Now the stupid cunts are acting because it affects them personally....fucking assholes.
Next it will be "please, Mr. President Trump, sir, I voted 3x for you, can Memaw and Pawpaw have their medicaid back?!?!"
Fools.
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Foolish votes maybe, but not fools, if they are showing solidarity with their neighbor and coworker who happens to be undocumented. This is progress, and they will be further awakened when Trump attacks Medicaid and Medicare.
They are absolute fools. It is not solidarity after the fact, solidarity would have being their voice in the election.
They will not change, next election some other ooga booga outrage will make them vote R again, then be absolutely shocked when it bites them in the ass again!
stupid cunts are acting because it affects them personally
Better than not acting at all, and there are still a lot of people for whom personal experience still hasn't changed their cultist mentality.
Take what you can get. This is fascism, and you'll have to ally with people who do not think the way you do in order to win.
“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms"
They may not see it that way, but immigration was one of the few issues where Donald was very clear in his intentions, so it's hard for me to buy that this never crossed their minds. Donald made it 100% clear that this was going to be a dragnet.
“I voted for Donald Trump, and so did practically everyone here,” said Vanessa Cowart, a friend of Ms. Hui from church. “But no one voted to deport moms. "
Eh.... Yes you did. And you heard about the deportation of sick kids. Now you're up in arms because it directly affects you.
100% classic lack of empathy. Oh, now that is happened to me I can see the problem. Jesus fucking Christ.
I think that you're missing the point here. People who had some vision of ICE taking out violent criminals now see something different and they they are taking a stand against it. And it's not happening to them, but to a single Chinese worker who they all love. That's solidarity, even if they may not call it such. Something similar happened in NY state in the town of the border czar.
These events give me hope for the future. There is no point at all in finger-wagging at Trump voters. When the tariffs and Medicaid cuts come down, we will see many more people's consciousness change.
People who had some vision of ICE taking out violent criminals now see something different and they they are taking a stand against it.
Yeah, I guess my issue with this is twofold:
- I think we could all see that it wasn't just going to be violent criminals. The deportations of non-gang members, including sick children, have been (violently) going on for some time lest it all came as a bit of a surprise to them.
- It took it happening to them for it to actually land.
Number 2 is the big issue for me; It reminds me of the republican governor somewhere who got diabetes then went about putting in place a cap on the price of insulin. It's obviously fantastic that the insulin price cap got put on, but it's downright awful that it had to directly impact him before that happened. I mean I don't even live over there and I am acutely aware of how unchecked insulin prices are killing people.
These events give me hope for the future. There is no point at all in finger-wagging at Trump voters. When the tariffs and Medicaid cuts come down, we will see many more people’s consciousness change.
Yeah, I guess I see some hope for the future too, but I'd rather far fewer people experience the leopards before their mind gets changed. It takes just a smidge of trying to put yourself in the other person's shoes and I'm not sure this experience will make these people any more empathetic overall.