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I just posted this valuable statement by Noah Berlatsky on Facebook, and Facebook immediately took down the posting:

"It may not be safe to remain friends with MAGA. Trump voters have told you they will hurt you. It’s reasonable to believe them. …

I’m not saying everyone in every case has to cut their MAGA family out of their life. Different people are in different circumstances; you can’t make blanket rules."


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everythingishorrible.net/p/it-

Everything Is Horrible · It May Not Be Safe to Remain Friends With MAGABy Noah Berlatsky

"But what I am saying is that, if you have MAGA relatives or friends, you need to evaluate your relationship not just on the basis of the ugly choice they made in the past, but on the basis of what that ugly choice says about what they might do to you in the future."


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"Just so we’re clear — the rule is that these people are allowed to despise us; to insult large groups of people on the regular; to demand that transgender people be pushed out of public society for their own comfort; to talk gleefully about how they can’t want to watch ICE agents pull grandmothers from their beds and deport them;"

~ Robyn Pennacchia


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wonkette.com/p/these-people-vo

Wonkette · These People Voted For Trump Because They Hate You, And You Monsters Won't Befriend Them?By Robyn Pennacchia

"to — again, because this deserves repeating — shout
'YOUR BODY, OUR CHOICE!' at women and girls'; to call Puerto Rico a pile of garbage; to denigrate women who don’t have children; to repeatedly claim that 'liberalism is a mental disorder'; to talk about how they voted for Trump to punish us; to regularly claim that Black people are lying about the existence of racism and police brutality, to force their religion on us, and so forth!"


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@wood5y I hadn't seen it — thank you so much for sharing it, Steve. I look forward to reading.