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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Generous to presume that Grandpa isn't one of them.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Germany will go to the US to fight Nazism, sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Unfortunately not that big of a twist. It wasn't until wartime that the US fully turned its back on the Nazis, they had an uncomfortably huge amount of support in America.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Yep, was thinking he checks the box next to the (R) on the ballot. Older,boomer generation, into guns pushes the odds strongly in that direction.

E: typo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Hey look, ageism! Remember the participants in the flower power/hippy movements would be in their 80s right about now, and I'm going to go out on a limb and say most of them probably didn't completely flip 180⁰ on their beliefs and become gun toting MAGA voters.

In other words, not old people fit your description

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

what?

You call out ageism, then mention old hippies who don’t change their beliefs?

Dude, figure out what you mean.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

My father died a few months before the 2016 election, but he was a grandpa in his 80s and he practically died a socialist. He would have been one of the loudest anti-Trump voices you had ever heard had he been aware enough through his dementia to be politically active. I was able to tell him that a social democrat was running for president before the dementia got too far gone and I think he was able to take it in. I'm glad he didn't get to find out that Bernie lost.