• zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I’ve got an old high school friend who is now a deep-in-the-weeds Texas Republican (photo-ops with Greg Abbot, dinner parties with Dinesh D’Souza, etc) and she’s a Taiwanese ex-pat. It blows my mind, because she’s in the heart of the beast and she’s constantly eating shit for looking Chinese. But she’s so heavily invested in the GOP as her meal ticket that she keeps eating their shit day in and day out.

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        1 year ago

        She’s a lawyer with a clientele of conservative families. She’s had a number of appointments to municipal and state commissions by Republican elected reps. And she’s worked as a family law judge for a few years after winning one of the local way-down-ticket races.

        Also, her husband works for a foundation funded by conservative donors and does consulting work for the party.

        Her livelihood is literally tied up with the Republican Party.