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submitted 9 hours ago by akilou@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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

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[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So white human trafficker is upset his purchase got deported.

Fuck this douche.

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] alapakala@quokk.au 1 points 9 minutes 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”

[-] orlyowl@piefed.ca 51 points 7 hours ago
[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 87 points 8 hours ago
[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 hours ago

Well damn...time to order another t-shirt.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 95 points 9 hours ago

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?

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 42 points 8 hours ago

Oh, but that would mean he would have no paying customers, and that will affect the bottom line!

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 hours ago

i'm sure there's plenty willing to fund that message.

[-] numbermess@fedia.io 21 points 7 hours ago

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

-- dickhead

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours ago

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

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 18 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 2 points 3 hours ago

Who cares?

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

[-] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 6 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world 26 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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.

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago
[-] monketman82@lemmy.world 43 points 9 hours ago
[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The recent ease of acquiring provisions has left the leopards obese, docile and unproductive.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 18 points 8 hours ago

"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.

[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

You joke but that’s a conservative dog whistle for leftists and childless women who they absolutely do believe are evil

[-] zd9@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

lol get fucked

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Got what you deserved nazi

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

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

[-] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] Veedem@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

She’s 45, not a child. That doesn’t make him a pervert.

I’m not saying it’s the “standard”, but far from “perverted”

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