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“This is what I voted for?”: Trump supporter loses farm and income to tariffs, only to be mocked online (wtfdetective.blog)

submitted 1 month ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world

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A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans.

“Votes have consequences,” he was told, with many comments from Twitter/X users relishing the notion that another MAGA voter was suffering because of their political choice. The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not about turning the other cheek out of some high-minded idea of righteousness, this is about actually beating them.

We need to let MAGA-lite escape MAGA with some saved face if we want to defeat MAGA.

They are all of them deceived by the true enemy, the ruling class.

I share your anger but we need to realize that party politics is designed to divide the working class against itself. We need to stop doing their work for them.

[–] sundaymidnight@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not a saddistic guy wanting to beat that MAGA voter... but I believe that probably Hillary "basket of deplorables" is right. They voted for ideologic reasons. Including guys wanting "the absolute explosion of system" are a problem.

But don't be emotional, be rational. Probably take a pleasure attacking this MAGA voter but it won't solve the problems.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most republican voters just vote for who their parents voted for. Yes, there are some who are extremely radical and who will probably never abandon their ideology, but most of them do not fit that description.

It benefits the ruling class to divide the working class. That's why Hillary wants you to believe they are a "basket of deplorables". But the truth is they are just people, like us. If you were born in the same place and lived the same life as these people, most likely you would have voted Trump too.

Saying that they are incapable of realizing the error of their ways is essentially dehumanizing them, and that is what fascists do to their enemies.

[–] sundaymidnight@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

In any point, you must stablish limits. Trump should be jailed. It's a fact. They voted for destroying the opposition (the democracy, the institutions).