Amazing how minorities managed to not be manipulated....
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Trump budget to cut rail services to hundreds of rural communities
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UnemployedVillain
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People looove to deny racism. It's the most bizarre thing. I feel on here people (thankfully not most) treat calling someone or a group racist as worse than the group's actually, provably, doing racist shit
Not going to empathize with someone that is told many times that hitting their hand with a hammer with hurt, but proceeds to do it.
Folks love skipping over that
Kremzeek
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I'm not laughing at them, but no I don't feel sorry that they believed all the lies about job creation and how big gubmint is always ruining their freedom.
kitchenmotors
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Fuck that.
Where was empathy from these fucks who voted Trump when it comes to my rights as an Hispanic gay American?
They will not. Right wing media sources will continue to lie to them and they will continue to suffer believing those lies.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Which is why people in this thread are reacting the way are.
kitchenmotors
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They'll blame Obama or Hillary for this.
We're going to build a fabulous wall!
SapientWolf
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This is the only way they'll learn.
When all those rural communities that voted massively for Trump and Conservatives across the years because "Government is evil", And "socialist" government is evil-er, lose their rail, post office services, elderly assistance programs, preschools, schools and healthcare services because they are not 'financially viable'.
What then?
#golfclap
What then?
#golfclap
Saint Gregory
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Yeah, Trump's support amongst Republican's is still over 80% which I imagine would overlap pretty well with Fox News viewership. I watched some Fox yesterday and you'd think that things have never been better for everyone in this country after being freed from the tyranny of Dictator Obama.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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They won't care as long as they are fucking over somebody that is a minority, LGBTQ, etc.....
Blargonaut
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Don't bother. Even despite the laughable campaign the Dems have been running for the past few decades they will keep screaming "racism!" while covering their ears.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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The issue is this is not the first time.
This is decades and decades of voting like this.
At some point you have to say fuck off.
Interesting Catch 22.
Rural areas seem to be mainly Republican yet really what they need is more state/socialist government to ensure they get subsidies and infrastructure that their economic position alone doesn't justify and likely won't for the foreseeable future given economic trends.
You have to wonder will they stick to their current beliefs and go down painfully as they're increasingly abandoned over time or wise up and realiaze how the worlds moved on and the kind of policies and government they'll need to remain viable?
I'm guessing the former but I hope for the latter.
Rural areas seem to be mainly Republican yet really what they need is more state/socialist government to ensure they get subsidies and infrastructure that their economic position alone doesn't justify and likely won't for the foreseeable future given economic trends.
You have to wonder will they stick to their current beliefs and go down painfully as they're increasingly abandoned over time or wise up and realiaze how the worlds moved on and the kind of policies and government they'll need to remain viable?
I'm guessing the former but I hope for the latter.
Particle Physicist
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Empathy?! Fucking empathy? These people voted for Trump specifically to fuck over my family, my friends and myself. If they get fucked over as well because of their vote why the hell should I have empathy for them?
Saint Gregory
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Trust me, I have empathy for them. I've driven through some of those more depressed areas and have seen first hand how miserable it is there.
At the same time, they willingly and gladly voted in this administration, even as the rest of the country warned them they were being tricked.
Snowybreak
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Empathy?
I'll give my empathy to young black men being gunned down by police.
I'll give empathy to my LGBTQ brothers and sisters who are on the verge of suicide.
I'll give my empathy to the Muslim and Mexican immigrants coming over to seek a better life.
I'll give my empathy to low level drug offenders, put behind bars because of shitty laws.
But white people worried about their financial situation? I don't give a fuck anymore.
They dug their grave. They can lay in it.
When New York needed its services and solvency bolstered after the 1970s crisis, white rural voters and Republicans talked about how our plight was our fault, because we were union thugs. When my neighbors succumbed to the drug waves of the 1980s, they received racist scorn when they needed dignity and help. Sandy tore up the metro area? Sorry, rural red state senators wanted to balance the budget off of our backs.
Well, this is what it feels like. I'm sorry you have to learn that. And yet some of your representatives have been talking this way about capital needs for ages. What made you think they'd protect you?
Well, this is what it feels like. I'm sorry you have to learn that. And yet some of your representatives have been talking this way about capital needs for ages. What made you think they'd protect you?
In ~2 years the trends point to them going into permanent population decline. Young people are bolting. Businesses are leaving and not coming back.
Where exactly is their empathy for minorities, immigrants, the variety of people Trump's policies promised from the start to hurt?
It's a real one way street here.
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People don't vote in a vacuum. You don't just vote for one aspect of a politician. Especially not when that politician has made racism and xenophobia a major part of their campaign. Not to mention that Trump voters have had an overwhelmingly high approval of Trumps racist and xenophobic acts so far.
The economic anxiety bullshit has been debunked countless of times already.
Chuck Norris
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They'll have to pick up an extra set of boot straps now that they'll be walking so much. Except they won't be able to afford it because they have no jobs and will now be cut off from transport to jobs.
But at least they get to be racist again
But at least they get to be racist again
Well they wanted Trump to run the country like a business so there you go. Why waste money on states that don't make money. The only reason to not cut it would be to take a loss to help others. In other words it would require empathy, something most Trump supporters severely lack. Trump only cares about his people (the 1%) at the end of the day.
I get what your saying but lots of them voted for him out of pure malice. I hope they learn from the error of their ways, and that they make it through their hardships. People like trump care about the lower middle class and the poor the least. It's time they saw them the people they support for what they really are, manipulators. They use trigger words like abortion and gun control to make them hurt themselves. That congratulations you played yourself gif is popping up all the time for a reason. It's going to keep popping up for a long time too.
I watched the same video yesterday, and thought to myself "I guess I know what Trump is cutting funding to next".
Trump is going to kill America.
Killa Sasa
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Good for them, they got what they voted for. Sucks for those who voted D, were physically unable to vote and the kids. End of list.
Amazing that minorities were able to see this and much more bs coming but these snowflakes couldn't.
The so much for the tolerant left crowd can honestly get bent at this point, this group hasn't learned over decades by choice.
You can keep with outreach but they don't need to be a priority since they're outnumbered. Instead, focus on getting the big tent on one page first and into something reliable - do that well. Once they're more solidified, you can reach for these others.
Amazing that minorities were able to see this and much more bs coming but these snowflakes couldn't.
The so much for the tolerant left crowd can honestly get bent at this point, this group hasn't learned over decades by choice.
You can keep with outreach but they don't need to be a priority since they're outnumbered. Instead, focus on getting the big tent on one page first and into something reliable - do that well. Once they're more solidified, you can reach for these others.
True. Seems like the horse has already bolted the stable. It's a shame because I believe a viable rural existence is a good thing and a key element of modern society is providing infrastructure everywhere irrespective of economy.
But for too long US rural areas have got behind a political and economic model that by definition was going to abandon them.
Aeriscloud
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I bet my local station would be on the list, a station I have used many times to travel to NYC, Chicago, and Denver.
Bruce Springsteen
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Brawly Likes to Brawl
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It's a double standard. Only minorities and liberals are demanded to present the olive branch while making any implication that republican voters have some responsibility for their own suffering is met with denial. See:
Rural voter's prejudice has allowed them to get conned into cutting off their own noses time and time again for decades
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Doesn't mean that we can suddenly pretend that voting against your own interests doesn't come with consequences, and shame those who are willing to point out the elephant in the room.
Joel Was Right
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Dems should let this pass and wash their hands from it. If Republican policies fundamentally hurt their base more than any other group, then that group need to see the outcome for themselves in order for there to be change.
"why don't you empathize with people who voted for a racist, homophobic, misogynistic pig ? the left is truly just as bad"
Nah sorry. These people were too blinded by their own hate that they didn't even pay attention to anything else he said, everyone else could have seen this coming from miles away. They can live with the consequences now.
Nah sorry. These people were too blinded by their own hate that they didn't even pay attention to anything else he said, everyone else could have seen this coming from miles away. They can live with the consequences now.
Remember before the election when all those guys who "didn't vote for Trump but empathize with his voters concerns" were talking nonstop about Hillary ignoring the rust belt and their economic concerns?"
And further, cautioning that Trump had a believable economic strategy that was more coherent than his racism and bigotry?
I sure do.
And further, cautioning that Trump had a believable economic strategy that was more coherent than his racism and bigotry?
I sure do.
theCalamity
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I love this milquetoast concern trolling that espouses the need for inactive empathy. You have to feel sorry for these schmucks because if you don't feel sorry for them, they'll vote for Trump again even if voting for Trump and the GOP means they get hurt worse. They'll keep punching themselves because liberals on the off-topic side of a gaming forum doesn't have empathy for them.
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