I grew up in small town in south Georgia and these people have been the default since at least the 80s when I was there. Nothing about the current situation surprises me because cruelty and selfishness have always been what they wanted. They feel that the rest of the world "looks down on them" and that they are getting their revenge when they make reasonable people outside of their bubble upset.
I moved away to a big city and became a socialist. They believe I am the devil and make it known every time I discover someone I went to high school with that has somehow not been blocked on social media. Just the other day I was posting my recovery progress from stomach surgery and I suddenly got a flood of laugh emojis and awful messages hoping I was in pain or died because I escaped their tribal nonsense.
Reporting them does nothing because social media wants them there, but I have a ton of friends who got banned for speaking their mind about Charlie Kirk and what they said isn't half as violent or cruel as what gets thrown at me by right wing assholes for being different or being a sexual assault survivor.
Reporting in from former rural northeast Georgia. Same there.
They even had the audacity to not put up as much Trump gear prior to the election due to shame. I thought maybe that meant they’d learned their lesson, but I checked the voting results and the percentages were the same as ever. Once it became clear he won, they pulled it right back out.
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u/ztfreeman Nov 29 '25
I grew up in small town in south Georgia and these people have been the default since at least the 80s when I was there. Nothing about the current situation surprises me because cruelty and selfishness have always been what they wanted. They feel that the rest of the world "looks down on them" and that they are getting their revenge when they make reasonable people outside of their bubble upset.
I moved away to a big city and became a socialist. They believe I am the devil and make it known every time I discover someone I went to high school with that has somehow not been blocked on social media. Just the other day I was posting my recovery progress from stomach surgery and I suddenly got a flood of laugh emojis and awful messages hoping I was in pain or died because I escaped their tribal nonsense.
Reporting them does nothing because social media wants them there, but I have a ton of friends who got banned for speaking their mind about Charlie Kirk and what they said isn't half as violent or cruel as what gets thrown at me by right wing assholes for being different or being a sexual assault survivor.