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595 points geox | 2 comments | 02 Jul 25 21:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.446s | source
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nektro ◴[03 Jul 25 00:14 UTC] No.44450235[source]▶
i think what contributes the most to my sense of dread is the feeling that if you were to tell these decision makers in govt right now "but this'll kill people!" they'd respond "good"
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jmholla ◴[03 Jul 25 00:33 UTC] No.44450356[source]▶
They don't care about people. Senator Joni Ernst when told that people would die due from the spending bill responded with, "Well, we are all going to die."
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bix6 ◴[03 Jul 25 01:49 UTC] No.44450845[source]▶
And then doubled down with a later Instagram post making fun of everyone. How are these people our elected officials? It’s unbelievable.
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Ylpertnodi ◴[03 Jul 25 07:58 UTC] No.44452692[source]▶
>How are these people our elected officials? It’s unbelievable.

Voters are stupid?

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ryandrake ◴[03 Jul 25 08:04 UTC] No.44452735[source]▶
They’re not stupid. These voters see government as a means to enact cruelty on outgroups they don’t like. That’s why they vote for cruel people who don’t care about hurting others. They are not stupid. They know exactly what they are voting for and are overwhelmingly supportive if it.
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1. ModernMech ◴[03 Jul 25 13:08 UTC] No.44454639[source]▶
I've spent some time reading r/leopardsatemyface, and there's just an unending stream of people who say something like "I didn't vote for this. I voted to inflict this cruelty upon other people, but now that it's coming for me I'm upset. Please redirect this toward people who deserve it. That being said I still support Trump."

This quote from 2019 really sums it up:

  “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this... I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” [1]
The "good thing" he needs to do to according to this voter is "hurt people who deserve it".

I've honestly tried to avoid this conclusion for years, thinking there has to be more to it, but at long last it seems there's not. People want to hurt other people, and they see Trump as their vehicle to do so, because that's what he promises; "I am your justice...I am your retribution" was his literal campaign pitch. [2]

[1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...

[2] https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/former-pres-trump-...

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2. FireBeyond ◴[04 Jul 25 15:20 UTC] No.44465311[source]▶
What's the quote? "A Republican would happily eat dog shit if he thought a Democrat would have to smell his breath".