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Bettie

(16,124 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:02 AM Mar 2020

This is what we're up against: Right wing religious Trumpkins

A family member...40ish, female. School teacher (in a religious school). Posted this on FB.

Why are we shutting down the world to save the lives of the people who are going to die within 5 Years anyway?! Why are we ruining the lives of the rest of the country who are now unemployed and not allowed to work and losing all of their financial stability to slow the curve of something that's inevitably going to happen anyway?! Come on y'all...survival of the fittest! THIS IS STUPID!!!


She had also previously posted that she was planning to take her four kids to all the attractions in her city because it is all a hoax.

And some wonder why we cut ourselves off from right wing relatives. This is why.

The positive aspect of this is that the post was deleted after about an hour of all of her friends (right wingers as well) told her that it isn't OK to think like this.

So, there's another relative who I won't be able manage much more than "cold politeness" with.
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This is what we're up against: Right wing religious Trumpkins (Original Post) Bettie Mar 2020 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author DinahMoeHum Mar 2020 #1
School teacher? The Genealogist Mar 2020 #2
School teacher at a small Bettie Mar 2020 #3
It's "inevitably going to happen anyway" but it's also "all a hoax." Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2020 #4
Yep! ProfessorGAC Mar 2020 #15
Plenty of people in their forties are ending up in ICU. Crunchy Frog Mar 2020 #5
They're everywhere. DEbluedude Mar 2020 #6
And somebody...... MyOwnPeace Mar 2020 #7
And they claim they are pro-life Historic NY Mar 2020 #8
She must really hate her parents or grandparents. bronxiteforever Mar 2020 #9
They're always so sure that they're one of "the fittest" JHB Mar 2020 #10
Nothing like right wing Christian love, is there? milestogo Mar 2020 #11
The world has gone squirrely with people over reacting Throck Mar 2020 #12
Prosperity theology perhaps ? magicarpet Mar 2020 #13
You must link jimfields33 Mar 2020 #14
Oh, she deleted it an hour after she put it up Bettie Mar 2020 #16
And Jesus wept... Freedomofspeech Mar 2020 #17
They can delete this on fb but they have already shown you who they are. Remember if not lunasun Mar 2020 #18
I make a point of recalling Bettie Mar 2020 #21
++yes Just be aware . That much you can do for your own sanity lunasun Mar 2020 #22
She is right edhopper Mar 2020 #19
Survival of the fittest (mental prowess included) means that group won't include her. MoonRiver Mar 2020 #20
insane and heartless, she should not have those kids, too irresponsible Demonaut Mar 2020 #23

Response to Bettie (Original post)

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
2. School teacher?
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:05 AM
Mar 2020

I'm sure her students look forward to her class every day. What a load of selfish, libertarian crap.

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,847 posts)
4. It's "inevitably going to happen anyway" but it's also "all a hoax."
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:06 AM
Mar 2020

I wish all these idiots would at least pick a lane.

Crunchy Frog

(26,629 posts)
5. Plenty of people in their forties are ending up in ICU.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:08 AM
Mar 2020

If they handled it like she wants, she would think it was the apocalypse. I don't blame you for avoiding.

Throck

(2,520 posts)
12. The world has gone squirrely with people over reacting
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:17 AM
Mar 2020

Today I'm hanging with the cats and watching spring bloom.

magicarpet

(14,167 posts)
13. Prosperity theology perhaps ?
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:23 AM
Mar 2020

FASCISTIC selfishness and gluttony.

I want/got mine, and fuck you, Jesus agrees 100%.

Bettie

(16,124 posts)
16. Oh, she deleted it an hour after she put it up
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:30 AM
Mar 2020

apparently, even her most religious friends came out and told her she was wrong.

One even posted "that which you do to the least among us, you do to me"...I think that was the last straw and she deleted.

I think she honestly figured that most people felt that way.

Then, she found out that they don't.

Freedomofspeech

(4,227 posts)
17. And Jesus wept...
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:32 AM
Mar 2020

What a horrible thing she is! Teaching in a Christian school....why am I not surprised?

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
18. They can delete this on fb but they have already shown you who they are. Remember if not
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:32 AM
Mar 2020

already aware . Some don’t care if immediate relatives drop because the dead are going to a better place don’t forget that part.
One reason that end of times Pence/ Pompeo in the virus mix scare me

Bettie

(16,124 posts)
21. I make a point of recalling
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:06 AM
Mar 2020

who these people are. Eventually, they will want to start pretending that they are decent people again.

I will not forget what they have shown themselves to be at their core.

edhopper

(33,615 posts)
19. She is right
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:34 AM
Mar 2020

we are shutting down the world, inflicting harm upon ourselves, to save the lives of the vulnerable among us.

Some of think that is what good people should do.

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