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This MAGA Fan Is Begging For Advice After Being Cut Off By Their Friends Due To Their Trump Vote, And People Are Not Exactly Sympathetic

Since 2016, Donald Trump and the MAGA movement have driven a wedge between many people. personal relationships.

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That appears to be the case for MAGA voters who feel “lost and confused” after being disconnected from friends of over 20 years because of their support for Trump.

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In a now-viral post, this MAGA voter asks for advice from other Trump voters who’ve lost friends because of politics. Here it is mail:

Facebook post by an anonymous participant expressing feelings of loss and confusion

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“I’m not someone who lives and breathes political debates…”

Text describing losing long-time friends for voting for Trump, discussing reasons, and describing lack of political involvement

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“I kept trying to say: ‘Can’t we just respect each other’s differences…who cares who we vote for?’ But it didn’t help…”

Summary of the debate about respecting differing views that led to the loss of two close friends who blocked the author on social media

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“Am I unrealistic, or do I lack empathy?”

Summary of the text: The author questions whether different political views make them unrealistic, lacking in empathy, or incapable of living together respectfully

“I’m really sad and confused right now…”

The post is as follows: "I'm really sad and confused right now. Any advice would mean a lot." Like, comment and share icons follow

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In the thousands of comments, people are not very sympathetic…

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“Votes affect the real world, so when you vote against other people’s interests, yeah, they’re going to get angry and want nothing to do with you,” one person said. in question.

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“It was true that twenty years ago you could vote for a Republican candidate while your best friend voted Democrat, and it wouldn’t have been a big deal. That’s not the world we live in anymore,” another person said. in question.

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“Tolerance is not a right, it’s a social contract. It says, ‘Don’t be an asshole to me, and I won’t be an asshole to you.’ But they want to be an asshole to people without consequences, and that invalidates the social contract. So there’s no need for anyone to tolerate fascist, nazi-type nonsense,” he said. in question.

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“I had to cut it off after 2016 due to a close friend’s constant need to inject her newfound MAGA politics into everything,” another person said. It was shared.

“You’d be talking about some random topic and the next word would be ‘probably fucking liberals’ or ‘sounds like something a Democrat would say’ or some bullshit. It sure was nice to be around before 2016. We rode bikes almost every weekend, riding 20-plus miles. It was never political. When 2016 hit, everything got political. Suddenly this nice guy started saying bad things about immigrants. He couldn’t let it go. He was alone… So a I lost my friend, the funny guy I used to hang out with, go to bars with, go to Mexico with turned out to be not funny anymore.

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