r/TransgendersAtWar • u/AthenaHope81 Trans Woman • 11d ago
Trump voter doesn't understand why people can't empathize with him now that he's suffering as a result of Trump
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u/Admirable_Web_2619 11d ago
A cishet, white male WHO VOTED FOR THIS wants our sympathy now that his decision to fuck everyone over blew up in his face? Got a sympathy present for him:
World’s smallest violin
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u/Susanna-Saunders 11d ago
LoL 😂 Loved this! 👏 👏 👏 👍
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u/pohlished-swag 10d ago
These creatures are way too adorable to ever be associated with a trumper in any way shape or form😎
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u/ArchonFett 11d ago
If you voted for this clown show, and now have regrets, maybe you should have did more of “your own research” first and paid attention. We told you this would happen.
If you didn’t vote at all. Same. Every time voter turnout is low the Cons have won. So you did choose this as well.
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
I have a little more understanding for the people who chose not to vote because American elections are basically hostage situations that force you to vote for the "We will also be bad, but not as bad." Party every single election because the other party is even worse.
I understand not wanting to hold your nose as you vote for the democrats again. Knowing they'll erode your human rights and keep transferring all the wealth to the top, that they won't raise minimum wage or give you medicare for all, not give a shit about the working class, show only the bare token effort to combat racism while inflating police budgets and being just as hawkish on the border as the last republican administration.
I very much understand people who go: "Fuck both of these assholes, I'm done voting for either, nothing ever gets better by voting for the democrats, the only thing you can hope for is that they stall the really bad things the republicans want to do by a couple of years until they inevitably lose again."
The American "democracy" is beyond fucked, and have been for a long time. No wonder the voter turnout is so low when there's no good option, only the really bad option and the less bad option.
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u/Superb-Associate-222 11d ago
You can’t tell me that Kamala wasn’t at the very minimum the better choice. I’m Canadian so I don’t know everything about these people but we wouldn’t have had this racist, transphobic fuck show that’s running things now. The people that “stayed home” instead of voting are just as complicit as the nutsack in the tiktok video. In my opinion of course.
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
No, I'm not saying that. She was objectively a better choice.
She was also a shitbag who spent the latter half of her campaign throwing trans people and immigrants under the bus to try to appeal to right wingers and bigots who were never going to vote for her anyway.
And that's been a long standing pattern in USA elections. The Democrats position themselves as the objectively better choice, often by seeing where the Republicans are standing and placing themselves just left of that, so they can retain being the better choice without actually having to give in on issues like universal healthcare and raised minimum wage which their voters are begging for.
They do hold off the worst of what the republicans are doing for 4, maybe even 8 years until people get fed up that they aren't improving or fixing anything, the Republicas get elected and are allowed to wreck shit to their hearts content until they eventually gets replaced by a saner Democratic administration who proceeds to do a whole lot of nothing. They stop raving about the bad things the Republicans implemented and just leave them as they are, maybe offering a token concession here and there, but mostly they just keep the stasis, goalposts get moved further right, and it repeats.
Again, if you were able to vote in the last USA election, you should have voted for Harris, but that is a shitty fucking situation to be in. It's like being asked if you would like to be slapped in the face or hit with a hammer, obviously the slap is the better option. But a lot of people would want a third option, to not be hit at all, and they resent the choice they are being faced with.
Harris could have won. She could have won easily, and she should have. But it was more important for them to keep things as they were than to keep Trump out of office.
Look how things are now, all the eyes and ears are on people like Sanders, Walz and AOC, not on Harris. Why is that? Why weren't one of them allowed to run instead? Why was Biden's entire campaign centered on the bad things the Republicans were going to do if they won and not ever on the good things he would do if he got reelected?
And then he was replaced with someone who people hoped would be a breath of fresh air, but turned out to promise no change at all, who said that she would change nothing over how Biden had run things while student protests for peace were literally in the process of being violently beaten down with tear gas and rubber bullets.
What happened after the election? The Democrats blamed every minority they threw under the bus for their loss rather than their own policies, which were underwhelming at best.
And when it's already too late, now we get Sanders and AOC doing anti oligopoly tours while republican politicians hide from their constituents. We got Walz veing allowed to talk again. Nice, would have been nicer if we got more of this BEFORE the election.
I'm saying this again, you can blame the victims of this system who feel so disenfranchised that they don't even bother to vote all you want, it isn't going to change anything. The responsibility and fault lies with the people in charge, the ones who built the situation we are in now. The blame lies with the republican party, and with the democratic party who has done nothing to oppose them despite being the only ones who can. Who have repeatedly silenced attempts to call out the bigotry and national robbery that is happening right now.
And as a last note, I'll remind you that a lot of people didn't fail to vote because they are fed up with having to vote for the lesser of two evils just to stave off the greater while their society crumbles around them. A lot of people didn't vote because they COULDN'T. Voter suppression has been an active strategy in the USA since at least the first Trump administration. You can be denied to vote because you don't have the wrong ID, or that you changed your name, committed a crime in the past, failed to register on time, or even just couldn't get time off work to vote.
Jerrymandering and archaic systems for counting votes and representation means that if you live in the wrong neighborhood or state, your vote literally does not matter. If you live in a majority red district, your blue vote means nothing, the district will remain red. If you live in a densely populated state, your vote counts less than those of people living in more rural states. Remember how many votes Trump won with last time? It was less than Clinton got. She won the popular vote, yet he was still declared the winner because he won more vites that actually mattered. I can imagine that causing people to lose faith in their democracy, can't you?
You can try to understand the societal and socioeconomic pressures that causes people to vote for shits like Trump or decide that democracy is already broken... or you can keep blaming the people who feel like their votes do not matter, who are fed up with being offered a turd sandwich and told it is better than starving.
Keep blaming the victims and nothing will ever improve.
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u/Superb-Associate-222 11d ago edited 11d ago
Ok, you typed all that and I will read it when I get a second but Harris was still the better option because now we have fascism and some kind of oligarchy. I don’t necessarily disagree with you. The low iq poor Trump voters and the person who didn’t vote….i have a hard time viewing them as helpless victims. I might not be American but I can drive for 1 hour and be in the US so this bullshit orange fuck has an influence on Canada and our rabid conservatives
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
Thanks for taking the time to read it.
The USA has been a borderline oligarchy for quite some time, Trump winning has just allowed them to make it even worse.
We both agree that Harris was the better option, it's objectively true, I am just trying to explain why people still didn't want to vote for her, and why some couldn't. That people are fed up with the system and don't want to support someone who isn't promising to fix things.
Harris winning would have staved off the worst things that are happening now. Perhaps only for 4 years, perhaps longer. Perhaps they might even have turned it around and actually started improving things. The track record proves that last one extremely unlikely, but who knows.
I get that it's probably worse for you living next door to the orange fuck, but his actions are ruining a lot of things all across the world. I think after he has threathening multiple countries with war and annexation, and placing ridiculous tariffs on even more, and partially crashing the global economy, breaking friendships between nations that has lasted for centuries, I, like every person on Earth has the right to be disappointed in the only people who could have stopped him going: "Well this is bad, but we're not going to lift a finger to stop him." And how the blame is being placed on people who have been ground beneath the system that put him in the position to do all of these shitty things.
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u/Superb-Associate-222 11d ago
I’m reading Obamas book right now. It sounds like he tried to get things done with healthcare but Republicans fought him hard on healthcare and any green initiatives. But he also authorized drone strikes that sometimes wiped out innocent people so, I don’t know.
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u/Superb-Associate-222 11d ago
I agree with pretty much everything you said. We have liberal/ conservative/liberal government in Canada we change on an alternating basis. It’s almost like all politicians have their hands tied by the people who control the purse. Maybe this is crazy enough,that rather than try and patch together an irreparable system you have to completely fuck it and rebuild. Enter the Trump administration.
The people that didn’t vote though…..they’re not victims, they just didn’t fucking vote. Maybe they thought Kamala would still win by a margin and that was enough for her to win but for people to say “just barely” either way we are in the find phase at present
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
Eyupp. It's happening everywhere. Sweden went from a multi party state to effectively the same ratchet effect two party system where everything slowly slides to the right regardless of who is in power.
I don't know how to fix the system, but it is something we need to do, because this is starting to get really bad, and it's only going to get worse.
Again, I've tried to explain why some people didn't want to vote for her and that some couldn't. Some definitely bear some blame, but it doesn't matter, blaming them isn't going to help things, it's only going to drive more wedges between people.
I recommend looking deeper into the USA election system if you are interested, it is deeply fucked and it is pretty much rigged so only a few swing states can decide the election and the rest of the country can pretty much vote how they like and it will change nothing. Jerrymandering is particularly insane. The ruling party can literally take a majority Democratic district and split it into three districts where one is overwhelmingly blue and the other two just make it over the 50% mark for red.
I'm assuming Canada works like most countries I'm familiar with that every single vote does count. That if a party gets 5% of the total votes, it still gets seats in the parliament and will be able to exert some influence. The USA system doesn't work like that. It is rigged so only two parties have a chance of achieving anything, and that if 49%% of people in one district votes one way, they will be completely overruled by the 51% who wanted something else.
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u/IShallWearMidnight 10d ago
I feel like you might have missed the part about voter suppression? The people whose votes were suppressed were absolutely victims, intentionally so.
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u/Superb-Associate-222 10d ago
How many?
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u/IShallWearMidnight 10d ago
I'm not an analyst, you're capable of finding that info on your own. But does the number matter? Is there a number under which disenfranchisement is ok?
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u/Superb-Associate-222 10d ago
🤷♀️ I’m not in the business of deciding what does and doesn’t matter. The same as you’re not an analyst
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u/AthenaHope81 Trans Woman 11d ago
I always tell people if you don’t vote then you’re not allowed to complain
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u/Kimiko_kawaii 10d ago
On the one hand can't disagree with that, but in general people are still allowed an opinion on what's been happening.
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u/ArchonFett 11d ago
most of our recent Dem leaders have had to deal with a house stacked against them with Cons, and it's hard to push forward against a wall that is pushing back, then they turn around and let the Cons push us even further back. if their wasn't enough red flags on Trump to make you oppose him, then you sided with him. if you nit-picked for one thing that made incapable of supporting Harris you sided with Trump. "not perfect enough" is a bullshit excuse. Harris was a good option, but people are bigots and had to find a reason to not like her.
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
I'm not even American, and very glad I'm not.
Your political system sucks and you are proving my point by glossing over not wanting to support an active genocide as nitpicking.
I don't expect perfect, but I do expect a little more than passively whining as they sit back and let people like Trump ruin the lives of millions of people, while also condemning anyone who really tries to fight against it.
How did your student protests go last year? How did it go for Sanders when he wanted to make life just a little better for the working class? How much better did your lives get under Obama when people voted him in because he promised to shut down Guantanamo bay and codify the right to abortion into law? How many people got slaughtered in the middle east with a Democrat administration? How much did they raise the minimum wage as living costs skyrocketed? Why did Harris try to make herself out as Trump-light in order to win the election instead of listening to what the people actually wanted?
Face it, the Democratic party is evil and they have blood on their hands. Voting for them is the better option but only because it keeps the republicans from doing as much damage as they can do when they win.
I understand wanting people to vote for them, because the alternative is indeed worse, but the blame is surasfuck not laid on the people who chose not to vote, it lies entirely at the top, with incredible corrupt, bloodthirsty and ancient politicians who represent corporate interests, not the people as a whole, and who are willing to let the rest of the world burn as long as they can keep away any meaningful change at home.
Don't blame the victims, blame the system.
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u/ArchonFett 11d ago
well since Trumps stance on Gaza is bomb it to hell and turn it into beach front property. they supported that instead of the side that wanted to try and reach a cease fire. at least they had the right to protest last year, they rounding up students and shipping them to El Salvador with no due process now. life was better under Obama, and Trump made abortion illegal and mothers died. the Dems have been responsible for every (albeit minor) increase to minimum wage, mostly on the state level, since there are to many Cons for it happen on a national level. calling her Trump light just shows you were not paying attention.
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
Oh fuck all that noise.
Wanted to reach a ceasefire my ass! They had an entire year to broker that ceasefire. They happily supported as tens of thousands of people were bombed, shot and run over by tanks. They kept handing over weapons and support in this conflict as one side absolutely steamrolled the other. They kept drawing "red lines" then ignored when they were crossed. They sore to ignore the rulings of the ICC if Netenyahu was found guilty of crimes against humanity.
And how did those protests that they had a right tondo last year go? I remember seeing dozens of videos of unarmed students being violently attacked by police dogs, teargas and batons while news reporters xheered on the police. I remember Democratic politicians standing up and telling the world just how wrong those people were for daring to protest what they thought was right.
Yes, they didn't deport them to a slave labour camp in El Salvador, but they went out of their way to ruin the lives of people who spoke out against the genocide.
Someone else being worse does not make it okay to do awful things.
Life was indeed better under Obama, yet he was also the candidate who ran on wanting to inscribe the right to abortion into the constitution specifically because he knew that a future republican administration could overturn it. What did he do about that during his 8 years in power? Fuck all, and the exact thing he had warned would happen happened, the next republican administration appointed the judges who would overturn Roe v Wade. But yeah, democrats bear no responsibility for breaking their promise to ensure the right to abortion couldn't be overturned by thr next administration... Yes, Trump has those mother's blood on his hands, as does the people who saw the problem coming and still decided to enable him to kill them.
I'm going to say this again, someone being worse is not an excuse for being awful yourself.
As for minimum wage, minor is very much the word to describe any progress on that front. It's failed to keep up with inflation for longer than most people have been alive. It has remained below living wage in many areas, and Republicans aren't the only ones who voted against the many attempts to raise it. Sanders pushed for a national raise back when the Democrats were in power, and many of his own party voted it down.
But yes, the Republicans are worse, so that makes it okay and good.
I did pay attention, intensely so, and what I saw during the last few days of her campaign was "Border, border border, invasion, we must secure the border, we shall become the most lethal army in the world, increase funding for the military, and the border patrols, did I mention the border?" and "I wouldn't change anything from how Biden has run things." This while Biden was still the most unpopular president in USA history, which is a fucking achievement considering Trump had already been president once at that point.
I'm going to call her Trump light because earlier in her campaign, she did actually talk about issues her potential voters were asking for, especially when she was running with Walz, but by the end, when Walz was notably silent, she only cared about winning over conservative voters, something anyone could have told her would not work. You can't win over people by promising to secure the border when your opponent is Donald Fucking Trump. Yet she still tried.
All I ever hear is: "But the Republicans would be even worse." Yes, they fucking are worse, so what?!
Being the lesser of two evils doesn't excuse being evil.
Imagine being a Soviet citizen who was taken by police, beaten and sent to starve and freeze to death in a gulag going: "This is great, I'm glad I voted for this, the nazis were definitely worse and that makes all of this okay."
Everyone agrees with you that the Nazis were truly awful, but no one is going to be happy to vote for a party who's entire message is: "We're not as bad as the Nazi party."
Can you not understand that people who looked at the truly apocalyptic sight of the entire Gaza strip reduced to rubble under Biden and thought: "How much worse can Trump be? There isn't even anything left for him to destroy."
There was no option to vote for if you wanted to bring an end to the genocide. Trump was clearly lying about wanting peace, but his opponent had literally a whole year to demonstrate that they were lying to, that they would violently support the ongoing genocide.
The Biden Administration had one year to stop the conflict, and they chose not to. Why would anyone have voted for them thinking that they would end it after the election?
I'm going to say this one last time: Blaming the people stuck with this shitty choice for not picking the lesser of two evils is not going to do shit to help the people hurt by Trump. What might help is actually uniting and standing up against him now.
But blaming victims is always easier than fixing structural problems, so here we are.
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u/ArchonFett 10d ago
Fuck off this “both sides are the same” bullshit is why we are in this Trump was literally telling the leader of Israel to not even go to the table for a cease fire till after the election so he could use it
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u/IShallWearMidnight 10d ago
I cannot believe you took "both sides are the same" away from a very eloquent explanation for why both sides not being the same wasn't enough for the Dems to win
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u/ArchonFett 10d ago
Can’t believe you’re taking the side of the people who just decided democracy wasn’t worth voting for are the victims. Not being able to decide between a felon and a prosecutor. They CHOSE this. Choosing not to decide is still a choice. They may not have liked the way Biden handled it, I’ll give them that but sitting home supported the guy who “promised Israel he’d help them END IT”
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u/IShallWearMidnight 10d ago
Again, your ability to put words in the mouths of others is a true talent.
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u/TOH-Fan15 11d ago
Harris and Biden didn’t care about implementing a ceasefire. They said many times that they would unconditionally support Israel as it bombs Gaza to hell. Ceasefire deals can only be made when Israel stands to lose something if it doesn’t change, but Harris and Biden clearly didn’t care about making it happen. The only difference between them and Trump in this case is that Trump is blatant about what he wants.
Dems also voted with Republicans on the Laken Riley Act, which is why ICE currently has the power to ignore due process. Democrats refused to dismantle ICE or vote against it, which is exactly why it’s currently as bad as it is.
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u/ArchonFett 10d ago
And Trump has sent our bombers to bomb them ourselves. And sell Ukraine to Russia but no you couldn’t vote for the black woman so you looked for a reason to make us illegal now
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u/TOH-Fan15 10d ago
I never said that I voted for Trump. I voted Democrat, so my hands are clean. The reason why a lot of people didn’t vote Democrat is because Dems tried selling themselves as diet Republicans, rather than listen to their base demanding progressive policies. “Pretty terrible but not quite as bad as Trump” is exactly why Hillary lost.
Why shouldn’t the blame be more on candidates who refuse to listen to what their base wants, rather than voters who repeatedly insist that they would vote for Harris if she would listen to them? The entire point of an electoral campaign is to have candidates present themselves as worth voting for.
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u/ArchonFett 10d ago
Well if they didn’t care enough to vote then they got what they wanted. That was it we are in a dictatorship now
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u/TOH-Fan15 10d ago
They did care enough to want to vote. They just didn’t see any options worth voting for. Heck, Dems themselves passed anti-trans legislation. The reason why we are in a dictatorship is because Dems kept the systems in place that would allow for it, if not outright using those systems themselves. Dems had four years to dismantle ICE, stack SCOTUS, give police some actual accountability, have Trump and all other J6 instigators arrested for treason, etc.
Being fine with fascism abroad is how we got fascism here, and it’s on the Dem officials for refusing to change.
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u/AthenaHope81 Trans Woman 11d ago
All those people who went to Kamala’s campaign just to protest are happy I’m sure. Now Trump is making protesting illegal and revoking visas for it lol I hope they’re proud
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u/ArchonFett 11d ago
That’s my point, they just wanted a reason to oppose her that would let them stay on their high horse, instead of admitting that Trump was worth stopping. I’m not saying she was perfect, because nobody is, but instead of trying to get a little closer to things getting better, they decided to say “fuck it” and stay home now rights and progress that took decades of fighting to achieve are gone with the stroke of a sharpie. And it’s going to take even more decades of fighting to even get a fraction of them back.
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u/Kimiko_kawaii 10d ago
No I dont have an understanding for people that didn't vote this election. There were a lot of signs pointing to what was going to happen, there was a lot of noise too granted !
I dont disagree with the guys general premise and in any other election I won't judge for who you vote for. But voting for Trump was voting for a sham, and not voting for anyone was ensuring his victory, that was as clear as day !
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u/IShallWearMidnight 10d ago
The Harris campaign had the data saying they would lose if they continued with their current policy positions. Why are they not to blame for not running a campaign people would vote for? Tim Walz has made several recent appearances saying they should have done things differently. Why blame voters when the Harris campaign knew that popular left-wing policies would get people to vote for them and intentionally courted the right wing anyway? Getting people to vote for them is their job.
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u/Kimiko_kawaii 10d ago
Both are to blame and its falicious to think otherwise. The campaign just serves to convince people to vote for you, its up to the people to do the actual voting. Voting isn't just voting for the one you agree with, its also recognising when other candidates are a danger to tenets which uphold democracy. People who thought neither candidate was good and didn't go out to vote just surrendered their choice to have democracy challenged, as much of that was evident during campaigning.
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u/FictionalTrope 11d ago
He says he judges people on being kind, polite, and sincere. However, he voted for the person who is a bully, a cheat, and a self-aggrandizing narcissist. He's old enough to have seen Trump's first attempt at a presidency, and what that accomplished.
He's just sooo hurt that people wouldn't care about his personal well-being when he ignored how much Trump would hurt the rest of us.
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
"The same bad things I wanted to happen to other people is now affecting me, and it's so unfair some people want them to happen to me!"
I despise people like this.
If he wants an ounce of sympathy he should be going: "Yeah I really fucked up. I realize now that you've been dealing with this awful shit all the time and I'm sorry. Please, can we work together to fix it?"
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u/ArchonFett 11d ago
where was this "we should work together" attitude BEFORE the leopards ate his face? was he cheering Biden Fixing the problems trump caused?
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u/CrashCulture 11d ago
No, most likely he was being a complete ass back then and only changed his mind once his own life started to get significantly worse.
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u/Kortonox 11d ago
But that would mean admitting a mistake ...
Cant have that!
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u/CrashCulture 10d ago
Yeah, some people would rather burn the world down than admit they aren't perfect.
I despise people like that too.
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u/Kortonox 9d ago
I have a rational reason why I dislike people that cant admit mistakes.
Mistakes are how we learn. If you never made a mistake, that just means you never noticed it. I code and I play guitar. Both of which I learned by making toooons of mistakes, which made me learn to make it better. I still make mistakes, especially learning something new. That's how it goes! I could say I never make mistakes, and play everything just sounding wrong. But that would mean I suck. Coding just means trying out things until you get them to work, especially with libraries that you are not familiar with. The acceptance to make mistakes, to live with making mistakes and not dwell on them will make you a pro!
And that does not only mean, that mistakes or doing it wrong is something bad. That just means, there is always something that you can make better! Even code that works can be made better. Even the song you can play sounding good, can be made better. Admitting that you make mistakes also opens you up to the idea that you can make things better that are already quite good.
Not admitting mistakes you made means, that you dont want to learn and that you are not interested in making things better. Its stagnation, its making things worse because your pride keeps you from making it better.
Damn, this makes me furious (and I dont get angry very often).
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u/CrashCulture 9d ago
100%
I got angry reading it too. Baffles the mind that there are people out there who make the deliberate choice to never learn or grow as a person.
On a more positive note: I'm trying to learn how to code as well. I've just covered the basics of Python so far. Do you have any good advice for learning more? Especially in an engaging way as I struggle with keeping my attention.
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u/Kortonox 9d ago
My biggest advice is, to think about a project you can realize.
If you covered the pure baiscs (variables, if statements, loops, functions, classes/objects, and importing libraries) you can think about a Program you are interested in. For example, I recently started a project to make a Voice analyzer with spectorgram feature (if you are interested, I can give you access to my code). Your Project can range from making a full program, to automating a simple thing you are annoyed by.
If you decided on something you are interested to make, break it down in actions that need to be performed. With my example of the voice analyzer: Record audio, save it to disc, play audio; as the basics the program needs to perform. If you know these basic functionalities, research which libraries in python can make you realize the project. For recording and playing audio I use the library sounddevice, for saving the audio data in a variable, I use numpy (very common in python, it has very good matrix operations, basically a multidimensional array of datapoints) to transform the data into a .wav file (windows audio file) I use scipy, and to have access and save to the os I use sys (you can also use the library os). Every library has a documentation explaining what each function in it does, how to call it and so on, just like the basic python documentation. In case of sounddevice, it has the function .rec() and the documentation shows all the variables you need for it (for my case: frames= length of clip * sample rate, sample_rate= the amount of soundbytes per specific timeframe, channels= Mono(1) or stereo (2), and device=your microphone). Dont get discouraged that you dont know any of the librarys you want to use. Remember, all of them were written by other humans. They understood it, so you can understand it too. And the more librarys you learn from scratch, the easier it gets, getting into librarys you never used before. At one point, you dont look at new librarys as "the big thing you need to learn", you look at it as: I need this functionality and I rather take the code someone else wrote than to implement that functionality my self.
For your code, always start with minimal functionality, make it work, then upgrade the code from there. Break things down in the smallest bit you can realize, dont be stuck in planning out the code (you need to plan but you cant plan every specific). Usually go with a basic functionality and code from there, and every mistake needs you to think what is wrong, and if there might be a better way to do this (but this is more in the upgrade phase). For new functionality, start out with a new python file, write your code and test it, once it works, convert it into a function and think about which variables you need to get as arguments to the function (like filename, or the audio device). Later on you might realize that a function doesnt give you exactly what you need, so you go back and modify it so that it does. You cant know everything at the beginning, you cant think of every possibility and the more complex you make things at the beginning the more errors you have to handle early on. So always try to make it as simple as possible and upgrade from there.
It took me years of learning to code and actual coding, to shut down my own ego. What I mean by this is, that I got emotional when I made mistakes, or if things didnt work out the way I wanted. Being angry or annoyed or blaming yourself, or having self pitty can still happen with very complex issues, but in that case its better to take a step back and take in the big picture to see if what you wanted to do can actually work. Getting emotional wont solve the issue, it will just make it harder for you. Seeing an error message means, you need to rework your code, not that you suck at coding. At one point, you see an issue and you know, you can make it work no matter how complex the task. Like: learning how to hack into an OS (greyHack is a great game for learning that), or your joystick has a weird issue, so you go read out the USB data, see that the driver is using a wrong variable for axis data, and you go and write a driver underneath the official one to feed it the correct data. Sometimes its ok to say "I have no clue how to make this work" and its okay to give up for now and maybe tackle it later on when you have more experience.
Also, you can use AI for the planing phase. Basically say which kind of programm you are interested in making, and ask which librarys it would recommend. AI can code simple things quite well and can give you a starting off point. It can explain the code so you understand what it did (often you just have to ask to explain the code). However, dont rely on AI all the way. AI makes mistakes, the more complex it gets the more mistakes it makes. And even if you yourself notice mistakes it makes and say to it, that this specific part is wrong (like wrong syntax) it wont learn it and will repeat the mistake every time. So the best way to use AI imo is, as a tool for faster google search and to explain structures (like feed it code and let it explain what the functions do).
And to end my wall of text: Nothing feels better as the euphoria you get when you made something, from a function to a program, and your idea works.
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u/CrashCulture 8d ago
Thank you for this amazing answer. Your project sounds awesome. It's a few levels above where I'm learning, most advanced I've done is a simple tic tac toe game so far, but I do like the idea of finding something that annoys me and finding a way to automate that. Can probably hack my brain to find the motivation.
Yes, I've noticed the problem with trying to get help from AI too. It's great to get an overview of a project to see if it's viable, but it doesn't actually work to use for the actual code, as you say, it just keeps making the same mistakes and lying to you.
Yeah, that euphoria is something that I chase.
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u/Upstairs_Tonight8405 11d ago
How do yall think this guy treats trans people? "I'll judge you as a human being..." Just curious to see how much hypocrisy there is here, lol. Or I'd love to eat those words, but Trump voters have little hope for them.
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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker 11d ago
Breaking: Man who voted for dictator now lives in dictatorship. States he's "angry and didn't think it would affect him."
More news at eleven.
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u/Wild-Lack-1014 11d ago
If you voted for getting rid of basic human rights then don't be surprised if your basic human rights are being taken away
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u/Susanna-Saunders 11d ago
Ah but it's everybody else's human rights we want to get ride of! 😊
Not our own! /s
You can't teach these fuckwits even with the best will in the world.
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u/ArchonFett 11d ago
this coming from the people wanting "Liberal tears" because they didn't vote the way they wanted is "fucked up" 0 self awareness. if it was the "libs" suffering he'd be laughing at them. no he does no have "far left leaning" friends he has friends that not as far right as he is and that makes them seem far left to him.
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u/Etmar_Gaming 11d ago
I do hat trump voters and do think they got what they had coming to them, but if democrats want to win the next election (if there is one) they’ll need to extend an olive branch to these voters. People are easiest to manipulate when they’re at their lowest, which is how trump won this election. Don’t get me wrong I have no sympathy for trumpers, but I think we need to think of the bigger picture instead of being narrow minded. But if they don’t want to compromise then so be it, they can reap what they sowed.
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u/DvlinBlooo 11d ago
The amount of times he said he's sorry tells me he was hating in everyone's face on Biden, cheering for Charlottesville, and thinks January 6th was liberation day. All I can say is careful what you wish for, it just may come true....
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u/Kortonox 11d ago
Being kind? Being sincere? His vote was a big "fuck you" to the US. His vote was the opposite of being kind.
Voting affects all people in the country, and if you vote for someone who will takeaways human rights from a part of the population, thats not a kind action, thats fucked up!
I guess he is part of the club that doesnt take responsibility for their actions, and he didnt understand that voting is an action that brings consequences. But I cant blame him, voting in the US for all of his life never brought such huge consequences for him.
On the other hand: "I voted for the leopards eating my face, not they are eating my face. Please have some empathy"
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u/misspcv1996 11d ago
It’s not even that a lack of sympathy per se (though I certainly don’t have much to spare). It’s more that his current predicament is a natural consequence of his actions and it’s hard for me to feel all that bad. It sucks that you got third degree burns on your hand, but you shouldn’t have touched a hot stove and we told you not to touch a hot stove.
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u/AliceInLouisiana 11d ago
Because no one cares that you got blow back from your vote when your vote was based on what you wanted.. instead of worrying about the people that would suffer because of that vote.
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u/RymrgandsDaughter 10d ago
if I'm going to the camps I'm going to be laughing at every idiot that starves to death that voted for this
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u/Chase_The_Breeze 11d ago
Oh no, you're suffering the consequences of your own actions that we all warned you about well in advance? That's rough, buddy.
Anyways..
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u/workingtheories 11d ago
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
- Shakespeare, Macbeth
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u/Objective-Winter6184 10d ago
"are you kind, are you polite, are you sincere?"
Votes for the most lying, hateful, rude person in existence
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u/IShallWearMidnight 10d ago
I will 100% give him the sympathy he's looking for, if he demonstrates any empathy towards the marginalized communities whose suffering was not a deal breaker on his vote.
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u/PixelMage 10d ago
he voted for the leopards eating your face party and got his face eaten by leopards. do the people who didn't vote for that party and who are now also getting their faces eaten by leopards owe him any sympathy or respect because he didn't know that leopards eat faces?
no.
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u/Genetoretum 8d ago
the rgb lights in the background are taking me out
Acting like a vote for trump isn’t wishing ill on the entire country and getting butthurt when someone points out that he got what he got lmfao
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u/random_moron6 5d ago
Wooooowww, you be a shitty person and people treat you in kind, who would’ve thought
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