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• Trump- a twice/impeached treasonous draft-dodging rapist coward is accusing a decorated military general of treason.
THAT is how stupid this guy is.
• close to half of America is voting for a twice/impeached treasonous draft-dodging rapist coward.
THAT is how stupid America is.
While I question the intelligence of the MAGA crowd as well, I feel like I have to constantly remind people that the other half of the people who would vote for him are really voting against neoliberalism, even tho they can't describe it as such.
They'll say globalism, they might even take a swipe at wall street or corporations. NAFTA, "Elites" etc etc.
They're struggling just like everyone else due to late stage capitalism and they don't care how it ends, just that it does.
Mind you theyre also statistically white and think they'll be in the in group when our money becomes less valuable than toilet paper and weather it all fine, which is delusional.
There's the haves and the have nots. Even security for the rich, after the walls fell, will still be servants, not equals.
I say all this so those inclined can see there is actually a good amount of material we all agree on, and if you can approach it without instigating their pearl clutch reflex, some can even be brought into the light.
They deserve nothing less than ridicule and shame for their beliefs. They have the same access to information as everyone else, and they CHOSE to be ignorant to it. They CHOSE to ignore it. I have no sympathy or compassion for these nitwits.
And for the record- they’ll clutch their pearls without the need of anything to initiate a reflex. It’s their default stance to everything.
Fuck them. The gloves are off. They deserve nothing more then to be drowned in the swamp their beloved leaders created to drain.
That's not a solution and you know it. I feel ya my man, I do.
You don't need sympathy for them. You don't need to forgive anyone for them - you do that shit for yourself, so you'll be free of the negativity of their weight and move forward clear of them.
Don't let them define the limits of your virtues. Don't let anyone tell you who you are (which is essentially the same thing). That's for you to tell them.
Most are probably a lost cause. Not all, for sure. Look at them like you would a wounded animal and for reasons we don't know they blame us. It's much easier to understand and anticipate, therefore mitigate the pain they're choosing to propagate. But over generations...we can teach their children tolerance. And patience. Hence their war on education (the ones showing up at PTA meetings, not the ones trying to loot the budget).
I'm one of the first to respond to fascist violence with violence. Fighting nazis is a great family tradition of mine, going back 80 years. I'm no Gandhi, MLK. I'm much more aligned with Malcolm and Hampton. I'll let the Gandhi's have the mic and lead from the ideals, but while theyre sheparding the high road, I'm defending on the low road.
I say that because if the answer is to just damn half the population, then you've got to put more effort into your answer. Or just do what I do, which is let others more eloquent elucidate. I don't need to sway anyone's opinions, hell sometimes I'm the last person who should have the mic. Knowing this is a strength, not a weakness.
What I do know is that Hate isn't the way. Every spiritual or moral teacher in history has said the same thing. But I don't need hate to fight, simply resignation to the task at hand, like putting down a wounded animal. If anything it makes me more cognizant in the moment.
I’m cool with hate thanks. They have earned it.
An attitude they share as well. Eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Ya gotta leave them able to see. And then show them you have the same capacity for cruelty, but only dole it harsh to the ringleaders.
Thanks for the pep talk Ghandi, but I’m going to give them what they deserve and nothing more. They took advantage of patience, kindness, and cheek-turning. That time is over. No more.
It’s scorched-earth time. If you don’t like it, the drum circles are that way.
That's a great point. Seeing the current state of US politics this way might be the first step in steering it towards some sort of normalcy.
It's so funny to read this cause I've seen similar posts in conservative communities, only inverted.
It's a problem of the left being incapable of effectively communicating with the working class. Leftists are self obsessed and are seeking approval of of other leftists. They want to be lauded for being the smartest people in the room, and don't actually care about the working class. They want to be congratulated (and sometimes well paid) for pretending to care about the working class
While leftists talk about the working class being too stupid to recognize them as the people they should put in positions of power, they don't consider the possibility that no one trusts someone that assumes that they're too stupid to understand what's best for them. And when you consider how incompetent leftists are in communicating with the people they're supposedly trying to help, who's actually the stupid people in this whole thing?
Biden's push in promoting unions and prosecuting anti-trust will help the working class and lessen the power of the corporations far more than anything all of the leftists will accomplish in their entire lives.
well technically between a fifth and a quarter of America voted for Trump last time.
It's more like a third that has an outsized influence due to gerrymandering and disincentivizing voters. Still, the fact that it is that many and Trump actually stands a chance of re-election shows what a dumpster fire the country is.
Democracy as usual. The real problem is that they either vote for personalities or for policies, while it should be both - a wrong personality plainly won't deliver, a wrong policy is wrong no matter the personality.
People who were voting for him after Obama's time voted against weakness, hypocrisy, establishment, general perceived progress slowing down (in the 90-s and early 00-s there were many cool things on TV, in computer industry, in space, in art etc, while during Obama's years it was all the same, boring and corporate, and the Web among other things was enshittened in that time period).
Now the second time I guess it's as good as protest voting, and some are really just stupid.