Autistic guy here and sorry for the political rant. There is a lot of intense and horrific things happening all over the world like the recent war with Iran. But let me say this. If you voted for Trump and your friends and family cut you off because of it, then I do not feel any sympathy for you.
Especially if you have a loved one who is neurodivergent or is special needs. The amount of grief and hopelessness this administration is bringing to thousands, if not millions, of families in the USA is indefensible. Families have been torn apart because of his draconian policies towards immigration. Legal immigrants and regular tourists are being jailed because they committed a minor infraction. Education and social safety programs are being gutted, while the ultra-wealthy keep getting richer and richer.
Canada, Australia and Europe, which we have seen as friends for the previous couple decades, are moving away from the USA after Trump’s annexation threats of Canada and withdrawing from several agreements. And I don’t fault them for boycotting the USA as there are other friendlier countries to travel to and buy products from. Compared to Europe or Asia, the only good things we have going for us here are the universities and the national parks. Yet Trump and most of his cabinet want to dismantle the national park system and remove all federal funding from these universities. I’m not sad that Canadians and Europeans (and Australians) are boycotting the USA, and at this point, I would happily boycott the USA as well if I didn’t live here. I’m sad because I really enjoy talking to international people. Plus many of these cultural ties between certain states and certain provinces (like BC and the NW USA, or Quebec and the Maritimes with New England) have been severely damaged and will be very difficult to repair. What makes traveling fun for me is having fun conversations with international people from all over the world.
All of this to make the USA safer?! Really?!
Now that Roe v. Wade has ben overturned and many states are implementing harsh laws preventing women from getting abortions, the USA will very likely its own Mahsa Amini. And when that happens and another wave of nationwide protests happen, Laken Riley will really be turning in her grave when she finds out her death was used for far-right authoritarian policies to dismantle healthcare for millions of women.
Safer from school shootings and gun violence since Republicans want to ease all gun restrictions? Safer from diseases since there is an anti-vax skeptic who is the secretary of the US health and human services and wants to remove all vaccine requirements? Out of fear that vaccines cause Autism which has been debunked countless times by countless scientists? Safer from pollution now that several environmental regulations have been eased? Safer for plane travel now that majority of the FAA has been fired? Safer traveling out of the country because American citizens (who even have Global Entry) are being put into waiting rooms for hours.
You voted for him to lower the cost of groceries and gas prices?! How is $2.80 per gallon of gas expensive, unless you casually drive a large pickup truck? Due to the tariffs and now the war in Iran, gas and gadgets are going to become A LOT more expensive. People in Oklahoma are going to be in for a very nasty shock when they are suddenly paying Massachusetts prices for utilities and food in a matter of time, unless the entire world can forgive the USA at this point.
If you voted for Trump in 2016, I would still think you have a good heart, even if our political opinions are different. If you voted for Trump in 2024 after Trump proved to the entire world that he has no respect for his political opponents, the constitution and law by putting members of the entire US cabinet in danger on 6 Jan 21, then I don’t think you have a good heart and you deserve to be ostracized.
This is why I have such a heard time sympathizing with those who lost friends and family connections because they would rather die of heart failure or cancer than have a well-qualified woman be president, and instead sympathize with those that did cut off friends and family if they voted for Orange Man. I hope everyone who voted for Orange Man will financially suffer. Because we don’t have a difference in political opinions. We have a difference in morality and ethics.
This here is why America is going to collapse. I’m not even saying your wrong to feel the way you do. But the blame is actually on both parties. The division they’ve created caused a thinking of us vs them. The wars that USA participated in separated the world in the minds of Americans to the point they can’t even begin to understand diplomacy or negotiations. The Tucker/Cruz interview didn’t just show case American incompetence, but showed the world that Americans don’t even think in terms of alliances or unity, only division. And now, now it’s eating the country itself. Trump was inevitable, no one in the States wants to hear this. But did the Democrats work to understand Russia, Iran, China? Did they work to understand the issues of S.Korea, Japan? What were your Asian allies concerned about, was it really war with China? What about the Canadians, what are they concerned about, what about Mexicans? You only thought in terms of how they viewed America, never what their views about themselves or the globe as a whole. You closed your eyes to the world, a fascist dictator is what you get.
The Democrats actually understand Russia, Iran, and China; the Republicans try and live in a delusional narrative about Russia, Iran, and China.
Extending “charity” to delusional narratives only extends the duration of the delusion.
I’m not saying oligarch Democrats aren’t part of the problem, but a major problem we have is way too much charity for stupid stupid thinking.
If anyone understood Iran, then why isn’t Iran accepting North Korea offer of nuclear weapons? If Iran was really going after nukes, then a country literally offering them nukes should be welcomed with open arms. So then it’s not about getting nukes. What is it then? Which side knows the answer?
Also which side can explain the ceasefire agreement that China made with Saudi Arabia and Iran. If Iran can’t ever be peaceful, why is this peace agreement holding. Why can’t Israel and Iran make one too?
you’re not really listening here, and I suspect you’re uninformed/misinformed
Trump tore up the Iran agreement in his first term
Trump has inflicted a fictitious version of Putin on us, an idiot’s narrative of Russia.
Trump ignored the fentanyl crisis in his first term and China’s role in it
you really don’t get just how horrible it is that Trump ignores his intelligence agencies, do you?
That’s not what I asked about or was talking about. Stop looking from it from your countries point of view. Why isn’t Iran accepting nukes from N.Korea. Why isn’t the agreement falling apart with Saudi Arabia like Biden’s administration said it would. Nothing you said explains in the slightest what I am talking about.
Edit why are you so caught up with your countries divisions that you can’t talk about the great peace that now exists between the blood rivalry of Iran and Saudi. Why not talk about a solution that is saving millions of brown people?
But what you’re talking about is stupid.
Peace between Saudi and Iran that’s saving millions of brown lives is stupid? I see, you like genocide.
Autistic levels of missing the point are a ‘you’ problem.
Let’s keep this to one thread. I’m not American. I am saying Americans can only see their own politics. You’ve proven that like a siren.
“the blame”… you act as if there is only a single source of fucked up blame to go around… there are so many reasons: the world is not a binary
What? I’m blaming everyone for everything that creates division. This includes geopolitics, diversity, the gender wars, hell at this point tacos. How do you get a single source from what I said? Who or what do you think I think is the single source?
diversity… and… gender wars?
na mate… that’s blaming people for existing and that’s fucked up… blame people for making peoples existence into issues
division is created when people are attacked. the people attacking are to blame; not the people who are just living their lives and can’t change who they are
No, I’m not blaming diversity or gender wars. I’m blaming the division it creates. Your not understanding. It’s one thing to say I am against racism. It’s another thing to say it’s white people’s fault for racism and there needs to be reparations. You can’t fix division by being decisive.
Me, hypothetically: shoots you
Police: “well really, the blame is on both parties”
See how stupid that statement is? When one is trying to, directly or indirectly, harm the other, no, it’s not fucking ‘both sides’.
Yeah, there’s a fuckload of idiots in the states, but blaming ‘both sides’ because one is a gullible moron isn’t the big brain idea you think it is. We need to educate, and over time it will solve the issue. That’s why reps are trying to make it harder for both US citizens and those studying here from abroad, to get an education. A stupid population is easily controlled. That is the problem. Not ‘both sides’.
The fact that you want to blame everyone (esp the last sentence) is deplorable, and shows a lack of empathy and understanding about the very topic you spout.
You didn’t read what I wrote at all did you? I’m saying they both created a divisive nation. The division is the problem. If you want to make an analogy it would be both sides pulled the trigger at the same time.
Edit. Actually you exemplify my point. No one listens and instead just repeats their talking points. It’s not the issues I’m talking about, it’s hearing the argument in the first place.
Sometimes if your argument isn’t heard it’s not because people aren’t listening enough, it’s because your argument is bad and stupid.
Dismissal without critical thinking also creates division. Yet more proof people aren’t willing to think or talk.
other people are not critical thinking machines for you to force cogitation on your pet stupid ‘empathy’ project. have more empathy for the families being separated and less for the people who want brown people to suffer.
I am empathizing with the brown people and want more peace agreements like the one Iran and Saudis have.
Yet more proof people want to talk more than they’re willing to listen. You’re not being treated unfairly.
It’s funny, I’m not American. My post was about how Americans can’t see past their own internal arguments and have closed their eyes to the world. I was talking about seeing the world and the agreements being created outside of American influence like the Chinese led peace agreement between Iran and Saudi. And you come up at me with how MAGA is bad. Sure I agree, but you totally missed the point in exactly the way I knew you would miss it.
I’m not talking about me. I’m talking about saving lives.
Yes, I did. The fact that you didn’t absorb the point I made is just the cherry on top. Division is caused by lack of education.
The irony in your edit is absolutely hilarious.
Division is not caused by lack of education. The division is caused by both sides not considering the other sides argument. It’s why the Democrats lost so badly the male vote regardless of race. Let’s ask this a different way, what are mens problems and why was the whole MRA issue created?
It’s possible to try and promote more tactical political thinking with regard to men’s problems without insisting that we consider more stupid arguments for delusional narratives justifying violence.
“How can we better understand election denialism?” is not coherent: fascists don’t care about the coherence of their worldview, only about justifying their violence.
Exactly. Yet only focus people give are on the more delusional ones. That’s the problem. No one cares or talks about the more tactical political thinking about it. They just talk about rape or women being more traditional. It doesn’t matter which side. They only care about division.
if you want unity you can’t incorporate the worldview of those who want to divide us in that worldview; that’s MAGA Christianity. you can only amputate the disease and trust that moderates will come together, but you’re not really doing the work, you’re just whining about how no one understands MAGA Christians or whatever.
more empathy for MAGA christians will not prevent them from killing you to instate a theocracy in which gays are in the closet, women can’t get abortions, and brown people are punished.
I didn’t say empathy. I said you need to stop attacking them and look for mutually beneficial solutions and then get those who can understand on board. Just attacking them simply divides.