• Laser@lemmy.ca
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    Can’t fix stupid! I bet he supports getting rid of the Dept of Education too! Fucking idiot!

    Buy the ticket, take the ride!

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    I don’t feel bad at all for anyone that voted for Trump. I’ve lost all my sympathy this round. I hope he loses his farm. You fucked around, I hope you find out.

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    Must be the 50th such post I’ve seen in the past 7 days. Would people now vote differently if there was an election tomorrow or are they incapable of learning from their mistakes?

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      Honestly, maybe so the family doesn’t see, while they can gather composure. A little bit of “men don’t cry” and a little bit of “don’t want the family to all have heart attacks before I know for sure”

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      It’s big strong frame, imposing physique makes them feel respected, and it’s supple, soft and warm seats make them feel loved. Why wouldn’t you rant in your 80k emotional support vehicle?

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    New York real-estate and South African tech billionaires don’t actually care about the working man?

    Who could have forseen such a turn of events???

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    re: first 2 links: Notice he never mentions, blames or criticizes Trump. It’s “the government” doing this to him.

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      Wonder who is the de-facto head of the government, who we elect every 4 years, and is a singular person, and has (and used) the executive power to defund all the programs.

      Yeee, we might never know…

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    “The whole world is laughing at us.”

    No, they’re laughing at Trump voters. The rest of us they just feel sorry for.

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      Nah, we’re also laughing at the non-voters and third-party voters. Even some of the Democratic voters are worthy of ridicule.

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        There is a special kind of laugh for the useful idiots who blame non-voters for not voting rather than the party leadership of the party they wanted to win for refusing to do the bare minimum to turn those non-voters into voters.

        It’s the same kind of laugh reserved for people who, when their own team plays horribly and loses to a crap team, blame the referee.

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          I bet most of the people who didn’t vote didn’t even know the platforms of the parties beyond a few generic sound bites.

          Anyway, voting is a civic duty; it doesn’t matter if none of the parties’ platforms excite you, it’s your job as a citizen to vote for the good of your country. Most adults go to the dentist even if they don’t get a toy afterwards.

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            Well, I too think voting is a civic duty.

            My point being that judging by the levels of voting abstention all over the World, many (probably most) people, don’t think that.

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          there’s enough blame to go around for the non voters AND the dem leadership to be at fault for harris’s loss.

          Stopping trump should have been a good enough reason to get more people voting AND the dems should have done more to get those votes. Both are true.

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            Do Americans not have any “protest” votes, either third party candidates, or “declining” your ballot? To me, that shows that you are politically engaged and willing to take a few minutes out of your day to do your civic duty, rather than being apathetic and/or lazy.

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        I’m curious what qualifies a “democratic voter” as worthy of ridicule - can you give me some examples?

        Much like an outsider looking in at your country (whatever it is), there’s a ton of nuance to every culture. For example; I’m a decendant of a family that settled in New England in 1603 and I can’t fucking stand the 2 party system. I’ve always wanted to abolish lobbyism, set term limits on congress critters, and outlaw insider trading for both politicians and their immediate families - but my average neighbor gets exhausted if I talk about anything but the simple stupid pleasures. I identify as an adult with compassion and a vision for my kids’ future so that makes me a defacto dem because anything else is spoon-feeding the grand ole wizard party a victory.

        Tons of us have been trapped here our whole lives and have tried to organize over the years. I know it seems like all finger-pointing and inaction from afar, but it’s more nuanced than that.

        Edit: Not to mention that civil unrest is the whole point at this stage. Project 2025 has the penultimate goal of suspending the writ of habeus corpus by June 30th while simultaneously deploying the US Military as a civilian police force.

        https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763

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          Everybody who didn’t vote uncommitted in the primaries to protest against having Biden pushed down onto people by the DNC. Everybody who defended voting for Biden and lying about his mental state, when there has been plenty of videos where Biden clearly was not at the mental capacities needed to be president another 4 years.
          Everybody who immediately jumped on the Harris bandwagon, instead of demanding proper primaries, so the DNC and candidate can actually get in touch with the problems of normal people, instead of the interests of their billionaire donors.
          Everybody who didn’t demand the Democrats to stop the support for the genocide in Gaza immediately and tried to justify genocide with “well this is the less of two genocides, so it’s okay.”
          Everybody that celebrated billionaire celebrities like Taylor Swift coming out in favor of Harris, like these billionaires aren’t part of the same oligarchy that is fucking over normal people. Everybody that didn’t tell the fucking war criminal muss murder scumbags that are the Cheneys to fuck right off and get the people thrown out of Harris campaign, that had this ingenious idea.

          If you made a Venn-Diagram there would be a lot of overlap in the middle, but all of these aspects contributed to the Democrats consistently alienating voters.

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        I imagine you think you’re one of those special few that people aren’t laughing at huh?

        We’re all in some way or another part of the problem don’t try to paint yourself out.

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        No, we’re also laughing at the “yOu VoTe FeR tHe LeAsT aWfUl CaNdIDaTe” guys.

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    To be honest, I have never understood why the “average joe” ever identified with Trump, whose whole point is that he is a “successful” billionaire businessman. Why they believe he’s looking out for the little guy is beyond me.

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      I think people are reacting mainly emotionally (i.e. “I feel that this person can be trusted”) rather than doing any meaningful level of political analysis and that the attraction of many for confident loudmouth politicians is in part a reaction to a couple of decades of being swindled by soft speaking slippery suits on both sides of the isle.

      (Politically Aware people - which I imagine most of us here are - tend to expect from others similar levels of being well informed about Politics and thinking it to be important, when in reality most people do not think, care or are as well informed about politics anywhere as much as the Politically Aware)

      These things come in cycles and we’re back in the age when people are over-saturated with the “sophisticated misdirection and half-truth deceiver” type of swindler whilst not being innured to the “loud and brash liar” type of swindler, because the last couple of decades have been dominated in politics by the former kind of manipulator whilst the last time the latter type was dominant was almost a century ago.

      That’s my theory.

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      Probably one of a few things.

      • always voted R
      • one or a few, policies matter to them more than anything (abortion, tax cuts etc.)
      • likes the toxic traits (owning the libs, bigotry, pro America and fuck everyone else)
      • fell for the neo-con lie that conservative = good economy = better for everyone
      • fell for the “we’re going to help the working man” Conservative lie

      But most likely, imo, is that the average Joe is just way less politically engaged or aware, then you and your peers. They don’t see all the bullshit, bigotry, obvious lies, the way R policies will fuck them over. They just know times are tough, prices are high and “right wing dude said he’d fix it”.

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      Rural people generally on average mistrust city people. City person shows up one day and gives them riches beyond their wildest imaginations, two hundred dollars and a luxury import chocolate. Other city people say “don’t trust these gifts, that guy is a known con artist”. Rural people didn’t grow up in an environment where scammers could just get away with it, cuz they’d get beat up by the other 80 people in the town that all knew them.

      They don’t have the defenses mechanism of skepticism built in from day 1. They often do not understand the difference between the law as written vs as intended, because strict interpretation of the rules is not required for a small society of people that all generally know teachers other to function.

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      I have never understood why the “average joe” ever identified with Trump

      A major reason for the vehement support the right receives is trying to control what people can say.

      The left has itself to blame for its overreaching censorship in online spaces for why so many people feel more comfortable being part of the right.

      You can’t just tell the “average joe” that a man is a woman and vice-versa, then ban him for saying otherwise and expect him to stay on your side.

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        I think you’re right but no one wants to hear it. Everyone’s extremely polarized and people seem to be happy to point the finger and say “you voted wrong” with smug arrogance. I bet a lot of Trump voters felt like they didn’t have a better choice.

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        Can you explain what you mean with “censorship in online spaces from the left”? As far as I know, most of our digital infrastructure is in the hand of MAGA right wing billionaires (X, Facebook, Instagram) and other people who are not really known as left (Reddit, TikTok, Google/YouTube). Most of our big social networks are not doing any left wing censorship. YouTube will demonitize you when you swear enough, because advertisers don’t like that. Musk will censor you when you disagree with his politics. Trump will fire you if you mention certain words. But that is right wing censorship. So where are those spaces where the left is censoring everything that are pushing people to vote for the right?

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          You can’t just tell the “average joe” that a man is a woman and vice-versa, then ban him for saying otherwise and expect him to stay on your side.

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            You think everyone is a transphobic bigot and that’s what swayed the vote?

            There’s no helping people like you.

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      Why they believe he was ever a successful businessman is beyond me…

      The guy is a fucking rich kid moron.

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      I think it has to do with the conservative tendency to see a natural hierarchy to humanity.

      (begin sarcasm)

      Obviously, rando leopard victim currently under discussion is a member of the upper echelon of that human hierarchy. They are confused by the same things as Trump, they hate the same people as him, and they see the same TrRuTh about the world as him.

      Surely, those are enough “good people” attributes that any day now they will get swept along on the Trump train and will be out of the trailer and sitting on a golden shitter before you know it. He might even let them push the button that takes food stamps away from a brown skinned single mother!

      Or, and hey let’s be fair, maybe some of them are smarter than that. They know that no Aryan Dividends are coming their way. But they have the integrity to tough it out while the other “good” people in charge spend all their energy hurting the subhuman garbage that deserves it most. That is obviously more important than education or human rights or whatever the limp-wristed liberal cucks are crying about today.

      The money is just part of the deal when you’re one of the master race-- err, no, I mean when you’re one of the good people, the REAL Americans. It’s not like you have to be BORN already having the money or just win the lottery some other way, lol.

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      Because they don’t think of themselves as the little guy. No matter how poor they are, they’re always temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

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      Same… I have always known Trump to be an idiot… literally the stereotypical kid whose Dad is ashamed of because he decided to clown around and never accomplished anything given all the opportunities

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      I got banned from Hexbear for saying that. Apparently I’m a fascist for wanting Trump voters to get their just deserts.

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    And he will still vote red in the midterms because otherwise a trans woman might get to play darts.

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      hating a kid that might be different is more important than his farm.

      Won’t stop him from crying on camera about losing his livelihood due to his own actions, and probably low-key blame democrats for letting it happen… as these fucktards always do.

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    I saw this guy’s Tiktok on my FYP a couple of hours after he posted it, and in the comments he was DOUBLING DOWN on voting for Trump. He’s now either deleted them, or they’ve gotten buried.

    Either way I don’t think these guys are getting it, even as they lose everything.

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      Sunk cost fallacy. Also, admitting to having been wrong is hard. It’s one of the core mechanisms cults use to ensure loyalty. The more embarrassing, absurd and shameful the accepted “truths” become, the harder it is to exit the cult.