• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Hope it hurts.

    Pain is the only way conservatives can learn. Not that I’m holding my breath for them to learn anything. I’d have had to hold my breath for over 40 years now.

    At this point I’m just hoping nature weeds enough of them out that they can’t represent a valid voting block anymore.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      They are going to blame Democrats.

      I think Chomsky talked about this when discussing the “Angry White Male” phenomenon back in the 90s. That’s why things like Faux were running at a loss for something like 5 years, why there is wingnut welfare everywhere, why hate radio is everywhere, why the Regnery Press exists, and so on.

      They are happy if these people are angry (and they are justified to be angry) and then they can “educate” them as to how it’s the fault of uppity women, people with degrees, liberals, people in cities, POC, gays, trans, foreigners who are not “grateful” enough, and definitely the fault of the Democrats…

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    7 days ago

    I am legit thankful that we have such an incompotent brand of fascism in the US. This would have been much harder if they’d had even a modicum of patience or cleverness instead of just cruelty.

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    8 days ago

    If they’d just depart the last of the immigrants, we’d get those jobs

    –Red States Probably

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    7 days ago

    Just 2 years and 5 months to go of trumps presidency. We’re 39.6% of the way done with him. The poor in the red states will probably be dead by then, social security gone and the dollar, global trade and markets permanently ruined, but at least it’ll be over. We’ll undoubtedly be at war then too, with someone or another. Probably an ally.

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    9 days ago

    I just can’t muster any sympathy anymore. I feel bad for their kids, but these people gleefully voted for monsters, and don’t get to act surprised when they become the monsters’ victims.

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      9 days ago

      They’re monsters too (not the kids).

      They’ve spent a decade ignoring all facts. All pleas from their family, friends, and fellow Americans to look at things objectively and reasonably. They’ve sacrificed everything to support a felon rapist pedophile and his sycophants. That makes them monsters too.

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    9 days ago

    If they think the red states are goijng to learn any lessons at all, they will be sorely mistake.

    Also, the real pain starts after mid-terms when grandmas medicade and medicare run out. Have fun moving grammy into your trailerhouse fucking red state losers.

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      8 days ago

      I’v been watching this with something almost approaching glee.

      A lot of the polling places in my red state are in nursing home lobbies. This means it is much, much easier for Ida amd Gertrude to come downstairs and vote strait republican, so they can get Ike into office or something. Some of them have no idea who they are voting for, or worse they see trimp as a towering intellect because he talks exactly like they do.

      These people can vote without even going outside. The rest of us have to deal with bosses not letting people vote, or traffic, or no vehicle to get to a polling place, or any number of barriers that a senile old person in a nursing home won’t have to deal with.

      My glee comes from the fact that they are voting themselves homeless. Their children don’t have a trailer. They may have a 2 bedroom apartment. They cannot take care of their elderly relatives, or worse, they are already caring for another. There just isn’t any room for them, there isnt anyone to care for them. Everyone has to work.

      By and large, the people in the nursing homes voted for this.

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    9 days ago

    If they are starved slowly and piecemeal then there may never be enough desperate people to act together effectively. If they are being starved quickly, then I’d wonder who is trying to aim them and where?

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    8 days ago

    WV was solidly blue until the MAGA cancer capitalized on neoliberal dem failures. Hopefully they see MAGA has been a bigger failure and come to their senses.