Literally everyone but extremely rich straight cis white Christian males is going to suffer under Trump yet they’re not the only ones supporting him. What the actual fuck.
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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Eventually almost everyone who voted for this will feel it viscerally, and they'll be joining the protests with everyone else while lying about who they voted for.
The question is whether there will be any opportunity to protest it when that time comes.
I see this reply a lot.
Many of them will blame any scapegoat they can, but that doesn't last.
When the consequences are hitting them directly they can no longer afford the luxury of scapegoats. It's THEIR GUY in charge, THEIR GUY not fixing it, THEIR GUY making their lives worse.
If it wasn't their guy causing it all, their guy would simply fix it like he told them he would. Blaming Biden (or anything else) only works until those people are screaming "so why haven't you fixed it!?"
The economic pain he causes is going to devastate them.
If you're 2nd or 3rd in the hierarchy, you will assist those in 1st to maintain that structural balance. (Some) White women, cis Christian black / Hispanic men? They're ABOVE some others, and they're absolutely willing to sacrifice to stay above them.
I don’t think religious belief is a criteria here. When was the last time you saw a picture or read an article referencing Musk, Bezos, or Thiel in church? We know that Trump isn’t Christian.
This may be the one true thing Canada 🇨🇦 has going for it.
We have not quite yet been infected by the Zombie Apocalypse.
Not clear how long we hold out.
Vote. Ford. Out. There’s video of him saying he was happy about Trump’s 2nd term & Ford refuses 2cancel his contract with Elon’s Starlink. Ford cares more about himself, Nazis & Trump than Canadians. Ontario has sold out the rest of the country by voting in this drug dealing dictator.
Oh, they will too. They will be too dumb and selfish and indoctrinated to realize/admit they shot themselves in the foot, but they will suffer. Now, the RICH white men, that's a different story...
This is true, but those are the only kind he cares about. The others? They’re exactly that, others. Needed at the time and discarded as soon as they’re no longer useful.
My Granma, from NC, was born in 1900. So you know she saw & experienced some shite. As a kid, I was an intrepid eavesdropper on the adults. One of her phrases has stayed with me all these years, "The grave they dig for us gonna be the one they lay in." Yeah...
The sad fact is right wing politics is a misery loves company movement where people who made their own lives awful resent everyone else for it, so even when they suffer they are encouraged that other people are suffering more.
There is a very informative book called Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan Metzl that talks about this. They did several different studies and found that groups of people would prefer to hurt themselves so that others don’t benefit. Systematic oppression is a tough machine to break.
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"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
The question is whether there will be any opportunity to protest it when that time comes.
Many of them will blame any scapegoat they can, but that doesn't last.
When the consequences are hitting them directly they can no longer afford the luxury of scapegoats. It's THEIR GUY in charge, THEIR GUY not fixing it, THEIR GUY making their lives worse.
The economic pain he causes is going to devastate them.
I promise, even if the person you live with doesn't ever wake up, millions of others will.
If you're 2nd or 3rd in the hierarchy, you will assist those in 1st to maintain that structural balance. (Some) White women, cis Christian black / Hispanic men? They're ABOVE some others, and they're absolutely willing to sacrifice to stay above them.
Remember the interview three days ago with the cop that had voted for Trump because he was convinced Trump was pro choice and Kamala wasn't...
have people gobbling up the b.s.
We have not quite yet been infected by the Zombie Apocalypse.
Not clear how long we hold out.
https://bsky.app/profile/internethippo.bsky.social/post/3lggpxekuzc2a
The sad fact is right wing politics is a misery loves company movement where people who made their own lives awful resent everyone else for it, so even when they suffer they are encouraged that other people are suffering more.
Leopard 2: Wait, they just let you?
L1: Yeah, it’s great. No running or fighting.
L2: Amazing! I have to bring Amy and the kids here. By the way, what’s DEI?
L1: No idea, but they all scream it.
L2: