This is like the memes we make!

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    My wake-up call probably should have been when a member of my own family insisted that Christians are the most prosecuted people in the USA (this was circa 2024).

    Although it wasn’t all that long ago, at the time, I just chalked it up to being another of that person’s regrettable opinions. After all, it’s patently ridiculous to believe that it’s illegal to say Merry Christmas, that kids are being expelled from public schools for praying (but only Christian prayer, Muslims are still allowed to pray), and other non-sense like that. But, sadly, it’s more and more evident that vast swaths of the nation actually do not care that these beliefs are false, it’s real to them, so that makes it easy to view themselves as being persecuted.

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      My wake-up call probably should have been when a member of my own family insisted that Christians are the most prosecuted people in the USA (this was circa 2024).

      They’re actually the third-most prosecuted group, after white hetero cis males, and gamers

      Jesus, how far do you have to be down the panic hole to believe this stuff?

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        You have to be “my non-binary lesbian niece tells me I am being hateful when I remind gay people that they are sinners and real marriage is between a man and a woman but I don’t hate anyone it’s just what I believe and I feel like the government should force everyone to live by my personal flavor of Christianity’s moral standards even though I really don’t even do that myself” down the panic hole to believe this stuff, at a minimum, based on my experience.

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    11 hours ago

    Fuck the right completely. I’m going to have to be like my grandfather and be against fascists . Everyone else should too

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    10 hours ago

    I can’t believe a ‘rightist’ made art of the Right weaponizing the phrase “hate speech”! That’s pretty cool! :3

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    11 hours ago

    As a 45 year old white man, you know what hurts my feelings? When people get mad at me for telling them how they should live their life. And when I crack a joke to lighten the mood or give them a nickname they tell me to stop! Man don’t tell me how to live my life.