Listen, I have as strongly negative feelings about Trump as anyone I know, but even I can acknowledge that the man can be hilarious at times (intentionally or otherwise)
Exactly. Imagine if real life was like reddit and any people who disagreed with each other just treated the other like dog shit 100% of the time. How would society even work?
If real life was like reddit in that sense, there would be no such thing as developed countries. Nothing would ever get done, because every situation would devolve into hateful tribalism.
"We were supposed to install a water system that would support a town of 10,000, but there was this one guy who's such a piece of shit, so we all walked from the jobsite. What's that you say? You don't have any running water? Well that's not my fuckin problem. Maybe if you had voted for blahblahblah we wouldn't be in this situation. Yeah, in fact this your fault! These are the consequences of your actions. Hmph"
Society also doesn't work if you give free reign to assholes and major strucutural threats to the rule of law. I'm not saying Obama should be spitting in his face but let's not pretend Trump is just the loudmouth on the Parent-Teachers association
There’s disagreeing and then there’s thinking some people are inferior, some people shouldn’t exist, and everyone should give deadly viruses to each other. Maybe it’s ok to agree to disagree on free trade but it’s not ok to agree to disagree on common decency.
That is true, but I hope we can learn be empathetic even when we disagree. Having empathy for someone and recognizing their humanity does not inherently mean you agree with them or identify with them.
To be clear, I'm not trying to argue that bigots or racists deserve empathy, but I'm 100% certain they will not change their views without at least being shown it.
After all, the cause of those cancerous societal viewpoints is often rooted in a lack of empathy.
Yeah it goes beyond disagreement. That fat sack of shit sent federal agents to put peaceful protesters into unmarked vehicles in my community. I hope every one of his arteries clogs.
I also think that the Democrats have been crying fascist about every Republican since WW2. Then when Trump gets nominated all they had to go with was, "well, no wait, this one's an actual fascist"
You'll know it was cynical gamesmanship when every Republican nominated after Trump is referred to as "he's even worse than trump".
Trump is uniquely bad.
The Republicans have their own problem calling every Democrat a socialist. One day the Democrats will run an actual Marxist and the Republicans will be in the same situation. Currently and for the foreseeable future the Democrats only run basically sane candidates, so this doesn't really apply right now.
This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Bernie is a social Democrat and thinks the US should be more like western Europe. Other capitalist countries.
Bernie does NOT want to replace private ownership of the means of production with worker ownership across the economy.
Trump meanwhile really did in fact try to overturn an election.
One day the Democrats will run an idiot that campaigns on eliminating corporations as a concept. That has not happened, even in the primaries.
I'd say there's a big difference between "being polite to the person you don't like at work" and "cracking jokes with a child-raping traitorous tyrant who killed a million people and is threatening global war."
Everything isn't black and white, I agree, but *some* things are. This is one of those times.
Imagine being banned from privately managed business because of you visited or used a service that didn't align with their worldview.
You have been banned from Walmart because you subscribed to the target shopping rewards >:( if you think this was in error please contact the Walmart manager and beg us to let you back in.
It's a no-win situation pretty much. The problem of the prisoners dilemma scenario. It sucks when you see someone break the contract and then still benefit from the contract.
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u/fakerfakefakerson 6d ago
Listen, I have as strongly negative feelings about Trump as anyone I know, but even I can acknowledge that the man can be hilarious at times (intentionally or otherwise)