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Today I did it. I tried one last time to get through to him. He's a Jew. I showed him a verse from the bible (Leviticus 19:33) that says to relate to a foreigner like one of your own, as we were foreigners in egypt. He doesn't care, tried to make up semantics about why It doesn't mean that.

I showed him pictures of the Everglades Concentration Camp and how they're selling merchandise, and how this is what the Nazis started with. He called me a hysterical lefty and told me "you must be the most pleasant person in the room and know everything".

I blocked him after that. It crushes me to block one of the pillars of my life from my childhood, but I can't associate with a fucking hypocrite or a fucking nazi supporter. He's 60, when they cut medicare for him, I hope my sister is ready to go bankrupt paying for his medical care, because he voted for this, not me.

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[–] Ptsf@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What hurts most is watching them hurt themselves while pretending to come from the moral high ground. I'm not sure if it's a CIA pysop or what, but something just happens in someone's brain and it seems like they stop caring about reality as long as you give them somewhere to channel their hate. You did the right thing though. If we all stopped playing their bullshit game and refused to work with the people sabotaging the rest of us we'd have everything fixed in just a few years.

[–] Shayeta@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What we are seeing is no mass psyop, but fundamentals of human nature at work. Well exploited and wielded. Anyone and everyone subsceptible to it.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

The "anticommunist" movements of the 20s (and then again in the 50s) certainly did a number on any actual leftist movement that might've existed in the U.S.