A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans.
“Votes have consequences,” he was told, with many comments from Twitter/X users relishing the notion that another MAGA voter was suffering because of their political choice. The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.
The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.
Heartless shit upset that his vote to cause extreme hardship for others is actually causing hardship in his own life. Imagine throwing rocks at people and expecting sympathy when one bounces back and hits you in the face.
May you live in interesting times.May you live in the times you voted for.Its so hard for these people to understand that when you spew hate at others, whether through your actions, your words, or through your ballot, that people have less empathy for your than other people that might experience similar hardships and haven’t been spewing hate.
The whole comparison of “you laughed at Charlie thing, and now we’re laughing at ice killing” is so hard for these people to understand why most sane people view these deaths differently.
Person C spent his entire life spewing hate and saying some crazy shit that puts other people down, or in danger with his gun laws thinking, etc.
Person R was just a normal person, not spewing hate as a career.
Cue the shocked Pikachu face when they realize I care more about person R, than person C.
Similarly, if this person voted for Trump and lost his farm, I’m gonna have a lot less sympathy for him, than someone who voted against Trump, and lost his farm.
Honestly I feel that memes can somewhat help break it down to a format even these chuckle fucks could understand if they wanted to.
I don’t think the issue is lack of understanding, they’re operating on faith logic where theyre looking for validation not information.
At this point, it’s not even about economics anymore—it’s a moral failure. You can’t claim to love your country while cheering for policies that ruin your fellow citizens, only to cry when the bill finally comes for you too.
My UK family always used to ask what makes Canadians different from USAians, as they saw us all as America. And it was hard to describe.
But talking to US coworkers lately I found a common theme: While Canadians may not seem very patriotic, we do work towards a common goal of making a society better for all.
In the US every comment I hear from coworkers is “I Got Mine, so I ain’t worried.” And made me realize USA thinks patriotism is living as an individual in a grand country, but not actually caring about their country as a whole.
That’s the definition of American conservatism. That’s not a quip. Self reliance and fuck everyone else is the philosophy.
I confirm. I knew gringos (US persons). They are extremely individualist.
…made me realize USA thinks patriotism is living as an individual in a grand country, but not actually caring about their country as a whole.
that’s because none of us have felt represented by our government since before Regan. Why should I care about my country if it is actively hostile towards me? My entirely life it has wanted to make things impossible for me to succeed. Actively destroyed any possibility of succeeding.
the only thing I learned in my life as an American is that I’ll lie cheat and steal my way to a better tomorrow, because at the end of the day morals and ethics don’t fill your belly and warm your bed at night. it doesn’t protect my family. it doesn’t create opportunities for my kids.
fuck this country, fuck this government, fuck every single politician and corpofascist that allowed this to happen.
I’m not a bad person, I just have to be bad because they won’t let me live any other way.
Well, what will people in Africa say?
It sounds surreal that people in the USA would say something like that.
He didn’t get shot in the head and left to bleed out, so what’s his fucking problem?
How can we support the people realizing their mistakes in voting Trump? Seriously. That’s how we change hearts and minds.
I want to support them, and then together, I want to march with them against these assholes.
you can buy him new farm… :D
or make an esport bet!!
why does the link lead to some random tiktoker?
🤨 that’s the one in the article
and what does it have to do with esport bets?
Patrihits advertises his fantasy sports gambling in his tiktok. I am making fun of the grifting.
Oh. Can’t give you points for clarity, but ok then.
If you want to defeat fascism we need solidarity across the working class.
Bullying right wingers who are suffering flies in the face of that. It only sows further division.
Yes, they were wrong, they voted for fascisn, I get the hate, but we need to find compassion for these people to get them back onboard.
Bullying them just causes them to lash out, get more entrenched, and discourage people from admitting they’ve been duped.
If you really so desperately need to feel superior to them that you can’t hold back your righteous anger to actually make the world a better place, you’re a part of the problem too.
How many times will you “turn the other cheek” as they say? The first time was excusable, but those pieces of shit knew damn well what they were voting for the second time. They voted against brown people, black people, lgbt+ and those poorer than them. Now it has hurt them, but I absolutely guarentee, these piece of shit will still vote against the working class, the black community, the brown community and lgbt+.
They want those people to suffer because they see them as less than themselves. They divided the country by wanting people to suffer, not the other way around. They can die in a ditch like they wanted everyone else to for all I care.
It’s not about turning the other cheek out of some high-minded idea of righteousness, this is about actually beating them.
We need to let MAGA-lite escape MAGA with some saved face if we want to defeat MAGA.
They are all of them deceived by the true enemy, the ruling class.
I share your anger but we need to realize that party politics is designed to divide the working class against itself. We need to stop doing their work for them.
I’m not a saddistic guy wanting to beat that MAGA voter… but I believe that probably Hillary “basket of deplorables” is right. They voted for ideologic reasons. Including guys wanting “the absolute explosion of system” are a problem.
But don’t be emotional, be rational. Probably take a pleasure attacking this MAGA voter but it won’t solve the problems.
Most republican voters just vote for who their parents voted for. Yes, there are some who are extremely radical and who will probably never abandon their ideology, but most of them do not fit that description.
It benefits the ruling class to divide the working class. That’s why Hillary wants you to believe they are a “basket of deplorables”. But the truth is they are just people, like us. If you were born in the same place and lived the same life as these people, most likely you would have voted Trump too.
Saying that they are incapable of realizing the error of their ways is essentially dehumanizing them, and that is what fascists do to their enemies.
In any point, you must stablish limits. Trump should be jailed. It’s a fact. They voted for destroying the opposition (the democracy, the institutions).
I’d love to go mock him in person and watch him rage out like the little magat baby he is
