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I mean yeah, on one hand wtf did he expect? Of course Trump was going to do stupid shit. The man is incredibly stupid.
On the other hand, Trump is also very cruel and this is incredibly important. It's not funny.
Every Republican that turns against him makes the insane ideas a little less likely to go through. Less likely to try for a 3rd term, less likely to commit fully to the El Salvador concentration camp ambitions, less likely to disappear as many American citizens without trial, less likely to do a bunch of truly horribly gruesome and catastrophic shit.
You won't win by mocking them for joining you. You're being more stupid than you can afford to be in these circumstances.
You are right, mocking someone for being wrong isn't going to make them turn sides. As shitty as they might be right now, you need to treat his voters as children who misbehave. Mocking and punishing is not the way. The problem is internet and social networks don't function that way, they favor divide, people like mocking 47 as muck as the other side likes to glorify him.
Oh dear, you've learnt nothing either.
Educate me, please.
Not OP but I'd wager he will say that you shouldn't treat them like kids, that's already looking down on them. Just because they got duped repeatedly doesn't mean we shouldn't lose our ability to empathize. They just started their introspective, assist it as much as you can and you can make them go from conservative to progressive even. The movement needs all the pebbles it can get.
I guess my thoughts got lost in translation since I'm not a native speaker, that's what i was thinking too. Btw, i don't look kids from above, i see them as overly emotional, easily distracted, can't take care of themselves, but always full of potential.
Yeah. There's also the fact that they can read our fucking comments and know exactly what we think of them. If we think we're belittling them privately and manipulating them elegantly; We aren't.
I'll also say this: Trump vs. Kamala should've been an easy win for Kamala. Y'all fucked up.