76 points

Sure, the people missing faces are upset but what you need to understand is the people that still have faces don’t care.

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And a lot of faceless people are also making excuses about how they never wanted to have faces in the first place, and it’s good that they’re gone.

Like the guy whose daughter died of measels. He said it was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life.

I knew that there would be people like this, but it’s still hard to grasp.

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13 points

When a child dies because of them, I wouldn’t think a parent is ready for deep introspection and admitting the terrible mistake. Mental gymnastics are to be expected, it’s the mind’s self defence. Perhaps after some years…

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And the rest of the faceless people are fine with that if it means that the lives of others who they don’t like are ruined. They gain satisfaction of if the misery of others, even if it causes them misery too. It’s toxic mental illness at its worst.

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Its written across many books in the Bible to not test God, he will not protect you from your own stupidity.

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5 points

So, RFK is literally Jesus for preaching God’s will that kids must die from measles? 🤔

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4 points

Trump is Jesus. RFK Jr is one of the apostles. Unfortunately, I don’t see a Judas yet

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27 points

It never means anything until it effects them personally. Their family, their friends. Until then it’s nothing.

We really are dealing with people who do not have empathy.

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Oh, it’s not even that, they do possess empathy. You’re just not a person to them more of a faceless blob at best and a insect at the other end.

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At risk of pointing out the obvious, but his approval ratings are still high. Individual stories and tragedies amount to little. It can be difficult to stay grounded when hopeful stories like these proliferate. It will be a long four years.

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20 points

Net -4 approval isn’t what I’d call high

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35 points

It’s significantly higher than should be expected given his “accomplishments” thus far

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18 points

Yeah I’m genuinely amazed it’s not closer to single digits after this shit show in such a short amount of time

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It’s exceedingly high, and I’m chronically disappointed by that fact.

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8 points

Net -4 approval isn’t what I’d call high

Objectively, no. Considering the circumstances, on the other hand…

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Approval ratings don’t matter right now. Trump & Co. don’t care. The social-media-braindamaged crowd cannot think further back than a few months anyhow.

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Approval polls won’t be a determining factor in any policy decisions, but they are an excellent criterion for an assortment of predictions one can make. Between coups, wars, future presidencies, and demographic changes, polls provide a wealth of information.

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7 points

yeah this is a liberal fantasy

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1 point

it would only hurt if corporations supporting him are also suffering, they arnt currently.

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36 points

The fuck your feelings people can get their feelings fucked. Get away with those crocodile tears.

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10 points

On an emotional level agree completely. But anyone who can admit they made a mistake, deserves a bridge back, even if the mistake was something they received ample warning about and even though their motivation for making the mistake stemmed from the worst of human nature… and even though their reason for regretting the mistake is because it’s now affecting them personally—

Okay, really need to force myself to believe these people deserve their bridge back

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10 points

They might not deserve it, but so much can be gained by being more gentle than people deserve. The people who mistreated MLK didn’t deserve his kindness, but he gave it anyway and that played a huge part in how influential he was

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As painful as it is, this is both what the high road actually looks like, and how we win, longer term. We need to bleed off those we can from the echo chamber of insanity. The more ‘moderates’ we can strip off, the more obvious that insanity becomes.

Mockery feels good, but it drives them back into their group. Kindness and understanding gives us the cracks we need to start deconverting them.

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29 points

This video needs to be intercut with the people stumping for Trump and showing how rabid they were prior to having #MAGARegret

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5 points

Nah, this isn’t the time to ridicule them. They’re realizing they’ve made a mistake. This is a crucial opportunity to say “Yes you did, and that’s okay. Let’s fix this together

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18 points

Nah, fuck them. They voted for Trump even after all these years of him being a bigoted asshole. Anybody who did that after the “grab them by the pussy” tape revelation knew. They knew perfectly well what they were in for, they did just not expect to be on the receiving end of that bigotry themselves.

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12 points

The issue is that it might actually be too late to fix it. Trump promised that the November '24 election would be the last time people needed to vote…

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9 points

I’m not dead yet, which means there is still more I can do to affect this situation. This is not the time to forfeit.

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I’m Canadian. Fucking do your jobs down South and RIDICULE THEM.

My fucking country is getting annexation threats because of these fucks, and y’all are all out here talking about unity with these good-for-nothing morons while your unity with my country degrades. All this unity talk has EVER done is steer American politics further and further right. Get a damn grip.

Enough with this false togetherness bullshit. Shun these people so hard that they never show their face again, can never get employment again, and give a second thought to doing so much as living. If there’s anything Americans seem to be experts at, it’s giving fuck all for consequences to the people who deserve them the most.

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No no no, don’t put words in my mouth. I don’t want unity with them and I don’t want to appease them. I just also don’t want to reconcile with them.

You can feel free to poke through my account (you might have to scroll a while I had like a 40 comment communist chat with someone this morning) to see just how much I don’t want to reconcile with them. There are correct ways to do this and emotional knee jerk reactions aren’t it. We need to carefully calculated and manipulative like they were.

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28 points

Eh, people like to chase trends and will fake anything for views. I’m sure there are plenty of trump voters who regret their votes, but if you see a TikTok video with someone saying they regret their vote then they are likely just chasing the clout. Don’t fall for bs algorithms.

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