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Some friends I just can’t shake

hard enough

around the neck

with a firm grip

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[–] cygon@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You must have better friends than I.

Every conservative I know or knew is walking around with pent-up anger, seemingly ready explode over whatever their handlers in the media have railed them up against that day. I guess that is what keeps them active at the ballot box and prevents them from taking a step back, calming down, thinking and questioning the narrative. Either way, it became pretty much impossible to have any kind of outing with these people present.

It's gotten really tiresome to even look for common ground anymore. Things that were fine just yesterday suddenly make them foam at the mouth. And lately, the persecution complex, too.

[–] Bleach7297@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Hmm part of it might be that I'm in eastern Canada where there are still 'progessive conservatives' and people don't seem to care so much about politics anyway.

A world away from the USA in terms of media influence.