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“I Almost D!ed After Being Denied Medical Care”: Conservative Christian Trump Voter Shocked to Learn Fetal Heartbeat Bill Applies to Her Too (talklikea.pro)
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DES MOINES, IA — Jessica Djukanovic, a conservative wrestling coach, mother of four, and loyal voter for the “Traditional Values and Strict Legislation Party,” is reportedly “shocked and appalled” to discover that the very laws she helped implement are currently treating her life as a secondary concern to a non-viable fetus.

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[+] -19 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Poor person who wished on the wrong party gets abysmal treatment from soulless bureaucracy, thus justifying my glee in their suffering

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    One has to suffer sometimes to learn a lesson. God knows I've suffered for some of my mistakes in my life. Its not the only way to learn but sometimes it's the only way to learn.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Especially if you insist on it being the only way you will learn.

    The evolutionary advantage of empathy is it means that you can imagine yourself in circumstances someone else is suffering, and improve things for your theoretical future benefit.

    These people are defective humans. If everyone was like her the species would have gone extinct millennia ago.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    "wished on the wrong party" is a funny way of saying "advocated for hatred and oppression". And you're leaving out the part where what's happening to them is what they said they think should happen.

    It's hard to have sympathy for someone being treated how they thought others should be treated.
    I do however have enough sympathy that I've consistently done everything in my power to keep it from happening to them.

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  • [+] -26 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    It’s hard to have sympathy for someone being treated how they thought others should be treated.

    Excited to hear the schadenfreude when Dem voters get the treatment they advocated for Palestinians

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago*

    There is a huge difference between voting for a party that fails to be better less awful than another party in one single place (not even being worse!) because they are the only alternative, not because you have any love left for them on the one hand and campaigning for awful policies on the other!

    One is a form of harm reduction, the other is a form of actively trying to harm people and that you pretend to not understand that makes me seriously question your motive.

    Especially since there was not a single party running that was remotely decent, even if we look into the fringes. The American greens had kinda somewhat a not completely wrong take on Palestine (maybe), but were dogshit about Ukraine, because they were bought out by another imperialist mass murdering regime.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Ignoring your false premise that Democratic candidates were *in favor of genocide", particularly in a way that any other viable candidate wasn't, and ignoring that Democratic voters weren't in favor of those policies: you still have the fact that an Americans opinion on how our government should pressure another government to act towards another group is fundamentally different from an Americans opinion on how their government should treat them.

    You're saying Americans should be genocided because what Israel is doing to Palestine is abhorrent.
    I'm saying my sympathy for people who get hurt by what they explicitly voted for is limited to voting for them to not be hurt.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Democratic candidates were *in favor of genocide"

    John Fetterman was walking past a group of pro-Palestinian protesters at the Capitol this month when, according to his aides, they accused him of having blood on his hands for supporting Israel in its war against Hamas. The Pennsylvania Democrat then went into his Senate office and grabbed an Israeli flag, his staff said, so he could wave it at the activists while they were being arrested.

    Your party is awash in the blood of Gaza's children. And your voters continue to support the leaders that make this holocaust possible.

    When your time comes, I wonder how you'll feel when others point and laugh?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And you still manage to miss the point entirely.

    Your party is awash in the blood of Gaza's children.

    There's no American political party that isn't by the standards of "supporting Israel or didn't stop them is complicity in genocide".

    your voters continue to support the leaders that make this holocaust possible.

    What leaders would those be? Which Democrat in charge of the Senate, house, executive branch or judicial branch is responsible in your eyes? Has having the Democrats hold next to no political power done anything to help?

    When your time comes, I wonder how you'll feel when others point and laugh?

    And here's the biggest misunderstanding of all: you're entirely misunderstanding why people don't have sympathy because you're mad at Democrats. If Democrats overwhelming voted for and supported the genocide of Democrats people would be justifiably unsympathetic when they got what exactly what they voted for. That's the key part you don't seem to get. Person wants X to happen. People tell them X will be bad for them. They vote for X. X happens. Person is unhappy X happened. No one feels sympathy for them that X happened.

    It's hard to feel sorry for someone getting precisely what they asked for.

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