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[–] 40 points 5 months ago* (5 children)

All the people in here commenting, like "oh no, there's a hope! Step on it!"

Wouldn't want people to actually get fired up and vote, now would we?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    They don't want to be traumatized by marketing campaigns, yet again, that give them hope, only to have reality crush it mercilessly. It's defensive, and protective, and makes complete sense, living in a hellscape where politic and corporate lying is ever present and hazardous. They don't want others to be hurt.

    So you're really just shitting on victims for trying to protect others.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You're making a huge amount of assumptions about the people expressing doomerism. They could just be assholes, or bots, or workers pushing messaging for the political opposition, or non-citizens who are treating US politics like a soap opera.

    All you've done is created a strawman, claimed it has been traumatized by politics and asserted that this strawman is every person that's making cynical doomer comments.

    The person that you're responding too is engaging with the reality of the thread, you're manufacturing a justification to feel self-righteous and outraged.

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