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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (44 children)

This kind of shit was a big motivation for me to leave reddit, and now it's already on Lemmy. Great.

You can have right leaning beliefs and not be a bigot. Hell, I'm not even right leaning but many of my friends and family are. They are not racist, sexist, transphobic.... This kind of post just makes the left look childish.

ETA: you can have conservative views and not vote republican. The republican party is a fucking joke.

[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Many of my family and some of my um, not quite friends, are conservative, and all are varying degrees of racist, sexist, or transphobic. Granted, that's just anecdotal, but have a hard time believing people who vote for bigots aren't somewhat bigoted themselves if they're willing to throw vulnerable populations under the bus for 0.5% lower taxes or whatever.

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