“Delusion”: 45 Moments When People Realized That We’re Not All Living In The Same Reality

The reality is that MAGAts are mad are capitalism, but their politics have told them to blame the left and minorities.

My Dad maintained that there are no known incidents in all of American history of any Republican politician ever telling a lie or failing to keep a campaign promise. Except when they were forced too by a dirty liberal.

when i said “everyone on this planet deserves shelter, heat, electricity, food and water,” i was called a communist. apparently socialism = communism to my family and that’s where i drew the line.

In 2003 22 years ago, the olympics stopped s*x testing athletes because it was widely understood that trans women don't have a significant advantage over cis women if they've been on hormones for long enough, and that s*x testing was invasive and harmful to the cis women subjected to it.

In 22 years, there has been one (1) trans Olympian -- Laurel Hubbard, a weight lifter in 2020 -- and she didn't perform particularly well. 

There have, however, been a few cis (possibly intersex) women whose lives have been ruined by the anti trans panic of the past few years -- just as we knew would happen in 2003.

Meanwhile the face of the anti trans athlete movement is a woman who tied for 5th in a swimming competition with a trans woman. Lia Thomas lost to 4 cis women in that race.

From these facts, most of the planet is somehow convinced that the participation of trans women in female sports is an enormous problem, despite having been the norm for at least a decade before anyone even noticed.

Anyone who posted that Texans got what they deserved when 8 & 9 year old girls d**d in floodwaters is separated from reality.

I like the saying “Reality is that which remains AFTER you stop believing in it.”
A whole lotta MAGA disappears once you stop believing in it - bigotry, racism, fear, half of their worldview is imaginary b******t.
Healthcare, environment, human rights…still here even if you refuse to address it.

Musk, not getting why the “left” was so mad at him, and him being confused and saying the left being the side of empathy.

So many things. The general state of politics in the USA is that we have a huge group of people who only believe what their leader tells them and what their media feeds them ignores objective reality.

A couple years ago my wife and I went to California. I was WFH at the time and she had an event so we made a long weekend of it. One of the people who came with us had a very specific opinion of California that came out every once in a while.

At some point we were on boardwalk enjoying a beautiful day and taking in the art. The guy was adamant about the "bums and crime" even though we were perfectly fine. In fact there were a number of homeless people around just hanging out some selling art. It was a very weird situation of me him pontificating and me just trying to get him to look around.

Anything about teachers, schools and education. Indoctrination, gender affirming care without parent permission, cat litter boxes, all of it. Public education is in trouble, but it’s largely the government and in turn the public that is causing it. As a special education teacher, I am so bound by law that it isn’t even funny. I’m not risking my career to bring my personal life into work.

The last time I communicated with my dad, he was subscribed to the idea that the No Kings protestors were all paid. I know money wouldn't be an issue for a billionaire, but the logistics of it are mind boggling, especially considering how incompetent every big business and their c-suite zombies are at basic things like that. All I said to him was I wonder who it was.

People who view the government as a peaceful and positive force for change instead of an entity with a monopoly on violence have been deluded by statist propaganda.

Conversation with my brother did it for me. Here in Australia the first I think it’s $18,000 you earn is tax exempt, he’s a low income so that threshold covers about a third of his wage. A fact he completely ignored as he tried to argue the tax exempt. Threshold should be scrapped in favour of a system where people earning over a certain amount, I think he said over $500,000 but this chat happened a couple of weeks back so I might not be remembering that correctly, shouldn’t have to pay taxes above that threshold. When you’ve reached a point where you are strongly arguing against policies like social welfare programs despite relying on them yourself that’s a significant amount of cognitive dissonance. It’s one thing to argue for policies which don’t directly benefit you but have a net positive in a broader sense, and another arguing in favour of policies which are directly harmful to yourself, people in similar positions to you, and stand only to benefit the wealthier members of Society. Edited my original statement because I realised it was unclear the point I was actually trying to make.

People who are strictly pro-life. You realize I begged for, pleaded with a God to save them, and continue to love those two babies with a soul-crushing mother’s love, right?

Abortion isn’t black and white.

I need to go to bathroom in public sometimes and I don't think it needs to be a big deal.

My father told me over Christmas my sisters and I were radicalised by going to college.

I mean.... I'm gay. I came out early before coming out early was a thing. My entire teenage and adult life are punctuated by moments where it is made obvious to me that people don't "choose to make things political", people are politicized.

Luckily, I'm at the point in my life where any straight folks I associate with I do by choice. It's not that I don't like straight people, but every time I walk outside I can meet dozens. (Dear God reddit, please take this with the tongue-in-cheekness it was meant).

My boss laughing when I said masks help avoid spreading covid.

I had a Tea Party retired SMSgt try to tell me that the US military is a private, for profit organization that receives not one penny from the US government.

He was arguing for 15% across the board budget cuts when I mentioned the military. He made the claim in his desperation to protect the military budget from his own argument. But it was so divorced from reality - especially coming from a retired SMSgt - that it rendered me totally speechless.

Israel is committing a g**ocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.

I don't know what to say to you if you don't think it's the case other than, look at the words the Israeli state has said.