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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMaybe my rightwing neighbor has been drugged and stuffed in a closet. No Facebook shit from him for
a long time. I've posted about the guy here a few times: he comes out like a ripstarter...."seeing" with his own eyes some video "proving" there was immense voter fraud in the last election and other insanities.
Last week he just sniped. He "doesn't believe a word out of his mouth" from Biden. Before that he described our Vice President's voice as "cackling." That might have been his last gibe about her because I don't think his wife would have stood for that any more.
I will still donate to his family's fund at the hospital in the name of his little baby girl who died there (too premature to sustain life). It is incredibly sad. But he must know that Biden suffered the loss of a little baby daughter, too. I truly thought that would have some remedial effect...
Such a lovely family. Their son takes our trash to the curb for pickup each week. His wife always says to us that they will help us any way they can, just ask.
I am thinking that he will soften his attitude about Biden. He still has deep wells of decency and maybe we can eventually reach down and pull him toward the light...
Claustrum
(4,845 posts)Afterall, facebook silenced Trump. Instead, he is using another crazy right wing social media. Facebook is hated by both sides.
It's hard to conclude that he is softening or seeing the light as he still repeatedly takes jabs at Biden and VP Harris.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)one of his friends came right out and said "Are you a Republican?" Another asked "Are you okay?" So he had friends that set him straight on a few occasions.
peacefreak2.0
(1,023 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)or perhaps he just approves of what Biden is doing to fight the pandemic. After all, the news is pretty good for Biden's handling of the virus.
Also the economy is improving. Every day there are comparisons being made between what Biden has done and what a miserable POS Trump was on everything.
Nictuku
(3,614 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Every time talk/posts turn political, drop Biden's latest act of decency and just let it sit there. Don't defend it. If he attacks it, repeat it, perhaps in simpler terms, once. Like the deaf girl and the Kennedy Center Honors.
If he drops his guard and says something like, well I guess Biden is more decent than tRump, then he'll qualify it with "sometimes". Just say "You can generally say the same about Ds and Rs." And let it sit there.
Good luck! I don't know. I don't know what would work. Just a goofy idea.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)is doing that we all want. Like what the BIL is expected to do in the local area or state and comment on one project and the good paying jobs that'll be created.
We have neighbors too. We can't change their minds. But we're trying a bit to get positive, easily checked information across. We have a big inland port coming to our county and with it jobs, jobs, jobs! Big money coming for roads and bridges, wonder if the state government allocate some to our neighborhood? Oh, broadband that'll put a permanent end to connectivity problems! Most of our conservative neighbors would at least like the option of solar; I have no idea if that's in the wind, so I asked some friends the other day if they'd heard anything.