Today especially has been pretty brutal. I see my dad for the first time in months and he dominates the conversation about his vitriolic hatred of Trump and anyone who supports him, calling them idiots. My girlfriend is sweet and nice but even knowing how I lean she can't help but say that she wants to go rip up Trump signs in front of people's houses and kill "transphobes". I've tried to curate my Twitter to be exclusively about my favorite game and content creators, but even after muting about two dozen political words and phrases it's just a bloody shouting match. It feels like the only time I'm not walking in a minefield is when I'm talking to a subsection of a group of friends who just like playing games. I went to cognitive behavioral therapy a few weeks ago, and it was really helpful, but even the positive thinking strategies that were effective just a few days ago aren't helping anymore. I don't feel suicidal, but I don't feel like living anymore. The two options of where I can live in the near future is chock full of people who have an open disdain/hatred for my thinking. Am I such a wretched human being for thinking that Trump's policies would be more economically sound and fair than Biden's? I apologize if this isn't the place to rant like this but how do I get past something like this?
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Relative just wonder how could a black woman support Trump after the debates "as they are lynching you people in the USA".
The mainstream media misrepresentation of reality really gives naïve people the impression the cops just murders people based on race. And that "white supremacists" are at every corner, and Antifa dinndu nothing.
Low-information people bought the lie that Kyle Rittenhouse, the heroic teen who shot White violent criminals in self-defense after getting chased and trying to retreat... is a "white supremacist who went out to hunt down Black people".
Try to explain how the MSM misrepresents everything to paint a false narrative and they shut down because they assume you are a "conspiracy theorist" at best, a "nazi" at worst.
Sometimes you can reason with them if you strictly correct the misinformation for one case and don't mention how the media always lies like that, but they still believe all the other lies and will believe the next. And also revert back to believing the specific false narrative you debunked after hearing it again 2 or 3 times on the news.