• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Well she’s certainly having the day she voted for.

    “This is madness,” she concluded.

    This is America that you voted for.

    • lennybird@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Because they lack empathy, they literally do not have the capacity to project themselves into someone else’s shoes and feel for them unless they experience it themselves.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      I feel like I’m going fucking crazy, like this didn’t happen already. He turns the entire American public against him, they vote him out so overwhelmingly that even their election fraud and foreign interference and owning all media outlets can’t save him, and then the entire country gets fucking amnesia and swallows the propaganda hook line and sinker, rinse and repeat.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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      7 hours ago

      Finding out is always optional, if you simply never introspect or allow yourself to experience doubt. Which, ha ha, it turns out the more your twisted beliefs hurt you, the harder it gets to face them down! So, that’s fun.

  • Montagge@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    “It’s torture that as her mom and as her family, we could not protect Renee,” the mother testified, clearly emotional. “But no one can protect against others who are determined to disregard our country’s constitutional rules and values.”

    No, she definitely could have protected Renee by not voting for someone determined to disregard our country’s constitutional rules and values.

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    20 hours ago

    Per usual, supporters of the far-right only change their tune when the fallout personally affects them.

  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I feel no sympathy for her mother. Maybe she will think about this next time she wants to make a bad decision. Renee on the other hand, has my deepest sympathies.