Conservative MAGA Cults are a dead end! Choose Books Over Looks: Education thread for Trump supporters to turn them into unapologetic socialists

[basquebromance]

Conservatism and the Trump movement are at our feet. this thread is intended to turn Trump supporters into Marxists

Conservative Postliberalism Is a Complete Dead End

Conservative intellectuals have recently levied a “postliberal” critique of the status quo, claiming to defend ordinary people against elites. But the solutions offered are little more than reactionary nonsense dressed up in populist rhetoric.

jacobin.com

 

[kyzr]

What a moronic thread.
The US is $33T in Debt, the BRIC nations are abandoning the US dollar, and you want to push con-artist Trump worldwide??

 

[basquebromance]

This thread came about because I had that strange, sucking feeling in my soul during the Trump era—the one that made me (and almost everyone I know) ask, “But what can I do? WHAT CAN I DO?” The question haunted me day and night. “I only know how to make threads,” I said to myself, so i made this thread!

 

[basquebromance]

These are hard times, but also times of great opportunity. So come on in and let’s get to it!

 

[kyzr]

This thread came about because I had that strange, sucking feeling in my soul during the Trump era—the one that made me (and almost everyone I know) ask, “But what can I do? WHAT CAN I DO?” The question haunted me day and night. “I only know how to make threads,” I said to myself, so i made this thread!

What else can you do?
donate to the GOP
volunteer for the GOP
...and stop posting Marxist garbage, post facts not opinions

 

[basquebromance]

What else can you do?
donate to the GOP
volunteer for the GOP
...and stop posting Marxist garbage, post facts not opinions

here's what i can do

Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People

every Trump supporter should try it. it would change their perspective

 

[Cellblock2429]

This thread came about because I had that strange, sucking feeling in my soul during the Trump era—the one that made me (and almost everyone I know) ask, “But what can I do? WHAT CAN I DO?” The question haunted me day and night. “I only know how to make threads,” I said to myself, so i made this thread!

/----/ Kindly tell us which part of the Trump accomplishments haunted you the most. I expect you to duck and run.

 

[basquebromance]

We need to make the world livable for minorities. as a member marginalized group—and, God forbid, two (basque and queer)—you are not afforded the privilege of nuance. You’re either “the Basque guy” or “the gay one.” It’s too much to ask to be just “you.”

 

[basquebromance]

/----/ Kindly tell us whjaty part of the Trump accomplishments haunted you the most. I expect you to duck and run.
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all of them. i'll be happy to debate them point by point. pick 1 and let's start!

 

[Cellblock2429]

all of them. i'll be happy to debate them point by point. pick 1 and let's start!

/----/ Pre covid unemployment rate at a 17 year low. And don't say Trump closed down the economy. That was the work of governors. Trump wanted to restart everything as early as March.

 

[kyzr]

here's what i can do
Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People
every Trump supporter should try it. it would change their perspective

LOL, That's a good place for you, stay there.

 

[basquebromance]

/----/ Pre covid unemployment rate at a 17 year low. And don't say Trump closed down the economy. That was the work of governors. Trump wanted to restart everything as early as March.

trump closed the economy

 

[basquebromance]

the seeds of activism were planted for me in my childhood when I first learned I was basque, which is to say, when I first understood that people were classified by their race. For me that was when I was in the third grade and went to an open casting call for Home Alone 3 and saw that the white kids were all moving on to the next round and the kids of color were immediately cut. Now, clearly, I didn’t start protesting then but that was the first thing that tipped me off to the fact that an integral part of my identity, my basqueness, was deemed as “other.”
Similarly, when I started to realize I was queer, other seeds of activism were planted. Over time those seeds sprouted and, to continue the extended metaphor, they grew into a tree so big I couldn’t ignore it.

 

[basquebromance]

The day after the election in 2016, I called my parents. I had been in a daze all day, head fuzzy, bleary-eyed. I’d only gotten a few hours of sleep. When I woke up that morning, I had to grab my phone immediately to see if what I thought had happened the night before had really happened. Yes, Trump had been elected president.
It felt like an unnatural disaster. It felt like I had to check in with my parents, who live half a continent away from me. Some part of me wanted them to tell me it was going to be okay.
“It’s terrible,” my mom said, sounding as if she hadn’t gotten much sleep either. She didn’t say it was going to be okay. She told me she had given money to Hillary Clinton’s campaign; it was the first time in her life she had given money to a politician.
“What are we supposed to do?” I asked, as if I were a kid again.
“Just keep doing what you’re doing,” my dad said. He also didn’t say it was going to be okay.

 

[basquebromance]

After the election I was glued to the news, watching Rachel Maddow, reading Jacobin, listening to every politics podcast I could find. I was astonished—I was aghast—I was digging myself deeper and deeper into a hole of political despair

So I went to the Women’s March, though I'm a dude. I called my representatives—even though they were Democrats. I gave money to the ACLU and tiny Democratic campaigns and Planned Parenthood. I spoke up online, adding my voice to the millions of other voices shouting in protest. Our voices together made a glorious roar, but as the months went by I began to wonder if it did anything besides prompt the Republicans to put in earplugs. It began to feel like screaming into a void.
I kept thinking about what my parents had said. It started to make sense.

 

[basquebromance]

Even before the Trump administration officially began, the news cycle had become an avalanche of shocking revelations, tantalizing leaks, and disturbing lies. Every day—sometimes every hour—a new twist blasted across the media. Paying attention to each new development made my head pound.

 

[basquebromance]

I had to shut off the news. I had to take some time away from the political trashfire that was burning out of control, and in the quiet space I cleared for myself, I remembered something important. Every human being here on earth has a specific purpose in life. That purpose might be running for office; it might be raising a child; it might be studying physics; it might be writing novels. Finding your purpose can be a difficult thing to do, but once you’ve found it, your job is to fulfill that purpose.

 

[basquebromance]

The chaos of the Trump era threatens all of us. It threatens us by stripping away our health care, destroying our environment, and discriminating against religious and ethnic minorities, women, and LGBTQ people. It threatens us by monopolizing our mental energy and draining our faith in democracy. All these threats can lead to despair, and despair robs us of our dreams and our purpose. Despair is the enemy of hope and progress.

We must fight against the threats of the Trump era, and we must use all our tools to do that. Protests, phone calls, speaking out, voting—and making sure every citizen is able to cast their vote—are all necessary. But in the midst of seemingly endless bad news and despair-inducing decisions by spineless politicians, we must not lose sight of who we are as individuals. We must not let despair derail us from our purpose or our dreams.

 

[basquebromance]

Don’t let Trump derail you. America is a country built on the premise—not always realized but always vital—that we should be free to pursue our dreams. Our freedom to do this—to create art, to be happy, to speak freely—is what makes this country the refuge my parents sought. Although America is far from perfect, it is the nation that enabled me to become the person I wanted to be: a wrestler.
So I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. That is how we resist despair. That is how we resist

 

[Cellblock2429]

trump closed the economy

/——-/ Lying about proven facts? Isn’t that cute.