• morphballganon@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    CNN reports:

    Helen told the Post that President Joe Biden tried to call her, but she declined to speak to him since her husband ‘was a devout Republican, and he would not have wanted me to talk to him.’

    But she added that she does not hold the current president responsible for what happened to her family.

    ‘I don’t have any ill will towards Joe Biden,’ she said. ‘I’m not one of those people that gets involved in politics. I support Trump, that’s who I’m voting for, but I don’t have ill-will towards Biden.’

    Let’s see:

    1. Decides who to ignore calls from based on her husband’s wishes

    2. Claims to not be involved in politics, yet supports a certain candidate

    Yep, that’s a garden-variety republican.

    The important takeaway here is that Biden made an effort to reach out.

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      One day she’ll realize that after her husband was killed, the candidate she supports cared more about his shoes than about him.

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        Sadly, she won’t realize shit. These people don’t have revelations about who they support politically. They bury their heads in the sand eternally. I still know people who are die hard George W Bush supporters and think he was the best president we’ve ever had.

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        4 months ago

        Doubtful.

        Why am I getting downvoted?

        People think this lady is smart enough to engage in critical thinking later, despite what we’ve seen from her?

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      Ok my respect is quickly dropping for these buffoons caught in the crossfire. But it’s like interviewing an attendee from a nazi rally, what should I expect? Critical thinking? Morals? Hah!

      “devout Republican” haha… They’re a religious cult.

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        Why would you have any respect for Trump supporters going to a Trump rally? Just because they were unlucky? They’re still shitty people.

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          It’s a little more complicated for me considering my family once was Republican during Bush’s first term. Rural, Appalachian, Pennsylvanian. I know some of these people most likely. Dumb people who know no better. Manipulated by rich interests. Feeling many pressures no doubt but too uninformed to point the finger at the right problem.

          They Thought Were Free is a great book that explores this ignorance endemic in the Third Reich.

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            Ok, I get that you have a strong desire to humanize them. But humanizing someone doesn’t mean you automatically respect them, other than affording them the basic level you’d give any other semi-sentient being. What is there to respect in people who cheer on an addlepated, narcissistic, fascist manbaby?

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      People using devout to describe their political views unironically is the scariest thing I’ve read today.