In my country, it’s called “voting for the fox because the rooster is crowing out of tune”.

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      Do Democrats throw minorities under the bus after being beaten by Trump twice? Sure, but some folks are genuinely trying to be Uncle Toms or Uncle Chans. They think playing respectability politics will save their skin should pogroms come. But here’s the thing, racists only see skin colour and won’t give a damn who had been “one of the good ones” or not. Bigots inherently lack understanding of nuance, so trying to be “one of the good ones” as an act of self-preservation is moronic at best.

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      That’s a nice emotional support cop out.

      It’s not racist to say “we told you this kind of shit would happen”. Some people just have trouble accepting the outcomes of their actions. To be a minority and vote for a white republican over a black-Indian democrat means ignoring numerous warnings from white liberals who were raised by racist republicans. Why tf should I have sympathy for people who voted for a DEI purge?

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          Nobody is claiming otherwise.

          Fact remains that many Black and Hispanic people voted for Trump, and his support among those demographics apparently increased this last time as well. It’s also a fact that happened when the other choice was a black woman. Machismo, and just being gullible at the end of the day.

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            The OP posted another article with the title claiming that the majority of Muslims from Michigan voted for Trump. He is pushing misinformation.

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    People were told this was going to happen and they chose to not listen. No sympathy for stupid Americans at all.

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      This ! I’ll never understand people who assume that a party is good just because it’s the opponent of the one that abandoned or betrayed them.

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        “They abandoned us! Let’s vote for the party that actively promotes lies about us and says they will deport us instead!”

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    Promises made, promises kept.

    Unlike the Democrats, Trump and the Republicans didn’t abandon the Somali-American community. They are actively attacking it.

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    If you can’t see how amazingly awkward the US right wing is then I think you probably shouldn’t be allowed to form legal contracts for your own safety.

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    You have to congratulate the republicans really, time and time again they attack minorities and at the same time, they are growing by converting the very people they attack in to Republicans. Truly, the propaganda machine they’re unleashing is very effective. These immigrants are escaping their own fascist governments to elect another fascist government where they now live.

    And the Democratic party in their wisdom, looks over and says “well if people like old fascists let’s put up another old person for a Republican Lite campaign. Someone too liberal for the Republicans and not enough liberal for people on the left.”

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      It turns out that anyone can be a conservative idiot who votes against their own self interest.

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        White men have always been high republican voters, sure. The GOP doesn’t need to convert more white men, they’re converting everybody else. They’re converting latinos, blacks, muslims, LGBTQ, women, younger people. They’re doing an amazing job at it too.

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    Hear me out. Sometimes I hear quantum physics stuff and my brain understands what is being said but just like still cannot grasp how to reach some of the conclusions. Like it doesn’t fit my mindset or something, I don’t know. String theory is hard for me for example.

    I’ve decided to start picturing some people as hearing stuff that doesn’t fit within their scope and just… noping out and hiding back in their box because anything more than a one step equation just can’t ever make sense in their brain.

    I know this doesn’t help, but makes me less angry at them.

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        It’s hard not to be angry at stupidity once you recognize it as the source of most social problems. As a species, we are not as far from monkeys flinging poop as we like to believe.

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      Ok but we’re not exactly asking the electorate to understand quantum physics. Is asking people to look at what TACO did last time too much to ask for?