• scarabine@lemmynsfw.com
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    “They voted for Trump to punish the Democrats.”

    Oh, that didn’t work. Losing elections isn’t the same as being punished. Not saying it was a bad move, I’m saying it was the wrong one. It was also a bad move though.

    “All Harris had to do was stop the war.”

    Oh is that it? Just as a VP / figurehead, swoop on over and say, “Stop it.” Man, why hasn’t anyone ever tried that before?

    Dearborn, I hope your lives work out ok. You’ve really fucked up.

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      Trump was actually in power for 4 years and didn’t do shit to help the Middle East. You’re going to hold him accountable for that, right? There’s no double standard where Democrats have to be absolutely perfect, while Republicans can be smearing shit all over the walls and get a total pass, right?

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      “We would have voted for Harris if she would just have brought peace to the Middle East!

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      That tactic was tried in 2016 and failed. The political party isn’t the one getting punished when you vote that way nor does it encourage them to change their ways.

      Changing the direction of a political party is a long, drawn out affair that requires sustained political action over the course of years.

      I have a feeling a lot of people who voted for Trump are going to be hurt by his policies and they’re going to be completely shocked as though this wasn’t known already. How could they possibly have known the person who bragged about hurting them when elected would actually hurt them when elected? /s

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        They won’t be shocked. They’ll blame it on liberals and democrats and anyone else who had nothing to do with it… because nothing is ever their fault, it’s always a conspiracy by someone else.

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      I hope it doesnt work out for them. I kind of hope a bunch of them die in a fire because that’s about what it’s going to take for people to start understanding how serious all of this is.

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        Not really, so many died from COVID and look at us. They’d say the fire was Chinese.

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          Supposedly some people who were directly impacted did change their minds. Not many proportionally were in that situation though.

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            Canada just had the first case of human transmission in bird flu. Guess we’ll get to grab some more data to show them.

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              There’s been multiple cases of human transmission in LA…

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        My dream schadenfreude scenario is that a hurricane wipes out the Villages in Florida, and it’s bad because Trump privatized NOAA, so no one knew to evacuate, then when they’re picking up the pieces they get hit with a wet bulb event.

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          By “wet bulb event” do you mean when the wet bulb temperature exceeds around 94 F and you will literally eventually die without air conditioning? Because, yeah, that’s incredibly scary.

          We had a couple of those days in Texas this summer.

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        I don’t see much of a difference between them wanting punishment instead of harm mitigation and myself wanting punishment instead of harm mitigation. I will keep hoping for less overall harm.

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            I think they wanted to punish someone who didn’t need punishment.

            Furthermore, they didn’t have that available a choice. The choice was less harm or more harm.

            Because of that, their choice seemed to them like a choice to punish, but it was actually a vote for more harm.

            I don’t think they need to be punished for that. I don’t think they deserve to be hurt. In fact it’s one of the things I vote for. Less harm. Every time.

            I just think it’s sad, I don’t need payback.

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              If you continue to allow people to do bad things with no pushback, bad things will continue to happen.

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                Yes, of course - and pushback is deserved. They’ve fucked up and seemingly deliberately, out of a head-in-the-ass attitude. But there’s nothing to gain from hurting them.

                Actually, judging from their actions, I’d expect that hurting them would make them get shittier and I already know they have no idea how to direct their anger properly.

                The ideal situation for me is that they find some shame and sit with it and come back after they get their heads out of their ass.

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          This world is burning so fast that humanity can only slow it down if we put all of our resources towards it.

          The largest nations on earth are all heavily armed dictatorships.

          Many of them dying might actually be the minimal harm. While we cannot enact judgement on them in good conscience, we can hope they burn and watch it happen.

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      Dearborn, I hope your lives work out ok. You’ve really fucked up.

      Dearborn, MI did not decide this election.