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[cupcake_goth]

 THANK G-D.

I woke up around 11:30 Saturday morning, and the Stroppy One immediately showed me videos of the cheers from NYC., L.A., and Seattle. I spent the rest of the day between fighting a migraine and reblogging Gritty memes (I am now a fan of the big chaos muppet).

I also posted this on Twitter and FB:

The Republicans want to be treated kindly and with respect? Then they need to DO THE WORK. Ongoing work to repair the damage they've done. Respect and forgiveness are EARNED. And even then, no one has to respect or forgive their abusers. Ever.

You voted Republican? Now get out there and help/donate to homeless shelters. Queer charities. Black Lives Matter. Any org. devoted to the people you hurt. Your hate and disregard needs to be repaired on a person-by-person level. DO THE WORK.

The FB post brought out two right-wing crazies. I politely clue-batted one, then the second one showed up with full-on "Stop reading fake news! Tr*mp saved this country!" and whack-ass memes. Other people stepped in and happily fact smacked them and treated them as chew toys.

The FB post also brought out a breathtakingly crazy Libertarian; the type I honestly didn't think existed. Wow was I wrong. When my friends started fact smacking them, the crazy person straight-up said "I'm not going to read those links you posted, because I'm sure they're wrong".  That's when I started giggling and happily blocked them.

Biden & Harris aren't perfect. But they're willing to listen and learn, and they believe in things like FACTS and SCIENCE. 

Comments

[silverusagi]

Yeah, I'm tired of seeing the sentiment that it's time for us to talk to the other side, when it seems like the other side has done nothing but scream about "owning" and "getting" "the libs" for years now. They seem less concerned with policy and more concerned with how much certain policy will upset the other side.

Also, I just keep thinking of this political cartoon
https://i.imgur.com/CTXw4iJ.jpg
because I feel like that's exactly how the Republicans have been operating. There is no meeting in the middle, there's just an absolute refusal to engage.

[sara]

Yep. As I've said to a few people now: we don't forget what these people tried to do. If, once they've calmed down, we can find some common ground with them? That's fantastic and we should absolutely go for it (and I think there's a lot of common ground out there to find, honestly). But that's not the same thing as forgiving or excusing their poor choices.

[staxxy]

YAY FOR WINNING!!

all of this is exactly how I feel. It reminds me of the "men are afraid of rejection, women are afraid they will be murdered" differences with dating, but with liberals and conservatives.

[snippy]

The media has been telling us to talk to them, to understand them, to empathize with them, for the whole 4 years. This is nothing new! And it's just as wrong as it always was. We are not the ones who require a new compassion; we already had it. And what is there to add to what we already know? They need to be cared for, often in ways they would reject; they need to be respected as human beings even though they wouldn't extend respect to others; and they need to be ignored inasmuch as their opinions and judgments don't interface with reality.

[anankastick]

I was so excited when I woke up to the news! And I am already tired of hearing about "finding common ground" and "coming together." As a Black, queer, trans, disabled Jew-in-progress I have absolutely no interest in making nice with people who have been calling for the systematic dismantling of my basic human rights for the last four years. If you can't recognize my humanity, I don't recognize your right to an "opinion." It's so frustrating to see people with nothing at stake chide the rest of us for not burying the hatchet (that's been severing our spinal cords for years).

[danabren]

SO much what the other comments said. A victim of assault/abuse/robbery/rape/murder should not have to extend the first olive branch, should not have to be the one to meet halfway. It's not on the victim to apologize, to reach out, to atone.