at least there are a lot of them?

[ironymaiden]

just unfriended another cousin on Facebook. this one was the closest to my age and a beloved childhood friend. she's an Evangelical, but she's never been openly racist or homophobic and has been pretty cordial in response to questions and challenges to her right-wing memes.

I hoped that perhaps after last week something would change. it has not, and it's become clear (based on posts against deplatforming and some conspiracy shit about the election) that she's not in a place where I can agree to disagree or just scroll by. I know I should tell her why but I don't have the heart to engage.

she's just lost now.

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[jesse_the_k]

/o\

Perhaps in a year, when the Democrats haven’t brought bus loads of devils to work in grocery stores and set up screaming lizards in the schools, she’ll realize that the Trump theme park was, after all, exaggerated?

[helvetica]

this made me LOL we can only hope

[jesse_the_k]

<3

[yourlibrarian]

It makes me wonder when FB is going to become more of a liability to people to use than not, given the way it keeps creating more distress and awkwardness.

[varina8]

::hugs and chocolate::

I just went heads up with C's birth brother over his recent posts. Like your cousin, he has not been racist but the conspiracies and the Pelosi bashing got to me. We are not speaking at the moment and I'm considering unfriending. It's not so much about him as about cutting that thread to C.

[ironymaiden]

I feel you on cutting threads. Like I have to put a set of memories into a box to protect them from being tarnished by the present.

I was originally quite pleased when she found me on facebook, and I keep wondering how we diverged so far with similar inputs.

[varina8]

Like I have to put a set of memories into a box to protect them from being tarnished by the present.

Good idea. Thank you.