I posted the following on Facebook this morning, and Facebook immediately removed the posting:

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Prior to the election I bet many readers saw America as a shining city on a hill, as Ronald Reagan so eloquently put it a few years ago. Now we know that’s not the case. We are just as susceptible to being seduced by a corrupt, power-hungry, narcissistic, wannabe dictator as any other Third World country.

Again, congratulations to Trump for exposing the cold, hard truth about who we are."

#Thanksgiving #family #Trump #fascism #cruelty
/11

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"There is no American Exceptionalism; we are not immune from evil, anti-democratic authoritarian leaders with fascist tendencies.

So let’s stop pretending we’re something we’re not."

We're a nation where law blatantly does not apply to well-heeled straight white men in the way it applies to everyone else. And the rest of us had better not forget this, or we'll be taught a rude lesson in who has power and who does not.

#Thanksgiving #family #Trump #fascism #cruelty
/12

[anathem@toot.kif.rocks]

@wdlindsy As a german who listened to his grandmother, who lived to see this a 100 years ago:

Yes.

[drwho@hackers.town]

@wdlindsy We tried. Repeatedly. Nobody listened.

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@wdlindsy we are exceptional in our reactionism, imperialism, and racism that we export all around the globe.

We served as the global right-wing hegemon, and one of the foremost terrorizers of the developing world.

[brucetheknife@newsie.social]

@wdlindsy thanks for your message. I removed Facebook from my life two months ago after 10 years.

[toxtethogrady@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy It makes sense when you think that @zuck broke bread with Trump yesterday.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@wdlindsy horrible, this is a society that's like a powder keg next to open fire

[invinciblesugar@baraag.net]

@wdlindsy The important thing is enjoying our turkey and being thankful for our family.

[tofugolem@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
American exceptionalism was always bullshit. Transparent bullshit.

[lichtenbergian@mastodon.sdf.org]

@wdlindsy I posted it, and it was IMMEDIATE! You will note that none of their "reasons" apply to the post in the least.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Many Americans are making it clear that they’re cutting ties with family and friends who voted for President-elect Donald Trump—and don’t count them in for this year’s holiday gatherings either. In the days following Nov. 5, videos on social media, especially TikTok, started flooding in, showing people either devastated, angry, or defiantly speaking out about feeling betrayed by family and friends."

~ M. Stephens

#Thanksgiving #family #Trump #fascism #cruelty
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No thanks: Many Americans bail on holidays with MAGA relatives

Many Americans are making it clear that they’re cutting ties with family and friends who voted for President-elect Donald Trump—and don’t count them in for this year’s holiday gatherings either. In the days following Nov. 5, videos on social media,...

Daily Kos (www.dailykos.com)

[lyndamerry484@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

Loud echo's of the UK and the Brexit voters and Remain voters, still not talking and it is so sad.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Lichtenbergian Thank you for sharing. Same here: it was yanked immediately, and I got that same message, which is such lying and trolling on the part of FB. Their bottom line is clearly that we're all supposed to pretend and make nice because Trump voters get their feelings hurt. Which tells you who has the upper hand in their organization and thinking. I'd leave Facebook in a heartbeat if I didn't use it to keep up with a wide circle of family and friends, and to host a family history group.

[marcas@mastodon.ie]

@wdlindsy https://youtu.be/gqH_0LPVoho?si=fWa5UyYNA89lfaEb

[nazani@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Medicare, social security, & the ACA are at risk. They voted for death for millions.
Also, love that Jesse Watters' mom disinvited him.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Nazani Yes — and love that Watters' mom disinvited him, too.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@marcas Thank you. I'll watch with interest.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lyndamerry484 Yes, I think often of those parallels. I read something yesterday about the still unacknowledged damage the self-inflicted wound of Brexit is doing to the UK economy.

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy @Nazani Having a surname that ends in s we us the s's ending