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Coffee Break: Bubble Letter Monogram Bag Charm

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three gold bag charms hang from the strap of a bright yellow handbag; they read A, B, and C in bubble letters

These bubble letter monogram charms are so cute! They also come in as monogram pendants if you prefer that.

I think there's a really fun, 70s vibe to the bag charms — I'd probably do a G for Griffin, or perhaps a K for Kat. (Hmmn, I think I prefer the way the G looks in the bubbly font.)

The charms are $28 each at Anthropologie (the pendant necklaces are $48). Nice! Ooh – they also come in silver versions, ones with diamond bedazzling, and as wall hooks.

(We JUST bought a wall hook from Anthro that spells out “Bonjour,” so you could do something similar with the wall hooks.)

Looking for something similar? Over at CorporetteMoms we've featured initial jewelry from Ariel Gordon and Catbird — what are your favorites for initial jewelry, readers?

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  2. Dane here. Been on this site under many different names, since the time Cat was anonymous. Today I invented a new alias. Traveled the US many times, have family and friends there, took some continuous education in the US. I really really like the country and its people. I have not always agreed on its politics, but always felt gratitude toward the US, especially since I was a kid during the cold War. And now everything I and my countrymen knew and trusted about your country is gone. I am not saying Europe hasn’t made mistakes but this is insane. Your democracy is getting dismantled, your allies alienated and the dictators of the world are having a party. Please readers help me understand

    1. Short answer: a large enough number of USAmericans are politically illiterate and have no knowledge of history and got grifted. We are all scared and frustrated, whatever side of the political spectrum.

      1. The movement to keep people politically illiterate, under educated, angry, and ready to be hoodwinked have been in the works for years. This was long-planned by the far right

        1. I think that many Americans are as you described, but I didn’t know it was a long-planned-for. Really?

          1. Yes. I remember a PhD therapist telling me that the right wing people who talked about these plans represented fringe movements that didn’t matter and would never amount to anything. Instead it’s like every promise and threat they ever made is coming true, just the way they said it would happen.

          2. Yes, long planned. Republicans have been very systematic. The rapid speed of recent changes is in parallel with the rise of the internet/social media engagement that allows propaganda from our own country … and from others… to run rampant and unchecked.

      3. This. I did not vote for him and the people I know who I suspect did, didn’t do it so he could threaten our allies, align with dictators and indiscriminately dismantle huge swaths of the government. Or at least they thought there would be adults in Congress and the supreme court to keep his worst instincts in check. (I would argue that they weren’t paying attention because all of it is very much in character and/or in Project 2025, but …like the prior poster said, politically illiterate.)

      4. this is categorically untrue. Not everyone is scared. Plenty of people (more than would admit to it I suspect) think things are going swimmingly.

        2. Yeah unfortunately the MAGA folks I know are very happy and think everything is great. Of course, they no longer care one bit about the high price of eggs.

    2. Half of us are just as baffled as you are. I fully support you not visiting us ever again. If we didn’t have young kids settled in school and elderly parents who aren’t up for another relocation, we’d be seriously considering trying to move to Europe.

    3. Honestly, we didn’t vote for or want this. We don’t understand it. This is an even worse situation for us. I don’t know what you want from this post.

    4. So many of us don’t want this and are furious and scared and devastated ourselves.

      As sad as it may be for you, imagine how we are feeling right now. It’s terrifying. Everything I trusted about my country is also gone (and I’m a long time government employee who has given a lot in service to my country – it feels all for nothing).

      1. +1

        Don’t blame those of us who didn’t vote for this sh!tshow. We are even more angry than you are, I promise.

    5. I’m sorry what don’t you understand? Hardly any people on here voted for him. We are all sad too. Take a look at Germany and get back to us about right wing movements gaining power.

      1. +1 that the shift to the right and to populism and to “strong” leaders with a proclivity towards authoritarianism is happening all over the world. It’s bad here right now, so we’re getting a lot of focus but it’s happening everywhere

        1. +1 million, it is not just the US! To take just one example, this past summer, the far right would almost certainly have won an absolute majority in the French parliament if the other parties hadn’t struck deals to keep them out (deals that are arguably pretty undemocratic! Railroading far left voters into voting for center-right parties and center-right voters into voting for actual communists is… not a great rebuttal to far-right accusations that everyone else is a monoparty). And even with all that, the RN is the biggest single party in parliament.

          1. That’s kind of a strange take. You could then argue that the German government is doing the same thing.
            But as long as there is no ranked choice voting, we only know a single preference for the voter. In Germany, the assumption is that the voters of most parties are very interested in not being governed by a right wing extremist party, so the coalition is working together to prevent that from happening.

          2. Anon at 4:25, well, maybe Germany’s coalition building is also anti-democratic on some level, if it means putting parties that resoundingly lost an election back into power and enabling them to force the implementation of policies that people resoundingly rejected/prevent the implementation of policies that a majority of voters support as the price for the coalition? There is a case for doing it anyway, maybe more so in Germany than anywhere else, but we should at least be honest about the risk that voters will feel like extreme parties are the only way to get the changes they want. That’s their biggest selling point, and mainstream parties are basically writing their campaign copy for them at this point.

      2. This.

        OP, you can keep your performative ignorance to yourself. This is certainly not the first time in history this has happened and won’t be the last. You don’t need us to explain that to you.

        1. +1

          It’s happened before, it’s happening here now, and it will happen again. There are many books and articles about how these movements and leaders gain traction.

          Honestly, I don’t have the capacity to explain it to someone – I’m just trying to survive and not get RIF’d and keep serving the American people while I can

    6. Not sure what you don’t understand – most people on this board and in our circle are horrified by what’s happening. With the exception of those who are in on the grift, the educated white collar crowd (aka who reads here) is extremely opposed to our government’s actions. The Republican Party has been working to institute this and undermine the country for decades – this is the next step of their plan.

      Far right and populist movements have been gaining traction across the world – it might be “worse” in the US right now, but this trend is certainly not unique to us.

    7. If you’re this upset by what’s happening from an ocean away imagine how we’re feeling…

      1. Denmark/Greenland specifically are targets of American aggression ATM, so I see where she’s coming from.

    8. I would say even 99% of people who voted for Trump really have no interest in taking over Greenland – they just wanted cheaper groceries and for life to be more affordable in general. This is his personal fixation.

      I do think a number of Republican voters are frustrated that the US spends a lot of money on security concerns that most directly impact Europe rather than the US, especially the war in Ukraine, but that wasn’t the main reason Trump was elected at all. (I don’t necessarily agree with this viewpoint; it’s obvious the US benefits from its European alliances; I’m just reporting what I have heard).

      1. Not a Trump voter, but from knowing a fair number of people who probably are, I think you’re completely right about their attitudes on foreign policy. Plus some of them were concerned that there was a risk of getting embroiled in a hot and potentially nuclear war with Russia and that Harris was too cavalier about that risk. They’re not Putin fans by any means, but they grew up during the height of the Cold War and precisely because they don’t like Putin, they do think he is crazy/evil enough to use ICBMs. Also just reporting what I have heard, not here to argue foreign policy!

    9. Gently, this is not helpful.

      The vast majority of educated, white c0llar people (aka the people who read here!) are disgusted by the administration, horrified by what’s happening, and did not vote for him (in any of his 3 presidential runs).

      You’re preaching to the choir, except the choir is the people that has to live under this regime and deal with the fall out on a daily basis from ALL of his dumb and damaging decisions, not just the foreign policy ones.

    10. Okay? Everything we knew and trusted about our own country is gone so sorry I don’t have the capacity to help you feel better about it.

      1. Right – if you think everything you knew and trusted about the US has changed (it has), imagine being a citizen. Everything I thought I knew and trusted about my government has also changed!!! ANd i have to live here!! And deal with the consequences of this dumb@ss administration I hate and did not vote for

        1. And the profound, bone chilling realization that Trump supporters truly are this far gone. They are this stupid. They are this evil. They are this selfish. They care this little about democracy. Or any combo of the above. I actually consistently overestimated these people, and my opinion of them was not high. But the number of people that have swallowed patently ridiculous arguments hook, line, and sinker (e.g., Putin isn’t so bad, or liberal district court judges are engaging in “lawfare” by “trying to block the president’s agenda.” The high number of nationwide injunctions can’t possibly be because this admin has done a lot of blatantly illegal things, now can it?). I really thought, eventually, that they would see what they’ve done. That there would somewhere be a line. But there’s not. They’ll bend over for whatever Trump wants to do to them. And in so doing, they’ll drag us all down with them.

    11. I hadn’t checked the news and honestly thought we’d invaded Greenland when I read this post.

    12. Totally sucks and if I were Danish I’d be pissed off and scared too

      This is an old story, just retold in an American tone this time – don’t fall into thinking “this could never happen to MY country”. You have to be thinking about both how to protect Europe from America territorially; and also, how to protect Europe from the same forces that are threatening your own democracies internally

      1. Yup – surely many of us Americans learned about WWII in school and thought that fascism would not happen here but here we are

    13. We went through WWII, but unlike your small, pretty country full of handsome people (I assume all the guys look like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau ;)), we have a big ocean between us and other big military powers.

        1. Did you win a Nobel Prize recently for your brilliance or how nice you are?

    14. I was a kid during the cold war, and I think maybe we just lost it decades later? I encounter far too much Russian propaganda from Americans who aren’t even all that online.

    15. As a Canadian-American, I feel your pain. But yeah it’s pretty clear most people on here did not vote for him, and the people who did mostly thought the economy would be better (not saying I agree at all. Just think most Trump voters don’t care about Canada or Greenland but they just listen to nonsense media and don’t understand much). That doesn’t stop me from feeling for anyone living in the US and dealing with this right now.

    16. I feel like the defensive reactions you’re getting are along the lines of “I can complain about my own family all day long, but how dare you say anything bad about my family?”

      For what it’s worth, this American agrees with you, Dane.

      1. I don’t think it’s being defensive, it’s because this post is a violation of ring theory, which advises people dealing with stressful situations to comfort in, dump out. So just as it’s offensive to tell a sick acquaintance how stressful their illness is for you, it’s offensive for people in another country to tell Americans how awful the situation here is for them, thousands of miles away, when it’s Americans who are actually living with this. I would feel differently if this was someone directly suffering due to US funding cuts, but presumably Danes are still doing fine in day to day life. I don’t deny that there will be some effects on them, but complaining to people who are much more significantly affected is just rude.

        1. I don’t know that ring theory applies when one party is partially responsible for the other’s distress.

      2. Do you see anybody here defending Trump or his actions or disagreeing with anything OP said?

    17. I voted for Kamala but I can see Trump’s appeal to certain misguided groups of people. Apparently there are a lot of misguided (naive?) people.

      I still feel safe raising my kids here so I just focus on my day to day. I’ve stopped following the news cycle, and that has really helped my peace of mind.

    18. OP, please know that many of us are resisting in whatever way we can. Some of us can’t risk putting our necks out too much (thinking of a close friend with a newborn whose husband has a green card), while others are calling our reps every single day, donating, protesting, organizing, and doing everything we can to fight back. When you’re tempted to write off our country, remember that less than half of the population voted for Trump. He has never won over a majority of Americans.

      1. If you can’t support your point without whataboutism, then you can’t support your point.

  3. Has anyone had good luck with anxiety meds that don’t give you brain fog?

    I’m a relatively new attorney, and I’ve had anxiety since my teens. I’ve been off meds for a while with my doctor’s blessing, but had a pretty bad panic attack last week.

    I want to try meds again, but the meds I’ve used before like Klonipin, Ativan and Xanax really make me sleepy and out of it. Has anyone had good luck with other (either “emergency” or maintenance) anxiety meds?

      1. I’ve been on Effexor for 5 years and I don’t have brain fog, but it’s IMPOSSIBLE to get off. I’m basically stuck on it for life now.

        1. Ugh, I don’t love hearing this. I was on it for a specific reason and that reason is almost done. Then, as a fed I actually recently upped my dosage because of the chaos. Was hoping to taper back down to my original dose (75mg) and eventually taper off completely.

    2. My experience with anxiety meds was bad – super sleepy and dopey, and I hated it. Tried 2 different ones and then called it quits when they both sucked in the same way.
      In terms of medications that helped my mental health, a good birth control did wonders. The hormonal mood swings of a regular cycle really did a number on me, and not having to deal with barely holding it together for a week a month made the rest of my anxiety far more manageable.

      1. Interesting…because SAME! Also massively helped with weight regulation and easily got to a healthy weight once on hormonal birth control. I very much wish scientists would do a lot more investigation into women’s hormones!

        1. Which BC were you on that helped? I get m i g r a i n e s and have shied away from hormonal BC, but it would be great if it helped my anxiety.

    3. Get away from benzos and try SSRIs. I have been on Zoloft for four years and haven’t had a single side effect except for low libido. Was able to do therapy at the same time and am now weaning off, but I could stay on without complaint.

      Zoloft and Lexapro are both usually well reviewed, but you can try various ones to see what helps. Benzos are highly addictive and extremely bad for you (they are not meant for chronic use), so I am a bit surprised your doctor would prescribe them as a first treatment. SSRIs are a lot more sustainable long term without the same devastating side effects.

      1. This. I’ve been on an SNRI for years (Effexor). I thought benzos were only for one-offs (I use Ativan as needed for the dentist).

        Try an SSRI or an SNRI – I started on an SSRI but had a bad experience so switched to an SNRI and have been fine.

        1. I am on a low dose of Cymbalta, a SNRI, for chronic pain. I can’t say it’s helping the chronic pain all that much, but I am less anxious, and don’t have brain fog.

          1. Cymbalta can be good for depression/anxiety. Both Effexor and Cymbalta are good for chronic pain too so such a nice combo of benefits.

    4. Those are kind of intense. I’ve had a fantastic experience with low dose wellbutrin

    5. You should absolutely not be taking Klonopin, Xanax, or Ativan regularly for anxiety, and you should have concerns about the medical judgement of anyone who would prescribe these for regular use.

      1. I agree about routine or daily use. But occasional use for a panic attack doesn’t seem excessive?

        My anxiety disorder turned out to be from a undiagnosed medical issue, so I never needed to be on any psych meds and question a lot of medical judgment these days!

        1. But prescribing Xanax for an occasional panic attack is not a long-term anxiety treatment plan. OP is obviously not getting great care from her psychiatrist.

          As someone who was previously addicted to doctor-prescribed Klonopin, I don’t think benzos should even be prescribed for panic attacks. They worsen anxiety over time and more likely than not to be accidentally abused.

          1. I’m sorry. I had a psychiatrist prescribe daily Xanax and tell me that it was fine if I took it several times a day for the rest of my life (basically that she was okay with dependency). My real diagnosis ended up being autonomic neuropathy from a treatable autoimmune condition; the panic attacks were sympathetic excess. It’s literally just luck that I never got addicted to the Xanax, and it bothers me that my psychiatrist was so cavalier about it.

            Antidepressants for anxiety make me nervous since for me they caused every symptom they’re supposed to treat, but I would guess the odds they’re helpful are higher when anxiety is what’s causing the panic attacks to begin with!

          2. Omg, that’s so terrible! I literally can’t imagine why a doctor would prescribe Xanad for daily use. So glad you didn’t get dependent.

            I am the poster that was on Zoloft for four years, and it has given me chronic low sodium (actually a serious condition, which I would have never guessed). I’m weaning off now, but even telling my psych that I had a chronic illness that could be fatal if not addressed, she didn’t want to grant her blessing for me to taper off. I told her I have no symptoms and that EMDR has been more effective than the meds, but she was insistent I need to be on SSRIs the rest of my life, with no reason given other than that my brain is chemically deficient nad this is the only treatment. I know these are life-saving drugs, but even so, they are definitely overprescribed and a lot of doctors do not want to admit that they have any side effects. Every psychiatrist I’ve been to has said some variation of “there are 0 side effects.” Only through perusing NIH studies on my own have I found out there are actually many, many, many side effects, some with longterm physical health implications. Very frustrating that there is such a lack of nuance.

          3. Solidarity. I was prescribed Ativan nightly for anxiety and insomnia by multiple doctors for 20 years. I was completely dependent on it long before I realized it isn’t supposed to be a long term thing. Coming off of it and enduring that year-long withdrawal process in ‘23-24 is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done and something I’m proud of.

          4. Huge congratulations for weaning off Ativan <3 Benzo withdrawals are one of the most painful withdrawal processes out there and it's so hard to tough out. You're a rockstar.

          1. What a great idea…. Smart.

            But that poster with autonomic neuropathy may not be able to tolerate the blood pressure drop with beta blockers. I have autonomic neuropathy too.

    6. Those are hard-core medications for daily use. I’ve taken generic Zoloft for several years and have been very happy with how well it works for me, with minimal side effects.

    7. Yeah, those are not drugs you should be using for a chronic problem. At the very least you need to find a better psychiatrist.

    8. I have been on Celexa (citalopram) for a long time for anxiety. It’s been very helpful for me with no side effects.

    9. My experience with anxiety medication is through my children but I wanted to share their journey because we went through a lot of different medications with no success.

      I switched to a new psychiatrist who listened and said hmmm I think we need to assess the root of the anxiety because I think its coming from untreated ADD. Turns out he was correct.

      I would also ask if you are getting enough sleep? Would a sleep aid medication benefit you? When my children don’t get enough sleep their anxiety is a lot worse. Said psychiatrist put the kids on sleep meds and its helped a lot.

  4. Has anyone been to Doha or Dubai? Any recs? We have a bunch of AA miles to burn and Qatar Airways is one of the best international redemptions.

    1. I would not go to a country known for its horrific human rights abuses for fun. Surely you can use your miles elsewhere?

      1. yet you live in the united states. Don’t throw stones when you are living in a country that is no longer considered a functioning democracy.

        1. I wouldn’t encourage others to come here to visit and spend their money here either.

          I don’t have a viable way to leave, so I can’t control that (nor can I control where I was born or how some dumb@sses voted in November), but I can control not wanting to visit a country with worse human rights issues than ours.

          Besides, I’m very active in protesting the current administration so I’m at least doing what I can

    2. I lived in the Gulf for a while and spent a lot of time in both Dubai and Doha. I’d recommend Dubai or Oman over Doha for tourism, but without knowing what you might be interested in seeing or doing (or why you’re considering it other than the miles), it’s hard to make suggestions. if you’re just looking to burn Qatar Airways miles, why not just have a quick stopover in Doha on the way to some place like Thailand?

      1. Fair enough, I guess the main reason is we’re pretty well-traveled but have never been to that part of the world at all and are curious about it. We did consider just doing a stopover, but if we did that we’d probably spend at least a few days in Doha because it seems like a waste to go there and not see the city at all. And Dubai interests us more than Doha from what we’ve read, so then it kind of just morphed into why not fly there and try to see more of the Gulf. I think you can also do Abu Dhabi on a day trip from Dubai? I don’t think we can use the AA miles to get a ticket anywhere on Qatar Air. I know there were some onward connection options like the Maldives but when I looked into it, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t possible to just fly to Europe on Qatar using AA miles. Unfortunately we can’t go to the Maldives for heath reasons (skin cancer history and doctors don’t want me vacationing that close to the equator).

        1. If you’re not supposed to be out in the sun much you might be restricted to the malls and mosques in either country, because otherwise I’d highly recommend getting out into the desert to do some glamping or dune-bashing in Jeeps. Dubai has a bunch of manmade beaches, but that also requires sun. I would not fly halfway around the world to hang out in malls, though. Abu Dhabi is only about a 45 minute drive from Dubai depending on traffic, so definitely doable. Oman is much prettier with more to do (beaches, mosques, souk shopping, cool old villages, mountains, etc.), so depending on how much you can be outdoors, I’d recommend Oman over the rest. Doha is pretty much mosques, malls, a very commercialized souk, and some museums.

          1. At that latitude I don’t have to worry about sun exposure much in the winter months, which is when we’d go. Maldives are a different story because they’re basically on the equator and have very intense sun year round. The desert stuff sounds awesome, thanks! Will look into Oman too.

          1. Doha is at latitude 25, the Maldives are latitude 3. The sun intensity is nowhere near as intense in Doha in the winter, which is when we’d go.

    3. I can’t speak for Doha, but Dubai I don’t think is worth traveling to unless you really really like shopping malls and don’t care much about labor practices.

    4. Do you know much about the culture of the Gulf states? I don’t mean to lump them all together, but… The people can be friendly, but what they really are is rich. Scrooge McDuck swimming in gold rich. And so they really don’t care about you or their servants or anything but amusing themselves. It’s a self-centeredness that can be breathtaking.

      So…not my jam. Qatar Airways does have fantastic service, though.

      And sadly, I’m speaking about my extended family.

  5. It appears I got the tone wrong in my post, If I offended people I apologize. I have to admit I don’t understand the many angry replies. Nowhere in my post did I write that my country or the EU are immune to right wing movements, democracy is never a given, it has to be actively
    defended all the time. I actually wanted to say that I feel a connection to the US and are sad about what is happening. I know it worse for you, but to the people implying I should mind my own business, your government is right up my business, trying to take control of a part of my country.

    1. I think you got a lot of good answers and many/most of them were respectfully worded.

    2. I don’t think people were trying to be rude. More of a yes, we know how scary it is because we’re living through it every day. While yes, he is threatening to take Danish territory and all of Europe is at risk due to our new, incredibly stupid foreign policy you still have the benefit of living in a country where your rights are protected. We’re losing our civil rights and a functioning government and the necessary functions of government. Of course I see why you’re upset about his rhetoric towards Greenland and Denmark but people aren’t being deported to a notorious prison without due process, school funding isn’t disappearing, and social security benefits you’ve paid into your whole life aren’t going away for your loved ones who 100% depend on that money to eat.

      It feels like a lot of the world thinks we’re getting what we deserve for voting him into office, but so many of us didn’t vote for him and DON’T want this. I live in a purple state (though a blue area) and even the Republicans I know hate him, didn’t vote for him, and are horrified at what’s happening.

      You asked for help understanding what’s happening and that you don’t recognize our country but WE DON”T UNDERSTAND and WE DON”T RECOGNIZE OUR COUNTRY. I don’t know what to tell you because I don’t recognize the country I have served and deployed for. This is not what I signed up for. I’m devastated.

      I’m trying to not get RIF’d right now and that takes up a ton of mental space. The rest of my mental space is taken up by staying informed, my daily calls and emails to my senators, and protests and boycotts. I’m sorry, I can’t try to explain something I don’t understand to you. I have to put on my oxygen mask first. But that means spending my time protesting and fighting back to fight for the last scraps left of my country not explaining things to someone who can do research too.

      1. Well said. We’re horrified that the rule of law no longer seems to matter. And on top of that, have you not read all the posts from people here who have lost their jobs and their entire fields have basically disappeared, and the many, many more of us who still have jobs but aren’t at all sure we’ll be able to keep them for the next few years? There’s no safety net in this country the way there is in yours, and what little there is rapidly being dismantled, so losing a job can mean losing health care and all your savings. Of course talking about invading Greenland is completely idiotic, but I don’t understand why you’re coming to us for sympathy about that when it’s just 1 of the 85,000,000 things we’re struggling with right now. If we had answers to your questions, we wouldn’t be in this position!

    3. Nobody was saying you need to mind your own business, they were saying you were looking in the wrong place for comfort.

    4. You literally wrote “help me understand” so forgive us for thinking that meant you didn’t know how this happens. It doesn’t seem like you actually have a question, just that you’re upset about the way your country is being treated. Understandable, but we’re not the people who caused that, so what exactly do you want from us? Trump is going to have a new target tomorrow and will forget about Denmark. We will be dealing with him for 4 years, if not longer.

        1. What a crock. No it is not “both sides”. One side could have done better but by no means caused this. The other side has uncloaked themselves and revealed that they are heartless, soulless, nasty little fascists. Their side, and every single person who voted for them, caused this. How dare you.

          1. Not the poster you’re replying to, but I agree with her. The MAGA movement is definitely a reaction to the US “the elites” created, and the Democratic party has not done a good job putting forward a compelling counter-message. It *should* be enough to just be not-fascist, but clearly it’s not. I abhor the MAGA movement, can see the merit in many “establishment” Republican ideas, but have voted Democrat in national elections for several cycles…but the Democratic Party has misread the room for at least a decade.
            Cynically, while I appreciate that they’re all-in bending the arc of history toward justice, I don’t think that’s how to get elected these days. And the fact that they doubled down on unpopular platforms and foisted on us two unelectable presidential candidates (Biden was too old, Harris was too female and non-white.
            Even if I personally don’t think that should be disqualifying, it was obvious that a sizeable chunk of the electorate does) definitely helped get us to this point.

          2. Centrists may not admire fascists, but they prefer them to anyone whose policies might be left enough for e.g. Denmark so here we are. What do you think ordinarily causes fascist movements to take hold?

          3. Both parties are steeped in misogyny and white supremacy. We are all to blame for this mess.

        2. Oh, for the love. For all the critiques one can lobby at both parties, this fascism is the religious right, which has become the entire right. Don’t try to exonerate those who voted for this shit — Trump voters were salivating at the possibility of enacting the vile sexism, racism, and xenophobia that Trump and his clown car of amateurs are gleefully putting through. This country is already, mere months in, much less safe. It is an angry, grotesque place of white supremacists. And it’s because that’s what the right has preached for decades.

    5. I was surprised by the tenor of many of the comments. I wasn’t offended and I thought your questions were understandable and appropriate.

      1. Same. I thought your question was fine, and I think people are being oddly defensive in response to it.

    6. I think many people in that post were quite rude to your question – which I thought was a fair one. People in the US are scared, and I’m sure some of those people are lashing out because of fear of what is happening in our country.

      That being said, this country runs on misogyny and white supremacy. Both/all parties are guilty of this. We are all to blame for this mess we are in (myself included, who voted for Kamala). Seeing the situation (and our roles in it) is the first step towards moving forward. Instead, the dems are blaming/attacking minorities and trans people.

      We cannot see/build bridges anymore because we’ve become so self-absorbed. The answers you got above reflect that. We can’t see past ourselves to be able to recognize the stress this might cause on other nations.

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