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Oh. Would have been nice to come to that conclusion ten fucking years ago!
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“Three time trump voter”
Shoulda just stopped right there.
Three. Times.
History was always there, ready to be picked up and used as a mirror. Trump has always been who he was. Cruelty, nationalism, and prejudice haven’t changed definitions. There were no secrets.
These douchenozzles are all the same. They were perfectly happy to let trump F everything up as long as it was everyone else getting F’d. As soon as it inconveniences them, they suddenly find some kind of righteous morality.
I mean to be fair he gave a good explanation i thought, slowly realizing over time that he was wrong. Yeah is he a dumbass for voting for him three times, of course. But apparently half our country is dumbasses and understanding how their minds work is key to surviving in this dumbass country.
"Do hateful bullshit to the people I don't like and I'll vote for you."
There, that's how their brains work. It's not some complicated mystery.
So why is this guy changing his mind now?
Because something Trump did affected him personally. He hasn't changed his beliefs or become a better person. He's just a selfish asshole who got fucked over.
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They were perfectly happy to let trump F everything up as long as it was everyone else getting F’d. As soon as it inconveniences them, they suddenly find some kind of righteous morality.
Yes. That's partially because many Americans are racist (or at least willing to throw someone else under the bus) and weak-minded, and partially because our education has been intentionally dismantled by the parasite class.
Now, are you more interested in lauding your own moral superiority over them (thereby making them feel unwelcome in spaces and communities able to enact actual positive change) or are you more interested in building working class consciousness?
You have to pick one.
If you're a marginalized / vulnerable person, by all means stay away from these people because yes, they are largely indoctrinated garbage and will probably make you feel unsafe. And you can disregard everything I'm saying in this comment because it's not my position to tell you how to respond to that danger.
But if you're a white liberal (not exactly a longshot guess here on Lemmy), then that is your responsibility. You aren't going to dismantle whiteness by finger-wagging and offering "I told you so" on the internet, you'll dismantle it by showing them another, better way.
It's either that or you round them up and kill them, and I don't think that would be a particularly beneficial approach (except for those convicted Nuremberg style). Otherwise, these people aren't going away and will continue to effect the trajectory of our country. You can try to help heal them, or you can deal with the consequences of them continuing to exist as a moral, spiritual, and emotional black hole.
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They're only turning against Trump now because he is the worst thing a GQPedo can be- unelectable. They only care about power. Bush was 100% their guy until the 2008 election then he was persona non grata to the point he wasn't even invited to events. DO NOT believe this "I see the truth now" BS, because the next obvious Hitler that comes along they'll be voting for three times again.
For every 1 person turning a new leaf, there are 99 ex-republicans that will be “done with politics” while constantly talking shit about liberals and never taking accountability for their own actions.
We live in a democracy. When you vote for someone that does horrible things, that’s like hiring someone to do horrible things for you. They are “just following orders” from you, the voter.
It would help if Republicans could distinguish between the actual "radical left" and the center-right (and moving further right) DNC. If they knew actual leftist policies, many would support them, as has been shown in a bunch of those "tricking Trump voters" Youtube videos. Unfortunately they've been conditioned to fear words like "socialism" and "communism" so you have to wrap the concepts in cheese, metaphorically, while feeding it to them.
We live in a democracy.
We live in a plutocracy. Otherwise the Biden Admin would've ended all aid to Pissrael and the Trump Admin wouldn't have gone to war with Iran. Otherwise the data center using 2x the energy of the entire state of Utah wouldn't have been approved. Otherwise cannabis would be federally legal.
We only have the illusion of democracy. Democracy theater.
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"but we don’t learn from history"
Nah bitch, YOU don't learn. Don't try to lump me in with your inability to feel compassion or hold a coherent thought.
Trump is like Hitler for even stupider people.
There were no boomers in the 1930s, life expectancy was 62. We now have demented voting for demented.
73 year old Hawaii resident Richard Sniffer regrets voting repeatedly for Trump now that his gas prices are way higher.
Pedophilia? Ok
Corruption? Ok
Mass killings in wars ? Ok
Cutting social services? Ok
Record debt? Ok
$4.90 a tank of gas? Whoa...HANG ON THERE...
Most conservatives are literally incapable of giving a fuck about bad things happening unless they directly impact themselves.
"Now that it affects me I'm mad at him". Not the myriad other reasons no sane person wouldn't vote for mango Mussolini
And he's voting Republican again. Gotta make those college libs cry.
He even says "gotta vote democrat even if you dont like them" this is what hope looks like
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Get fucked, Johnny come lately. That's all been obvious since 2015. You weren't brainwashed, you're just a Nazi who got conned.
We need to make sure they remember it. A mark of the beast if you will.
Yeah but that was make believe Hollywood. Many Nazis led good long lives in the US after WW2.
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