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        Oh, they like being told what do. As long as it’s by the right people, as long as they’re told that they get to make others’ lives worse.

        That’s the secret. Just about every “alpha” (with VERY few exceptions) is also a submissive “beta”. They’ll give up their morals, their daughters, their god, their freedom, whatever.

        That’s the fundamental difference between the left and the right. The left believes in cooperation, the right believes in the authority-submissive, alpha-beta dynamic.

        These people just aren’t in on the secret. As soon as they really start complaining they’ll be told to fall in line.

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    My in-laws voted for him because - no joke - they didn’t want Kamala to give money to “poor people.” My in-laws are on social security and Medicare. They ARE the poor people. If they think we will be paying for their shit after benefits are cut, I’ve got news for them. FAFO.

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      “Those other people didn’t earn it…like us. They are lazy welfare mommas. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like we did.”

      - your in-laws probably

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          of course… trump is hella racist and so is america and that’s why he won….
          it’s just about impossible for someone to support him without being racist. that’s why when you pin a trump supporter down on “why trump though?” it’s always some bullshit reason, and if you break it down or disprove it, they eventually regress to “i don’t care”.
          all their hypocritical outrage over supposed moral violations of the left? they don’t actually care about that… they just want to yell something at the anti-racist people and they can’t get away with overt racism just yet….

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        I’ve straight up heard someone say that about her disability. She claimed she earned it by going through the stuff that traumatized her to unemployability. It’s wild

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      No, you see, their social support is ok, because they are down on their luck, through no fault of their own. Buts it’s those other free loaders are the problem.

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    This is what Trump ran on. This is what President Musk promised on Xitter pre-election.

    Why would you think otherwise?

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      He also ran on ‘i won’t touch social security’ and they heard the option they wanted to hear despite it being an obvious lie he will if he can.

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        Yes, but it was mapped out pre election. Project 2025. I get it, no one wants to even skim a 996 page document, but it was all right there.

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        And bush sr. said “read my lips: no new taxes.”

        When will people learn these fuckers are all liars? That shit was almost 35 years ago. We never learn.

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    Sorry, guys. You voted for this so the billionaires can deliver austerity to you, an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of government largesse for themselves.

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    Trump will not only cut their benefits and siphon off the money for his billionaire investors, he will convince them it’s really better this way that they struggle to survive. Makes them stronger.

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      Ahhh… the old if you think this is bad, imagine how much worse the next/other guy/party will be if I can get away with this much.

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      Well, what else are they going to do? Go woke, go broke! I mean, the Demoncrats will transition your boy at school, while forcing you and your spouse to sit through DEI re-education camps at work! And don’t get me started on forcing everyone to eat bugs, own nothing, and have us switch away from fossil fuels!

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    i look forward to witnessing every detail of these gullible fuck trump voters coming to the realization that trump actually fucking hates them, and it’s NOT in fact the mexicans’ fault that their lives are shit

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      We moved back to Ohio recently (born there then moved out to California for over a decade for work and now back to Ohio so we can be near family). The amount of fucking shacks festooned with trump shit is wild. Doesn’t really seem like he did so great for you the first time Cletus, given that you live in a rundown shanty in the middle of one of the cheapest places to buy land and real estate…

      My favorite though is there is some sort of steel recycler / wholesaler. His sign cycles between his business name the cost for a ton of steel and “you’re fired! trump 2024.”

      I can not wait for the tariffs to absolutely destroy his business and for that reader board to say “thank you for 27 years of business”

      I’m a pretty well off leftist, so now I guess I’ll sit back and watch these poor rubes get fucked. It’s the only solace left.

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      I come from a family of Mexicans who are all Trump supporters. In this case it is the Mexicans fault too. If I recall Trump support among Hispanics is some of the highest in Republican history with 45% of Hispanics voting for Trump.

      This is all tongue in cheek of course. They’re all too stupid to realize what can, and likely will, happen to them.

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          guessing they fall into one of two main camps…

          good catholics voting against women’s rights and perhaps not understanding the other things that go along with voting that way, and ‘got mine, fuck you’ aimed squarely at others following behind them, legally or not.

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          In part, this is how “whiteness” works in the US. Once an immigrant community becomes established enough, they start to believe that licking the boot will finally grant them that status they crave.

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    Fucking idiots. They deserve it. I don’t want them to suffer, but they deserve to. If only we all just didn’t shoot ourselves in the dick at every opportunity. Fuck them for doing this to themselves, and to you, and me. I hate this place so much.