I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, if we all excluded people we politically disagree with from our dating pools, I wouldn’t be married, because when I met my wife I was much more conservative than I am today. She’s a lifelong democrat, and at the time we met I’d never voted for a Democratic presidential…

People forget about early voting and mail-in (particularly since LW says she’s from Washington)—lots and lots of Americans have already voted, and I believe the LW’s boyfriend is among them. If you read her note, she’s talking in the present tense about knowing that his vote won’t turn Washington state Republican. You…

Yeah I agree with the counterpoint. No fucking for Trump voters.

There is some adage about this. I don’t remember it exactly, but it goes something like, a quarter of people are monsters, a quarter are angels, a quarter are neutral, and a quarter are waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

On election night, my dad called me and said, “I’m sad. Half of my countrymen are evil idiots.” I guess there’s some comfort in it actually being less than half of the voters?

However, it would be disheartening to believe that every single last one of the people who voted for Trump is a shitty person because *gasp* that would be a frighteningly high percentage of all Americans that are shitty and ‘deplorable’.

who we vote for is a representative of who we are as people.  Turns out the guy she’s fucking likes racists.  DTMFA

If people stopped fucking racists, there would be no fucking racists.

The Trump regime is in fact genocidal. Separating children from their parents, assigning them to new parents and then losing the paperwork is a classic move in the genocide playbook.

we’re past the point of reasonable people who voted for Trump. In 2016, sure maybe some decent conservatives made a mistake. But anyone who is still voting for him in 2020 is a bad person who likes his bad views.

That’s untrue. Racism created the deep chasm in our world today. It created it hundreds of years ago, it’s been there this whole time, and many of us white people simply lost the privilege of ignoring it.

Here’s the thing, though, Trump is awful. He’s been awful for a president and he was a horrific candidate even before that. Least we forgot: grab her by the p***y, making fun of the reporter for having a disability, being a birther, refusing to show his taxes, the wall. It’s not like his badness was discovered since…

But, I mean, yes. There are that many shitty people in this country. If we learn absolutely nothing else from COVID (and I fear we won’t), we’ve learned that a GREAT DEAL OF PEOPLE don’t give two fucks about anyone else’s health but their own. Maybe not every single Trump voter is a soulless idiot without an ounce of…

but she doesn’t have to work with a Trump supporter, she has to *fuck* one.  i don’t think it’s a valid analogy.

It’s one thing to have voted for Trump once; chalk it up to ignorance, optimism, naivety, a protest vote, whatever.

But to have sat through the last four years and go “yeah, more of the same is fine” is a deal-breaker when it comes to qualifying for any degree of sympathy, compassion, or understanding.

Reasonable people can disagree about politics but Trump is different. It is one thing for someone to be misguided into voting for for a vanilla Republican like John Mccain or Mitt Romney, but Trump is and was plainly incompetant, unqualified, and openly corrupt. There is no reason to vote for him unless his cruelty…

Who we vote for indicates who we are as people. 

Counterpoint: Trump voters don’t deserve love, and that’s true for every last one of them.

Your first response makes me worry about what happens in your bedroom.

Even if that’s not why he was fired, that sounds a bizarely anti-child workplace. I’ve worked with adamantly childfree and chatty child-having people, and even if they bitched behind each other’s backs about their different choices, they were always decent humans to their face.  What the hell are these comments?  What…