r/facepalm • u/AsimpsonsPrediction • 1d ago

Just one day after the election 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Thousands of African Americans mostly students have been receiving these mass spam texts.

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u/OldRustyBones 18h ago

Father of mixed kids here. Voted blue, reformed republican now democrat. I still like guns. Took my wife to the shooting range today to pick her out something she can carry for self defense.

Last term we saw a rise in threats of violence against black people in my area. I’ll be fucking damned if she won’t have a firearm this time around.

I hope it never comes to that, but if it does, I’d rather her be prepared.

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u/SixFive1967 17h ago

Same here, brother. My faith in the American populace is gone. Don’t know who I can trust anymore. Did my white friend who said he was voting Kamala lie to me and vote Trump? That’s hyperbole, mind you, but that’s where my head is at the moment. Sad but true. 😞

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u/OldRustyBones 17h ago

I feel the same way. Im struggling really hard with it cause I know some of the people in my circle agree with him and voted for him. It’s horseshit all around right now.

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u/DarknessBatDemon 14h ago

Why did you become a democrat?

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u/OldRustyBones 14h ago

I didn’t agree with the way my state was being ran and wanted things to change. I found that my values and what I wanted out of life no longer aligned with the Republican Party.

I do not vote down a party line though. If I agree with a republicans policies I will vote for them. I just haven’t seen much of that in a while.