• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour ago

    I get all of the comments here. I understand the anger and distain that so many of you are feeling over the current state of things. I share in many of the frustrations and anger.

    But it depresses me that Trump won’t run for office again. He will be replaced by someone and the entire pool of former Trumpers will see that person and think that they can do all the things they hoped that Trump would do.

    Even if Trump exits office without doing any further significant harm, the people who have made these kinds of revelations, like in the OP, will probably still vote for the same party, in spite of it all. Sure, they may never vote for Trump again, but they’ll never get the chance to anyways, so who cares?

    This was calculated.

    Don’t be surprised if the next candidate follows the same playbook as Trump, and don’t be surprised if the MAGA crowd falls for it again.

    The only way forward, to ensure that this kind of damage is stopped, is to rally together in sufficient numbers to ensure that these folks don’t get into office any more. The absentee voters need to get out and vote.

    I am confident that the numbers would work out if we could get enough people to the voting booth.

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    7 hours ago

    When someone leaves a cult, ya got two choices. Accept them or reject them. If you reject them they’ll just run straight to another cult

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      She voted 3 times for a racist idiot. The last time she knew he was also a pedo.

      I may have missed some posts, but I didn’s see a word about deportations tearing apart families. She’s cool with that. She’s angry because Trump hurt the “wrong gmoups”. He was supposed to hurt only some other groups.

      Fortunately for me, I don’t live in the US, I am not a US citizen, and I don’t have to “accept her”.

      I bet she will rally behind the next guy promising to hurt “others”, but posing as anti-Trump because he hurt some “good” Americans.

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    6 hours ago

    Maybe all of you on Lemmy see this and sigh, but there’s a lot of MAGA supporters out there who might need to see this.

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      They would most likely claim this is dem fake news and/or put the responsibility of her demise on her.

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    7 hours ago

    Patriotic but only to one particular citizen America as a whole can get in the bin that’s the real American patriotism

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    12 hours ago

    Our little victim doesn’t even know basic vocabulary. This was not “gaslighting”. It was plain old “lying”. Simple, easy to spot, as long as you try.

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    The rest was rich, though.

    Children are starving due to no fault of their own. Senior citizens are going without their medications just so they can afford to eat.

    Politely shut the fuck up.

    We see you.

    Starting when?

    Do they ever own up to their poor judgement flying in the face of all the blatant, nonstop bullshit since before he began?

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      Children are starving due to no fault of their own because of me. Senior citizens are going without their medications just so they can afford to eat because of me.

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      If she saw the future she’d still vote for Trump. The core ideology is something she agrees with and is happy with many of the policies being carried out. She’s just not happy about the random way it is being carried out that is leading to collateral damage to groups of her kind that weren’t supposed to be affected.

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      I mean better late than never. Though it should be pointed out, that her rejecting Trump doesn’t mean that her beliefs changed, just that she’s Trump for the liar that he is.

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        It’s the party of pure selfishness, they do not understand empathy. Until they themselves are affected at all, they won’t understand .

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        That video Don’t be a Sucker should be mandatory yearly viewing. It won’t solve everything but people would learn to better recognize the divide and isolate patterns.

        Or maybe not. Humans are complicated.

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        This is the case for most people. People change their opinions when they’re personally affected because first hand personal experience is as real as its going to get.

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    Cute, but of course it’s fake, a ‘feel-good’ post for the left. Some of the phrasing (‘we see you’, ‘Sit down’, etc) exposes this as someone on the left impersonating a magat. MAGA simply does not talk like that.

    Look at the profile and timeline. It’s all anti-trump, anti-repub stuff, just done in a way to sound like coming from a conservative POV. No posts bashing Democrats which a real maga account would definitely have.

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      Maybe, but there is a genuine shift among the right where they’re turning against Trump. Trump has been relevant in politics for a decade, and I have never, ever seen a bigger uproar against him within the right than when refused to release the Epstein files. That was the very first time that I thought “oh shit, this is different”

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        You’re probably right. It’s only a small step from saying she worked on his campaign to understanding that she had a role in it and therefore some responsibility, but yeah. One small step for normal people, one giant leap for MAGA.

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      The reason why history closed the chapter of tankies pretty firmly in the 20th century is because it became apparent to people all over the world that the revolution is fueled by hateful, spiteful, and ignorant individuals like you who seek vengeance, destruction, and misery under the guise of dreamy ideals. In other words you and Trump aren’t too different in this regard.

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        I do not seek vengeance, but that does not mean forgiveness.

        We must build a better world without their input or consent. we must have a world where everyone is free and have access to a dignified life. But that does not mean to forgive them let alone forget what they did. They should have access to the same lives everyone else have access to, but they will do so without friends, without family, with everyone spiting them. They have proven themselves to be selfish sociopaths, and even if you were to be foolish enough to forgive them, you should not forget that they are selfish and will likely throw you to the wolves if it benefits them.

        This is for the average MAGA voter. for those who joined ICE, or were Pundits, or directly involved in the regime. Jail. Do you think we should have pardoned everyone in the Nuremberg trials?