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They had money to be able to live as the middle class, and thought that brought them acceptance. They didn't realize they were lulled into voting R only to be discarded after the vote.
It's pretty unfortunate that so many humans are so stupid that they have to suffer before learning obvious lessons. The unfortunate part being that people with regularly functioning brains have to go along for the shit ride with them.
Bold to hope that they'll learn anything. Far more likely they'll buy into the propoganda saying all their problems are still someone else's fault.
It's even more unfortunate is how many don't learn by suffering. They simply blame the out group for it.
Since it is the same group they was trying to warn them, it's the easier path.
This is the part that gripes me the most.
It would of course be best if more people had sufficient empathy to oppose the oppression of others just in and of itself, but I recognize that empathy isn't sll that common (and has its own drawbacks), so I don't really expect that.
But at the very least, anyone should be able to follow the simple chain of reasoning that leads to the conclusion that a system that's empowered to oppress someone, no matter who it is or what the excuse is, is a system that's empowered to oppress me if it happens to turn its attention my way.
It's as if people stand in the middle of a crowd as gunmen walk around, shooting people in the head, and they completely ignore it (or worse yet cheer it on) right up until the moment the gun is pointed at their own heads. And then and only then - far too late - do they think to oppose it.
Conservatism doesn't allow for empathy. It isn't part of the ideology.
The only desi people MAGA likes are tech bros who bring in the dollars, or insane people who are able to keep themselves off the radar by causing damage to the libs they dislike even more, Kash Patel, Ajit Pai, Vivek Ramaswarmy, and that one maga movie guy Im forgetting the name of, who was either sanctioned or imprisoned, and I believe pardoned by trump the first time.
for everyone else, you're just like everyone else, you're a vote, and then after you've outlived your usefulness by giving them the vote, its back to leopards at my face.
Yeah they didn't really hide the racism inherent in their anti-immigrant demagoguery.
Action, I would like you to introduce you to Consequences...
Variations of this narrative are commonplace. Back the spew until it happens to you.
Back the spew until it happens to you.
I want this on a bumper sticker with a cop badge on one side and a trump logo on the other.
How do you tell someone the country they’ve loved for 50 years is harboring a growing faction that wishes he’d never come?
"The guy you voted for doesn't like you because of where you came from"
My grandfather voted for Trump three times. Now, part of that movement is calling immigrants like him ‘filthy.’
that "part" has always been there, other "parts" of that movement just chose to fucking ignore it for decades upon decades
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[Scene opens on a wide, desolate savanna at dusk. The camera slowly pans over a leopard lying under a tree, its large body barely able to move. The sun is setting, casting a cold, dim light over the scene. Soft wind rustles through the dry grass. The leopard’s eyes are dull, its breathing labored.]
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MAGA is founded on racism.
Something something leopards eating faces
A good many of the “H1-Bs” from India are Modi supporters and by extension also supported Trump.
That's the crux of it. The writer (and her family) are clearly upper-caste racists themselves - they just don't recognize their beliefs are racist.
My life is filled with immigrants from India and Nigeria and Lebanon and the Dominican Republic—many of whom are definitionally the “working class”—who voted for Trump.
Another word for those people is "Idiots". Trumps base lives off racism. Anyone who did not understand this from the start basically deserves being hit by it. This includes both the idiots who did vote for Trump as well as the idiots who did not care to vote. I'm really sorry for all the other people who will fall victims of this political desaster, though.
People who think politics is some kind of sports fandom are dumb and annoying.
This attitude consistently surprises me because it isn’t some complex, nuanced topic that takes years of study to understand. The racism has been about as obvious as possible since long before Trump. Don’t try and tell me how smart you are when you’re just discovering that, huh, the Republican Party doesn’t seem to like brown people.
Stop associating Trump with the working class. MAGA is a petite bourgeois movement. Workers don't go for Trump because they're racists, they go for Trump because their boss likes Trump and they're a little politically backward, and that's for a whole host of cultural and institutional reasons.
One thing that is interesting to me is how small business owners or like mid-upper management types will take on all these worker affectations like trucks, country music, cowboy hats, etc. but don't get it twisted, one exploits and the other is exploited, and the worker who needs their boss to survive, aspires to be like him. And their boss has huge trump flags everywhere, signs in their yard, and he seems like someone just like me!
This source is terrible.