People who think politics is some kind of sports fandom are dumb and annoying.
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Is this another dumbass leftist vs liberal comment or do you have something meaningful to say?
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I mean this in the most neutral, literal sense: I do not know what the fuck you just said.
Yes it was. Edit: Maybe “not just liberals” would be a better comment
Yeah the leftists knew what else was coming but liberal outrage was all about the racism and open corruption.
The corruption needs to be deniable or people lose faith in the con, liberal leadership knows this.
My grandfather voted for Trump three times. Now, part of that movement is calling immigrants like him ‘filthy
NOW?
This author keeps writing how well they know the world, how they debate politics, yet never ever noticed that magas as a bunch of racist assholes?
This author is an idiot and a liar
How do you tell someone the country they’ve loved for 50 years is harboring a growing faction that wishes he’d never come?
I think these three words in this sentence says a lot about the author. My guess is they felt that America didn’t really have a racist population or felt it was small? When in reality it’s always been quite large but mostly quite. Where now this population doesn’t need to whisper anymore and they are seeing it for the first time.
My life is filled with immigrants from India and Nigeria and Lebanon and the Dominican Republic—many of whom are definitionally the “working class”—who voted for Trump.
Another word for those people is “Idiots”. Trumps base lives off racism. Anyone who did not understand this from the start basically deserves being hit by it. This includes both the idiots who did vote for Trump as well as the idiots who did not care to vote. I’m really sorry for all the other people who will fall victims of this political desaster, though.
Stop associating Trump with the working class. MAGA is a petite bourgeois movement. Workers don’t go for Trump because they’re racists, they go for Trump because their boss likes Trump and they’re a little politically backward, and that’s for a whole host of cultural and institutional reasons.
One thing that is interesting to me is how small business owners or like mid-upper management types will take on all these worker affectations like trucks, country music, cowboy hats, etc. but don’t get it twisted, one exploits and the other is exploited, and the worker who needs their boss to survive, aspires to be like him. And their boss has huge trump flags everywhere, signs in their yard, and he seems like someone just like me!
A good many of the “H1-Bs” from India are Modi supporters and by extension also supported Trump.
That’s the crux of it. The writer (and her family) are clearly upper-caste racists themselves - they just don’t recognize their beliefs are racist.
Whaaaaaat? You mean the bigotry and vitriol of the GOP isn’t limited to Mexicans, Hatians, Chinese, Guatemalans, Columbians, Cubans, Women, Gays, Transsexuals, Liberals, Muslims, Jews, Palestinians, Athiests, Americans wanting affordable healthcare, Americans wanting a living wage, Americans wanting affordable housing, Americans wanting renewable clean energy, Americans wanting a clean environment, immigrants, healthcare workers fighting a global pandemic, journalists, hecklers, and generally anybody who does not vote Republican?
Please add any groups that I forgot.
Ah, turks maybe?
Transgender is the correct term btw, the one you used is dated and derogatory
Thank you. I’ve corrected my post.
Hrm what did you miss…
At this point, basically all academics and scientists of pretty much any field who are not connected to a conservative think tank or corporate astroturf advocacy group…
Teachers…
Black Americans…
The Homeless…
Anyone that wants to watch porn…
Don’t forget military veterans, especially the ones that got captured and tortured, or sick or disabled as a result of their service. There’s also treating Puerto Ricans like they’re not part of the US.
Communists, socialists, the educated, the poor, the homeless, vegetarians, people with hair coloring (except blond)
I’m grey haired, and definitely feel very threatened by Trump’s incoming presidency.
They had money to be able to live as the middle class, and thought that brought them acceptance. They didn’t realize they were lulled into voting R only to be discarded after the vote.
“But then a few days ago…”
What, you crawled out from under a rock?
Typical conservative, ignores all the warnings and evidence until it negatively affects them. Also I bet her Trump voting grandpa believes in the caste system like almost every conservative Indian in the West. The racism is only bad when it targets them.
Something something leopards eating faces
That’s a thing I’ve noticed. Sometimes progressives try too hard while conservatives treat you like everyone else. I’ve seen people of all types think that means conservatives are fine and not bigoted. Like no, most of them aren’t going on bigoted rants to the face of the affected, but that doesn’t mean the rants don’t happen.
It’s like arguing with someone who goes into specifics and then overtime pulls them back.
“I only have a problem with hispanic, illegal, transgender immigrants”
“I only have a problem with immigrants”
“I only have a problem with you”
“I thought being a collaborator would foster upon me special class that would protect me and make me honorary white. That was proven wrong, and now I’m upset I’m being treated like everyone else”
