So recently I got back on Facebook after being gone for a couple years. Didn’t take me long to remember why I left. Forgot I knew about a dozen hardcore conservative Fundamentalists.
When they aren’t competing to see who can hump Trump’s leg the hardest, they usually post something anti-immigrant, anti-LGBT, anti-atheist (etc.) for variety’s sake. Or they throw up Bible verses so they can pat themselves on the back and show what a good Christian they are.
Yeah, I could walk away from Facebook again or block/ignore them but I’m really tempted to be the sand in their Vaseline and troll them a bit. Or a lot.
I have two Canadian friends who supported Trump. They stopped posting about him long ago. I’m guessing they came to their senses, but who knows?
So, out of 237 friends only two used to support Trump, but don’t appear to any more. Oh wait, make that three. A previous SDMB member (since banned) connected with me. I keep him around for the entertainment.
Even my Canadian conservative friends are anti-Trump. Mind you Canadian Conservatives are not really like US conservatives.
The highlight today was two posts saying, with a straight face, “If the immigrants don’t like our internment camps they should go home, they aren’t prisoners!”
Coz you know, all those people wanted to be separated from their kids for months at a time.
The phrasing is a little inverted, but it’s actually the US conservatives that are the problem (probably because they’re reactionaries rather than conservatives). But it’s certainly true that Canadian conservatives aren’t really like them.
I know a few Repugs on Facebook, few enough that their bullshit gets drowned out by the quality stuff in my news feed. One of 'em is actually pretty decent when they’re not sharing shit like this.
I do this all the time, it’s fun. Trolling them eventually leads into a “liberal cuck snowflake America hater!” post, which I then post the “triggered” meme and laugh at them.
One friend of mine triggered himself off of Facebook. It was pretty fun.
I recently reconnected with a friend from college who has turned into a hardcore Trumpista. As in, swilling that Kool-Aid. :dubious: He was never this political back in the day.
One day he linked the article where Jimmy Carter referred to Trump’s election as illegitimate due to Russian trolling. He called Carter a coward and the worst U.S. president ever. So I decided to link the same article to my news feed with the caption “Now he’s what a real president looks like!” (Yes, Carter was far from perfect, but bagging on the man is like kicking a puppy.) My Trumpista buddy, predictably, took umbrage and commented how Carter, among other things, gave Iran to the religious extremists.
I must say, it was a lot of fun watching my friends dogpile on him in the comments.
I’m on FB and there are a couple hard core conservatives in my feed that do that. I just ignore them. When they do post something interesting and not Trump-humping or anti-this or that, then I’ll post a Like or a reply. But otherwise, it’s Ignore.
Gratefully, the vast majority of my FB friends are not like that.
I have a few relatives in my Facebook feed that I unfollowed once they posted pro-Trump stuff. They’re not close relatives so it wasn’t worth fighting with them.
Fortunately most of my relatives are hard core liberals. The downside of this is when I get sucked into their fights with Trumpists on FB. It can be fun, but it’s mostly pointless.
The worst one is my brother’s father-in-law, who I’m not friends with directly. When my other brother posts anti-Trump stuff he’ll jump in with all kinds of nonsense and I can’t resist ridiculing him. But that seems to have stopped now.
This said, I have some anti-Trump friends who I considered unfollowing just because they were continually posting anti-Trump memes and clogging up my front page. Even if it’s anti-Trump, I don’t need to be reminded of him every time I look at Facebook. Fortunately they also seem to have cooled off and only post an occasional one now.
I have some I keep just to see what BS they post. Mostly stuff from Fox, Breitbart, and even InfoWars and what have to be Russian troll sites. Most are stereotypical MAGAsses–HS diploma; male; white; blue-collar job; dislike of non-whites, immigrants, and Mooslims; think Trump is a selfless patriotic genius who rescued the economy; Obama was an embarrassment to the country who the world mocked and the worst President ever…
The ignorance and projection are sweeping. A Trumpster once told me to “Go read a book” during a back-and-forth as if that was a dismissive zinger.
An all time “favorite” was after Oprah’s Oscar speech people were saying she should run for President. One guy posted a link to an article and said: “I don’t mean to sound racist, but didn’t we already have a black President? Let’s not make the same mistake twice.”
So his issue isn’t that Oprah doesn’t have any real qualifications, because neither does Trump, but that she’s black.
My wife and I have a friend that went full on Trumpster a few years ago. She’s been a great friend over the years, very kind and sweet otherwise, went to our wedding, etc. etc. She even just bought some stuff from us to help pay for my daughter’s trip to France (as an exchange student) and she has a daughter around 10 or so who as far as I know she wants her to grow up as a strong feminist.
Then I see her posts, and it is unrelenting shares of Breitbart crap and alt right memes. She’s called herself a white nationalist in her feed (yikes) and posts everything that leans right: Jesse Smallet crap, Colin Kaepernick stuff, pro-Trump stuff, Hillary’s a killer memes.
Last month she posted the meme comparing a soldier and a gay man at the pride parade that said “How come the soldier only gets one day while the other gets a month?” I responded that May is National Military Appreciation Month and Veteran’s Month is in November – to her credit (I guess) she doesn’t ever respond. She just regurgitates the latest outrage. I don’t think anything I could say would ever change her mind and she’s living in both my wife and my head a little too much, but I just don’t want to de-friend her either.
Man, which Canadian Conservative are you following? What I see may not “support” Trump, but it’s certainly not anti-Trump, and they’re all embracing the same stupid arguments that allowed the Trump phenomenon to take over the GOP.
Hell, they voted in Doug Fucking Ford just because he was the closest they could get to Trump right now.
I go to facebook for entertainment, articles about interesting non-news stuff, and to connect with friends’ and family members’ personal lives. I understand that others use FB for different purposes, but I unfollow anyone shitposting political crap in a heartbeat. I can’t spend all my time on facebook arguing with people who aren’t going to change their minds about anything. That’s what this place is for after all…
My FB newsfeed recently included 2 photos side-by-side. One was of Ind-! whining about how the nasty Dems won’t let him build his wall. The other was of Carter with his Habitat for Humanity group actually building a wall.
