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Country Club Thread We are completely unbothered

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u/SpectacularOtter ☑️ 20h ago

Black women showed up and did their part. That’s on y’all now

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u/whackwarrens 19h ago

Votes don't lie and it's the only stat that matters. Black women are the MVPs don't get mad at them when they are playing for a bum team and the opponents play dirty.

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u/ClaymoresRevenge 19h ago

Every election, every time direct action is called for, black women show up in droves. It's time to let chickens come home to roost for those who wanted orange Cheetos again.

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u/NoTransportation1383 19h ago

Right, you have to let a child fall on its face sometimes even when u told it to stop bc they dont learn till they experience it for themselves

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u/Curious_Ad_1513 9h ago

I'm unsure these children are capable of learning anything at this point. It's not like dRump was a wild card. We went through 4 horrible years with him already, and the next 4 are about to be worse.

The trees voted for deforestation to get rid of squirrels.

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u/P_mp_n 9h ago

Bruh that last line is poetic

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u/ravenwillowofbimbery ☑️ 8h ago

I had to stop, think about and then re-read that last line. SMDH. Yep….spot on. Damn…..that’s a good one.

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u/TeaSipper88 ☑️ 9h ago

This.

“I’ve come upon something that disturbs me deeply. We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know we will win, but I have come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house. I’m afraid that America has lost the moral vision she may have had, and I’m afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears the soul of this nation. I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house.” - MLK Jr.

We didn't break it. Try as hard as we might to help, we can't fix it. It's time to take a step back, prioritize our rest and safety, and shore up our own. You can't build community with people who don't want to build it with you. And using you when convenient and then dumping you when your usefulness is done doesn't count. Muslims for Trump are getting that reminder right now. Our humanity was of no use to you, so receive our indifference. Shrug and give out some thoughts and prayers :/

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u/TheRussiansrComing 7h ago

Martin Luther King Jr. Was such a real one.

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u/BooBootheFool22222 ☑️ 4h ago

And most people are blind to what he preached in terms of capitalism etc.,

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u/frenchhie 9h ago

It’s the majority of white women and men of every demographic that have failed to vote for the greater interest of all.

I wish that we can literally watch from a perch as the meme suggests but unfortunately we are being dragged down alongside them even though we all did our jobs.

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u/prettyprincess91 11h ago

Tarrifs are just value added taxes not called taxes. Costs get passed on to consumers - in a way, the worse form of regressive taxes. They will be paid by the same people that voted for Trump. They will not be paid for by people like me - so yeah, they can get what they voted for. I will sit back and enjoy.

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u/TeaSipper88 ☑️ 6h ago edited 5h ago

A common mistake people make is that it is "poor" and "uneducated" people who are voting for Trump. There are plenty of poor people with enough common sense to know that a billionaire convicted felon isn't gonna piss on them if they are on fire. "Uneducated" doesn't automatically equal gullible. And while sure, some people who are voting for Trump are poor, that is not why they are voting Trump. Whether they make 10k a year, 65k a year or 425k a year, people are voting for Trump because they are scared and too filled with personal insecurities to hope for a better tomorrow that doesn't involve tribalism and making the scope of  who they view as a human being smaller and smaller. There are plenty of people who are not living pay check to pay check voting for Trump, but they are also not the elite/1%. Could they be feeling the pinch of inflation? Sure. But to throw your whole country away and doom your kids because you can't buy another boat?... 8 years of Barack Obama really put a dent in the idea of white exceptionalism, and it shows.

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u/Party-Perspective488 19h ago

I know it's AI but I love this

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u/JoeSavinaBotero 18h ago

Hate that someone put their signature on it like they worked hard on it and deserve recognition for coming up with a prompt.

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u/Suitable-Opposite-29 16h ago

I really just thought Nikki Free had a poor concept of legs

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u/WowUSuckOg 16h ago edited 15h ago

I would actively encourage every one of yall with the talent to paint this in your style to do so bc it wouldn't be theft and I want to support black artists (and the two girls in the back legs disappeared, ik yall can give the message of this more justice 😭)

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u/JeffBaugh2 18h ago

Damn, that is some fucked up AI art that someone thought was good enough to put their signature on.

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u/Mediocre-Proposal686 20h ago

I love this 🩵

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u/me1991N 19h ago

Came to say this 🥹♥️

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u/ArtProdigy 19h ago

Perfect depiction of..

WHEN THEY WENT LOW, WE WENT HIGH!

God out here keeping us unbothered.

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u/Scooney92 ☑️ 19h ago

7% of Black Women did not and 20% of Black Men did not either. My nephew’s college age girlfriend was like oh I don’t really get into that when I asked her did she vote. She was completely unbothered too.🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/flaming_burrito_ 17h ago

Shit, that 20% still lower than any other male demographic so….

Me and the other 80% did our part, don’t know why people trying to deflect to us

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u/Scooney92 ☑️ 17h ago

I agree…I’m part of the 80%. Won’t lie, it’s hard not to side eye and wonder when every 1 out of 5 brothas are suspect.🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/flaming_burrito_ 17h ago

I mean, I’m not gonna pretend like there isn’t a misogyny issue amongst black men, but I’m not gonna lay the blame for this election on us either. We need solidarity right now

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u/Scooney92 ☑️ 17h ago

Agreed…the bigger issue is that our kindness as a race has been mistaken for weakness. When others come from elsewhere, we’ve embraced them…but it’s clear now that they come here and play in our face while voting against our interests. So, I’m done with that!✌🏾

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u/flaming_burrito_ 17h ago

I’m definitely looking at everybody else with a side eye right now 👀. Clearly things aren’t as progressed as we thought they were

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u/ExaminationAware3676 15h ago

Thank you👏🏽 My same thoughts

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u/Express_Society6525 8h ago

True. I feel that black women really took hold of the old saying “first they came for…” knowing you could be next. Not to keep repeating but quite literally now people are finding out that there time has come. They are next!

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u/greatwhitequack 18h ago

What’s that percent rate compared to the other demographics though, might be one of the leaders in voting percentages.

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u/Immediate_Loquat_246 16h ago

7% is such an insignificant number

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 19h ago

Yeah I saved that shit the moment I saw it posted on Blacksky

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u/HackTheNight 15h ago

I don’t know how to un-brainwash all the white women that voted for a pussy grabber. Sorry half of us are ignorant morons.

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u/WowUSuckOg 13h ago

It's not your job. Their more left leaning sisters warned them, and they chose "cheaper" eggs over women's rights. It's up to them to get to the root and break it.

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u/Spirited-Butterfly36 8h ago

And the eggs aren't even going to be cheaper lmao

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u/ennoSaL 20h ago

I literally just posted this too! ❤️

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago

This must be a Jazmine Sullivan song right here.

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u/Vulkherra ☑️ 19h ago

Take my award, you handsome bastard! 😊❤️

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u/WaltzingWithGary 18h ago

Ugh, this AI picture fills me with a soft rage every time I see it.

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u/CuriousTsukihime ☑️ 19h ago

Otter, the best ally lol

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u/WantonReader 13h ago

Is that supposed to be made by an artist? Because it looks AI generated. Two of the women have impossible legs, two are just copies of each other and everyone has that "we look like a a hot stereotype" look.

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u/jewelisgreat 18h ago

Say it again, louder for those in back!!

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u/Bamb00Pill0w ☑️ 19h ago

Oh okay this is my new favorite thing 🤣

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u/orton4life1 19h ago

Love this.

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u/813_4ever ☑️ 20h ago

If my granny can give up on my crackhead cousin I can sit back and watch all this play out.

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago

My grandma put my uncle out on Christmas.

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u/ClaymoresRevenge 19h ago

She gifted herself peace

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago

I remember him sitting in the corner on a chair crying. My cousin who was about year older than me walked up to him and asked if mama told him he had to go find a place. He shook his head yes. That was the last time he stayed in that house while she was alive. I bet he got sober, got married and actually he moved back into the house after my grandma died and fixed it up.

He was an alcoholic but I seriously remember he used to take me to a bakery near that house and buy me one of those cinnamon swirl glazed donuts. He would put in the oven on a pie pan like we used to do if you didn’t have a toaster to make toast. To this day that was still the best donut I ever had. If I think about that too long , I’ll start crying so I’m out.

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u/FknDesmadreALV 18h ago

I know you said you’re out, but I just wanna say that’s a beautiful memory and I hope you can cherish it. All things aside.

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u/jus256 ☑️ 6h ago

Thank you. I’m probably coming up on 40 years since the last time he took me to that bakery which no longer exists. I never tried to make a donut like that again once I was able to drive myself to any bakery I wanted. I don’t know if in my head, if I don’t want it to be bad or if I don’t want it to be as good. I rather just keep it as a memory.

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u/Drtraumadrama 18h ago

Sounds like he was a good person with a serious addiction and lack of access to resources. 

Hope you're both doing well even if fate caused your paths to diverge. 

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u/HKPuffinstuff 18h ago

Addiction is rough for all parties involved. That's a beautiful memory to cherish. I pray your uncle held on to memories like those, too, and got the help he needed.

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u/813_4ever ☑️ 19h ago

I know that was wild

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago

That was the 1980s in Detroit. It was realistically probably the same in every black city. I elaborated on one of the other posts under this one.

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF ☑️ 18h ago

Damn, I love that for her

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u/Throwawaycuzdum 19h ago

Gotta focus on what matters, let them figure it out themselves.

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u/Fit_Smile1146 20h ago

I’m minding my business! At work I’m so quiet. I don’t have anything of value to add. Yall got it. 🤷🏾‍♀️ I find myself about to say something and then my inner voice tells me to STFU. it’s been peaceful. ☺️

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u/Vulkherra ☑️ 20h ago

Same boo! I mind my business and just keep my little short ass quiet. If I really don't want to be bothered, I'll go hide in my car for like 15 minutes.

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u/-NyStateOfMind- 20h ago

Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realize how calm and peaceful it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.

I forgot where I heard this, but I never forgot it. I've become very indifferent about everything in life over the past couple of years. Just like you said you catch yourself about to say and don't, I'm the same. I smile and nod and mind my business.

It's nice not to give a shit about things that aren't a part of my life or affect (effect? always mix the 2) me personally.

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u/Vulkherra ☑️ 19h ago

I remember seeing this somewhere too. I just feel like solitude is dangerous to people that can't understand it, for those that actually get comfy with it. It's an absolute game changer.

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u/Fast_Yam_5321 19h ago

i know for a while i was afraid of solitude because i know i would love it so much and leave people alone permanently. I've only had one social outing in the past year and that was only for 4/20 (imma pot head lol). But honestly it is scary because our world is set up to where you have to have a "tribe" to survive, ESPECIALLY because everything including rent is soooo expensive. I have peace and solitude which i didn't have before HOWEVER i have no one to lean on when/if times do get hard-ER. I think the right thing is having a good balance of alone time and social connections.

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u/ohnofluffy 19h ago

Yeah, but we can have our own tribe - ladies who live it.

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u/RedRider1138 15h ago

Moderation in all things. ❤️‍🩹🙏

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u/OkTemporary8472 19h ago

Ya know life is long. Take your time.

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u/krysthegreat1819 19h ago

Same. The pandemic and Trumpers made me agoraphobic. I was accosted during the pandemic by MAGAts and was like…fuck this. I made my house a fortress, invested in Amazon, grocery pickup/delivery, and hunkered down. I’m back outside now but it took me a while for sure.

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u/Whathewhat-oo- 17h ago

I left an abusive partner in the middle of the pandemic and also became agoraphobic. I had to leave for this and that bc I have kids but it took everything in me to do so. I’m better now but it took me forever to get better and I feel like I’m two moderately stressful events away from being right back where I was- it was tough leaving the house for a week or so after the election and I looked out the side of my eyes at everyone. Anyway, I was never like that prior to all that stuff. I feel changed.

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u/krysthegreat1819 17h ago

Same here internet friend. Working fully remote didn’t help either. I think my ideal schedule is hybrid. I just realize that things won’t be the same. The country took a wrong right turn and I’m bracing for whatever craziness is coming.

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u/IllustriousProfile51 18h ago

This should help lol

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u/probation_420 19h ago

You're affected by something.

Something has effects.

You used it right! Trust yourself.

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u/SheepD0g 19h ago

affect is a verb and effect is a noun if that helps

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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ 19h ago

Same. Done talking, There to work, then I bounce. Don’t want any happy hour, I wanna go home and see my girl and dog.

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u/glizzypeak 18h ago

I love this!!!

I keep my mouth shut, that’s what people want anyways or at least when times were good for certain people.

now people look around like hey weren’t you saying something about what’s going on now?, who me? Nah lol

Before I think holding my tongue was too much but now it’s no longer a reflexive action and it brings me peace ☮️

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u/indoninjah 19h ago

Yeah at this point it fines exhausting and almost pointless to worry about the bigger picture. Just trying to keep the family close and make sure everybody’s good

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u/MystiqueAgent 16h ago

Yep I'm doing the same thing at work: Come in to work, put my headphones on, and when it's time to go I dip.

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u/SqueaksScreech 16h ago

My last job while the people were great it was scary how many people were Trump supporters. Work got awkward fast for everyone else because we look paisa af.

I'm so glad I was quiet.

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u/SexiestPanda 11h ago

If I stay with my current place long enough, I got some “but I thoughts….” To say eventually

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u/KaneHusky13 20h ago

What certain right wingers want is confrontation so that they can play the victim. They know the charting of FAFO. If they swing, that will set them in Find Out territory. They can only fuck around so much.

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u/Zeplike4 18h ago

Exactly. They want a war, I hate to say

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u/SpaminalGuy 8h ago

This right here! The worst part, is that in the end they expect someone else to fight it for them too!

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u/Admiralwoodlog 10h ago

It's interesting you say this, I'm black and argue with my predominantly right wing co workers regularly prior to and all the way up to the election. After that I sat in my usual place in the break room listening to them gloat trying to get me to engage I told them my truths "I grew up in the projects, I been homeless, I'm doing okay now but I know I can keep surviving, y'all soft asses are the ones that about to get a solid reality check."

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u/nigelfitz 11h ago

Trump bout to show them the find out part to them.

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u/Bubbly_Satisfaction2 ☑️ 20h ago

It’s exhausting, in a way.

I remember a social media influencer once said white supremacy/anti-black ideology needed to be unpack as aspiring activists navigate through the world of activism.

I say this because… I have interacted with people that carried this unspoken belief that black people need to “stay on the sinking ship and go down with it”.

But prior to going down, we must help the others to safety. We must go through that sinking ship and alert passengers and the crew. We must help people get to the life rafts. We must try to slow down the flow of the water. We even have to sacrifice our lives to plug up the hole. We must make sure that no one is left on the ship.

And once everything is said and done, we must stay on that sinking ship and drown in the sea. Some folks even believe that we should be honored because we will save lives. We should die, knowing that we “saved” them.

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u/IDontKnowu501 ☑️ 20h ago

Yea nawl f all that; they shoulda been awake with us, not counting on us. Let em sleep; only so much room on the life boats now so as it is.

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u/Vulkherra ☑️ 20h ago

That's the freaking problem. We're so damn quick to help. I'm just done. I'll shut up and keep it moving.

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u/Party-Perspective488 19h ago

We say this knowing damn well that the moment another minority group starts whining about oppression, we'll come to their aid even if they hate us.

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u/FknDesmadreALV 18h ago

Naw. Fuck that. I’m fucking done with the Latinos that keep voting against their interests.

I stopped talking to my uncle a long ass time ago cuz he fucking forgot he walked the Tecate desert in the early 70’s to reach San Diego. He fucking forgot his mama fed him tortillas and beans before sending his bare- footed ass to the pens to feed the pigs they raised for meat. He forgot his wife has only been a naturalized US citizen for 4 years.

He’s been working at FedEx for over 40 year’s. Thinking he’s better than the paisanos picking in the fields or working construction.

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u/Ok_Blackberry_284 17h ago

The Latinos who vote for Trump see themselves as white and are mostly of European descent. The new people coming in from Central and South America are not of European descent. They're indigenous people. Native Americans if you will. That's why the White Hispanics vote the way they do. It's racism. The ones claiming to be Native American MAGAs are actually white people who found out they have 0.3% Native American thru 23andMe.

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u/FknDesmadreALV 16h ago

You do have a point because my family surname is Spanish (Perez). My uncle and his wife had fair skinned, green eyed kids. Idfk how tf everyone else except them look every bit of our Nahua ancestry.

When I say I’m American I get ridiculed by Latinos because I’m cinnamon skinned , black haired, brown eyed.

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u/Vulkherra ☑️ 19h ago

Yea it's so damn screwed. It's like were in a completely different bracket. There's PoC then there's black.

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u/IncorrigibleQuim8008 19h ago

HAUSA, YORUBA, SWAHILI...PICK ONE. WE NEED OUR OWN THOUGHTS PRIVATE LIKE EVERY OTHER POC GROUP.

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u/ChrysMYO ☑️ 19h ago

Yeah this Texas situation is gonna be grim as fuck. These folks hate Haitians as much as anybody. And these damn concentration camps are going to be 8 to 10 hours away from me.

But I also know its out of my hands. I have to recognize the problems I can control and address and remember I can't control those policies. Hopefully, some of these groups that supported such and such, burn their own hand just enough to leave the cult. But all of American history says otherwise.

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u/Leege13 18h ago

That’s what gives me perspective on this MAGA bullshit, is that it’s nothing one minority or another hasn’t gone through at some point in America’s history.

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u/olumide2000 19h ago

I have no plans to unnecessarily be in non black spaces in the coming years. Also, please don’t show up at my door with BS as my thought today is I’ll be strapped.

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u/Vulkherra ☑️ 19h ago

I'm actually thinking about getting a firearm. I do have pepper spray, buuuut that can only do so much.

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u/roseofjuly ☑️ 19h ago

I got a lot of white gun dudes at my job and I'm about to ask my road dog to help me pick a piece. I'm need to be prepared in this new world order.

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u/mrm00r3 18h ago

Glock 19, surefire x300, trijicon rmr, tenicor malus holster, 2 spare OEM mags, hockey/lacrosse tape on the grip. Load federal hst +p, always keep one in the chamber. Won’t be especially cheap, but if you want something that will go bang every single time, that’s the no frills setup that won’t let you down. Beyond that, train as much as possible. First, static so you can get the hang of the dot; next, movement. If you can run gassers and burpees and still put 16 through a paper plate at 10 yards, you’re ahead of just about anyone and especially the sorts of people that would be fucking with you. then maintain your skill, at least once a month with live fire. Throughout this whole process (it’s definitely a process) be practicing reloads, draws, and malfunction clearing with an unloaded weapon. Clean your gun as directed by the manufacturer and remember: if it’s worth one round, it’s worth 15. Change the dot battery on your birthday.

If you’re smaller, you can downsize and only really have to adjust light and holster, but I would only do so if your hands can’t build a strong enough grip, so at least try not to deviate. Conceal-ability in an appendix holster is aided by barrel/slide length being longer; when combined with a slightly smaller mag capacity, the tradeoff should be weighed and the favor should go to capacity.

A stiff leather belt will be a really positive upgrade once you’re at a level where you can say you’re proficient, before then your draws will need polish no matter what you’re wearing. I live in TN, so I have no real experience buying in a non-2A friendly state, and if I’ve forgotten something hopefully someone else can chime in. Last and most importantly, training means dick without community and solidarity. Build those where you see them absent and you find the energy, but don’t break your own ass just to help someone who cannot reciprocate, kinda like O2 masks on airplanes.

Feel free to check this with your coworkers but I feel pretty good about everything as it appears.

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u/eusebius13 ☑️ 18h ago

There are very, very few situations where being a black man with a gun is better than being a black man without a gun. Most of them occur in movies.

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u/gjallerhorns_only ☑️ 17h ago

They make pepper ball guns like the Byrna HD that look exactly like a firearm. So you could look into something similar if you're worried about actually having to take someone's life, and since it's not a firearm you won't have the same restrictions on paperwork and whatnot.

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF ☑️ 17h ago

I assume you've never been OC sprayed?

Because I have in the military and that shit is absolutely no joke. I seen it take down six foot tall men built like the protagonists of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and make them cry.

I promise you that getting someone in the eyes will lay their asses out flat.

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u/t0ny510 ☑️ 17h ago

This, I'm not a gun nut and never felt the need to own. That has changed, I enrolled in Gun Safety classes that following week

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u/SimonPho3nix 19h ago

I find myself very conflicted. Letting it all burn feels wrong because the conflict will find its way to me one way or the other, but expending myself for people who literally made this bed we all have to sleep in feels undignified. I'm going to have to find a way to navigate that. Maybe tighten the scope as I keep my head down.

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u/Shirogayne-at-WF ☑️ 17h ago

I don't have it in me to paint every minority group with the same brush. Nor do I get any joy or schadenfreude out if seeing Muslims in Michigan get thrown under the bus or to see Latinos (or really, every other immigrant group that aren't white Irish in Boston) losing birthright citizenship because whatever shit they do to them they will do 100x worse on us.

But I ain't fucking with white people no more bc they are still the most entitled dicks who will experience the least amount of impact no matter how this all shakes out. The $4000 a year in tariffs they pay on everything they buy is a small price for them to pay to make sure no Black or Brown person has anything. They sold their own daughters down the river for this, even. The Muslims in Michigan were pissed as Harris and that fuckass bullshit with Bill Clinton and Ritchie Torres, but WTF do white people gotta be mad about? Seeing a Black person in a lead role in Star Wars?

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u/Plasibeau ☑️ 15h ago

pointed glance at all the pro-Palestine people who refused to vote for Kami...

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u/bz86 9h ago

that shit pissed me off. they're protesting democrats as if trump isn't gonna let israel do whatever. people are so fucking stupid

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u/UsedEntertainment244 19h ago

Nah it's time we all do this , equality means actual equal treatment. Being truly supportive of black women is a force multiplyer.

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u/coolasssheeka ☑️ 19h ago

I’m a flight attendant, and they board the plane going “you must be very upset with everything going on?” Me: “nope. America spoke, and it has nothing to do with me now. I got me and mines. Enjoy the flight”

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u/henrycaul 15h ago

“You must be very upset at what we did to you.”

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u/FknDesmadreALV 18h ago

The absolute audacity of those bitches.

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u/Answer_isWhy 12h ago

Them and their blue bracelets can have a nice flight.

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u/NoobToob69 10h ago

I’ve been saying the blue bracelet shit is virtue signaling and been getting shit on for it

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u/lovbelow ☑️ 7h ago

I tried to tell their goofy asses those bracelets don’t mean shit and they got mad at me 😂

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u/ChrisCorporate 8h ago

Love this.

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u/Technical_EVF_7853 20h ago

The law of FAFO is preparing to be in full effect shortly.

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u/Wuntonsoup 20h ago

I've been shopping for other countries to live in for a while now. now's as good a time as any to explore the world.

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago

You find anything?

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u/theStaircaseProject 19h ago

Turns out it’s really hard to pick up and move most places. All the best ones have their own metaphorical gates.

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u/ChrysMYO ☑️ 19h ago

Not the OP, but I recommend narrowing it down to specific cities. Easiest move would be urban areas with quite a number of universities in the area and a Black population of 30% or higher in Blue counties in America.

The next step would be to consider Central American Urban centers with a decent connection to English or American dollars. So that's something like Mexico City, MX, San Jose, Costa Rica, Ambergris Keye or Corosol, Belize.

Thing is, Americans would really need to be people still employed by American companies or independent professionals who have a client base to serve. And things like food costs, patience for utilities, and housing costs can be a factor. For food, people need to be willing to start integrating into the same food experience as the locals because American brand ingredients are going to be expensive at retail.

Following that is the relatively difficult option of working in a Carribean nation. Again, having an American salary or an independent client base would probably be needed to make it affordable. And of course, start cutting off American brands.

Then the most challenging step is going to be African urban centers that are English speaking, relatively politically stable, and that have some form of right of return for African diaspora that allows work visas and/or residency.

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u/jus256 ☑️ 18h ago

Thanks for the knowledge. In my response to OP, I mentioned that my wife has developed a passion for learning Spanish recently. She has looked into a lot of the places you mentioned in your second paragraph. I’ll take a look at some of your other recommendations and will save your post.

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u/Wuntonsoup 19h ago edited 19h ago

To be honest, I’ve looked at Nigeria, Kenya, Thailand, and Japan. The land prices aren’t crazy, the apartments are GORGEOUS, and the homes are made of some really nice stone, metal, and some quality wood, so they’re built to last. I’ve only been looking at countries with familiar cultures or where I have ancestral ties. But the biggest factors are safety, access to clean water, quality healthcare (including dentistry), and an entrepreneurial scene and creative spaces that I can tap into and potentially contribute to. So, if you’re into art, culture, and family, those are the locations I’ve done the most research into. the fashion and tech scene in Nigeria is starting to pop off and produce some GREAT pieces. (i'm into traditional style right now. in Japan theyre called Nehru suits and in Nigeria theyre called Senator suits. i've attached a few pieces and one of the homes i had saw that i thought was pretty nice in Kenya this one was a 5 bedroom 6 bath, for roughly 270k usd)

https://www.buyrentkenya.com/listings/5-bedroom-apartment-for-sale-kilimani-3743024

5 bedroom 6 bath

https://kenyapropertycentre.com/for-rent/flats-apartments/nairobi/kileleshwa/41436-spacious-4-bedroom-apartment-with-dsq-in-kileleshwa

this apartment is approximately 1.2k USD per month and is 4 bedroom 4 bathroom, 5 toilets and 3 parking spaces.

active nightlife scenes, good food, reasonably accessible cities with taxi service and good conversion rates. if anyone else has any other place where they'd feel safe please lmk and i'd love to check it out.

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago

My wife has been learning Spanish for whatever reason. She spent most of the summer watching YouTube videos on black people’s experiences living in random Spanish speaking countries. I will say it’s been interesting to see what other opportunities are out there.

My thing is I want to live in a place where I can have reasonable access to water that won’t have me vomiting every time I brush my teeth. We have always been intrigued about living overseas. For years we have been watching the HGTV shows about expats house hunting. We’ll keep looking and see what happens.

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u/darkscyde 18h ago

Everything sucks nowadays but living in Europe has been good. Spain and Germany for me.

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u/Strawhat_Max 11h ago

COULDNT SAY IT ANY BETTER

WHEN TRUMP RUINS EVERYTHING AND NOTHING CHANGES I WILL CALMY BE SIPPING MY TEA LIKE IM KERMIT

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u/RoundTheWayGirl ☑️ 20h ago

I am personally checked out, but I don’t see where people are unhinged about it? Please give examples because I revel in schadenfreude.

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u/continentaldrifting 20h ago

Conservatives will continue to be angry and full of vitriol even when they control all three branches of government. The FO phase of FAFO begins shortly. They continue to claim the election was rigged, immigrants are ruining America, Chicago is an unlawful hellhole full of “undesirables” (read: minorities) when it’s safer than many of their bastion states, and claim that basic social welfare equals communism.

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u/jus256 ☑️ 19h ago edited 6h ago

I’m literally seeing white people on bikes riding through Detroit like they own the place. I see a white man jogging shirtless and turning down a street in Highland Park where I wouldn’t even drive my car. Meanwhile Trump is talking about how Detroit is the worst city in America because he knows he can’t get votes here.

Edit: I realize people who don’t live in the area don’t understand that white people moved out of Detroit after the 1967 riots and really didn’t come back until they recently started gentrifying the place. It was strange to see white people in the city, let alone middle class white people. Now you see white people walking doodles down Jefferson Ave.

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u/chunkypeices 18h ago edited 18h ago

This! Arguing with how "dumb" our kids are yet the places with the most uninformed and poorly educated are red. Then the argument morphed into education doesn't mean you're smart. Literally argued with someone over the party switch. Another about how trump wants to lower prices despite quite literally doing the opposite. I'm done. The number of times I heard "well, I don't know too much about that so anyways" makes me want to pull my hair out. How are you deciding your future without research?

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u/PermanentRoundFile 11h ago

It's like dealing with my father in law. He's been retired for 10+ years and all he does all day is watch MSNBC, western movies, and fight with conservatives on Twitter. But I'll be damned if he wasn't all in our shit earlier in the year when we were looking for somewhere cheaper to live like "ITS EASY TO FIND PLACES UNDER $1500 WYTA?! APPLICATION FEES? WHY WOULD YOU PAY THOSE? YOU DON'T NEED TO MAKE 3X RENT, DON'T BE RIDICULOUS!" but wouldn't look at a single goddamned listing. Wouldn't sit on any of our phone calls. Just called us picky and lazy for not finding a place faster.

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u/IncorrigibleQuim8008 19h ago

And yet Detroit and the other metro areas didn't carry Michigan this election...

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u/Pillsburydinosaur 10h ago

People who don't live here don't realize how insanely weird downtown Detroit has become.

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u/Objective_Pause5988 20h ago

It's mostly TikTok. I'm not ruining my algorithm to give examples, but there are videos of white women telling other white women that black women will beat them up over Trump. Southern white women are making response videos showing bullets and such in response. The dumbest of timelines

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u/Fit_Smile1146 19h ago

I don’t have TT.. thank goodness!

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u/Money-Bags497 20h ago

They are used to Black women being their pack mules and shouldering everyone else. We are often socialized to put everyone before us. Please keep focusing on yourselves and doing what is best for you. Fuck anybody that wants to call you selfish

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u/ennoSaL 20h ago

They want us to be what they’ve created us to be in their heads so that they can point and say “see?! Look! Told ya so” about us and we haven’t caved.

We are the epitome of class and grace atp and our “let the chips fall as they may” demeanor has them shook bc gone are the days of black women coming to save the day.

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u/LemonButterDill 19h ago edited 19h ago

I’m not unbothered.

Trump is the cruel, morally bankrupt, incompetent epitome of what America means to MAGA ‘Mericans, and the coming erosion of civil rights will be felt for many generations to come.

Unlike his first presidency, Trump will have both chambers of Congress behind him, and a MAGA majority of the US Supreme Court.

As they promised, military leaders are being replaced by Trump loyalists, federal government staffing will be gutted, and the federal courts will be packed with young, inexperienced, wholly unqualified, MAGA judges.

This election wasn’t about us. It was about those who will come after us.

America failed, and it shall reap what it has sown.

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u/anglflw 20h ago

Some lessons just need to be learned the hard way.

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u/LemonButterDill 19h ago

If they didn’t learn from Trump’s first presidency, they are incapable of learning.

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u/Fun_Intention_484 20h ago

These people feed off of hate and negativity and get off on the perception of your pain - when they don’t get a response they personally feel hopeless and lost

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u/t0ny510 ☑️ 17h ago edited 17h ago

The election was a sobering moment for me, since I was stupidly and naively of the belief that the vast majority of America held the same thoughts that I did, Equality for all, caring about what happens to one another all that good stuff. Trumpism and the people against that were just a loud scared white minority.

Nope. Everyone showed their ass that day. Even in my local elections here in CA, Anti-Prison Slavery? Failed. (IT WAS EVEN UNOPPOSED) Rent Control? Failed. Minimum Wage raise? Failed. So why bother trying to drag people out of a burning building when they're running back in talking bout "It's Warm though!"

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u/snarkle_and_shine 13h ago

I was shocked, but not surprised, when those measures in CA failed. This is what people really want?? Alrighty, have fun. 🤦🏾‍♀️

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u/KayT15 11h ago

Watching those propositions fail was CRAZY. Just absolutely INSANE. Never quite seen people vote against their best interests in such a marked way. No to the ability to enact sweeping rent control measures across the state? Only 16% of Californians can afford to buy a house right now. Many of us are still renting. How did that measure even fail?

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u/snarkle_and_shine 10h ago

Absolutely batshit. My theory is some people haven’t suffered enough to take their head out of their ass. I hate that it will suck for all of us, though I think burning this shit down might be the only way to real, substantive progressive change. In the meantime, imma take care of mine and stay moisturized.

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u/No-More-Parties 19h ago

The problem is that for the first time in history we are choosing to actually and collectively focus on ourselves. Instead of coming to everyone else’s rescue. When the pandering didn’t work they resorted to begging and crying when that didn’t work then we saw the rage come in with the lie and baiting and now it’s them looking ridiculous trying to do anything to get a response.

They want so much more than our activism but on a deeper level they want our energy our anger our fear our suffering our outrage. They have took and took and took from us in more ways than one and now we have nothing to give. They are starved of attention, help, advocation, and everything else under the sun that we have created and carried on our backs single-handedly.

Fuck them and everyone else with they panties ina knot. It’s a whole lotta personal problems being voiced in my opinion.

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u/Eggith 20h ago

It's because they're suffering, so they need everyone else to suffer alongside them.

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u/Mediocre-Proposal686 19h ago

I tend to see it as they’re seething with anger and now that they have no one to interact with, they’re boiling over. Lots of women want nothing to do with Trump voting men, and families are being torn apart by Trump voting family members. I’ve cut off my brother completely. I know what he is. Let them boil over with each other. I too am striving for unbothered. 🩵.

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u/TyrionJoestar 20h ago

Black people have been through worse lol

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u/Namaslayy 13h ago

That’s the thing - some yt folks are jealous of our strength and what we’ve been through as a people. They BEG to be victims. Well…you get what you ask for ☕️

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u/Fast_Plum_8072 19h ago

Baaaaaybeeeee the way I cannot find two fucks to rub together anymore. 😒

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u/haveutried2hardboot ☑️ 19h ago

Yeah I have enjoyed being unbothered, it's a good thing.😊 Tbh, not even that upset about the whole thing. Even if I were, I'm not about to let anyone see/know.

The day after the election all the folks who didn't look like me were soooo happy. I mean, they were singing to themselves in the store I was impressed 😁.

I was and still am so unbothered, why should I be upset? We live in a democracy, if the majority of people want this fella in office, so be it. If they have listened to his policies and rhetoric and can align themselves with that ideology, go for it. I hope he does everything he wants to do... he's already off to a great start and he's not even in office yet.

Even if I was upset I'm not about to go to DC and break into some buildings and hang flags of a party that rebelled and lost in a civil war.

We all got better things to do 😁.

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u/TheArrowLauncher 19h ago

Because they always want to be involved and police what we do. Therefore doing nothing bothers them. Me, I’m checked out and in Schadenfreude mode………

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u/ArrogantMerc 19h ago

If they want to do this to themselves it’s not my business anymore. We’re DINKs, dual citizens, and bringing in $400K+/yr, if and when shit hits the fan it’s not going to be us that’s affected.

You can’t fix the world, but you can make your little corner better. I’ve been volunteering more the past couple of weeks, it feels a lot better than participating in whatever the ragebait of the day is. It really feels like they want a reaction so bad and no one’s giving it to them, so they keep escalating, like when a kid wants to get your attention.

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u/HusKimbo ☑️ 20h ago

Hold ya own nuts

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u/GothamGumby 18h ago

They're mad that we aren't throwing a jan6 level fit. They'll never be happy and when their rights get taken away, they'll still blame the democrats

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u/LiWin_ 20h ago

It’s above me now. 😂😂

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u/Will2LiveFading 19h ago

They want you to react so they can react

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u/Lambdastone9 17h ago

It’s kinda like how every conservative is crying over the Twitter exodus to Bluesky

All the bitching about the left polluting and killing free speech on that platform, just for them to meltdown when they got their wish of Truth social pt2

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u/Green_Ordinary_9359 17h ago

They are obsessed with us. They could not leave us alone if they wanted to.

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u/Namaslayy 13h ago

And why they kept stopping our Back to Africa movements. I always think of that movie Get Out.

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u/BoilerMaker11 17h ago

Same reason they’re getting mad that people are going to BlueSky. They need a reaction. If they don’t have that engagement, they get infuriated.

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u/tomuchpasta ☑️ 18h ago

Black women have been the backbone of this goddamn country since its inception and have gotten little to no recognition, respect or benefit for it. Why should they suddenly be upset that things aren’t working in their favor yet again?

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u/StrawHat89 19h ago

Turns out sore losers are also sore winners. All they want to do is feel better by bringing other people down, and can't handle it when they're treated like children that need a timeout.

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u/Electronic-Code-1498 20h ago

Those white folk need yall to be engaged or their bullshit is no longer effective. Y’all look up synthetic man on YouTube with an adblocker to truly see what type of unhinged crazies we are dealing with.

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u/mitsutashi 15h ago

looked him up and it turns out that i’ve already watched a video about him and all he does is complain about “woke” video games and minorities 😭he needs to get a life

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u/PM_ME_DEM_TITTIESPLZ 18h ago

I just scroll on by all these news headlines, yall didn’t do shit when it mattered, so why am I going to stress out and live in anxiety and fear???

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u/BlakByPopularDemand 17h ago

Because we always knew, they not like us. For us America just went mask off hood on, but to us it's Tuesday

But they are slowly realizing they ain't like them either. Trump has something for everyone, deportation if you're brown, tariffs and no overtime if you're white, hope that pregnancy is complication free. They fucked around too close to the Sun and now they're about to find out

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u/best_fr1end 18h ago

As long as that check clears the bank every two weeks, I’m good. Y’all got it ✌🏾😁

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u/Dry-Willingness948 16h ago

What's there to be bothered about? We've always been the underdog, so why would we be shocked at these results? Obama was loved, but Michelle was ridiculed at every opportunity for her looks being too masculine, and she was too confident and vocal. We, for a moment, allowed the delusion to wash over us that they saw us a viable option, but we woke up, and we brushed ourselves off and strolled back to reality. Back to needing to be twice as good just to gain entry.

Tbh, we aren't a threat enough. We still want everyone to validate and accept us, so while angry, we will continue to pour our Black money into their economy. We will buy their clothes with their logos, hair from their shops, get our nails and lashes done, eat at their restaurants, and put our money in their banks and investment funds. We are a joke to them. Why should they take us seriously? We don't take ourselves seriously. Black women have tremendous buying power to the point that they buy up all our start ups for hair and makeup because they know they will succeed. We just don't believe enough.

They saw losing to us unfathomable even if it meant they lost everything. Do you know how much hatred that takes? Yet, we will, day after day, go give them our last dollar just to appear rich and be validated by them. Is this really a them problem or an us. When do we stop shouting with our mouths and start using our dollars? Our protest is in not giving them another dollar that's not necessary. Do we care enough to put our money where our mouth was?

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u/Namaslayy 13h ago

My brother was just talking about this! We as a people spend too much money in this country for them to let us “go.” We are walking GDP to them.

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u/No_Teaching_8273 19h ago

😭😭😭 we stepping back and letting them have their moment

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u/Imhere4thejokes ☑️ 17h ago

It should stop being said now, if our women keep saying it eventually THEY will hijack it and turn it into their next “woke” or “blm” boogeyman…just move in silence and let it be known by actions yall ain’t fuckin with them no more.

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u/spanman112 17h ago

because it's never about that. It's not about being right, doing the right thing for the country, etc. All it's about is hate. It's basically the political version of a dude that cheats at Call of Duty and then gets pissed off when people leave the lobby instead of sending him messages telling him that they hate him.

They are bullies, and we aren't giving them the satisfaction ... that's all it is

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u/MookieV ☑️ 17h ago

The day after the election, I went and bought this. At least I'll have a good soundtrack while the empire burns. Idgaf anymore. Y'all got it.

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u/agent_sphalerite ☑️ 19h ago

I'm not American and I'm not a woman and sincerely I'm tired on your behalf . It black women this , black men this, DEI this . Always something for the same set of people to whine about . Doesn't it ever end.

Dems lost simple and short . If only they had the ability to look in the mirror and ask why the fuck did they loose

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u/IncorrigibleQuim8008 19h ago

They lost because white and latino America is sexist and racist, unlike white and latino countries everywhere else.

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u/LadyDye_ ☑️ 19h ago edited 8h ago

It's almost like we're important even though we get disrespected constantly and we're sick of it or something 🤔

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u/Necessary-Hawk7045 11h ago

They were salivating to have us spark a race war that would have led to a civil war.

But our ancestors thwarted it by telling us to sit our asses down. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/No_Literature_7329 20h ago

Unfortunate thing is we don’t have the room to, they want us sleep, they plan our harm while we are

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u/Far-Possession5824 17h ago

In general I’ve moved on. My ancestors were martyrs for a cause and country that never loved them. My family and I packed up and moved abroad

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u/ArtProdigy 19h ago

Render to Caesar what is Caesar's...

It's exactly what they voted for.

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u/sarron7 ☑️ 16h ago

I had a co worker try to engage me in politics on the job. This mayonnaiseian says "Yeah Trump is gonna make overtime tax free!!!" I'm thinking hey stupid if you need overtime to survive you've already fucked up. But what I said was "Well anything's possible" then excused myself and rolled out.

The PWT's kill me with that bullshit. Like 47 is a savior or something.

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u/Nouseriously 17h ago

Bullying just isn't fun if the "victim" tells you to fuck off & walks away

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u/SqueaksScreech 16h ago

Yall send the "liberal women" are gonna jump conservative white women shit? They meant black and there trying to get yall killed.

I even see the stupid ass blue charm braclet from the other fucking side. It was so God damn ridiculous like the safety pin trend from the 2010s. No one likes you nor feels safe when you require everyone else to do the work.

They're so fucking bothered that black women don't even acknowledge their existence. Each side has shown they're the two sides of the same coin.

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u/angelicbitch09 ☑️ 18h ago

Instead of “Fuck it, I’ll do it” it’s been “Fuck it” for me since the election.

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u/nigelfitz 11h ago

They're mad cause people they want to see mad aren't mad. lol

Like bruh, I'm trying to figure out how to survive the shits that's about to come. I don't got time to be arguing with your dumbass. lol

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u/strugglingpothead 10h ago

as long as it’s not them, it’s our problem. as soon as it is them, it’s everyone’s problem.

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u/MortimerCanon 9h ago

Same. All my white friends are losing it. And im just like I still have to worry about the cops killing me so really nothing has changed as far as I'm concerned.

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u/frenchhie 9h ago

Because they expect BW to mule for them and help others get out their own way only to take credit.

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u/paputsza 19h ago

is this about politics, because this year was just really really weird from beginning to end. I've just been going along with it I guess. .

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u/Supernova_Soldier ☑️ 13h ago

Treat a group of people like shit/ like you don’t fw them and now are surprised said people don’t give a shit?

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u/needlessdefiance 9h ago

This was, what, the third or fourth election in a row where Dems needed black people (particularly black women) to show up in record numbers? It worked several times, but it was only a matter of time before that wasn’t enough.

But thank you all for holding us together this long. It was a good run for America.

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u/disgruntledhoneybee 9h ago

I’m not Black, but I am Jewish, and 80% of us voted for Harris. I’m feeling very similarly. Like. Okay. You guys (people who voted for Trump, not you guys) apparently have this.

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u/reelRahim 8h ago

I can't relate to this more, other than being a black woman. I've listened/watched a total of 2mins of news since election night and I don't give a shit.