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Dearborn residents show remorse after Trump win: 'He's playing us' (www.newsweek.com)
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[-] scarabine@lemmynsfw.com 92 points 8 months ago

“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.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 45 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

And cured cancer. That's all that we need.

...and solved world hunger.

We don't need anything except peace in the middle east, a cure for cancer, and solutions to world hunger. And that's it!

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 8 months ago

You just made me hear Steve Martin.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ha! Good. I'm glad I pulled it off. I wasn't sure if it would be obvious or not.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 8 months ago

Amazing mashup of The Jerk and the Christmas skit.

[-] DharkStare@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

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

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

It doesn't work because both political parties are servants to the same masters. Nothing will ever significantly change as long as that's true. At least not without protracted hardship.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

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[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

Yep

[-] scarabine@lemmynsfw.com 7 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

"You'll be just as bad as them!" is a bad sentiment.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Not just as a VP, but it's not even our fucking war. She's going to go stop the war being waged by a sovereign nation? MK then!

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

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

Dearborn, MI did not decide this election.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I don't care, they still voted for him.

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[-] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 70 points 8 months ago

[-] Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz 61 points 8 months ago

A world renowned, pathological liar "played you"? The guy famous for a decades long history of incredible contradictions, tall tales and epic falsehoods. That guy. The Mythomaniac to end all mythomanics. The compulsive liar that lies more easily than he breaths? He played you? Really? I'm shocked!

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I am still shocked about one thing: How could they fall for it???

[-] db2@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

Only now, at the end, do you understand?

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 35 points 8 months ago

I don’t feel sorry for these people. We’ve been through the Trump administration once already. They completely knew what they were voting for.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

To be fair, Rashida Tlaib basically told them not to vote for Harris. Probably should reconsider voting for her next election.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

They still don't understand, they just don't like that it's going to affect them.

[-] Wrench@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

Eh. Fuck off. I really don't care anymore.

You chose this. You knew exactly what was at stake, you knew who Trump was beyond any shadow of a doubt, you knew he was going to fully enable Isreal to wipe your family off the face of the earth. You knew.

I fought all the bad faith arguments flying around here and beyond. All the "never genocide" bullshit. Every day, for the better part of a year.

But you played stupid fucking games. And now we all have to find out.

It sucks because people will suffer. Likely people I care about too. But this bleeding heart "liberal" has been bled dry. I can't muster any more fucks.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 8 months ago

I'm with you bud. I honestly tried. Lesser of two evils, help everyone, people deserve safety nets. Well the people I was fighting to help overwhelmingly voted against all of those. I honestly feel for anyone who voted for the same things I did and lost, but anyone who didn't vote or voted to remove those protections I'm done feeling bad for.

Sorry grandma, you voted in the man who openly wanted to get rid of Medicare. Don't care anymore. You needed Obamacare but voted for the people who openly said they'd repeal it? Too bad, get some bootstraps.

Again, those who voted to protect those things I feel for and I still want to help, but I'm done trying to help those who openly push against me.

[-] intelisense@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

It's curious that these people never targeted the Republican position on Gazza, even though it was clear from the polls that Trump had a good chance of winning.

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[-] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago

“Cut off your nose to spite your face.”

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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

Cool, we all get to suffer for it

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Idiots.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago

Headline is misleading. It was a quote from a single individual.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 8 months ago

I'm guessing leopardsatemyface is gonna be the new hermancainaward hotbed of schadenfreude over the next 4 years

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I guess you could also call it "they did nazi that coming".

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 8 months ago

It hurt itself in its confusion!

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[-] Netux@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Love how one person's quote is supposed to represent Dearborn. It was literally a fuck you to dems. Everyone in Dearborn knows trump is also going to do it. Rebuking the dems for doing it was the least they could do. They gave dems every opportunity to stop it.

If all of you libs that wish ill upon them because your team didn't win had a moment of self reflection you would realize that the dems weren't saving anyone even if they won. When fascism shows up, blue or red, you fight it.

Notice how the dems aren't doing every maneuver they can to clip Trump's upcoming power. Hell a bunch voted to allow charities and other ngos to be able to be declared terrorist. Thankfully some of the lesser known dems fought it off. The party leaders are part of the ruling class.

Get off your assess and start doing some direct community support or action, no one is coming to save us, we protect us.

[-] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This doesn't even belong in this community. I think it being posted here makes people who don't read past the headline think they voted for Trump

Edit: I guess some of them did, but I don't recall Trump ever being dishonest about his support for Israel, so I don't see how he "played" them

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yes, no shit. We tried to tell you. Unfortunately you were too heartless to listen until it impacted you personally.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I don't think leopards will be endangered much longer

[-] Jesusaurus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Going to be looking closer to pigs/boars with how big their bellies about to get

[-] RagnarokOnline@programming.dev 2 points 8 months ago

LOL! They voted for Jill Stein!

[-] Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz 3 points 8 months ago

People be voting like they're in a ranked choice or proportional representation system & not in a 2 party FPTP system?! Those that previously voted Dems can't just be voting for a 3rd party and not realise that they're effectively handing the win to Trump!? Maaaybe do a 'protest' or 'teach a lesson' at some time when there's NOT a wannabe dictator leading the other party?! Just a thought…

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