I'm pretty sure that at least the 80% of them feels like shit right now.
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Just wait until Project 2025 slams home and tears the shit out of women's rights. Shitheads.
Plenty of Republican women voters are post-menopausel already. Plenty are insistent that their daughters get pregnant already, or that their son's sexual partners carry a fetus to term.
This isn't a gender thing nearly so much as a class thing.
White women are almost as bad as white men in the USA.
- Signed, white dude from USA
almost!?
White women tend not to be mass shooters, for instance
Don't worry, if a white woman commits a mass shooting, they'll just say she's trans & warp the rhetoric.
Leftist antifa
Truly, they're interchangeable depending kn the circumstances.
Let us not forget our fine Latino men and women. Men 50% women 43%. Another target / supporter of the government.
Let us not forget our fine Latino men and women. Men 50% women 43%.
Lots of expats from Venezuela and Cuba who see Republicans as patrons for their clans. And Republicans reward these blocks with special privileges - prioritization for immigration, exception from state violence, lucrative positions in both the legal and illegal economy.
Marco Rubio got his start selling concaine on behalf of his brother in law Orlando Cicilia, for instance. He was able to rapidly rise through the political scene by playing in an industry the CIA had long staked out for Cuban exiles.
The Latino vote I fully understand. They are predominantly Catholic and strongly oppose abortions. The Latinos voted for ICE boots on thier neck rather than women's rights ... and they got exactly what they voted for.
It's easier to scare people when they have no idea what's reasonable to be scared of
https://newrepublic.com/post/188061/white-women-harris-trump-exit-polls
Donald Trump has won the majority of white women voters for the third straight time
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-11-07/white-women-vote-donald-trump-kamala-harris
There’s no mystery. White women handed Trump the election
The answer isn’t that deep: The majority of white women in this country want a male president — preferably white. That’s not me talking; that’s nearly a century of voting data speaking.
Nothing more disgusting than a woman or minority that votes conservative.
What kind of human enjoys having a boot on their neck?
Disclaimer: the following is just my opinion and not to be taken as gospel. This is not financial advice.
The hope for them is that one day, after proving their ability to suffer a boot upon their neck, they will have proved themselves as worthy to put their boot on someone's neck.
How does one perpetuate slavery?
Turn some of the slaves into masters.
I mean, if it's the right person, in the right boot, at the right time. That could be a fun Friday night. Don't shame my, albeit hypothetical, kink.
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46% of Latinos voted for trump. We really need to battle the billionaire owned propaganda Machine
Many Latinos are super religious. It’s not just the billionaire propaganda machine it’s centuries of indoctrination from the Catholic Church. Even if the billionaire propaganda machine didn’t exist and every news media outlet is factual, independent and transparent many will still vote for an R because of their religious beliefs.
The Catholic Church is openly opposed to this administration so a vote for Trump was a vote against the pope so nice try but no
I don't think Latinos are idiots who believe whatever they read. I think they're generally as smart as any other racial group, and they possess the ability to think critically and make informed decisions. I have spoken with many Latinos who voted for Trump. I think many people don't understand that Mexicans and South Americans are generally socially and fiscally conservative. They're often Christian and have strong proletarian work ethics.
This is a nonsensical argument the republicans literally always add trillions to the debt, funnel all the government money to their criminal friends and cause a recession. Fiscal responsibility isn’t a conservative value they’re just brainwashed. ALSO and more importantly you were not able to comprehend what I was saying at all. We have a good portion of the United states brainwashed by billionaire owned propaganda and voting to shoot themselves in the foot. My point wasn’t that Latinos are dumb and that was pretty obvious it was that we have a serious propaganda issue
Racism in the United States is astonishing. As a non-American, until Obama’s time, I used to think that, there was just some institutional racism left over from past decades and a few extremists in the South—but not much else. After Obama, it’s incredible how most white people have become extremely right-wing extremists, all because of a single president of mixed descent. Now, the problem seems enormous, and a solution doesn’t appear to be anywhere in sight.
it’s incredible how most white people have become extremely right-wing extremists
Whoah whoah whoah there. Not most, just a very loud, very visible minority which receive signal boost from the Epstein class's media consent manufactories.
What's astonishing to me, as an American who grew up in white conservative rural and suburban areas, is that the racism is just one facet of a much larger shitty state of existence.
I see the same things IRL from ordinary people, like extended family, that I see from the people in the media who seem like hyperbolic caricatures trying to test Poe's law.
It's just an existence based in negativity. Every request has a hurried frustrated tone. Every discussion is composed entirely of complaints. The complaints about others are bigoted sure, but also very focused on money and material possessions which those other people never deserve and the speaker is neverrrrr jealous about. Personal identity is built from all the things you don't like.
I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.
I have a good relationship with my family, but they are still miserable and draining to be around.
Why would you tolerate this?
I find the balance. They are less than a half hour drive away and we don't see them all that often.
My kid has grandparents and cousins he likes. Fortunately at most of the get-togethers at grandma's house, we tend to separate into two floors of the house. So I get to hang with my nieces and nephews and spend most of the time with walls between me and the old miserable people.
Seeing Americans label Obama as the most “divisive” president was eye opening…
Meanwhile, Trump was saying Obama isn’t even a US citizen! All while specific persons are saying Obama is dividing the nation…
It’s disgusting…
Don't get me wrong, he did plenty of divisive things. Pioneering the idea that the president can just call in a drone strike without the approval of Congress if he can get a quick kill in, for example.
But that's just an 'improvement' on the same shit that every US Prez has done since the Gulf of Tonkin. Literally every single one has authorized the use of extrajudicial authority to silence their critics or exercised military clout without approval. The War Powers Act of 1973 functionally gave away the most important power the representatives had. They've just invented a casus belli and gone to town, every god damn time.
Obama wasn't divisive, not by comparison. He was an improvement. At the very least he acted like there was some kind of civilized intent behind the enormous war machine he was driving. Recently, we just haven't had the luxury of a President that is polite enough to let us ignore how brutal this hellhole really is.
I’m a white American from the northeast and I felt the same way. When trump won the first time, it felt like I’d just discovered that the floor underneath my bed was rotting away.
I was blind to it because I didn’t need to see it, but it was always there. My relative privilege insulated me and ensured that I contributed to the problem
I am from Boston, northeast has always been super racist and still is.
We just hide our racism by using different words, like 'those people'. Go to any town/city meeting and you will see 50% of the people going up to talk about their 'concerns' using phrases like that. It's all very veiled and vague, for sure, but it's incredibly obvious what they mean. Being racist here is 100% cool as long as you are not doing it directly.
And hell, most of my white progressive anti-racists friends, are very very uncomfortable around non-white people. I had the 'privileged' of growing up a lower-income mixed race community, but most of my peers have zero experience with non-white people.
Well yeah, but there’s also naked and aggressive racism, like lynchings, for example, that I just didn’t notice before. I mentioned where I’m from because I also thought that only happened “in the south.”
Neither is acceptable, to be clear, and both happen all over the US, tragically.
After Obama, it’s incredible how most white people have become extremely right-wing extremists
That hasn’t been my anecdotal observation. Obama’s election definitely freaked out the existing White racists and motivated them to get more politically active, but I haven’t seen non-racist Whites suddenly become racist because a Black man finally got elected president. Where are you seeing this? Better yet, is there research or polling data documenting it?
I think it's more that a lot of racists hid it rather than openly reveling in it like they do now.
Ding ding ding we have a winner. Trump emboldened them to crawl out of their hidey holes and air their grossness in public.
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As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.
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