Cross posted from Discuit

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    44 minutes ago

    All my Trump neighbors are rental tenants so they get shuffled in and out every year by their landlords. A few MAGA banner fliers as well as a few families with small kids all got kicked out my neighborhood this last year for Sale signs to go up.

    • smayonak@lemmy.world
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      24 minutes ago

      They were tricked by a propaganda machine. They may have been willing participants but had they known everything they never would have voted against their own interests. Yet every country in the western hemisphere, South America, Africa, Asia, and well everywhere doesn’t have anti propaganda laws. If you’re rich you can buy influence in any neo liberal country. Why is that?

  • thingAmaBob@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Trump crap was taken down on any neighbor’s homes (and there weren’t many) except one (and they have it kinda hidden) after 2020. Anyone supporting Trump at this point is an idiot, cruel, or both.

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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      54 minutes ago

      Trump support has been on full display in my area without interruption. “Don’t blame me, I voted for Trump” are the ones I’m keeping my eyes on the most, waiting for them to disappear.

    • Hacksaw@lemmy.ca
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      It’s almost half the country though, he’s got like 46% of people approve of what he’s doing. I guess they’re just less in your face about it.

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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        That isn’t true. Only 31% of adults voted for him vs 30% for Harris. The majority of adults didn’t vote because they didn’t like either candidate.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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    The trump sign probably only came down so they could put it back up at whatever trailer park they move into. They’ll gladly vote for the next trump-aligned fascist. These people are incapable of learning.

    • 13igTyme@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      Yup. Realtor likely took it down because any political flag will devalue a house or turn away potential buyers.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    We really need a Herman Cain Award for Trumpers who have lost their livelihoods. I used to love the old compilations of dozens of posts only to have the inevitable “COVID ain’t no joke”.

  • plz1@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    It’s kind of scary that 3 weeks is all it took for them to list their home.

    • blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world
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      Doesn’t seem likely unless he was renting. Even if you miss one mortgage payment, your bank can’t take your house that fast. If he was renting, he might have been threatened with eviction and chose to leave.

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Bet he also had a $100k truck parked in front of that home. Bought with a loan with 12% interest

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      If their whole financial system is built on getting the next paycheck or else, this is quite to be expected. He might even be smart (for a magahead) putting it on the market as early as possible instead of clinging to it.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      It’s kind of scary that 3 weeks is all it took for them to list their home.

      The neighbor is part of the (in 2019) 51%.

      “Most Working Americans Would Face Economic Hardship If They Missed More than One Paycheck”

      source

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        8 hours ago

        Man, that’s tragic. I was poor most of my early life, and when I finally started to make enough money to be comfortable, I knew that the thing I couldn’t do was fall into the lifestyle trap. Living well below my means saved me so much hardship when things weren’t going well. I know that many don’t ever get to the point of comfortable, though, and there’s a bit of luck and effort, to that.

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          8 hours ago

          I wish we could do that. Renting and buying houses today makes it incredibly difficult to live very far below your means.

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        10 hours ago

        And on top of that for most government workers their paychecks have been remarkably stable. Assuming you’ll always be employed plus easy credit and bad financial habits are a bad combination

    • DasAlbatross@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      This person was happy to screw other people over and voted for it. The fact that they’re reaping the results of the hate they sewed makes me happy and I don’t feel the least bit bad about it.

    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      If this were a normal, fairly subjective disagreement, I’d feel the same way.

      If this were a medium level disagreement and they were objectively wrong, I’d also feel the same way.

      Supporting Trump is stunningly, objectively wrong, and in doing so they’re basically doing the opposite of this. They’re supporting lots of people losing a lot more than their homes.

      I fully support being happy about it.

      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        The sad part about it is that they’re probably blaming the democrats or the illegal immigrants or Zelensky or some other ridiculous bullshit, instead of facing reality…

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      10 hours ago

      happy

      I think the only reason people ever say things like this make them ‘happy’ is in the absence of a more accurate label.

      In a country devoid of legal justice, we’ve basically just been confronted by a thug who, while attempting to mug us at gunpoint, shot his own dick off when he was attempting to pull the firearm from his pants.

      So for the victim, there’s a degree of relief that the threat from that specific thug is now over (unfortunately we’re being simultaneously mugged by thousands of other identical thugs…), a complete lack of empathy for the thug from the victim (if you put my life in danger, I suddenly don’t give a single fuck about the quality or preservation of yours); and a recognition of the comical irony of the thug’s own weapon being the thing that disabled him.

      Against the contrast we’ve grown accustomed to of getting mugged and watching our assailants face zero consequences, the above stands out as uniquely positive, albeit morbid.

      Another angle: if you’ve persisted on dirty, sewage contaminated water your entire life; then get the opportunity to drink a glass of pure, clean water, you might call it sweet even if it isn’t literally so; it just seems that way relative to the vile biohazard you’re used to.

      So, happiness? No. The closest we’ll be able to get to happiness? Yeah, probably.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        I think the only reason people ever say things like this make them ‘happy’ is in the absence of a more accurate label.

        Schadenfreude? Commonly translated to English as “joy at seeing other’s misfortune.” I hope in most cases it is more associated with seeing someone in the wrong receiving their comeuppance. The joy of watching your enemy suffer a setback or even defeat.

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      In every rational situation, I would fully agree. But this man elected someone who told them, to their face, that they would be downsizing the government. The WORKED for the government. I want to call it stupidity, but it was maliciousness that backfired, so yeah. Fuck em.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      I get that we want to gloat. Because we were right. But what happens with this person? Does he see how wrong he was? Does he attempt to change his ways, and influence others who thought the same? Does this bring about any kind of positive change? Or does he just go live in his pickup truck with a camper shell and blame Obama and Biden because he’s poor now?

    • mysticpickle@lemmy.ca
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      Think you’re in the wrong community man. We’re here to revel in the schadenfreude no holds barred.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      10 hours ago

      I’m simply happy that they’re seeing what they wanted for other people. They voted for the man who openly said he would make life harder and kick people out of their homes, and they gleefully enjoyed it thinking it was only people they disliked.

      I’m all for people learning lessons the hard way when they refused to see reason. Especially when the reason was to be kind and empathetic in the first place.

    • wookiepedia@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      He’s not losing his home, it’s the bank’s home, being passed along to a new owner. He literally voted for what’s happening right now, you reap what you sow.