Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit
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I will say it’s very hard sometimes to want to see them get the benefits of a civil society when they actively insist others don’t get the same. It’s the whole “tolerance is a social contract” thing.
Hard to root for someone who wants you dead.
Especially if they refuse to change that desire.
I guess what I’d say is I want a government that’s compassionate even when I have none personally.
Elon Musk breaks US healthcare and has a medical issue requiring med evac to a country with functioning healthcare? I’m not going to be sad.
If he breaks the air safety of the US and his plane crashes? I’ll feel sorry for the pilots, not for him.
Why is BlueSky suddenly inundated with so many "let's all just be moderate" messaging right now?
My apologies, I assumed it was known that the complainers in a given situation were already known to be MAGA voters.
If he was a Trump voter, then FAFO is the only fitting response.
You voted to bring misery to those around you. In your hatred, you overlooked the fact that he also promised to bring misery to you.
You absolutely deserve the consequences.
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3liplg3yuak25
1) I wanted Trump to hurt other groups but he also harmed my own group
2) I now pay more for medicine and I don’t know how I’m going to make ends meet
One requires a follow up question, the other requires basic fuckin empathy
Not saying to treat people badly,just those options are a false binary.
I’d much rather this than the “make liberals cry again” signs. My friend who is the worst of this liberal shit laughed and then offered help.
What policy position is it that you want to join hands with Nazis over?
Nobody is irredeemable. We can bring them back from his cult and his evil.
B - No shit that's what happens when you don't support M4A
A - You're so mean I'm going to doubly not support M4A
There are plenty of people far more gettable then person A... so sucks to be them.
Not everyone will choose compassion at this point….and not everyone should.
We’re at war!
#RESIST
- George Saunders
Do we vote for people who support and defend a liberal democracy or for better social welfare system?
Freedom, individual rights, respec...these all went down the tubes when gas prices went up or egg prices went up. Our democracy wasn't stolen, it was purchased
Followed by "Can the voting be trusted any more?"
Then it's time for the "how".
A lot of y'all aren't going to survive this because y'all don't understand the paradox of tolerance.
Empathy and compassion are currently viewed as signs of weakness by a large part of our country.
If it actually mattered, more people would have refused to vote for the man who lacks both.
It boils down to laziness, willful ignorance & bigotry.
https://bsky.app/profile/wethedoodles.bsky.social/post/3liucc3hc222o
If someone douses their neighbor’s house in gasoline, sets it on fire out of spite, and burns their own finger in the process, responding with “I’m so sorry, let me help you with your finger” is not the appropriate reaction.
FAFO Trump voters deserve no compassion.
https://bsky.app/profile/wethedoodles.bsky.social/post/3liucc3hc222o
pushing people who are closer to the fence further away makes them more dangerous. what does cruel rejection, however justified, look like in the aftermath?
To Dem voters who opposed that policy, and voted for Harris anyway: you already understand how someone could vote for Trump despite all the racism and other unsavory things about his politics and character.
Biden. Harris was consistently against it
Liberals: Enjoy the day you voted for. Lol.
I hate the fucking internet.
think about it almost daily
AND EVEN IF THEY ARE SHOULD HEALTH CARE BE SELECTIVE BASED ON PERSONAL POLITICS?
I mean... anyone who thinks that it should be is engaging in some pretty vile eugenics. I thought we objected to that sort of thing.
What is wrong with people Brendel
The line of understanding has been dragged closer and closer to their viewpoint, away from mine and I'm expected to accept it.
Right now, I can't. Their views harm more than they help. This will reverberate for years to come. For everyone
Kids who get their politics from social media and are happy to divide up the opposition.
Maybe we can get some of those folks to help us with the midterms.
Thank you for this❤️
It's appropriate where you voted for Trump and your shit wnet up. I have not an ounce of spare sympathy for these people.
Compassion for YOU: well, I mean, let's see if you earned it first then maybe if it doesn't inconvenience me
(With judgment based on vibes)
Yeah, FAFO isn't the ideal response.
Ideal is that they should be calling up reps and the president instead of c-span.
None of this should be a surprise, if its a surprise, the person deserves criticism
I'd be considered an SJW to a fault, but you have to be so ignorant as to create enemies from your allies.
Mute me, great, you'll never actually learn something and you're just confirming that you are the asshole
Also, the FA part is exclusively for Trump voters or anti-Harris voters, so if he wasn't one of those, then bots? Idiots?
Because FO is something we're all doing.
https://bsky.app/profile/wethedoodles.bsky.social/post/3liucc3hc222o
What part of this are you having problems with understanding?
They combine that view with virulent racism so that all the poor rural rubes vote for them against their own interests.
“Poor little child, I shall protect you from the consequences of your actions. I feel sorry for you for making everyone's life miserable.”
(added a call to action😇)
If someone voted Trump, I'm gonna give them shit. You can't talk me out of it. You can't convince me not to bully a bully.
You are not better than me.
WE are the better people, not them.
I'm not wasting it on those I KNOW are fafo magats. (BTW, I do not believe that gentleman was a magat)
Nothing you said was a counter to this, reread it
Maybe you should try fighting Nazis by not adopting Nazi-like ideology.
I guess lots and lots of Harris voters actually voted for Trump; they don't spend every waking hour singing her praises, they only VOTED!!!
And religious cults have a lot of churn.
How is he supposed to afford this if we don't give him more tax breaks?
So yeah, empathy - but at what point do we start treating their actions as harmful to others?
With that said, their constant voting against other humans and their online chatter shifts the Overton window.
In that context, your response makes sense.
What a waiste!
How about "You were conned. You were lied to. We tried to warn you, and we voted to protect you from it. Now please join us in pressuring Congress to rein it in."
Tying purity tests to medical access is eugenicist shit.
You cannot fight nazis when you adopt a position that a nazi would take.
Medical care for all.
😉🥃🎸
I fundamentally do not understand the “even if he did, you should still feel bad for him” argument.
We tried the “they go low, we go high” thing for years and it didn’t work.
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This isn’t just leopards eating faces.
This is all hands on deck. The cruelty knows no bounds and EVERYONE is going to suffer.
Participate in risky behavior, ignoring the warnings, and discover the consequences.
Yes, people voted for this but didn’t think it would happen to them 😁
Human rights are supposed to extend to everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliation. A fact that this world seems hell bent on ignoring.
Ensuring those who are tasked with keeping the public informed will continue to do a shitty job of it.
Those who voted for him either chose wilfull ignorance or anarchy; the former is no excuse and the latter is inexcusable!
It's even got a spot in Merriam-Webster's dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/sanewashing
And don't have the time or energy to wade through the minutia of current events.
If their favored sources are flawed. They will be flawed.
So how's that their fault?
Tribalism is a big reason why we're in this mess
Blaming anyone other than the actual culprit is ass-backwards.
Says the people who laughed and mocked the libs when they won the election and now expect sympathy when he's acting out Project 2025 in its exact form. 🙄
Wanting to comfort them is the reason we're in this fucking mess. Quit being so damn soft. They have to learn on their own.
Did you vote for HARRIS?
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If YES, 🫂 how can I help?
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If NO, 😡 fuck off and die.
We warned you.
We're ALL suffering because you were too lazy to vote, or you threw your vote away on a 3rd party, or you backed a rapist felon.
Pain is the best teacher.
LEARN & REMEMBER!
No, 400,000 people DIDN'T survive COVID who should have. Now even more will die. This should have been a bigger priority for the lukewarm-voters. They get the same treatment.
Who are the folks that are going to need to be appealed to to turn the tide on all this? Beyond those who are already convinced, it's precisely those who voted for that guy in good faith and have seen that good faith trampled
We're not means-testing for political alignment here
So programs that could be universal and relatively simple to run become means-tested and absurdly expensive and bureaucratic
Sincerely - a T1D for 20+ years 🤷♂️
At the same time, you can still feel bad that their lives are getting materially worse without going whole hog on the "I told you so"s.
Some people need to sit down a reflect
If he didn't, and he's just crying to a corporation or conglomerate that could care less, then he's learning that his cries/begs for mercy don't matter...
At which point would you continue to take it up the ass RAW, eh?
The liberals are being tricked into spouting right wingisms until they're just explicitly right wing because the left "bullied them" by pointing out that they shouldn't do that.
It's a pipeline.
Do we care about living in a free country or not.
Those priorities are why we are here, right now.
head to understand. My reword:
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Victims of a shitty stupid, hateful, bigoted racist fuckhead.
There were other people replying to this basically assuming this guy voted Trump and therefore he was to blame, and I thought you were doing the same.
It's why there are millions of arguments happening around five points that all play out the exact same way every single time.
It's less malice and more stupidity.
Begging people to please stop.
We are all going to feel the pain inflicted by the rapist-in-chief and blaming the cause of our misfortune on the actual cause is required.
This isn’t fucking rocket science.
They just think we’re too dumb to see that that’s why.
It doesn’t and it should not be this hard for you to grasp such a simple thought process.
No one has any reason to believe a person calling in to CSPAN to raise alarms about the cost of insulin is a MAGA freak who deserves pain
Libturds, cry harder, trumps your daddy” and rejoicing on everything Elon is doing.
But Trump also got votes from inconsistent voters and those are people that can still be reached. Folks that don’t follow this stuff as regularly.
Empathy is no longer seen as valuable. It’s been normalized to be an asshole.
So, I can see how saying FAFO can get at least some people to understand that they need to do more about educating themselves and their friends/families about the lies they have been told.
We should remember that many of these folks will be victims like the rest of us and try our best to be compassionate. I want us to be the goodies.
If whatever personal crisis that prompted whatever epiphany some magat is having was to end today, he'd be back on the Trump Train tomorrow. So fuck 'em. Keep 'em hurting.
“Be nicer to your brother or I’m gonna BEAT.YOUR.ASS!”
It’s a super effective way for winning hearts and minds.
https://bsky.app/profile/g-chris.bsky.social/post/3liutimc2o22e
Again, the only time they vote D is when they're afraid of their own ox being gored. They prove it election after election. They will not change.
If your kid was a sociopathic magat, he would only understand the pain of his fellow man by experiencing it firsthand. Your threats would be useless and you'd best seek help. Please keep up or go to 4chan where illogic is de rigeur.
You still get a bit of the schadenfreude, but it’s a far more inclusionary stance that’s more likely to bring red hats around.
And they will do so again after Trump is gone.
You don't have to feel any sympathy in reality, you just have to see that this is an opportunity to bring someone over to the fight.
I'm not reaching anyone online
Most of MAGA aren't young people starting out in life, either. They KNEW what they were doing. Let them bathe in their evil.
But if delaying my satisfaction means they’ll vote differently bc they think they’ve had an epiphany, I’m ok with that.
If they’re so easily manipulated, let’s be the ones doing the manipulation.
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it doesn't matter. be nice, be mean, won't change a thing.
Do you want to be right and smug or do you want to win? Dems at large are far too focused on the former.
Don't try to rub Neosporin on their wounds if they voted for Trump. Brine will cleanse the wounds far better.
I've mentioned a lot about how "generational republicans" are a thing. Red voters who vote red simply because their families always have. 1/3
Many voted for Trump in 2016, and 2/3
If I hadn't gotten online when I did, I mighta been red too. Thankfully my family wasn't tho
He told them exactly what he was going to do and they were all "we can be bigots again? Fuck yes!"
Why do they deserve compassion?
Do have an IRS worker, who has now been laid off, say he thought Trump wouldn’t do this bc of his “business acumen” is a different problem than this guy was lied to.
no trump voter gets that scapegoat, they all knew exactly what would happen and there was no 'disguising' the plan
If only ones accepting them are lying grifters they may not know they are "allowed" to say differently now.
You can't bash people for being asleep when they wake up.
Those chats are for AFTER we put out the fire not while we're fighting it
That's more critical thinking than many of us have employed in, a minute, if ever.
I will adopt it.
MAGA aren't victims: they victimise the shit out of everybody else.
Fuck them.
Why must we be the ones demonstrating compassion to Nazis?
Fuck them sideways with Musk's chainsaw.
No compassion for them and hope they suffer hard, every day.
I'm worried for my retirement, I'm too old to start over, and it infuriates me.
I like to think people are just desperate and grasping for any small feeling of control, even if it's via cruelty (see also: repubs)
If it’s destructive to say these things to ppl on the right, then it was just as destructive to say these things (for years) to us on the Left.
What’s the saying, “fuck your feelings”? Isn’t that what the Right said for so many years?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system?wprov=sfla1
Get my country out of your mouth lol.
B) did he bully other countries and manipulate behind Ukraine's back
C) who do you think is the most hated country in the world right now? I and many other people couldn't care about your arrogant and ignorant lives right now
Hegemony is fuckin nasty.
But I'm just a guy making spaghetti in Ohio, don't lay that shit on my head.
I’m also a decent person, so I really hope you dont get smacked really hard with the hubris you’re displaying here. Because paying for other people’s votes when the outcomes are like this… really sucks.
Why do you find that suggestion so controversial?
Assigning blame only creates more scapegoats and more of the same division that we already have. “You 🫵caused this” = “[Ethnicity] are lazy/thieves/murderers/stupid…etc”
47’s Admin is in place. This is now a US problem that needs a US solution.
Do the deed then don't be surprised when have to pay the consequences
And I am guilty of it too. It’s a frustrating time.
And like, no. That's bad. Deportations are bad.
Bc we NEED to be united. Nazi playbook: divide the country into warring factions.
Time to stop playing into their hands, to stop fighting the culture war, & fight the real enemy: the oligarch$.
Im mad at him, but we can talk about that later. For now we need them to break the spell.
https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/02/this-civil-servant-and-veteran-voted-for-trump-now-hes-out-of-a-job/
That said if a Trump Voter complains about outcomes my response now is that the underpinning of the democratic process is that Constituents should get what they voted for
EVERYONE has to be ready..pull up your panties...to organize and be better in 2026...
Or rally....
Now...
Anything else is wasting time and give #KRASNOV what he wants.
That's so sad. Dems kept WARNING people this kind of thing WOULD HAPPEN if Trump won.
If YOU voted for Kamala, you're paying the price for other people's stupidity, selfishness and hatred.💔
If not, you're paying the price for your OWN stupidity, selfishness and hatred. FAFO.
We all need to do this. They did this. They are accountable to us. Let 'em have it. No mercy.
But, when responding to others, FAFO doesn’t get results. Better to extend a hand and say yes, I agree this is wrong, now join me in the fight. Meet me in the streets!
Diabetes supplies are very expensive--especially the good type of insulin, test strips, and other supplies. The 35 dollar Walmart insulin (now 150 dollars a chain stores) are outdated and cause severe problems for type-1 diabetics.
They didn't care when they didnt hurt. They'll stop caring when their pain is removed. That's the way fascists roll.
Wake up, it’s a big party and we’re not in it
Sorry, being called a baby-killing libtard who wants girls to get raped by men in bathrooms after said men beat them in a race tends to whittle the fucking compassion a skosh
I do hope they take a lesson from this about what exactly they were wishing upon others that got them here
History does not care why you supported a fascist, only that you did.
Scratch a magat and he'll whine and turn almost humanoid. But let the scratch heal, and he'll be just another magat again, looking for something bad to blame on someone not like himself.
No converted magat will ever be a reliable ally in democracy.
It's reall that fucking simple.
$1167 ! I need it to manage my diabetes ! Recent A1C was 5.3 which is why I need it !!!! That’s an amazing number considering how well it works !
That’s why when caught most don’t get to say “oh, sorry, I made a mistake” and all is forgiven. Actions have consequences.
https://bsky.app/profile/wethedoodles.bsky.social/post/3liucc3hc222o
The vast majority of this state continues to vote against their own best interest, mostly because they believe the mis/disinformation that runs rampant here. Unsurprisingly, our public school systems are seriously lacking.
I'm not saying correlation is always causation, but....
Even just going by registered voters, that’s still about 1.1 million. Less than half of registered WV voters voted for Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_West_Virginia
The GOP has been insulting Democrats relentlessly for decades. Has it alienated Democratic voters? No. Appalachia and the South flipped to the GOP, then most of the Midwest. Republicans don't bother with outreach, and now they control everything.
Democrats: "Liz Cheney is a wonderful person! Vote Democratic!"
You: "Democrats acted just like Republicans in the 2024 campaign!"
Which is the point here. Dems gave up on WV.
The politics of ire and spite has ruled that state for 30+ years. It’s poison.
Agree that FAFO is a bad response to insulin increases.
Not sure a lot of people are unaware of the context of the thread or just really gleeful about people dying from lack of insulin.
Stop refusing to learn that lesson. FAFO. You are part of this.
If a person voted for Trump's bs they get what they get
It's not about being compassionate. I'm very compassionate . They seem to OVERWHELMINGLY not care about other people so . Meh.
Yes it's FAFO . It's not like nobody tried to warn them. It was a choice they willingly made.
This is NOT new. The cruelty is the point. A-holes can hear a little pushback.
That article is 6 years old. FAFO lives
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida
Half of us were expecting it.
Half of us are acting surprised.
The point is maybe this actually impacting them is the ice water over their head that they needed to wake the fuck up.
The whole world is witnessing your country being dismantled every second of every day.
Band together now, or kiss it goodbye. It's as simple as that.
They need to do the work.
I'm sorry but if you voted for Trump you'd have turned in Anne Frank.
https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3liplg3yuak25
The only time those magats even try to seem human is when they're suffering and begging for sympathy and unity. Fool me twice. Won't get fooled again.
Dems became the party of genocide in gaza and better at deporting migrants than the party that ran on that
I feel like future campaigns are going to need to really focus on supporting the working class NATION-WIDE and making sure everyone equally knows they will work to minimize suffering.
And now people are like, “hey, your opinion sucks you shouldn’t even express it.”
Fuck that. If you can post about whatever you want, so can they. And you can reply all you want.
Do you really think you have some kind of morally superior stance to anyone else, and if you do do you actually think that should entitle you to determine whether or not they speak about a topic.
Like, do you need a literal fucking definition of fascism?
Is all working class citizens vs. this corrupt and awful regime of a few. ALL of us regular citizens are the many. I agree compassion will make us stronger than spite.
That's a supposition.
and join the fight against Trump. He's going to be hurting them financially, and money is a great motivator. As tempting as it is, rubbing their noses in their votes is only going to make that more difficult.
Not the brightest move to piss them off so they fuck up again!
loving being in that trifecta.