Why Do Republicans Feel They're Entitled to Non-Consensual Friendship?

Thanks for your support!Hello Friends,Well, here we are in month 6 of this dystopian nightmare of cruelty and incompetence. One of the things I loved about Biden was that you didn't have to think about him literally every single day of your life. You could just sit around and eat eggs because they were so cheap and plentiful.Today the only thing we have to eat is cold dirt and remorse, and we're running out of dirt.Everything Republicans do is designed to make you feel like garbage. Then they point at you and laugh. Then they kick you when you're down. Then they steal some children and send them to a prison camp in a nation nobody has ever even heard of.Then, like the zombie-flavored cherry on top, they become all aggrieved if you even think to complain about it. They get up in your face and scream, “We can disagree and still be friends.”Here's the part I don't get, why are they so interested in being friends with us?What is the definition of friendship in the psychotic book of Republican words?There's a few things we can deduce about their definition. A friend, to a Republican, is not somebody you support. It's not somebody you help. It's not somebody you even apparently care about.At some point, we have to take a step back and recognize what we're dealing with here. Republicans are so corrupted that they are known for kicking their own children to the curb on the basis of their sexual orientation.How does that work? “Get out of my house. We can disagree and still be friends!”“But mom, dad, I'm only fourteen!”“Enough of that, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps!”Why do they even invoke the concept of friendship at all? Why do they want to force us to be friends with them? Why is our society so tolerant of this concept of non-consensual friendship?Perhaps that's the worst part of all this. The people who claim to be in the center will sit there and lecture those on the left for not being “tolerant” enough.“So much for the tolerant left,” they say.Meanwhile, the guys on the right are abducting the members of our family, firing us from our jobs, destroying our children's education, robbing everybody of healthcare, stealing our retirement, and committing who knows how many more crimes we don't even know about yet?We have to be friends with them too?If you mention feelings to a conservative they scream that you're a snowflake. You're not even allowed to feel bad when they destroy our whole society. We're just supposed to be happy about it and have life go on like it did before.Except, we can't travel the same road together because they took the road away and they took away the vehicle we were in and they took away our right to free speech.What is the end game here? We're all supposed to sit happily beside our oppressors and captors and nod and laugh and smile and tell them how grateful we are for all the things they've taken from us?“Thank you for liberating us of the burden of free will. It's so much better to sit here in the factory and screw on bottle tops all day.”“You must be my friend!”Why are Republicans so desperate to have friends? Are some of them waking up to the fact that everything they represent causes harm to the rest of humanity? Are they feeling alone and miserable and isolated?Here's an idea... TRY BEING COMPASSIONATE!I mean, if you buy a dog and you feed it and pet it and walk it, the dog will love you.You can't starve the dog, kick the dog, scream at the dog, and then be mad when the dog runs away.“Hey dog, I realize you don't agree with my philosophy on pet ownership, but can't we disagree and still be friends?”No! You can't! That's not how the universe works. There are things called CONSEQUENCES in life. There's a thing called ACCOUNTABILITY!If you act like an a*****e and behave like an a*****e and talk like an a*****e, you can't stomp around demanding that people shouldn't treat you like an a*****e.I realize that conservatives don't identify as a******s, but they can't even be bothered to used preferred pronouns when it comes to anyone else. Why must we be held to a standard conservatives refuse to even recognize when it comes to themselves?Seriously, the entitlement of conservatives is absolutely mind-boggling. They think they can do whatever they want. They repeatedly vote against the interests of everyone in their life including themselves. Then, they want us all to forget about it as if they bear no responsibility for their actions.“But, I still want you as a friend.”“Sorry, I can no longer be your friend because I'm dead. Your cruelty killed me. Bye!”“That's so rude of you!”As for me, here's what I believe.I believe I don't have to be friends with anyone who supports actions that harm my family. I don't care how long I've known this person. I don't care if they're family.You hurt my family, and you're gone. I don't have an obligation to be friends with evil people.Wouldn't it be nice to live in a society where everyone understood that?You all make this newsletter happen! Thanks for your sponsorship! 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