In other words, "I was indifferent-to-enthusiastic about hurting other people and families until it affected me personally"

all 58 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 131 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 123 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So, he owns a thousand billboards. And he had learned how evil republicans are. Maybe he could put those billboards to good use and inform the population about the drawbacks of voting for GOP?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 55 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    He clearly has not accepted that in-group/out-group dynamics always leave potential for you to become part of the out-group, or to have only assumed you'd be in the in-group in the first place. Just thinks Trump messed up by taking HIS partner instead of someone else's.

    "go after criminals" he continues to say, failing to realize that especially in the most heavily incarcerated country on the planet, criminals are actually also largely moms and pops and kids with families that are torn apart by agents of state violence over incredibly minor or intentionally targeted laws.

    My experience with so many people is that even when solidly proven to have held a belief they no longer find suits them, they do not look for a systematic fault in their mental processing models or a larger misunderstanding in their base assumptions of reality to find how it was they were led into false belief. They simply assume it was either a fluke, or that reality does indeed conform to their ideas and just made a mistake this time.

  • source
  • [–] 35 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Your "in other words" hits hard.

    I have family in a nearby rural county where the local hospital is at high risk of closing once the medicaid changes (aka cuts) take affect next year. I mentioned it to my family members, who are Trump voters, and they weren't even aware. Despite that, they did have an opinion on the matter, of course! At one point someone said something along the lines of "we can't afford to go to the hospital if something happens anyway". Which that's just a tangled mess of cognitive dissonance considering they've all been in that hospital, some multiple times, over the past 5-ish years AND they're the ones who use the emergency room as free healthcare because they know the emergency room can't turn you away if you can't pay.

    The thing is, the next closest hospital takes around 30 minutes longer to drive to and these are unhealthy older people. If their local hospital closes, their next emergency may be their final emergency as a result. And I know they'll care then.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    No they will not care then. It will be someone else's fault.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Indeed. There were many stories where people were literally dying of Covid and right up until they died, they were claiming it was fake, etc....guess who they voted for?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    Have the day you voted for!

  • source
  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    Augh no you're not supposed to tread on me! Tread on them!

    -- dickhead

  • source
  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    "Go after the criminals. We're all for that. But leave the mom and pops and the kids alone. Man, he's destroying families," Gannon added.

    The true threat came from the childless.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 83 points 3 months ago
    [+] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    So much this.

    The corollary is this, though - even after something affects them, they still leave the door open to reverting back to their awfulness if they perceive someone from an out-group is benefiting.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    75 and 45. - totally not a mail order bride at all

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I don’t want to tell adults how to live their lives but adding immigration/citizenship to this dynamic certainly makes it seem more gross.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Who cares?

    Surely once someone is 40 they can choose to do whatever the fuck they want provided it's not harming anyone.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Mail order brides are often abused in a myriad of ways, I don’t wish to describe, both before and after they get to their destination.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago

    That's certainly true, but my point is that the risks are dramatically diminished when the younger spouse is over 40.

    There's every likelihood that being referred to, and categorised as, a "mail order bride" is more harmful to her prospects than her relationship is.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Should force that guy say "We're destroying families." Make him take responsibility. And if he wants to switch sides because this helped him develop humanity, then fine. Otherwise, burn in your hell and die enjoy what you voted for, fascist pig.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Make him take responsibility. And if he wants to switch sides because this helped him develop humanity t+1:33 John Cannon: “They are not going after the hard guys”

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "I know I dun voted for him to round up all the imgrants an such, but I weren't meanin' mine! I done buyed her an I own her! It ain't rite fer him to go an takes muh proprty! I voted for him to make brown folk sad, not to make us whites sad!"

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well, the going rate for a Trump Pardon is $1 million, so if he can GoFundMe that, she's laughing.

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    As Holman said "He's welcome to go with her."

  • source
  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    Let me fix that for you asshole. TheyYou are destroying families.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Got what you deserved nazi

  • source
  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    So white human trafficker is upset his purchase got deported.

    Fuck this douche.

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    30 years, gross.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago
    [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    They have quotas to keep mate

  • source
  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    i bet he's still going to vote republican again anyway.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Lmao, gotter!

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    when you think the "i have mine, fuck you, or the only moral abortion is my abortion" you deserve it when it comes for you too.

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    YOU VOTED FOR THIS.

    YES YOU DID.

    YES. YOU. DID.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxnsmsXYGJ4

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    First they came for my self awareness,

    But jokes on them - I never had any!

    Stop, that’s my wife!

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago
    [–] -4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I bet he wants her back, she's half his age. Fucking pervert.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    He's a pervert for wanting to be with an attractive 45 year old woman? Shit, I guess I'm a pervert.

    What is the line where he goes from pervert to normal person? He's fully abiding by the "Half Plus 7" rule.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Oh thank goodness. When I first read this, I thought I missed some meeting where some new "rules" were made up. I've known plenty of couples that were outside "the rules", even, but it didn't make either of them "perverts".

  • source
  • parent
  • 28 comments in c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 54 points 3 months ago

    You were warned... vocally warned that this exact thing would happen. Have the marriage you voted for.

  • source
  • [–] 45 points 3 months ago

    They are picking up law-abiding citizens. They're destroying families, jobs.

    DUH!

  • source
  • [–] 41 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    *votes for destroying families*

    *is horrified at the family-destroying*

    *continues voting republican*

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago
    [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    “Well doggies, Ain’t that something!”

            ~Jed Clampett~
    
  • source
  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    You can’t fix stupid.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    No sympathy. I hope you have the life you deserve.

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

    Kinda surprised this article came from CBS

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    [I am]* destroying families

    Correct your form John Cannon

    They are not going after the hard guys

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    May you have the day you voted for.

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    couldn't have happened to a better family.

    have the day you voted for.

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

    That's okay, Trump will run again in 2028, and this idiot can vote for him again, because the Democrats won't help him, only Trump can do that.

    If you were a Venezuelan, why would you stick with a MAGA?

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*
    1. Trump doesn't need to win an election anymore. He can executive order himself president of the for life.

    If you were a Venezuelan, why would you stick with a MAGA?
    Later applied for asylum, a case that is still ongoing. But her underlying permission to be in has lapsed.
    Listening comprehension is this low too‽

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    How did it take me to long to realize this creepy fucker is 75 and his "bride to be" is 45?

    ICE is busting up actual families. Kids come home from school and find out they don't have parents and don't know what the fuck to do. And this life long Republican rich white fossil ass looking mother fucker is on the news sad his the internet-order-bride he paid to import got taken away from him so he's missing some of his time in pushing her into sex until he strokes out and she (hopefully) gets paid.

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago
    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Watching the leopards feast is one of the few things keeping me going

  • source
  • 4 comments in c/politics@lemmy.world view that post
    [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    Oh I bet his face was particularly delicious for the leopard.

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    They're DESTROYING Families! MY family!

    -Bible LOVING Republicans!

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    RETHINKING! The dude need to RE THINK!?

  • source
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Idiot getting what he voted for! 🤡

  • source