I love this community. It sucks people need to suffer but when you're this dense, some pain is the only thing that'll make them pay attention.
Leopards Ate My Face
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No sympathies for these people
"This is not what I voted for."
I voted for him to hurt immigrants, the poor, the gays, women, workers, non-whites, Democrats, progressives, liberals, intellectuals, drag queens, the woke, and DEI, not white Americans!
and DEI
White women getting pissed about DEI is the craziest to me because they're the ones that benefited the most from DEI.
Their husbands told them that they should be pissed so they are pissed.
"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting."
Sorry, psychopaths. You elected him president. After he showed everyone exactly who he was. The why doesn't matter. He'll continue to be who he's always been, but now he's actively making the world worse...
I don't really get the hostility towards the person. It is good to relize and even admitting you were wrong. We should encourage that nd not give shit. Important are the person's future actions.
Let’s not fool ourselves: Donald’s blatant sexism and racism wasn’t going over this voter’s head. Not even for a second. So I wouldn’t insert the complexity of empathy and understanding the effects of responsibility of choice where someone hasn’t exercised it yet.
everyone has the right to change their own mind but it’s another to start inserting trust and faith in them.
this looks more like regret for their own misfortune (not for anyone else’s). This doesn’t mean their racism and sexism they got on board with that lead to this decision in their life magically vanished or that they wouldn’t hesitate at the chance another president with the same ideas. They merely gained the ability to not deny it has provided a different problem altogether that affects them personally now. Which is ok, great. step one. They hit a bottom. They got to the point they admit there’s one problem. Many refuse to even go there for their thirst of revenge on ‘woke’.
At best at this point you could only expect they could at least understand to vote in their own interest and not just to vote as a form of revenge. Perhaps they found Donald is a bigger enemy than DEI. I just wouldn’t mistaken that as them suddenly seeing everyone around them as equals just yet or that pain is universal
Valid point, but this is the leopards ate my face community. We're here to see faces eaten.
The post didn't admit she was wrong. She merely said the particular harm she suffered was not what she voted for.
lol
I mean, they didn't admit they were wrong. They're saying they were basically "totes bamboozled" by Trump once he was elected, which we know is horseshit because half the country apparently did see this coming (and was quite vocal about it).
It shifts the guilt for what is going on entirely on Trump rather than taking an ounce of responsibility for their own role in the whole ordeal.
This person is a horrible narcissistic fascist. Not until he harms them does this person admit they were wrong. This person would never have changed position otherwise.
I mean, they are still likely OK with everything else the republicans stand for. This self realisation is most likely temporary because it affected them personally. They probably still are OK with trans/homophobia, bigotry, and authoritarianism
which is 'what they voted for'.
Absolutely true, but these people don't admit they were wrong.
Note: This is Leopards Ate My Face. This is the place where people enjoy seeing comeuppances manifest.
This person disregarded the racism, xenophobia, dangerous climate policies and every other negative thing associated with their party of choice. They only "changed their mind" when stupid policies affected their own wallet. This person is the very definition of an "idiot" in the ancient Greek sense of the word and they deserve to have their faces eaten by leopards and to be made fun of. They didn't do their duty as a citizen and these are the results of their actions. The only way they will learn is if they suck on it so... Enjoy
Because they voted for hatred, they just didn't vote for that hatred to target themselves. This is not people realising they were wrong, this is just a "he isn't hurting the right people" moment by an asshole.
Ah well let me explain
When someone makes a mistake - such as small babies peeing outside the toilet and shit like that - that's on the parent. There's "bitch baby stop doing that shit" approach and there's the "baby please learn how to pee I will help you"
Responsibility and learning is different things.
When you vote. And brag. About voting for leopards eating people faces, and then your face gets eaten..
That's not a mistake. That's misusing responsibility. I'm certain you can catch on to the difference. Babies don't learn how to not miss the toilet like idiots until they assume responsibility for their urine dispatch and understanding the perils of not doing that.
Please look back at this easy flowchart for reference in the future:
Realizing mistake - > thankful for being rediculed, as you now understand what a fool you where and this is a relief to see people helping stop others from doing that. We don't tell babies that they are awesome for peeing at a location at random. We give them praise when they start trying to pee correctly into the toilet. Even if they fail, we say good job chap, you are peeing in maybe the right direction or at least trying my boy or girl, well on ya
Rediculed and becoming a baby, crying - > you regress into childhood and potentially start peeing on the edge of the toilet messing up the entire outfit and it's because you absorbed a correct helping jeer as a hostile attack on your inner soul. Of which nobody will ever see if you abstain from error correcting, such as for instance learning how to pee correctly or vote sanely.
You're welcome!
In about three years:
You are absolutely correct, and it disappoints me so much.
You do have to poses some strong repression skills to look at trumps platform and think "this is good for the common American". CJ, you voted for this. You willfully ignored what he was saying and drank the orange monster.
this is not what I voted for
Nah, dipshit it's EXACTLY what you voted for.
It's too bad these morons are illiterate, and allergic to anything that isn't low-IQ misinformation
She didn't realize that she fits into the "expendable peasant" tier to Trump, and his ilk.
"Expendable peasant": Anyone who isn't a billionaire willing to throw money at L'Orange.
Great phrase, BTW. I'm brand new around here and I already like the place!
This is not what I voted for
"I voted for other people to suffer, and now I'm suffering. Is there no fairness in this world?"
Either that, or:
"When Donald Trump mentioned what a fine man Hannibal Lecter is before shuffling around to the YMCA, my brain registered that as him telling me everything that I wanted to hear because I'm a delusional psychopath with no grip on reality that thinks the world revolves around me."
It all boils down go "I voted for them to hurt people" and then they act surprised when they're the ones being hurt.
If Trump actually falls out of favor with the Right I fully expect these kinds of people to try to blame all of this on him alone so they check the box for the next R who will enable them to continue to be shitheads.
That's how they got over Bush II very quickly too.
Yeah, my friends from 20 years ago that fucking LOVED Bush now pretend they want nothing to do with him. Trump will be the same way. Set a reminder for 2045 to ask your favorite Republican what they think of Trump.