It was fascinating to watch in real time. Basically, it’s the same story as most who make the trip over to our team. He learned the media was lying about one thing, wondered what else they were lying about, then figured out they lie about everything, especially GEOTUS.
Me with Trump's racism. Unlike my sister I couldn't believe half the country was full of rabid racists because I never experienced it (from whites anyway) and I thought better of America than that. So I went on T_D one day since everyone and their grandma on reddit hates it. It was funny as fuck. I love memes! This was around the time Electric Fence Pence was first announced as his runnint mate. So I went on for the memes and thought the posters were pretty cool. The posts were fun but the comments were either even more memes or thoughtful engagement.
Then I saw a rally and realized he was nothing like the media put him out to be. I was sitting on a leather recliner surrounded by my Democrat Hispanic family coming and going with ear buds on and my phone facing me so no one would see I was listening to Orange Man. I was told by the media that he was racist as fuck.
He wasn't racist or derogatory at all, he just spit straight facts, sometimes literally citing statistics. Nothing he said didn't make sense. He was a New Yorker like i was at birth and I saw his style. I started getting interested in the guy.
The pulse shooting really sealed the deal. I dont know if that happened before or after Pence was announced as running mate but T_D was the ONLY place you could find info about it. It was censored everywhere else on reddit.
After that I watched rallies almost every time they came on and styled my hair to them. I read the cant stump the trump cheat sheets and looked through the side bar. I engaged with the community every day (i was a lurker then). And Trump started instilling hope for the future and rekindled a patriotism and love for my country that was waning. Trump and this community changed my life for the better.
I used to be a depressed and anxious atheist (then Buddhist, then atheist again... I burned a bible once. Could you believe it?) in an abusive household that felt I had no future and nothing to offer the world. The world had nothing to offer in return and I considered suicide often and attempted a handful of times. I believed in abortion and climate change and LGBT. I used to strongly consider becoming trans. I thought Obama was good because my friends and family said he was good. I thought the US was nothing like I hoped it would be especially learning that teachers could inflict physical punishment on students in the south (i was a northerner then and didn't believe in hitting kids because I was hit a little too much as a kid myself). I was the Queen of my pile of bullshit.
I 180'd so hard and yet I feel I stuck to my core principles. People would say I'm a new person but I'm really not. Just have values that make sense. I'm not suicidal anymore, I'm a born again Christian and wish to be baptized as soon as possible (thanks COVID). I hate liberals, hate Obama, dont believe in climate change (teachers would shame students into it. Like anyone eho thought climate change was fake are stupid because data). I'm still bisexual but I know I wouldn't be happy with a woman and its just a dumb masturbation thing. I hate the LGBT community. I would never commit abortion and abhor abortion entirely. I take better care of myself and I'm more brave and outspoken. COVID-19 really is forcing me out of my shell. I'm more proud and patriotic for my Country than anyone I know. I actually want to start a family, which is big because i always told everyone (and myself) I didn't want kids and i was scared of having them because it's painful and I dont want my privates destroyed and id be an awful mom. I didn't want to bring kids into the world that would suffer like I did. I want to get married. I want to live a good life and live the American dream and have kids so they can experience the same 180 I did.
Life is beautiful and it's thanks to all of you that I gained the courage and morale to change my life and to see that.
Congrats fellow Ladypede! TBF women are beautiful, I'm straight as an arrow but sometimes you see a gal and you're like DAMN she's pretty. I can see how one may be tempted to batter the bean over a gal or two.
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It was fascinating to watch in real time. Basically, it’s the same story as most who make the trip over to our team. He learned the media was lying about one thing, wondered what else they were lying about, then figured out they lie about everything, especially GEOTUS.
Me with Trump's racism. Unlike my sister I couldn't believe half the country was full of rabid racists because I never experienced it (from whites anyway) and I thought better of America than that. So I went on T_D one day since everyone and their grandma on reddit hates it. It was funny as fuck. I love memes! This was around the time Electric Fence Pence was first announced as his runnint mate. So I went on for the memes and thought the posters were pretty cool. The posts were fun but the comments were either even more memes or thoughtful engagement.
Then I saw a rally and realized he was nothing like the media put him out to be. I was sitting on a leather recliner surrounded by my Democrat Hispanic family coming and going with ear buds on and my phone facing me so no one would see I was listening to Orange Man. I was told by the media that he was racist as fuck.
He wasn't racist or derogatory at all, he just spit straight facts, sometimes literally citing statistics. Nothing he said didn't make sense. He was a New Yorker like i was at birth and I saw his style. I started getting interested in the guy.
The pulse shooting really sealed the deal. I dont know if that happened before or after Pence was announced as running mate but T_D was the ONLY place you could find info about it. It was censored everywhere else on reddit.
After that I watched rallies almost every time they came on and styled my hair to them. I read the cant stump the trump cheat sheets and looked through the side bar. I engaged with the community every day (i was a lurker then). And Trump started instilling hope for the future and rekindled a patriotism and love for my country that was waning. Trump and this community changed my life for the better.
I used to be a depressed and anxious atheist (then Buddhist, then atheist again... I burned a bible once. Could you believe it?) in an abusive household that felt I had no future and nothing to offer the world. The world had nothing to offer in return and I considered suicide often and attempted a handful of times. I believed in abortion and climate change and LGBT. I used to strongly consider becoming trans. I thought Obama was good because my friends and family said he was good. I thought the US was nothing like I hoped it would be especially learning that teachers could inflict physical punishment on students in the south (i was a northerner then and didn't believe in hitting kids because I was hit a little too much as a kid myself). I was the Queen of my pile of bullshit.
I 180'd so hard and yet I feel I stuck to my core principles. People would say I'm a new person but I'm really not. Just have values that make sense. I'm not suicidal anymore, I'm a born again Christian and wish to be baptized as soon as possible (thanks COVID). I hate liberals, hate Obama, dont believe in climate change (teachers would shame students into it. Like anyone eho thought climate change was fake are stupid because data). I'm still bisexual but I know I wouldn't be happy with a woman and its just a dumb masturbation thing. I hate the LGBT community. I would never commit abortion and abhor abortion entirely. I take better care of myself and I'm more brave and outspoken. COVID-19 really is forcing me out of my shell. I'm more proud and patriotic for my Country than anyone I know. I actually want to start a family, which is big because i always told everyone (and myself) I didn't want kids and i was scared of having them because it's painful and I dont want my privates destroyed and id be an awful mom. I didn't want to bring kids into the world that would suffer like I did. I want to get married. I want to live a good life and live the American dream and have kids so they can experience the same 180 I did.
Life is beautiful and it's thanks to all of you that I gained the courage and morale to change my life and to see that.
Congrats fellow Ladypede! TBF women are beautiful, I'm straight as an arrow but sometimes you see a gal and you're like DAMN she's pretty. I can see how one may be tempted to batter the bean over a gal or two.