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⌈ Secret Post #3827 ⌋

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[Teen Wolf, Derek Hale]

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[Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin, NHL]

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(James I, Reign)

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[Joss Whedon's leaked Wonder Woman script]

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[Tara Strong]

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[Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid]

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[Legend of the Seeker]

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Have you ever been completely surprised by someone's political stances? Celebrities, entertainers, friends and family, fandom people, anybody you know.

Why/how/what over?

Pretty much any time someone they're anti-vax I just... boggle. Especially if they also believe in homeopathy which is "Since vaccines work for viruses, what if we applied that to everything?! Tiny dose of smallpox keeps you from getting smallpox, tiny dose of caffeine helps you sleep. Logics!"

Thissssssssssss.

I always thought homeopathy was more along the lines of "Even though it is literally the opposite of how things actually work, as is easily demonstrated by the simple task of making koolaid, we choose to believe that the more you dilute a substance, the more potent it will become!" With a side helping of thinking that random herbs and whatnot are better for your health than actual medicine.

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Yes. Family members whose views are generally libertarian who supported Trump. Like, really? Trump is for more government control, just government control in the wrong areas, IMHO. He was not a libertarian candidate and still is not a libertarian president.

And also, some people I know who, while very conservative, I thought had a line when it came to things like racism and sexism. And yet, they talked about Trump's comments about women and how they debated whether or not to vote for him after that. No idea who they voted for. But either way, I would have though it would have been a clear choice for them after hearing those comments.

I think a lot of people who are libertarians are way more authoritarian than they will ever admit. They need a Strong Leader to make them more free!

Jim Carrey is anti-vax. I can't find him funny anymore.

Finding out one of my brother would have voted for Trump. We come from a fairly liberal family. And I say 'would have' because he didn't actually end up voting for Trump because he got too drunk to drive to the polling station. His only reasoning was that Hillary voted for the Iraq war. That's it.

The number of people who voted for Trump solely based on one single issue is mind-boggling. A lot of them voted for Trump ONLY because they wanted a conservative justice to overturn Roe V Wade.

That's it. The reason.

And people voting for him because Hillary is ~~~the devil~~~ make me so mad and make me lose hope for humanity. Are really this collectively stupid? :/

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I was very depressed when an internationally renowned astronomer went public with his defacto admission that he didn't know what a planet was and then proceeded to use his fame to leverage his political views. Trump would have stopped that happening. That is why I voted Trump.

Oh come on now, anon, don't mess about

When I was a young kid, still in Russia in the 90s, my aunt was very cool and young and hip. She was the sort of person who would go to gay rights protests and environmental marches and things, and she was very outspoken against bigotry. We were very close, but eventually after I moved here we fell out of touch.

We reconnected a few years ago, and now she is a very religious and close-minded person. Like, she is afraid of other races, and afraid of her children being around gay people, and things like this.

It was very shocking tbh.

Has she really changed, or is she just keeping up an act so Putin doesn't have her rounded up and taken for a terminal case of reeducation? If I was in Russia right now then I would be very publicly anti-gay too, especially if I had been progay in the past.

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soldatsasha - 2017-06-26 23:46 (UTC) - Expand

That's really sad. I'm sorry your aunt turned out that way.

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soldatsasha - 2017-06-27 00:35 (UTC) - Expand

The only time I've ever had a weird thought that it really didn't fit with what I knew about someone... he later did a complete 180 on political affiliation, religious beliefs, LGBTQI stuff.

On the other hand I've been completely unsurprised by another friend who managed to surprise everyone else. He comes from money, of course he voted for Turnbull.

I've known people in fandom who initially allied with the anti-SJW crowd and from that progressed to supporting Trump.

While by no means all people who disagree with "SJWs" are Trump supporters, I've noticed a bit of a trajectory in a certain kind of Internet user.

I was surprised by my fundamentalist Christian brother voting for Trump because I figured he was too vulgar for my brother. Not that I thought he would vote for Hillary. I thought he'd skip out on the election this time.

I kept telling people that when they said moderate Republicans would stay home they were fooling themselves. They say that the horrible oik is horrible and beneath them, but come election day they always troop out and pull the lever for them. The GOP base always turns out. It was a mistake to think that they'd stay home, much less claim they'd somehow vote for Hillary instead.

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People got really good at just glossing over all the inconvenient "grab 'em by the pussy!" stuff.

All of my immediate family voted Hillary, but I have an aunt and an uncle (and possibly some of their spouses/kids) who I suspect may have voted Trump. Suspect, because my mom very pointedly did not ask them, because she doesn't want to know (they're her siblings). I think it would really upset her, and she like, kind of knows the answer but doesn't want to find out.

Mom's an ex-Republican, and her whole family is still pretty conservative. But she and her closest sister moved pretty significantly to the left this past cycle. Not far left, mind you, but they're at least center if not slightly left-of now.

tl;dr I feel your pain kinda but I'd be so sad if someone in my immediate family voted for him so I'm sorry :(

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I went to church before election day and the people in charge spoke about a "difficult decision" and then one of them (female preacher) actually said that it all came down to being about hte supreme court. Basically that it was "a hard decision" to vote for someone like trump, but he would save us by appointing someone who would get rid of abortion.

I haven't been back since. I used to think it was dumb to say the church should never tell people how to vote, that it was just another way to be offended about stuff, not wrong to share opinions...but that really rankled me. Maybe I care more now. Maybe I just don't want to hear how I should vote for someone i consider truly evil.

Maybe I'm just not a good lil Repulicristian anymore. >:( >:( >:(

My parents are both super hardcore Catholics who were against homosexuality. When my cousin came out of the closet, some of my relatives started treating him like shit and my parents changed their stance. They're very supportive of my cousin and have told me they would be supportive of me if I was gay too. I've asked them what made them change their minds and they said my cousin was a good kid who went to church every Sunday and spent his free time volunteering with the elderly. The idea that he might go to hell just for liking boys didn't mesh with their idea of a just God.

Have they read the bible? Very little of it meshes with the idea of a just god.

I'm starting to realize that most of the people who follow the same moral principles as me are edgelords. This leads them to classist, sexist, or Lawful Stupid views that will shock "normies."

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My mom, always a fairly staunch (if not extreme-right) conservative, straight-up left the GOP over Trump. Turned in her card and dissociated herself. She's also done pretty much a 180 on social issues in the past 10 years or so.

A very pleasant surprise.

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I was surprised (and massively relieved) when the qt at my gym turned out to be a 'she's garbage but we're facing down Armageddon' Hillary voter and not a 'OMG FLAWLESS QUEEN SLAAAAAAAAAY' Hillary voter.

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