This is actually sad
These people are so mentally defective 🤦♀️ they’re so incapable of caring about others and they’re only ever thinking about themselves that they vote for people just like them who also only think about themselves, then they’re actually surprised when their candidates only think about themselves.
It’s safe but also, they voted for this. They wanted the bad stuff for others, they just didn’t wanted the bad stuff happen to them.
So fuck these people. If they run out of money and lose their business? Good! If they become homeless? Great! If they die of hunger because of trump? Even fucking better.
I don’t care a single shit about these people. They voted to make the entire world worse just so they would get some magical step ahead, and now it backfired and now the entire world including them is fucked.
I’m not American, I don’t live there, yet even my life had been severely negatively affected by these assholes, and now they want my pity? Fuck you! Suffer, die, I won’t care about them
Everyone on the opposite side of OP told him/her exactly this. He/she didn’t care then, now he/she is suffer the coincidences of their actions like we have been since day one of his office. If they are now suffering bad enough to complain like a little baby girl that they has problems like the rest of us, he/she can end up living in dirt and I still wouldn’t care because these problems are problems he and his maga Nazis side created.
This woman is mentally deranged if she thought he ever cared. Nothing more, nothing less, just mentally ill.
They voted for somebody just like them who only cares about himself.
I didn’t want someone who only cares about themselves! I wanted someone who only cared about me! That’s why j joined narcissism club, to be around like minded people who love me!
He’s never cared about you lady and never will
If he cared he would be either raping you or getting you deported. Sucks he doesn’t care I guess.
Really, really, really slow comprehension skills.
Honestly If half of you country is like these people, you’d better secede and leave them try to live their bigoted selfish lives at their fullest to see what happens.
They don’t have a grain of empathy, introspection, education or critical thinking.
If anything, this shitshow shown people’s true colours and we know some of them are barely monkeys with guns. I dont want to live next to these assholes.
If half of you country is like these people, you’d better secede and leave them try to live their bigoted selfish lives at their fullest to see what happens.
I don’t disagree with you on them not having a grain of empathy, but seceding like this… won’t happen. This is more often than not a urban/rural divide, so my state which votes like this has two major metros that vote against this sort of thing, as well as a smaller college town. Flipside the neighboring state of Illinois is known for being blue and voted against Trump and his policies because Chicago has more control over the state while the farmlands are red.
California has a major right wing movement in entire segments of its state that is trying to secede from the state.
If we go into a civil war again, it won’t be like last time with a north vs south, it’s going to be a nationwide clusterfuck. Washington, Oregon, California is the closest to being able to pull off a splitting off from the country and it being a line.
And even if we could magically all reshuffle into a geographic split, can you imagine being neighbors with Trumplandia?
USian here, and it’s as sad as it is scary. So many people like this lead a lazy passive existence where they put so little thought into their lives that they can be led to vote for Trump for over a decade and only today be surprised like this. And those are the “good” ones who are merely ignorant and self-centered, that aren’t just proud to be nazis.
Here on Lemmy we talk about problems like controlled opposition and implicit support of genocide on the other side of the world. But compared with the median american voter we are like those geologists in the meme about how experts in a field wildly over estimate the general public’s knowledge of their field. And I am NOT saying we Lemmings are policy experts – I’m saying the average schmuck is that far behind our internet “discourse” bullshit.
Yup
I mean they did try and there was a whole war about. Problem was there were all forgiven in an attempt to " heal the country"
And we learned the hard, 150 year lesson that you can’t heal the country with active Traitors in the neighborhood. They will only poison the system, and keep it from being successful.
The French did it right, and made some strong examples of people, and taught the wealthy and powerful that they serve at the pleasure of the CITIZENS. The problem with the current crop of Sociopathic Oligarchs is that they don’t believe that we’ll ever break loose, and they also believe that if we did, their bunkers would protect them.
We are strongly socialized to obey the law, and behave within societal norms, but the wealthy are beating on that with a sledgehammer, and eventually it will collapse. When the Dam of Society finally breaks, it will break terrible, just like during the French Revolution, and not only will the Oligarchs lose, so will their entire bloodlines.
They would be very wise to negotiate a settlement before it gets that far. They will lose a LOT of their fortunes, but they will still have more than enough to live opulently, just not enough to be an existential threat to the entire planet.
The French did it right
Stupid fucking ahistorical nonsense. The French had a bloodbath that resulted in a dictatorship and then a return of the monarchy. That’s “doing it right” only if you’re a dumbasss.
And yet a lot of entitled, untouchable, wealthy sosiopaths still lost their heads, and it has stood as a very real warning to rich shitheads ever since.
I’m trying to put that as neutral as I can.
How do these people think politics work. I mean do they think that voting for a person or a party grants them some kind of personal (parasocial) relationship?
I’m pretty sure that exists outside the US also, but I have only seen that coming from the US so far.
That is just the right wing populism playbook. They know that their most ardent voters are several chicken nuggets short of a happy meal, so they turn it into a us vs them contest, as if politics was a sport.
It works because these people lack critical thinking skills, they never ask the obvious question, “why would a billionaire do things that would harm billionaires?”
I know what you mean, and it makes sense, but there is something in me that wants to think, that a majority of people aren’t this naïve and fall for this.
Maybe I’m naïve here in the end…
Humans are naturally tribalistic and it exists on all spectrums regardless how much you force ‘education’ down their throats.
Emotions, ego, bias, you name it, people just gravitate a certain way. A majority of Trump/Republican voters, I presume, are also acting on habit they’re forebearers set.
My message to every Trump voter in this situation:
You didn’t care when he fucked over other people, but because you’re the one being bent over, now you’re upset?
Good. I am glad you’re on the receiving end.
You shouldn’t expect someone to care about you just because you give them power. You should give power to people who care about you!
So I shouldn’t vote for anyone. Got it.
Let me guess- because a politicians needs to be paid, that means they can’t possibly care.
It’s simple math.
If they’re representing thousands of people, each with conflicting needs, there’s no way they can care for all of them.
Honestly if that’s what your takeaway is, the world would be a better place if you didn’t vote. Moron.
Every thread where there’s a shred of hope these people come in to desperately scream “Dems bad too! Dems bad too!”
Almost like they have a goal in mind.
If at this point you’re looking at everything and still go, yep, that’s competent leadership doing exactly what I wanted, then I don’t see how there is any way back to reality for them.
Yeah, I don’t think anyone in this administration is competent.
It’s jarring how bad it is.
You really think that person votes, pip?
I’m sad to say, but I’m afraid they do. We know the stats.
There’s no hiding from the fact that the two party system isn’t doing democracy and fair leadership any services though.
Eh, fair enough
So he’s not important to listen to for the DNC? Cool, surely you don’t blame him for when the DNC supports Diet Trump in 2028.
Diet Trump
Just how fucking blind and stupid can you possibly be? Are you even REMOTELY paying attention what’s going on?
Validation feels good.
You should give power to people who care about you!
That only leaves the Green Party, though.
And yeah, we learned that lesson with Obama’s presidency. The man had a supermajority for a while and all he did was make fascism worse and health care more expensive.
Hey look, proof that some of those on the “left” can be every bit as stupid as MAGA.
Mind-blowing how people have forgotten the time before the ACA, which limited insurer excess profit and forbid denial due to pre-existing conditions
Yeah, now it’s just so expensive I avoid treatment altogether and therefore can’t get denied.
It for sure sucks now! Lieberman killed the public option and things have only gotten worse since then as we haven’t taken on the usury of insurance, PE hospitals, and pharma, but the ACA was a step in the right direction that’s been continuously sabotaged ever since it was implemented
but the ACA was a step in the right direction
The ACA was a turd with some rhetorical polish. That’s it, and anyone seeking health care in this country knows it.
Fucking MAGA in disguise.
Still waiting on your dear leader’s ‘concept of plan’.
Pretty lazy response.
I’m not a Donald supporter. I’m just also unwilling to pretend that a regressive health care system is a good thing because it came from the Blue MAGA instead of the Red MAGA, especially considering Obama could have (and should have) done better. .
To be fair, they weren’t looking.
All of those things still exist now, provided you can’t afford to be price gouged, which is the vast majority of Americans.
And Obama could have given us a truly universal system
And Obama could have given us a truly universal system
Glad to see you weren’t paying attention.
Putin party 😂
Don’t say that on the late stage capitalism sub, the douchebag mod will ban you
Anyone who has not noticed that Trump cares solely about Trump should get their head checked.
I’ve listened to these podcasts about people who get caught up in like Nigerian Prince scams for real, and they give all their money away, sell their houses, their cars, lose custody of their children and wives who leave them over it, and even when everything is hopelessly lost they still keep thinking that, but maybe it IS real.
That’s what MAGA feels like.
They know, but can’t admit they are wrong, ever. So they double down.
