’re going to get healthcare that they can afford
aug 24, 2025, 10:20 pm • 9 0 • view
NOT THE OAT LATTES
aug 24, 2025, 9:40 pm • 8 0 • view
if they complain, we add the lavender syrup
aug 24, 2025, 9:41 pm • 20 0 • view
Overheard
aug 24, 2025, 10:47 pm • 6 0 • view
💮diabolical 💮
aug 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 7 0 • view
"You'll sit on the shabby chic chaise longue until you learn to enjoy it! Naïvely or ironically, it's all the same. Now, let's talk about Foucault."
aug 24, 2025, 11:15 pm • 5 0 • view
They WILL sleep in the capsule hotel, they WILL eat at the Senegalese restaurant
aug 24, 2025, 9:31 pm • 52 0 • view
Genuinely think this might make significant strides toward improving our racism / xenophobia situation
aug 25, 2025, 3:17 am • 10 0 • view
I could see it going both ways, you can fully like consuming someone else's culture and oppose *them* as people
aug 25, 2025, 3:19 am • 7 0 • view
famously! But I agree a lot of small town people get more comfortable with things they experience, once they've experienced them. I have hopes that would be the majority
aug 25, 2025, 11:41 am • 2 0 • view
woke 2.0, woke harder
aug 24, 2025, 10:15 pm • 9 0 • view
California Über Alles but unironically. Their kids will meditate in school!
aug 24, 2025, 9:40 pm • 11 0 • view
Conservatives went insane because there was a black president.
aug 24, 2025, 9:16 pm • 36 2 • view
Turns out people really don't like it when you kidnap their neighbors off the street and roll fucking tanks into their cities for no gd reason
aug 25, 2025, 12:58 am • 6 0 • view
For the longest time we just didn't think about them at all. We lived in the good states, why would we bother to worry about what Nebraska was getting up to?
aug 24, 2025, 10:52 pm • 6 0 • view
Who the hell is "we"
aug 25, 2025, 2:41 am • 0 0 • view
Everybody outside Nebraska
aug 25, 2025, 1:09 pm • 3 0 • view
I’m an ordinary moderate conservative that now hates Republicans with every ounce of my being. What they’ve done is worthy of hate and disgust.
aug 25, 2025, 3:21 pm • 1 0 • view
They’ve also ensured that if we ever get power we’re gonna make The Cathedral real
aug 24, 2025, 8:48 pm • 222 11 • view
Louis 2015: haha sure "~tHe cAtHeDrAl~" whatever Louis 2025: hello yes I am here to work the rest of my life building The Cathedral
aug 24, 2025, 9:36 pm • 99 4 • view
Same man Geek 2015: I mean if theyre hiring and I need a job, yeah ill work for the government Geek 2025: googling the exact time to submit an application so im there ready to work January 21, 2029
aug 24, 2025, 9:47 pm • 49 1 • view
Given the speed of normal government hiring, that time is probably Jan. 2026.
aug 25, 2025, 2:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Repairs won't be so immediate. Plus, applying for government jobs for real people and not DOGE or ICE 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴 is... an experience.
aug 24, 2025, 10:00 pm • 20 0 • view
Counter option: I believe in this country and I believe that I can do good working for it
aug 24, 2025, 10:10 pm • 1 0 • view
I think in response to this they literally will have to hire real people. We're going to have to subsidize education and infrastructure x100 over after this or its back to status quo
aug 24, 2025, 10:20 pm • 23 0 • view
I believe in the Great Khan and the Great American Rebuilding
aug 24, 2025, 10:21 pm • 22 0 • view
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aug 25, 2025, 1:08 am • 1 0 • view
I hope hes moved forward on Israel, I really like most of what I've seen from him and as a big boy from a more conservative part of the world (ohio) love his energy. I hope whoever hit fetterman with the stroke cannon stays far away from pritzky
aug 25, 2025, 1:11 am • 4 0 • view
Sign me up for that Green New Deal corp! Or even Green New Deal-core I don’t care. Let’s gooooo! 🌱
aug 25, 2025, 12:20 am • 5 0 • view
We must sit down every Republican and force them to watch the new Elephant Graveyard video A Clockwork Orange style.
aug 24, 2025, 8:53 pm • 10 0 • view
And if you've ever seen a real cathedral, you know that they're Based, Actually! This is a fine project for us to undertake, to the extent it's really possible.
aug 24, 2025, 9:33 pm • 12 0 • view
Woke 2 will have them longing for the days of Woke 1
aug 24, 2025, 8:53 pm • 89 5 • view
You will introduce yourself with your preferred pronouns or you will be sent to the gulag.
aug 24, 2025, 10:21 pm • 3 0 • view
😂 it's funny until those guardsmen make it not funny and draw on the woman. The world's turned upside down.
aug 25, 2025, 1:48 am • 2 0 • view
And that they had plans (Jade Helm, etc.) to manifest that hate. It’s all projection and envy.
aug 24, 2025, 11:05 pm • 5 0 • view