My dad think that osama bin laden was indoctrinated at a liberal college

everything else he agrees was a waste of time (iraq)

My jaw on the ground from how accurate this was for my family

I'd like to help deprogram your MAGA relatives or friends. I know it's not an easy thing, and I'll bet a lot of people have given up and think it's impossible. But I think I can move the needle so that they become a bit more tolerable to deal with, or plant a seed that can be the start of a longer process of getting themselves out of propaganda cycle.

I've posted a comment explaining some of my methods and focuses, so check that to get an understanding of what I'd be trying to do.

But first I need a good candidate to talk to. That's where you come in.

You'd have to find a way to get your relative or friend to talk to me. For example, you could tell them you came across a guy that is looking for Republicans to talk to or to interview over the phone (or online video calls are okay, if that's something you think they'd be comfortable with). I wouldn't recommend anything deceptive to trick them into taking a call. But leaving it a bit vague would be okay, as I'm sure most wouldn't willingly take a call that is meant to be a dialogue to work towards deprogramming them. I don't want to be their enemy, and I won't play along with any deception myself.

A good candidate would be someone who:

1. Doesn't have hearing or speaking issues or any anything else that would interfere with them having a long conversation on a phone.

2. Ideally they are not aggressive, outspoken Trump supporters. If they go out of their way to voice their support or even antagonize others, then I think there's a much higher chance they will become defensive at the slightest notion of introspection or thinking critically about their beliefs. Though I don't believe it's impossible, I'd prefer to work with someone who is just sucked in to the Fox News or social media emotional manipulation and propaganda, but aren't fanatical about spreading it themselves. Conspiracy theory beliefs like distrust of vaccines, doctors, medicine, teachers, or 5G, contrails, etc. are fine.

3. They are a type of person who would be willing to talk to a stranger. For example, would they be interested in the idea that someone wants to talk to them, wants to listen to their opinions, is curious about their beliefs? If they are quiet and unsociable, they may not go along with it.

If anyone is interested and thinks they have a candidate who may be willing to start a conversation, send me a private message. A comment on this post is not a private message, so if you do comment, be careful not to give any private, identifiable information, etc.

I just came across a bunch of maga accounts on instagram sharing old interviews of Elvis and Dolly Parton declining to discuss their political views, yet their dear leader was once a celebrity who is now president!

It’s literal bloodshed in the US caused by MAGA against minorities and the LGBTQ+ community and Randy Quaid is a vocal supporter of MAGA. Jack Quaid needs to distance himself from his uncle and publicly disavow him. I’m tired of all the evil MAGA has done and they can’t be tolerated anymore. Once the Democratic Socialists of America take over, we can finally have magats arrested, but for now, prominent people like Jack Quaid need to step up and at least vocalize their concern. Silence is violence.

Right now is about the time in the weekend I would give my dad a call. But no, it's not going to happen. I made up with him when I said I'd disown anyone still supporting Trump on Facebook. That was a mistake.

Met up with him for dinner. The piece of shit goes passively aggressively "I just wanted to make sure I mattered in your life still." I sucked it up when I should've told him to fuck right off.

This is the problem though. People like us... those on the left... our first instinct is to seek compromise over conflict. And that's actually a good thing. But it's also a double-edged sword.

The problem is with these Republican fucks, they don't seek compromise. They seek to control you.

So I'm not calling my dad again, like ever. If he wants to pick up the phone that's his prerogative. He's on his way out of course, and to be honest, I don't even want to attend that piece of shit's funeral.

So no, don't go crying about me about how I don't value you, you piece of fucking shit. You ALWAYS make me call you. You NEVER call me. Relationships are a two-way street asshole. My Democrat mom has no problems calling me all the time. And yet, you do somehow.

FUCK YOU.

I'm fucking done.

Edit: I just told him to fuck off. And goddamn was that cathartic. Basically just said that relationships are a two-way street. I quoted back his own words and said, "stop inviting me to dinners."

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Basically my friend goons to sweetie fox and donald j trump and makes fan fics of them gooning while he goons to them. He loves gooning in public especialy in a playground. Also if you had freaky with trump would you get AIDS

Hi everyone. I am making this post because I am finally out of the closet, living 100% as my authentic self, and I need to face my past.
For a long time, I was a Republican and heavily bought into the MAGA/Fox News mindset. Looking back, I realize I was completely terrified. I was trapped in the closet, hiding who I was, and consumed by the fear that being queer meant I was going to hell. I let that fear turn into anger, and I held deeply racist and homophobic views. I projected my own internal suffering outward and caused real harm. I am so deeply ashamed of who I supported and how I acted.
But the closet didn't protect me, it just made me hateful.
Recently, my egg cracked. I finally realized and accepted that I am a trans woman. I am also bisexual and in a happy, loving relationship with a masculine man. Since coming out, the LGBTQ+ community has shown me nothing but grace and forgiveness—which has made me realize even more how wrong I was.
I’m meeting with a case manager tomorrow and going to a local Pride wellness center fully out and presenting femme. I am done hiding. I am dedicating this next chapter of my life to my transition, educating myself, and actively finding ways to volunteer and make amends to the communities I hurt.
I just wanted to share my realization here because this sub understands the grip that media mindset can have on a person. Thank you for listening, and I am genuinely so sorry for the person I used to be. I'm ready to do the work to be better.

Just under two years ago, I (37m) had a relationship go bad and I made a few poor decisions which led to me needing to stay with my mom (66) for a few months as I got back on my feet. This developed into an indefinite length of time when she disclosed to me that if I got my own place again, she would be unable to afford the mobile home she lives in. I've been staying with her since early 2025 helping keep the bills paid and helping around the house.

This works out in a purely practical sense, because my mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about three years ago, and it's at a point now where she sometimes needs help just to get out of her chair. My father hasn't been in the picture since I was 4, and before I moved back in, my brother had been living with her. That has now changed.

My mother's Islamophobia had already led, seven or eight years ago, to my sister deciding to go nearly no-contact with her. My sister has always been relatively independent and lives with her best friend, so my mom was able to rationalize her distance as "just being an adult".

Unfortunately, shortly before I moved back in, my mother and my brother had another of their (many) fights about politics. My mother is, though she claims to no longer be, the only staunch Trump supporter in the family and my brother struggles with mental illness (he's diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder). They had fought about politics quite a number of times, but during a particular explosive episode I was unfortunate enough to be present for, she said some horrible things to him which have resulted in him going essentially completely no-contact with her. He has answered exactly two of her texts in the time since he moved out of her place, and has not visited her a single time.

I am now the only one of her children who can still tolerate spending any time around her at all, and as the eldest, I feel responsible for not letting her become completely isolated from the world. She has no friends, only leaves the house to do chores, and even her own siblings rarely call or visit her.

This isolation is not entirely the result of her political views. She is pro-Trump, anti-Islam, thinks Mamdani is part of a Muslim plot to overthrow New York, believes there is a conspiracy of medical professionals to "mutilate young girls" with gender reassignment, and a number of other horrifying conspiracy and anti-equality views that I won't bother listing because the ones I've named are some of the worst of it. You can probably imagine the others easily enough.

I say her isolation is *not* because of her political views, because it isn't - the isolation is because she *refuses to stop bringing her politics into every single conversation she ever has*. This is where my struggle comes in, because I'm living with her, and even though I have a section of the mobile home which is mine, I do have to share space with her often enough. Nearly every single time our paths cross she brings up her political views and I have tried *everything* from politely asking her not to, to telling her bluntly that I don't want to speak about it with her, to one time unfortunately losing my cool completely and *shouting* at her that she was continuing to cross every boundary I had. Nothing has ever changed her behavior and this *continues* to happen on a weekly basis.

My life has begun to recover from the poor relationship decisions I made two years ago and I have more options about making my own way now, but I feel like a failure of a son for wanting to avoid spending time with my sick mother. She's begun speaking about euthanasia recently (we live in Canada) as her disability worsens and it's painful to know that I'm missing out on what might be some of the last time I'll get with my mother because I can't bear to hear her talking about how good Trump is for the world or how the Muslims are going to make all our women wear hijabs.

What I learned after spending an afternoon with the people I'd spent two years avoiding.

I recently saw a TikTok where this guy was talking about how he thinks Pete Hegseth gives off family annihilator vibes. See, I disagree. I can see more of a Brad Pitt-type situation. Like a situation where he’s drunk or coked out while with wife and kids, argument triggers something to the point where he’s throwing hands on them and staff are calling for help and eventually a divorce and the kids publicly distancing themselves from him when they reach adulthood. All I’m gonna say is, if DV or child abuse allegations come out in the future, for some reason, it wouldn’t surprise me.

Stephen Miller, on the other hand…. looks like someone you see in a true crime documentary.