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In reply to the discussion: There was a time ... [View all]Rabrrrrrr
(58,357 posts)15. And they are very happy to envision us being killed, and maybe even them pulling the trigger.
It isn't just that they think differently than I do about important things: it's that they want me - us - to be dead because we are "the enemy".
They are people who have been duped. They are naive. They are basically sinfully willingly ignorant.
But they have also had plenty of evidence to change, and they refuse to, because they prefer to live in the reptile brain of hate, anger, and terror. AND they want us dead. Not outvoted, not stuck with no political leaders of our persuasion, but literally eliminated.
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I was with you 100% until you got to "Now I don't even see them as fellow human beings."
chia
Oct 2021
#13
I'm with you. Saying they aren't human misses the whole point. They are too fucking human
Walleye
Oct 2021
#22
And they are very happy to envision us being killed, and maybe even them pulling the trigger.
Rabrrrrrr
Oct 2021
#15
I knew they existed, but before tRump, they kept what they were (mostly) on the down low.
Texin
Oct 2021
#19