• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    “I let them”

    Dudes showing internally he thinks he controls their votes. That he could’ve not let them had he chosen so.

    So his daughters should be thankful for such a benevolent patriarch. /S

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      Well it’s kind of semantics. The symbolism behind this is not the hill you’d want to die on. Letting somebody do something can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it. I hate Trump and his low IQ followers, but that sentence does not imply anything.

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        can either be allowing it or simply not disallowing it

        Exactly.

        When I go take a shit, did you allow it, or not disallow it? Neither, because you have no agency over me, so it’d be a stupid fucking sentence.

        I’m not saying he thinks he owns his daughters like some 16th century inbred minor noble.

        But connotations and implications can exist even when they weren’t particularly intentional by the writer (or speaker.)

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          I let you waste my time but somehow I’m implying I own you.

          Sure buddy.

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    “Childish and rude”.

    Kinda reminds me of someone.

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    I kicked my son out of the house when I found out he voted for Trump. That was 8 years and I haven’t spoken to him since. I heard from my daughter that he was homeless for a couple of years and is now working retail while couch surfing.

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      The American definition of Liberalism is the exact opposite of the original meaning, so maybe he was just being extra-oldschool?

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      His wrongness was so great, that it caused integer underflow and him saying something correct.

      Or horseshoe theory.

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    With lines like “[your political opinion] is a mental disorder”, why is he surprised they aren’t coming?

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    “I voted for the idea that women aren’t people, now the women in my life don’t like me.”

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    “Liberalism is a mental disorder” These people are very telling how they treat people who they think legitimately have mental illness.

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      Conservatives 🤝 Liberals
      “The political positions I dislike are caused by mental illness”

      Socialists: "Hey guys maybe we could try not denigrating mental disorders? Maybe we could try building a left wing that welcomes and accepts the neurodivergent and marginalised?

      Liberals: “Fuck you, we’ll never accept psychopaths like Trump!”

      Socialists: “I never agreed with you that Trump is a psychopath. We don’t have to accept Trump in order to treat ASPD folks with dignity!”

      Liberals: “You’re disgusting, enabling abusers like that. If we treat psychopaths with basic dignity, they’ll only use it to abuse us!”

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    “Allowed”.

    Think I found the “nice guy” underlying reasons.

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      “I let them vote how they wish”

      Does he think not committing voter intimidation is some noteworthy deed?

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    There’s clearly more to this story. The simple fact that his username is “Conservative” indicates that he is one of those people that make their political ideology a major part of their identity.

    This man is probably an insufferable ass.

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      Or he’s making it up.

      I made my mother cry because she voted for Trump and I expressed my disapproval. She called my sister, who also voted for Harris, and my sister made her cry a second time.

      We’re all having dinner tomorrow and we won’t bring up politics.

      It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics.

      I think my mom made a stupid decision. Oh well. She thinks I made a stupid decision.

      If your politics define you so much that you abandon your people or you’re not disciplined enough to keep your mouth shut at family events where you’ll convince no one, that’s on you.

      They bring it up and end up having a bad day, that’s on them. We simply agree to avoid politics and religion. It’s not that hard.

      Edit: We’re doomed. We really are.

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        You aren’t the voice of reason you think you are.

        I guarantee the same exact shit was happening in the 1930s. People being disgusted that their family members would side with fascism and turn on mentally ill, Jewish, and gays.

        Would you say the same thing about Germans turning on their family? Both leaders fought for turning their country into a fascist dictatorship best strips liberties from certain people only

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        It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics.

        I think my mom made a stupid decision. Oh well. She thinks I made a stupid decision.

        If your politics define you so much that you abandon your people or you’re not disciplined enough to keep your mouth shut at family events where you’ll convince no one, that’s on you.

        Yes. It is fucking stupid.

        But you know what’s worse? Supporting a political party over your daughters, who are facing the very real possibility they will have to die simply because of a miscarriage, or no longer having the right to vote. That they will be forced to carry the baby of their rapist. that their daughters may no be entitled to an education- even the shitty ones now provided- the same way they were.

        Facing those threats… because you voted for that political party.

        They’re not staying away, or “turning their back” on family because of politics. They’re doing so because his politics objectively suck and absolutely will bring harm to them and millions like them. (that is. women. Not to mention racial minorities, immigrants, anyone whose different from the white, cisgendered, conservative male arch type.)

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          It’s so interesting to see the complete disconnection on here with everyone else’s life.

          his politics objectively suck and absolutely will bring harm to them and millions like them. (that is. women. Not to mention racial minorities, immigrants, anyone whose different from the white, cisgendered, conservative male arch type.)

          will, will bring harm. Not talking about past harm, not even mentioning current harm. Just FUTURE harm. All of the middle class people on here are just fucking hilarious with their world views. If you’re wondering why most of the population sits out of voting, well you’re never going to see it. Cue the average ivory tower response,

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        It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics.

        Right? Which is why the person in the original post shouldn’t have voted for the guy that wants to take away the rights of his daughters. By voting for Trump, he chose politics over family, not his daughters.

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        You know what we call Germans who disagreed with Hitler on some issues and yet still supported him?

        Nazis.

        Nobody cares, or will ever remember anything other than that.

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          I guarantee the same thing was happening back then, people cutting off their family members because they supported a fascist dictatorship

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        Unfortunately, my continued existence is labeled as “politics” so no, someone who voted against my rights to exist is not my family anymore.

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          The genders: male and political. The colours: white and political. The sexualities: straight and political.

          Yet somehow the most common politician is straight white male.

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        It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics

        It’s really not. Politics determine your opinions and intentions regarding human rights and its violations. If my dad votes for Robodolf Mechahitler, he’s not my dad anymore. Someone voting for Trump would likely betray their own daughter when Gilead rises. If they wouldn’t, their vote is a contradiction to their character. I wouldn’t take something like this lightly.

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        It’s absolutely not stupid to turn your back on family because of politics.

        It’s not a sports team, it’s conscious decisions that affect the law and how we are governed.

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        Yes it is that hard. If you consider the real effects that politics has on people’s lives, the direct negative consequences of laws and policies that make their lives worse, and then you ask us to ignore those and stop talking about them, maybe we’ll be able to do it if we are not the direct victims. But as soon as you are the direct victim, of course you’re going to speak out on it.

        Here’s a very simple example. One of my relatives uses a wheelchair or a walker, and they have a vehicle with handicap tags that they use to get around. The problem is, one problem is, that many polling places don’t have the legally required handicap parking available. So my relative has extreme difficulty voting. That’s a political problem, a political issue, that disenfranchises my relative. Should they be able to discuss it with the family? I sure hope so. But is it politically charged? Of course it is.

        What you’re asking, what you’re expecting, is that every single victim has to shut the f****** about the bad s*** they’re dealing with, just because it’s connected to the government.

        And look, I picked one of the mildest examples you could possibly think of. After all, my relative might be able to vote absentee, depending on the rules in their state. But there are so many more examples that are absolutely tragic, that involve lives being totally ruined. And you think those should be off limits.

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        God damn. I find centrists to be spineless pussies of the highest order.

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        Drag wishes there were fewer people in the world willing to set aside politics for family. People like that are destroying the world.