• L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      That was my first thought. My heart bleeds for you. I wish I could help you. But you’re beyond help and I’m just gonna laugh instead.

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        And for the Arabs who voted for Trump thinking he’s going to help with Palestinians. How stupid do you have to be?

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          Maybe I’m just a bleeding heart librul, but I really do feel sorry for these people. They’re absolutely getting what they deserve, but they’ve been brainwashed. Propaganda is a powerful thing.

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            I am a liberal. But I have none left for these morons. Since I don’t understand them, I must be out of touch too. But I live in Canada, and I don’t have any poor black american friends.

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              I live in the Southern hemisphere. Far away from these idiots. But I still feel like their education system and their country as a whole has failed them, leading to this idiocy.

              ETA: That’s why I still feel somewhat sorry for them even though I’m laughing at how stupid it is.

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          I mean so far even if we give him no credit for the ceasefire he hasn’t done anything to Palestinians so far. I mean I get that you hate that Trump won but leopards haven’t ate that particular group of faces yet.

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              Yes, that ceasefire.

              Trump was definitely part of that ceasefire, as evidenced by how Netanyahu rejected this exact same deal when Biden proposed it last time in May. If you have a plausible reason that he suddenly changed his mind from even a month earlier (where there were no mentions at all of a ceasefire) then let’s hear it, otherwise Trump is the only explanation. We all hate the orange man here but objectively speaking Trump is a lot more plausible as a explanation than Biden’s lackluster “negotiations” finally bearing fruit coincidentally right before Trump’s inauguration.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    Melik Abdul is one of the nation’s rising conservative voices.

    A radio host, political analyst and strategist with over 15 years of public and private sector experience; Melik’s unique ability to connect with audiences has made him a regular contributor across the ideological spectrum.

    Since walking away from the Democratic Party in 2016, he has embraced his role as a key player in advancing the conservative movement.

    https://www.melikabdul.com/

    A black Muslim MAGA? What a fucking moron.

    Wanna bet $50 he went to GOP because he hates queers?

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    What a surprising turn of events! Who could’ve possibly predicted this? Are you telling me that the party founded on hate for anyone who isn’t a rich white guy is making things harder for whoever isn’t a rich white guy? Preposterous!

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        Yeah I meant the modern republican party. It’s kind of ironic that the party that freed the slaves is also the one that wants them back.

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      I know this is nitpicky semantics and all, but the party technically was not founded on hate for anyone who isn’t a rich white guy, it was at one point the party of opposition to slavery but after the Civil War ended and reparations began the parties sort of shifted and became moderate and heavily bipartisan until that all changed in the 1960s when Democrat President Lindon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and political parties continued to polarize in the rise of the information era until reaching the peaks we’re currently at.

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        Billionaire fascists have no friends, they have accomplices and pawns. Both are disposable once they served their purpose, much like the values and principles said billionaires pretend to stand for.
        The only thing they value is themselves and their innate disdain for everybody else.

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    The painful part is he didn’t even say anything like “I regret voting for you!” It was more like “I am strongly considering reducing the level of my support for you!”

    Not that Don needs his support anymore. I almost feel like one of the biggest messages to keep pushing is: “Don doesn’t care about you.” As far as I can find, he hasn’t even put out any comments on the pardoned Jan 6 rioter that was killed in a traffic stop.

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      Careful, sounds like you’re slipping into the old racist “noble savage” trope. Remember why Biden got backlash for telling someone “you ain’t black” because he had reservations about voting for the democrats?

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        This has nothing to do with noble savages etc. Trump has said and done many racist things directed at black people. He has provided aid, comfort, and pardons to white supremacists. If you are part of a group that Trump targets and disdains and you still vote for Trump, it doesn’t matter how you justify it (hate for trans people, greed, etc.). It makes no sense for a non-white person to be support a white supremacist. As for white Trump voters - they finally found their hitler.

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          You’re saying that no sane PoC would vote for Trump, when a significant number of PoC voted for him. That sounds a lot like you’re saying their perspective is invalid and they need to adopt your perspective. Hence, it follows the noble savage trope.

          Have you ever wondered why they would vote for someone who openly says racist things?

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            The noble savage trope is about the supposed moral and physical superiority of people living in a natural, pre-industrial environment. It simply doesn’t apply. Do I think that people who vote for trump have an invalid perspective? Yes I do. Do they need to adopt my perspective? There are lots of people I don’t agree with who don’t support fascism. I am not such a believer in moral relativism to think that anyone is above criticism for their political opinions.

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              You didn’t answer my question, have you ever (honestly) wondered why PoC would vote for Trump over a Democrat? You have every right to criticize them, but it doesn’t sound like you’ve put any thought into why they disagree with you. The result is you will say things that alienate and dehumanize them, which is counterproductive.

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                Fair enough. Here is my take on why a person might vote for trump (aside from bigotry, hatred of trans people, etc): I think some people consider a Trump vote a protest vote. The condition of many black people in America has been bad under both democrats and republicans (though for the last several decades, republicans have been demonstrably worse). Institutional racism is real, and people are angry about the status quo. I think many people feel like both democrats and establishment republicans have failed them, and voting for an outsider might be a way to shake up the system. However, as a protest vote, Trump is a poor choice. He is the apotheosis of white privilege. He was born rich. His family business was notorious for discriminating against black people (both under DJT and his father). His own family members have warned the public that Trump is racist towards black people. His comments and actions during his first term are not consistent with a leader who wants to help people of colour. Trump is definitely shaking things up, but it won’t be in a way that benefits anyone but straight white Christians of means.

                I agree that alienating and dehumanizing voters can be counterproductive in a democracy. If democrats want to win next time, they have to persuade some portion of non-voting and republican-voting Americans to vote democrat instead. There are many methods of persuasion, though - and not all people are amenable to all forms of persuasion. No one likes to feel foolish, and surely some people who voted for Trump are feeling a bit foolish right now. Pointing out ironic examples like this guy who supported Trump and is gradually learning to regret his decision might have some merit.

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                  Thanks, I honestly want expecting that kind of a response.

                  I’m sure there are some who voted out of protest, but only someone who identifies as a Democrat/leftist would vote for Trump out off protest.

                  Another reason I’ve heard is that Trump doesn’t try to hide his bad side. Democrat (read: neoliberal) policies tend to favor corporations over individuals, and homeowners over renters. Guess which race is more likely to own home and have a stock portfolio?

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    Dude just needs to shut the fuck up. You voted for this you goddamn moron! You voted the guy in that wants to revert to a chattle system you absolute dunce.

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      Yes, he is a dumbass, but frankly this is exactly what’s needed. More and more of his base having reality hit them in the face, complaining loudly, and fracturing his support.

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        Sure would’ve been nice to have that without fucking over everyone else at the same time

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    The irony here is that Trump’s coalition was so broad because these minority groups felt abandoned when Biden didn’t fulfill his promises, but everyone here is kind of just pretending Harris would have actually done something for them. Whether it was inflation, cop cities, endless war, abortion repeal, or assisting in the perpetration of child genocide, Dems did a really shitty job.

    And for those of you about to whine about ‘both sides-ism’, yes, both of you do lie and make extravagant promises during campaign time, and then always fail to deliver.

    But you still vote Democrat and Republican anyway.

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      The point is this guy VOTED for this. He’s not taking the both sides bs argument. He actively supported this, there is a bigggggg difference.

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        I do appreciate that he isn’t just pretending Trump is powerless like Democrats always do after the election.

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      When Democrats lose, there’s endless navel-gazing and wondering what went wrong. If there was enough minority outreach, if there was enough non-minority outreach, what policies should’ve been passed or left on the cutting room floor.

      When Republicans lose, they simply don’t give a fuck. No one on the right was asking after Trump’s loss in 2020 whether it was a mistake to let him run again or if he should’ve done an interview with Charlamagne the God. They just doubled down on Trump.

      The point isn’t to say Democrats should be more like Republicans. Republicans are a loony cult, no one should be like them. The point is that there is an extreme and insane double standard, and anyone who acts like Democrats are the ones who need to be harsher on their candidates is hard to take seriously.

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        are the ones who need to be harsher on their candidates is hard to take seriously.

        LOL, I remember in Biden’s State of the Union when he ridiculed the Defund the Police movement, and it became crystal clear that you were voting fascist no matter who you picked.

        Fuck yes Dems should be more discerning, but it’s not like you the voter have any power. It’s the rich picking your candidates for you too.

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          Maybe you will should’ve picked a more marketable slogan than the one that makes it sound like you wanna just let criminals win. There’s a difference between a fascist and a gutless politician. Trump is the former, Biden is the latter. What leftists need is the ability to recognize shades of grey and the notion of getting somewhere step by step instead of trying to convince people to leap all the way down the stairs.

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            There’s a difference between a fascist and a gutless politician. Trump is the former, Biden is the latter.

            The only difference is one says mean things and one doesn’t. That’s it. Biden supported cop cities (and by extension, murderous cops), didn’t do anything to actually make life livable in America for most (and in fact, wanted to make banks report lower balances so they could tax gig workers harder), and enthusiastically supplied WMD’s to a genocide. That to me is pretty darn fascist.

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      Sure, let’s say “things didn’t improve much” and “they’re actively trying to kill us” is the very exact same thing, and justify taking sides with the later.

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      Yeah and I guess you vote third party or not at all which also is a vote for trump. Or maybe you’re not even in the US. Pie in the sky idealism is great but unless you’re organizing and changing the system BEFORE a generationally crucial election, and you voted third party (aka for trump) then you are just as naive and you’ll suffer along with everyone else for your ridiculous unrealistic ideals.

      Harris would not have doomed us all to climate change or borked the whole fed government (the consequences of which we’re already seeing and will only get much worse in the coming months) and definitely wouldn’t have blamed a plane crash on all non-white people with straight up Jim Crow era messaging. Your comment is disingenuous or severely misinformed.