I imagine a lot of them are edgelords but from my experience with people who vote for Trump a lot of them aren’t edgy, they simply don’t care about anyone else but themselves.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Little edgelords are the first to cry when they discover that actions have consequences
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
they simply don’t care about anyone else but themselves.
Not even. They’re just fucking stupid.
Because if you only care about yourself, why would you elect a felon with a demonstrated history of pathological lying promising you anything? It sounds like self-harm.
Either that, or you agree with the fascist shit and you’re willing to overlook the lying and the felonies for the privilege of having a fascist in power.
Either way, be Trump voters stupid or fascists, I have no respect for them or their regrets.
Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They’re no more stupid than the average voter in my experience. I understand it’s anecdotal but I have dealt with republicans who are quite smart and they vote like they do because they have oil investments or want unemployment to go up to decrease labor turnover in their business.
Ultimately democrats and republicans serve the ruling class. If all the voters who aren’t voting republican were smart they would vote for candidates that will make change. They would pick up from their more expensive major cities and move to lower population states, counties, and cities to dramatically shift the representative power. It’s just not that simple, people don’t want to live in bumfuck wyoming but the system is busted and Wyoming with a population of ~500k has as much say in the senate as California with ~40 million.
I think it’s fucking stupid to vote again and again in the same corrupt institution that has been losing to fascism for the past 40 years and expecting a different outcome to be stupid. To vote smart you gotta vote states with low populations and republican inclinations. WY, AK, ND, SD, MT, NH, WV, ID, NB. Seriously, if 200k leftists from around the country moved to WY and flipped two senate seats for leftists it would break almost every senate tie in my lifetime. Notice how voting smart costs money? Yeah, wonder how that came about.
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Or are too stupid to understand consequences.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Which by itself is edgy
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
To be fair this generation had it rough. Thrust into the world of social media with little parental guidance and the powers that be actively conspiring to grift them…
They’ve been fucked out of political agency on their first ever presidential election, do you think they’ll ever trust anything ever again? It’s pretty tragic and the backlash will be phenomenal.
Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Show me any generation now with agency in prez choices, and I will show you sheep that does not understand we have allowed the aristocracy to game both sides, sucking enough to allow a traitor to end what remains of representational government, aka, ending the republic in all but name.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I don’t know man, my first presidential election is far in the past but as far as i remember my generation wasn’t manipulated by social media to trigger WWIII as our first political act. I don’t know if you realize the kind of blitz psy-ops shit that has been going on. Most adults are susceptible to that, and i have no problem blaming them, but how can you expect teenagers to not get caught in the net ? They’ve been priced out of IRL, and all of their online spaces, each and every fucking one of them, has been colonized at least since COVID. Of course they were easy to tip, and of course a lot of them are going to regret it now. Shit is going to get very dark when they come to actions.
Most of us have made our first political mistakes by voting for some kooky marginal candidate, not by bringing the God-King to power. We should consider ourselves lucky.
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Holy shit, doomer takes like this are so cringy.
SaucySnake@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
idk man single issue voters that didn’t vote Kamala because of her stance on Israel were crying long before trump voters. You can’t even argue stupidity there.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You kinda can, it was quite obvious which choice was worse across the board
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Indeed it was kinda obvious that Trump would be even worse for Israel
P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Even worse for everyone*
Cassanderer@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Kamala ran is the status quo. And you’re going to blame everybody else? You fucking knew what the electorate was take some God damn responsibility and admit you trusted the wrong fucking people so it doesn’t happen again.
blarghly@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It can be both. We can say the DNC was dumb for not choosing a better candidate or platform, and also say voters were dumb for not voting for Kamala.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Different flavor of stupid, but not mutually exclusive to the previous poster’s complaint. There are a lot of shit factors compounding off of each other that culminated with Trump’s victory and today’s dumpster fire - each hold a share of the blame.