tl;dr: The CEO said he was pro-Trump and he didn’t like the shooting. Certainly not a smart thing to say but not entirely bad, right? Well, he said it to the all the customers via their mailing list.
People are terrified to admit they support Trump.
This really is terrible. People should be allowed to support rapists in positions of authority without fear of being judged. We should all try to be more like the pope.
If you wanna support Trump, go for it. But don’t be surprised when you admit it, and your orders drop off a cliff.
Freedom of speech 100% does not protect you from the consequences.
Shame too, I liked their Mule Sauce but it is easily replaced by any other brand.
Free Speech: https://xkcd.com/1357/
the government can’t arrest you for what you say
That comic will be a quaint relic if a Republican gets back in power.
What’s actually going on is a little bit more subtle, I think.
The people supporting him mostly don’t know he’s a rapist. They don’t know he wants to throw his opponents in prison or kill them. All they see is this incredible opposition to him from people they know, and it just confuses them, because the news they consume doesn’t tell them any of that. And so, they don’t know what the big deal is, and so they just don’t talk about it and plan to vote for Trump sort of quietly.
And, human nature being what it is, if it does come up in conversation, everyone talking to this guy assumes the underlying picture in everyone else’s head is equal to the picture in their own, and so of course this person is already aware that Trump’s a criminal rapist treasonous shitbag who’s dumber than rocks, and just supports him anyway, and so they react with arguing and hostility instead of doing the much harder work of building a shared understanding and engaging in a dialogue that they know isn’t going to resolve into anyone’s mind changing on the first day.
It’s easy to decide that someone’s fully aware of the facts and they’re just a huge piece of shit with how they reach judgements off the same facts you have, and you need to yell at them. That’s rarely how it works though (although, sometimes, yes.) The much more difficult and more successful path is to understand where they’re coming from and how they got to their wrong judgement, and try to work with them to help understand things better even if they’re being hostile or what they currently think is wrong as hell.
This is my opinion on it
They know and don’t care. And even if they’re in denial, they continue to deny, despite being proven over and over again. They call it fake news, deep fakes, or just flat out say [a thing that happened] just never happened.
Just watch anything from Pretty Little Liars or Daily Show etc. interviews with people at his rallies.
I think there’s a difference between knowing but not caring and not believing it. I know plenty of people who support Trump despite his awful history but I also know plenty more who thinks all the bad press is a lie.
This doesn’t absolve them in any way but you’re not gonna change anyone’s mind in the latter camp by telling them “you know he’s bad, you just don’t care”. And before you say it’s not worth trying, I successfully convinced two different coworkers who voted Trump in 2016 to actually look into the accusations and both voted 3rd party in 2020
I don’t think ignorance is much of an excuse in the US in 2024. You can just go read wikipedia and its sources.
At this point for anyone older than like 15 it’s willful. It’s a willful desire to stay in the comfort of your in-group rather than deal with the negative feelings that come from “Are we the baddies?”
Ignorance is not (just) lack of notions, it is lack of method, it is not having the tools to analyze the notions. You don’t learn that on Wikipedia.
If you decide to not use StickerMule again, as the org I’m part of now has, I’d suggest that rather than simply not using them to login to your SM account, then contact them via their Support interface and ask them to remove your account and all data associated with it or direct them to tell you how you can do it yourself and end by telling them exactly why.
I did this as soon as they posted the tweet. They didn’t even bother telling me they had done it or acknowledge my message and I just had to try logging in to make sure it actually got deleted. The complete lack of communication makes me even more glad to never give them business again.
"The more people realize that kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump, the sooner the hate will end.”
How can any kindhearted compassionate people ever support a bully like trump?!
That’s just physically impossible. Trump is not compassionate, nor kind-hearted.
Corporate mass media does make it possible. There’s still plenty of blame on their part for lacking the interest or critical thinking skills to understand why other people are upset. But it is a thing that can exist. That doesn’t make it acceptable.
But short of returning the media to a pre 1980 state. Which was still wildly imperfect and heavily propagandized. There isn’t a peaceful or obvious solution to this.
kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump
Forget about the content. If any company spam text/emails me about any political bullshit I’ll ban/boycott them just for wasting my fucking time. Fuck spammers.
