Originally Posted By u/NotYourUsualSuspects At 2025-03-27 01:02:51 PM | Source


  • TheFudd@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    If anything they’re being too nice with their description.

    Honestly? Trump is the only reason I even vote Democrat at all. Democrats spent too many years telling me I’m “toxic” and “privileged”, wagging their finger at me for stupid shit like using the word “lame”(apparently it’s “ableist” to say that nowadays) and treating me as if I’m a problem to be dealt with rather than a human being, for me to trust Democrats.

    You can go ahead give “not being nice” a try if you want, but that’s only going to make people like me feel more unwelcome among Democrats than we already do - And you can insult me or yell at me for saying that if you want, and I’ll just grit my teeth and bear it and vote Democrat anyways in 2026 because you’re the “lesser of two evils”… But just know that there are DEFINITELY other voters out there who will be driven right away by that type of approach.

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      Oh my Goddess, “toxic” and “privileged” tf? That’s what has you rubbed the wrong way? PC culture? lmao that isn’t even a party thing I don’t recall anyone running on that promising to police words. That is culture war propaganda. Moderates sure as hell don’t care. What that is the result of progressives getting a voice and enough power to actually remove people that are assholes when 15+ years ago they’d have grimace until someone said a slur and then it was 50/50 if it wasn’t the n-word. That gateway Nazi apologist speech that comes from either being out of touch, just a bit too racist, terminally online, privileged (and you can be privileged in some ways and absolutely fucked in others), an asshole that’s smart enough to toe the line or some flavor of idiot.

      Getting so bent out of shape because the equivalent of a grammar Nazi spoke to you online about something that you probably didn’t consider is the biggest crybaby bullshit I’ve ever heard. That’s not “the party” and if it was Whenever Dems were in power you’d see much stronger political action to defend handicapped individuals. Dems are a mix of lukewarm assholes that don’t hate other people enough to want to ruin their lives for no reason. So acting like saying something offensive, when if you consider any context there’s a reason why insults are insulting, and then having someone frown at you is like being crucified is completely a problem. It cannot be solved except by touching grass.

      You are acting like you’re being persecuted, when it’s literally words from someone and their words aren’t being parroted by legislators, they aren’t creating a movement to imprison and then pass you around like a sex object. They’re not trying to murder you in the streets or straight up ban your healthcare. You’re acting like you have some moral high ground when you want to say slurs 💀. And go ahead bruh say lame say whatever you want. Do you know how many times I get corrected for saying shit ? That you’ve connected that to Dems because progressives literally can’t make their own party because they hate rich people is hilarious.

      You keep saying “people like me” while tiptoeing around what the hell you’re talking about so I’m just going to assume you’re talking about incels. PC culture isn’t why incels don’t vote Dem. It’s because the right hates women as much as they do and isn’t afraid to show it. It’s because they’re racist and they know who exactly if going to be racist right along with them. It’s because they’re -phobic think of anything that’s not Evangelical Christian and Republicans despise it right next to them.

      If you’re an incel but you understand that Trump and every Republican enabling him is going to destroy the US. Congrats. But blaming random people not wanting to be insulted by low grade Nazis for Dem polling results is completely out of touch with reality.

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        Oh my Goddess, “toxic” and “privileged” tf?

        That’s correct. I don’t like being called those things. Go call someone like Elon ‘privileged’, not me, because you don’t know my life.

        By the way, isn’t it funny how you Democrats love to police everybody else’s language - Like accusing me of using ‘slurs’ for calling something ‘lame’ - but don’t like your own language being policed up?

        Gotta say, that’s pretty lame.

        Wanna know another big reason I don’t like Democrats? Let’s face it: You’re weak, and soft. You are utterly incapable of standing up to Trump in any meaningful way, and have been for nearly a decade now. Democrat politicians lack the spine to do anything to stop the MAGA movement, or really do anything at all aside from enjoy lobbyist bribe money and insider trading info while smugly patting themselves on the back and congratulating themselves for being more politically correct - and thus more morally righteous - than people like myself.

        I take it you’re a woman? You literally had your reproductive rights stolen under a Democrat administration. Where were your leaders when that happened? Why were they so absolutely incompetent at defending your rights from a tyrannical government who’s hell-bent on taking them away, when you Democrats were in power at the time? For all of the energy you spend yelling and screaming at people about how politically correct everyone needs to be, you Democrats are absolutely useless when it comes to doing anything that is actually important.

        So yes. It is, indeed, VERY difficult for me to vote Democrat, for multiple reasons. But, I did vote Democrat. Three. Damn. Times. And I’ll grit my teeth and do it again in 2028 if it means getting rid of that orange tyrant, despite Democrats like you wagging your fingers and talking down to folks like me while being so utterly useless at doing anything meaningful to stop Trump’s agenda.

        So, you know what you can do? You can go knit yourself a p-ssy hat, hold up some ping-pong paddles whenever Trump tells another lie, maybe join Chuck Schumer on his book tour if you want, see how that goes for you.

        Me? I’m going focus on talking to Trump voters and attempt to change their minds and swing their votes away from Trump through reasonable, respectful discourse - And to do that, it DEFINITELY helps that I’m a Libertarian who can relate to them in some ways, and not a Democrat who’s going to annoy them by calling them ‘toxic’ or ‘privileged’, or an ‘incel’ or a ‘bro’, or berate someone for being ‘ableist’ if they use a word like ‘lame’ in conversation, or tell them how much I’d prefer to be in the company of wild bears over them.

        You go do things your way. I’ll do things my way, and I really don’t care if you approve of how I go about doing so because standing up to Trump your way has consistently failed us all.