Leopards Ate My Face

These stories often hit me with a pang of pity at first. Poor, dumb, moronic idiots, I just want to hug them and pat them on the head like the snotnosed children they are.

But as you pointed out, they were roped in to this with promises of cruelty toward others. It's hard to muster up empathy for that.

Do you understand what your country is yet? Because "citizens" are chattel and only money makers matter to those in power.

Right? My immediate thought was "They're against the 'LGBTQ Agenda'? I was immediately hooked as I believe people just living their lives is an affront to me and I wanted to hurt others".

Bigots getting what they deserve. Cry me a river.

Everyone is getting what this bigot deserves. Don't gloat. Their misfortune is ours as well.

Notice how she doesn't connect the dots that bigotry against one group typically means bigotry amongst many.

Why do people harbor hatred for people living their own life. It astonishes me to no end

“I can’t believe the man I supported to hurt people is hurting people!” 😢

"But I wanted the gays to live in fear, not me!!"

The one commonality between all the conservatives I know (both rich and poor) is that they cannot or do not care about anything that isn't obviously and directly affecting them.

100% all of this. Fuck this soulless hag.

Nah she just thought they would go out in the streets and hunt down the gays, which for a deranged person probably sounds like a pretty good thing

Funny how, as a trans person, I'm always terrified in bathrooms and she voted to basically have me killed.

She only knows an ounce of the fear LGBTQ+ people live under.

Like a fish. Guess she didn’t stop to think what happens when the fish gets reeled in

This is parroted a lot by commentators online but I'm increasingly convinced it isn't true. I think showing pity or understanding for these kind of braindead bigots actually encourages the rare braindead bigot reading social media to hold on longer. I'm old enough to remember these statements made in 2016, pleading to gently convert conservatives into liberals. Instead we see a continual ratcheting of bigotry and hate against the left, because it appears not compassionate, but weak.

I think that if instead people went online and saw universal derision and scorn for these people, they would quietly revise their worldview. As it is, it seems like each MAGA voter needs to experience consequences personally before they revise their stance. Folks need to remember that conservative media is telling these "low-information voters" that minorities and "liberals" desperately want to destroy them. So when we say "oh no, come on over!" it seems like a trap, or like we are disingenuous.

You also need to consider that social media is so ideologically fractured by algorithm and media preference, you need to go out of your way to find a dissenting viewpoint. Basically all political punditry is performative at this point, with zero minds being swayed by logical arguments.

This is why I've stopped feeling or expressing remorse for any MAGA folks who suffer under the regime.

You don't get to tell people who are harmed, oppressed, and marginalized that they have to play nice with their oppressors. If you choose to take that task upon yourself, that's fine and noble but you don't tell a rape victim that they have to speak to their rapist after they realize they might have done something wrong. That's not how this works. That person wanted LGBTQ people harmed. Point blank. You don't tell LGBTQ people to play nice with them now.

Yes, I understand the political calculus at play. Yes, I'm an activist and organizer with over 20 years of experience in this. Yes, I know what's at stake.

Too bad. That's now how it works. My advice, keep people like her clear of people who will call her stupid (and worse), not the other way around.

And when she ACTUALLY understands why she's a horrid person, maybe then others will be willing to not attack her.

Until then, she's unrepentant, unreformed, and a repugnant human being and many will rightfully tell her that in no uncertain terms.

As a bisexual autistic man, I no longer want political traction.

The reactionary proles and reactionary immigrants that voted with the native fascists and wealthy fascists deserve whatever comes to them. They deserve worse.

I hope everything fucking burns, even if I'm in the fire. I'm intensely disgusted.

I will never feel any authentic positive emotion towards strangers in the US again.

I have tried playing nice with these people - truly, I have. I've listened to their side of the issue, I've given them the benefit of the doubt, and I've engaged with them in good faith for years hoping that compassion and empathy along with facts and science have the capacity to change minds, albeit slowly.

The simple truth is that some people need to be bullied. They need to be ridiculed and made to feel foolish, because otherwise they have no motivation to better themselves.

We, as a collective, have gone too soft on these folk. We treat all of their worst ideas and base impulses as having the same merit as those of a well researched and educated political policy.

Because of that, we're stuck arguing the absurd with morons, desperately trying to convince them that the earth is round, those clouds in the sky are just vaporized water, and vaccines won't give you autism or make you gay, instead of approaching reasonable disagreement like "should we levy a 1% sales tax or issue a one-time bond to pay for necessary infrastructure repair?" and other such sleep-inducing matters you used to be able to find on C-SPAN.

She sounds like a bigot. I think it's okay to say that she's not just stupid.

She's stupid++