Comment on US Democracy

• IzzyJ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t like those ads? Should’ve stopped proving them right. We will go to the grave blaming you and your ilk now

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Those nakedly misandrist ads were brought to my attention after I cast my ballot.

    I’ve never voted for a Republican in my life, but the Democrats will have to actually earn my vote if they ever run a candidate again, they may no longer expect me.

    Blame me as much as you want, you’re going to anyway. I’m the bad guy even when voting your way so what’sthe point? Those who cannot bring themselves to speak to me with respect to literally save their lives can die as mad as they want.

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    • IzzyJ@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I take it you dont much care WHY misandey is on the rise

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not even a little.

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    • Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Look what you made me do!” just dripping…

      Maybe work on having some established personal principles and some backbone? Maybe less wielding your vote as a little golden cudgel over people’s heads? Why the fuck does your vote for a complex full administration of people including court appointees that will serve long terms as they all pursue at least four years worth of basic, roll up the sleeves and work day to day policy, all hinge on one targeted ad that hurts your feefees?

      And studies have shown that people who casually drop the word “misandrist” have videos from matt walsh and nick fuentes in their YouTube watch history arguing that the age of consent is too high.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        See what I mean?

        I’m going to get screamed at like I’m the bad guy ANYWAY. There is no winning to be done here. I’m not voting for a party that is pro woman ever again. I’m done voting against my own interests for people who hate me. It’s all I’ve done my entire adult life. No more.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We will go to the grave blaming you and your ilk now

    Weird hill to die on

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m envisioning a pit, rather than a hill? Probably full of quicklime?

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• Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You mind linking me to that ad?

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=OJbIMF8dTVA&pp=ygUQaGFycmlz…

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    • Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Idk, as a white guy, that’s more cringe than offensive. Maybe that’s because I live in the South and could pass for a redneck, but I hear some vile shit from those other white guys fairly often.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Offensive isn’t quite the word for it.

        The part that bothers me is that the DNC couldn’t put together genuine sounding messaging to men when American democracy itself hung in the balance. Dooming my nation because they absolutely couldn’t bring themselves to drop the identity politics is a transgression I don’t think I can ever forgive.

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    • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “hey white dudes! …no not you…the other white dudes.”

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  this is why she lost, morons complaining about themselves. who fucking cares, that ad was not targetted at you, and if it was, grow some thicker fucking skin rather than voting for a fascist. I don’t give a shit if the dems personally put me on a pedastal and said I was alone to blame for the US problems; I have a functional brain and can see what the actual problems are and who has actual solutions, or at least not exclusively ways to enrich himself and get revenge.

  middle aged white dudes are the problem, I’m one of them. this morning, I was nearly assulted and arrested due to a roadrage incident. a dude in a pickup nearly sideswiped me at an intersection, I had to swerve to avoid him. At the light, he rolled down the window and started yelling at me. I rolled down mine because I honestly thought he was going to apologise but instead he started screaming insults at me because “you couldn’t let me have that one car length!!!”. I told him that after the shit this country just endured, this was how we wanted to handle things?

  This was apparently the wrong answer because he jumped out of his car and started coming at me. I am not interested in a road rage altercation so I floored it and ran the red light. I would up cutting off a cop who saw the whole thing and let me go because I did the right thing.

  this was my first interaction with a person since the election. I sincerly hope this was just tensions running high, but I can’t help but feel this nation just gave that sort of problem solving it’s full throated support.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    2024 was the last time I’ll ever vote for a Democrat, especially given how I’m being spoken to for doing it.

    I’m done voting for the side that calls me their enemy no matter what I do. I’m done going out of my way for people who hate me. I’m done doing “the right thing” for people who are offended at the idea of expressing gratitude. It’s been this way my entire adult life and I’ve got a belly full.

    “Hey, you’re going to need the support of white men to win this election, so you should probably address their concerns in good faith here.” Nope. That wasn’t acceptable to the Left. The people who said that got shouted down. A couple ads like the one linked below plus others got made that were very obviously designed to conform to feminist attitudes toward men first and demand of men second. They did indeed recognize that they needed my vote, but weren’t willing to try seeing eye to eye with me at all. Saving the nation from fascism and preserving their own rights, freedoms and lives in the process wasn’t a good enough reason to speak to people like me with respect. And now they can burn for it. And they’re going to blame me for it, just like they’ve blamed me for everything their entire lives.

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    • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      fucking snowflake.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Piss into the wind some more there, bud.

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      • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cool, lets fight authoritarianism by only letting people vote and be part of one party. That will sure to work out, not like this concept failed not 2 days ago or anything…

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