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How are you dealing with people who voted for Trump?

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breakfuss

breakfuss

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I'm sorry to add to the deluge of existing Trump threads but as I prepare to go into work today I'm wondering how to deal with co-workers who openly supported Trump. People whom I otherwise always get along well with. Not so much while we're "working" - I know to keep it professional - but during those inevitable instances when I'm asked to accompany them to lunch or casual small talk kicks up during downtime. It's like the more I consider what's happened here the less I want to have anything to do with someone who could endorse such a vile piece of shit. I'm trying not to block people on FB etc. I don't want to be petty but, really, "how could you?". Its all that keeps running through my mind right now. By extension they must feel the same way as he does. I honestly don't even want to go in. But I have to work with these people.
 
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The Lamp

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The less people I know that voted for trump the better. I won't engage political discussions with anyone other than my closest friends for now.

Wake me up in 2020.
 
diablos991

diablos991

Can’t stump the diablos
By realizing half of the country did too and people have different priorities and opinions.
 
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Foffy

Banned
Juggling between empathy and contempt.

I feel ready to bury my mother in guilt by having her realize she will get her goal of Obamacare being gutted, at the loss of Medicaid for me and my brother. Worse still, assuming we go back to a cartel system, doesn't that bring back pre-existing conditions? Which...well, my brother would technically have now.

I get people are frustrated, but those for Trump, literally, elected the worst people in the country to help you out.
 
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Nephtis

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I've no problem with dealing with people who voted for Trump.

The ball is on their court now. They claim he will be the end all be all and make the USA prosper. I'll just sit back and watch it all unfold.
 
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Mammoth Jones

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Indifferent. Not shocked. I knew alot of White people mad as shit and want change. I never expected most to care about minority concerns.
 
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DeadPhoenix

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My dad just heard the news and said 'oh yay' out something. Some cursing followed, which I normally try to avoid doing in front of my parents, but I could not stop myself. This does not bode well for whenever I get back to work.
 
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FF Seraphim

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By actually talking to them and asking them the reasons why they voted the way they did. This happened because we shot down discussion and vilified people, so everyone who supported Trump just shut themselves up and we didn't even know it.
 
Sinfamy

Sinfamy

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All that I know who did so are deep Christians that would vote for anyone with an (R) next to their name.
I give them a shallow pass, I still disagree with their conclusions.
 
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DICKS AHOY

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by calling them idiots and demonising them because even if applicable directly insulting them worked really well before the election in causing angry-but-convincable moderates to change their minds
 
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Heavy_D206

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The people have spoken and Trump came out the victor, so I just have to sit back and roll with it.

I'm not gonna waste energy being upset over it.
 
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Binabik15

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Just got told by a fellow student that he is happy, because "he's not Hillary". Germany, med school. I politely shrugged it off and stopped talking, burrying myself in my phone. Argh.
 
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Foffy

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Barzul said:
I live in Arkansas. I already deal with them. Nothing changes except they got "their" country back.
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Ask them in four years how it feels that "their" jobs have been given to machines.

They can't blame Mexicans and the Chinese anymore, then!
 
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Merc_

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Nephtis said:
I've no problem with dealing with people who voted for Trump.

The ball is on their court now. They claim he will be the end all be all and make the USA prosper. I'll just sit back and watch it all unfold.
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Yep, this is where I'm at too. Lets see how long they continue to uphold Trump as a great leader.
 
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King of Cups

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First post in off-topic. Wish it were under better terms. Anyway...

I plan to greet them with respect, as I always have. Should they choose to engage in rhetorical tennis, I will politely express that time will tell the difference, as this is truly a time of uncertainty.

I do hope it works out, because goddamn if it doesn't...

There is no fallback after this. No one else to blame, and that is quietly refreshing.

EDIT: I may run for president next term...
 
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Exokell

Banned
My gf voted for Trump, and I still love her for whatever choice she has politically. I'm glad she exercised her right as an American citizen. Gonna marry this girl one day.
 
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Jetman

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Poorly. Pissed as fuck and calling them a bunch of damn idiots.
One of my best friends voted Trump, and spent an hour or more last night telling her how completely and utterly disappointed in her I was. Almost wanted to tell her to go fuck herself. Have no urge to talk to her at all. Anger and resentment for me towards anyone who voted for this guy has really set in on my end.
 
Monocle

Monocle

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I love my family too much to browbeat them for being uninformed.

I'll be short and noncommittal with Trump supporters at work. "I think he'll be bad for the country, but we'll see."
 
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mourad louali

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Remember that more than half of your country voted for Trump and they are not thinking about how to deal with you.

Go back to work like any other day. Life goes on.
 
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Pai Pai Master

Banned
I can't really face them right now. I don't feel welcome here at all, for the first time since 9/11. I feel very bad just for existing right now.
 
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MechaX

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They can have their opinions just fine, but I am not tolerating intolerance, so please just exit my life. I don't care about your defenses, just leave.
 
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Usobuko

Banned
Just like how they treat us probably.

Smile, be nice, but think of them as disgusting human beings in reality.
 
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Kai Dracon

Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Considering I'm one of the people a lot of Trump supporters wanted to take American back "from" and save it from the runaway "political correctness" giving people like me too much influence over God and Apple Pie...

... I don't think it's as simple as me shaking their hand and saying "Good job on your team win!" and being above "petty" politics.
 
breakfuss

breakfuss

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diablos991 said:
By realizing half of the country did too and people have different priorities and opinions.
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I mean, what can be more important than basic decency?

Dosia said:
This is why liberals get made fun of. Seriously get a grip.
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Get a grip? I mean the man may not genuinely be racist, I don't know. But his rhetoric has been damning. He said he'd build a wall to keep Mexicans out. I don't know, it's just all sinking in. How can anyone in good conscious support that? Irrespective of his policies. It's just nasty shit. I'd have to question anyone's judgement and whether it's worth my time being friends or even work acquaintances with them. But maybe I am overreacting, hence why I made the thread.
 
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borghe

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Trump won because of the condition of America. Period. People can cite racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc. and at the end of the day (myself often included) we brushed that off as ignorant redneck dinosaurs. Well.... whatever you want to call it, it's a much larger issue (fucking understatement of the decade) than most were willing to concede. Had Clinton won, yes it would have been more business as usual, and that part of America would have continued to be ignored, marginilaized, and made fun of. Obviously I disagree with them, BUT in hindsight I feel us democrats were as much a part of the national divide as they were/are. The difference being not only were we morally "superior", but we had the governmental momentum. Clearly false.

So how am I dealing with them? Trying to get them to understand that I have a brother who is alive because of Obamacare. That I have friends that are happily married because of the constitution ruling. That they have their concerns and I have my concerns, and 20 years down the line NO ONE wins if we don't consider both.

And honestly, that's not a conversation I would have had with them a month ago.
 
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Crayons

Banned
as a gay latino, anyone who voted Trump can't be friends with me! I don't care if I'm being petty at all, you betrayed me.

boy bye
 
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Shadybiz

Member
Luckily I'm in NJ, so it's mostly Clinton supporters here. We generally don't bring it up in the office. One coworker I know for a fact was on Trump's side...he's been quiet so far.

My only consolation about this is that I am certain that the next four years will show people what a massive mistake they just made.
 
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ngower

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I'm a gay man who is studying LGBT history at the graduate level in a red state. I'm genuinely concerned there.
 
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