The Week in Woke

This is real, of course:

FaceBook censored ads for the upcoming Dennis Quaid Reagan movie. As they claimed when they censored stories about Trump's assassination, they say censoring the Reagan biopic was a "mistake."

Whoops!

Whoopsie! (x2)

A cucked "father" (evidence needed) whines that his based son is now masculine and MAGA. How terrible!

My son was struggling -- then he fell for Trump's toxic brand of 'masculinity'. I'm heartbroken

I know you are probably thinking this is David French. I checked, it's not.

A progressive father on how Maga drove a wedge between him and his son -- and how he's trying to salvage their relationship

Sam Delaune, as told to Alaina Demopoulos

I didn't get a call from my son on Father's Day this year.

Maybe he's not your son.

Our political disagreements have made things hard.

I'm a 59-year-old progressive and a special education teacher, and I'm voting for Kamala Harris in November. Nick* is 21

He uses a pseudonym for his son. But he uses his own real name in the article.

In other words, he's telling everyone that his son is a racist monster.

... and he would say that he holds traditional, conservative values -- but he's conflating those values with radical Maga ideas, which correlate the right with patriotism, manhood, intelligence, independence and honesty. I understand where my son's vulnerabilities came from, and why this rightwing posturing was able to seep into him. I understand it, but I still regret it.

Nick's mom and I wanted to teach our son that democracy is an active sport. You don't just sit back and watch. We lived in Houston, in the belly of the petrochemical beast, and I remember going to a demonstration against Halliburton, the Iraq war, and Dick Cheney's role in the company. Groups brought puppets -- it was almost like street theater -- and we rolled Nick along in his stroller. That was the community we were plugged into: artists, musicians, teachers, writers. That's how Nick came up.

The first Male Cat Lady.

Nick was a sweet kid. He was really quiet. He's on the upper end of the autism spectrum, so he can have difficulty interpreting social cues. All he wanted to do was follow whatever the big kids were doing.

Now he just told the world that his son, who can pass as non-autistic, is autistic.

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Some of the older guys at school who Nick was trying to emulate were really into building computers, hacking and the dark web.

This is a Lifetime movie pitch, right?

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We had moved to the Bay Area in 2017, after Trump won the election. Nick was 15 or 16 when he said that he liked Trump. I can understand how Trump appealed to a childish sensibility: he's this clownish figure who does whatever he wants.

I also know that when you come of age, you want to reject your parents' beliefs. My father was a Reagan Republican who was really old school, values wise. A lot of my political development was a rejection of his values, so I wonder now how much of Nick's fascination with Maga is a reaction against the way I brought him up.

I've never been a macho kind of man.

You don't say:

To me, our biggest responsibility as humans is to look after each other. Men have been given places of privilege in society, so when people talk about being a man, to me that means: what do you use your privilege for?

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But I think that Trump appeals to a perceived loss of masculine power: by his logic, because we're treating LGBTQ+ people like humans, some men feel a loss over that, as their outrageous privilege has diminished somewhat, at least on surface level. Nick was vulnerable to that because he was becoming a man. I think he also naively thought, well, Trump's a powerful person running for president; he can't just get up there and spew bullshit.

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My wife and I divorced in 2020...

You don't say.

...and Nick lived with me for six months in California after that, but he later went back to live with her in Houston, so I saw and heard less from him. I no longer have the same influence over him. I can't be there to talk about the human cost of Trump's policies, which might change his mind.

Nick started hanging out with guys in Houston who shared his beliefs or had even more radical ones. They started talking about what makes a man. They said men have to be strong, so Nick bought a bike and rides it around every day. That's a healthy habit. But they also say things like "men smoke", so now he does that too.

They introduced Nick to guns and started taking him to the shooting range. On his 21st birthday, his mother and I sent him money, thinking he'd spend it on a computer or something, but he went out and bought a gun. He didn't tell either of us, because he knows how we feel about them.

I'm glad "Nick" left this sadsack failure and found a real man to be his New Father.

Sorry, there was a lot more to this post, but it somehow got deleted.

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes

ALL OF AMERICA, LISTEN TO THIS

American Business owner is selling her food truck. Illegal immigrant shows up with paperwork that he is getting funding to purchase her truck with NO MONEY in the bank and NO CREDIT

She speaks with the bank and is told it's COMMON, Illegal migrants are being given funding to purchase things like this

Why do American citizen need so much income and credit scores to the the same funding??

"I purchased my first food truck. It cost me over $25,000. I paid it cash money. I worked hard to pay for this truck.
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I'm now selling it, because I'm just gonna I'm doing other things, but I'm selling it. I had a guy come to look at purchasing my vehicle or my food truck.
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And he explained to me he's an illegal immigrant. He has no credit. He has no money in the bank. But he showed me his paperwork that he will receive funds to purchase my food truck.

I'm thankful that he's buying it, but I'm hurt that I worked so hard to pay cash for my food truck.
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I have good credit. Can't even get a business loan because of color of my skin.

I have veterans in my family. I'm a veteran. I've been self employed for so long. But somebody please tell me. How do I work so hard to have somebody who comes to this country not long, no credit.
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And he shows me paperwork where they'll be funding him money to buy my food truck. And when I talked to the bank, they told me, usually they have to go straight to a dealership because, no, I'm a I'm a private sale. But for special circumstances, they're gonna you know, they allow it.

But I need my president to tell me why I worked so hard all these years, all these decades. Couldn't get a business loan, but I bust my ass to get the money to create my business. And we got immigrants coming here, and they're getting money. Money. We're doing nothing but just being here. It's not right, and I want answers."

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:30 PM

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