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Quiet Em

(1,770 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:11 PM Mar 29

This brand and messaging is toxic

Believing that only white males are qualified for employment, is toxic.

Making it clear that immigrants looking for a better way of life are no longer welcome here, is toxic.

Making it clear that immigrants who are already living and thriving here are no longer welcome, is toxic.

Treating women of reproductive age solely as breeders, not acknowleding the risks to life and health that pregnancy can bring, not acknowledging the harms of rape or incest, or the economic burden that women of children bare, is toxic.

Telling people they do not have the right to live their lives as they choose, and love who they choose, when they are causing absolutely no harm to anyone else, is toxic.

Pretending that Black history is not an integral part of American history, is toxic.

Addressing anything that does not specifically apply to just straight, white males as "woke", is toxic.

Saying that people who are held accountable for sexual assault, sexual harassment, bigoted statements and harmful conspiracy theories are "victims of cancel culture", toxic.

Harming the public for the benefit of billionaires, is toxic.

Believing that some men are above the law, is toxic.

Disregarding science and medicine to promote dangerous kookery, is toxic.

Talking up dangerous dictators from hostile Nations while stepping on Democratic allies, is toxic.

Not protecting civil and human rights, is toxic.





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Biophilic

(5,510 posts)
1. Are you saying that the gop and its people are toxic?
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:28 PM
Mar 29

Yea, 110% and then some. They aren’t even nice. How sad for their children and constituents…and very unfortunately, for the rest of us right now.

BattleRow

(1,554 posts)
2. Big pharma needs to get right on anti toxic shock meds.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:58 PM
Mar 29
I predict an outbreak, especially among GOP .

erronis

(18,892 posts)
3. That's the intent. "Toxic" means causing harm - usually poisonous.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:23 PM
Mar 29

They are aiming to disable/destroy most of the US (and probably other western nations.)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxic

containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation

rubbersole

(9,658 posts)
4. Stephen Miller sprayed "toxic" on his bald-ass hairline...
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 03:46 PM
Mar 29

..he thought the can said "tonic". It was on tsf's makeup table.

kimbutgar

(24,792 posts)
10. Though the 50 years of working, I have met a lot of white males who were horrible co workers
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 10:46 PM
Mar 29

And didn’t do their jobs and never got fired because they were white. One guy used to go to the bathroom at least 15 times a day snorting coke and we ended up doing his job. Another guy used to come in hungover almost everyday. And we had to make up for his slack. One was the son of a famous retired football player and only got the job because of his Dad. He rarely did any work yet he was promoted and paid more than a lot of us women who were for many years. I sat near him and smelled alcohol on him all the time. Yet he was never fired. I got another job and never found out what happened to him.

Walleye

(39,469 posts)
19. Yep, I've been there and done that
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:22 PM
Mar 30

I think every woman that has ever worked has had that experience, along with the experience of being sexually harassed. It’s not isolated cases.

kimbutgar

(24,792 posts)
20. The sexual harassment was horrible and if you complained
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 01:27 PM
Mar 30

Ho hum. They want to go back to those days with their eliminate the DEI bullshit. The things I experienced were horrendous. Saw an Anita Hill documentary last night on CNN and Clarence Thomas was a monster !

forgotmylogin

(7,810 posts)
13. I just woke up from a stress dream about trying to renew my driver's license...
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 11:18 AM
Mar 30

For some reason one letter was changed in my very normal, not-difficult-to-spell last name and I could neither use my ID, nor prove it to anyone since all of my information and documentation was spelled the correct way and I kept getting turned away "nothing we can do..."

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