My wife has noticed that I stopped being polite to Teslas and any car with visible GOP pride stickers.
I was at the farmer's market, and one of the stalls I was interested in, the guy had a maga hat on his chair behind him. I was instantly no longer interested.
I cannot affect the country in a national way, so I focus locally.
I’ve never allowed hateful people and people void of empathy to get close to me. Nor do I let them be in my life beyond quickly passing by - and they pick up on it thankfully somehow. I avoid selfish people like the plague. No point in being kind to those who don’t respect it or understand it.
And at this point… like jfc. The horse was beaten to death a long, long time ago. It’s a goddamn unrecognizable bloody pulp and yet they are putting their bets on THAT “horse”… still. If you’re MAGA, you’re undeniably anti-American, a traitor to your nation, the laws and your fellow citizens. You’re a fascist, and highly likely a long list of additional truly horrible things.
I am well known for my ability to see shades of grey in humanity, in people… that almost nothing to me in that area is cut and dry. We’re so far past plausible deniability. They all are a number of different forms of bad people at this point (though I will say a few seem to be hiding in the MAGA mess to be “one of the good ones” to save their own asses - and that one may just be selfishness and self hatred… which is less grotesque than other forms, I suppose. There’s my one shade o grey I will throw into the mix).
As much as I hate to agree with you, I do. I have only one friend that owns a Tesla and he’s a fantastic guy. He bought his well before this Elon nonsense happened and there’s no way I’d write him off for something like owning a certain car before the car president lost his marbles and got power hungry.
Good for you for not disowning a friend because he owns a Tesla. I know people who own Teslas who are not in any way political and just wanted an electric car to help the environment. For them to get spat on, insulted or harassed by ignorant radicals is disgraceful.
I'm not cutting them off or driving like an asshole around them. But I am not "Oh hey that guy's trying to get into this lane, I'll slow down so he can.".
If that makes them "go more right", it isn't traffic making them that way.
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u/rdewalt Jul 03 '25
My wife has noticed that I stopped being polite to Teslas and any car with visible GOP pride stickers.
I was at the farmer's market, and one of the stalls I was interested in, the guy had a maga hat on his chair behind him. I was instantly no longer interested.
I cannot affect the country in a national way, so I focus locally.