• Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    6 hours ago

    I don’t have any sympathy for a voter dumb enough and conservative enough to vote for Trump three times in a row.

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      I think we should have sympathy. Better late than never, and nothing will ever change if people aren’t allowed to learn and grow.

      MAGA is a community, and a lot of MAGAtards are only there for the community. If progressives aren’t willing to accept personal growth, there is no reason for them to grow.

      Progressives need to take the high road and welcome the MAGAts who have finally seen the light.

      An eye for an eye only creates blindness. Someone needs to stop the cycle.

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        The sentiment of your post is commendable, but I’m skeptical that any magats are “finally seeing the light”. They’ve been fully supportive of bigotry and facsism for a decade now. I’m relieved that support for trump is beginning to dwindle, but it’s not because those supporters are now becoming more progressive. Its because their gas prices have gone up. They will blindly continue to vote red in the future.

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        5 hours ago

        Did he actually learn anything or is he just going to vote for the next fascist with an R next to their name?

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        How’d that work out with the Confederacy? Did turning the other cheek teach them the error of their ways? Or did it just create a society that makes excuses to justify its racist “heritage”?

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      If they truly have learned maybe they can be saved, but god damn how out of touch would you have to be to only just now be figuring this out?

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      I’m glad they finally figured it out, but I’m definitely still going to give them shit about being fooled 3 times in a row.

      And I’m also not going to trust them as far as I can throw them when it comes to not getting fooled a 4th time.

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        This is a good point. Con men target people who have been conned in the past, because the person’s personality hasn’t changed — they’re still an easy mark with the same levers that worked last time.

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      It’s important to welcome people leaving cults, no matter how dumb it looks that they were in the cult in the first place. The main reason they were there is community, and if they don’t find a welcoming community outside, they’ll go right back in.

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        Rehabilitation of people willing to forgo MAGA and the conservatism that fuels it is one thing, but quotes like “He’s a con man, a liar, doesn’t keep his promises” illustrate that some voters haven’t had a change of heart about MAGA policies, just on Trump’s ability to actually deliver on them.