To everyone who voted for Trump and relies on social security, or ACA healthcare, or have pre-existing conditions, or has a child with special needs, or LGBT family, or undocumented friends and family, I have no sympathy for you. You got what you voted for, next time learn your candidate’s policies before the election. We tried to warn you, we tried to tell you his policies were radical or even dangerous. We tried to tell you he wanted to take all those things away. We tried to tell you we would be the ones paying for his tariffs; but you wouldn’t listen. He is not your friend, he does not care about you, all he wants to stay our of jail and make himself and his wealthy friends richer. The rest of us were willing to pay a little more for groceries if it meant our families would have healthcare, our friend’s children with special needs could get an education, our parents could collect their hard-earned social security. Instead we will all pay a lot more for everything when tariffs are imposed and the migrants who pick our fruits and vegetables are deported.

Now your penance: call your congressmen every day for the next four years, ask them to stand-up to Trump, to block his policies that will make life harder and more expensive for everyday Americans, to block his nominations, tell them you will vote them out in the next election if they don’t – and actually vote against them when they don’t. Write letters to the White House asking them not to do all the things he promised us he’d do. Write to the Supreme Court, and all the government agencies we rely on everyday asking them to resist rolling-back all the progress we’ve made as a country over the last century. If you don’t, it won’t just be the liberals paying the price, it will be your friends, your families, and even you.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    Have you encountered conservatives on Lemmy?

    Lemmy was originally intended as a tankie safe space and they still hold most of the reigns (for now) so I always assumed that precluded conservatives from joining our ranks.

    • Pistcow
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      181 month ago

      Apparently you’ve never come across a hexbear post.

      • @[email protected]
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        -31 month ago

        Hexbear is aggressively trans friendly; that makes even less sense for a social conservative to show up there.

        • @EndlessApollo
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          111 month ago

          “aggressively trans friendly” sure is one way of describing a community that fetishizes Stalin and modern Russia

          • Pistcow
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            51 month ago

            Yeah, nothing gave off anything less than a Russian troll farm vibe from all hexbear posts.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      111 month ago

      There’s a conservative community. It has a couple of active posters, but literally everything they post gets mass downvoted within minutes.

    • @NocturnalMorning
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      81 month ago

      Surprisingly, yes I have. Not often, but i do occasionally find one. This is an offmychest post though, so probably more of a preaching to the choir type of situation.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        An actual conservative or assumed one? Because I get falsely accused of being one here regularly

    • @[email protected]
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      41 month ago

      I mean, I don’t see any mechanism precluding conservatives from joining. They’d probably get defederated or banned on most instances, but they could easily create their own little connection of servers and run a parallel network on the same software, if they so desired. Heck, for all I know they might and I just don’t know about it

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          I know that, for “truth” social at least, I meant lemmy specifically though, that they could easily do the same with the lemmy code if they wanted to make a new voat or something