• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    I want the World BETTER for Everyone so I Voted for the Man who Campaigned on LITERALLY making the World WORSE for the Majority of People!

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      13 hours ago

      Given what they said regarding disagreeing with Trump’s current actions, why did you feel like your response was the best way to engage?
      After the repeated examples over the last decade, I think everyone in the world should have learned by now that shame, aggression, and shade dripping with schadenfreude doesn’t change opinions or actions.
      If you are truly concerned about making things worse for others, you might want to examine the way you interact with other human beings. Because the short term dopamine isn’t worth contributing to the division that’s been made worse by targeted, algorithmic influence.
      We are all being fed a curated version of reality designed to appeal to our biases and stoke fear and outrage. I think we need to learn to show some grace to people who we don’t fully agree with, who are trying to reach across the divide, and who might be coming to terms with the ways in which they may have been misled or caught up in an enticing movement.
      And I’m not saying this is easy. It certainly isn’t satisfying. I love barbed and bitter witicisms. Being shitty to someone who I feel deserves it scratches this itch in my brain that I am neither proud of, nor can deny. But it’s also the definition of being selfish, since it helps no one. So idk, you do you I guess?

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        Being sad that your willfull ignorance is causing massive harm to millions, isn’t even a start to undoing that harm.

        Want to make me sympathetic? Do the work to fix that harm.

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        10 hours ago

        I’m not sure being nice here would do anything either. So why bother?

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      10 hours ago

      Fuck this dude. Anyone that thought a vote for trump was a vote for everyone’s wellbeing is a fucking moron.

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      I’m literally with you guys that he’s not done good. But his promises were made to make things better for the working man, which hasn’t been done. My state might be different than yours, but both candidates would’ve crippled us. Joe was plagued with dementia and Harris is just as bad. We really didn’t have any good candidates this time.

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        “Harris is just as bad”

        Mind elaborating on why you think a sensible, middle-aged experienced prosecutor with decades of contacts in government was somehow just as bad as two 80-something year olds, and how you concluded that the best vote was for the guy literally wanting to be a dictator and who was following the project 2025 playbook to destroy America for Putin, was somehow your best choice ?

        Honestly, I have run out of patience with people who try to frame it thar trump was somehow their best choice of terrible options.

        I guess the only way to get through to you was to let him win so you could see it for yourself.

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          I’d have more sympathy for some of these people if they’d just admit they were lied to and were wrong, but no, every time I see it all we get is hemming and hawing around how they didn’t think it would be their own face getting eaten by the leopard.

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        13 hours ago

        Why do you think a billionaire elite would even care about the working man, let alone make the world a better place for them? That kind of world wouldn’t allow them to be a billionaire in the first place.

        Also, Trump has shown a lot more dementia than Joe. Even before the elections.

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          13 hours ago

          What you said goes for all of them. But that’s the idea of having a president, someone who is supposed to be for the people. So what do you do?

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            11 hours ago

            If you could go back in time would you vote for Harris knowing what you know now?