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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 106 points 7 months ago (30 children)

Eh. Fuck off. I really don't care anymore.

You chose this. You knew exactly what was at stake, you knew who Trump was beyond any shadow of a doubt, you knew he was going to fully enable Isreal to wipe your family off the face of the earth. You knew.

I fought all the bad faith arguments flying around here and beyond. All the "never genocide" bullshit. Every day, for the better part of a year.

But you played stupid fucking games. And now we all have to find out.

It sucks because people will suffer. Likely people I care about too. But this bleeding heart "liberal" has been bled dry. I can't muster any more fucks.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 48 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm with you bud. I honestly tried. Lesser of two evils, help everyone, people deserve safety nets. Well the people I was fighting to help overwhelmingly voted against all of those. I honestly feel for anyone who voted for the same things I did and lost, but anyone who didn't vote or voted to remove those protections I'm done feeling bad for.

Sorry grandma, you voted in the man who openly wanted to get rid of Medicare. Don't care anymore. You needed Obamacare but voted for the people who openly said they'd repeal it? Too bad, get some bootstraps.

Again, those who voted to protect those things I feel for and I still want to help, but I'm done trying to help those who openly push against me.

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[–] intelisense@lemm.ee 28 points 7 months ago

It's curious that these people never targeted the Republican position on Gazza, even though it was clear from the polls that Trump had a good chance of winning.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

"it's not my lesson to learn" has been my consoling mantra.

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[–] Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz 80 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A world renowned, pathological liar "played you"? The guy famous for a decades long history of incredible contradictions, tall tales and epic falsehoods. That guy. The Mythomaniac to end all mythomanics. The compulsive liar that lies more easily than he breaths? He played you? Really? I'm shocked!

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I am still shocked about one thing: How could they fall for it???

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[–] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 79 points 7 months ago
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 59 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"All she had to do was stop the war in Lebanon and Gaza and she would receive everyone's votes here," Dearborn's Democratic mayor, Abdullah Hammoud, told the Associated Press.

Spot the mayor who has no idea what the job of Vice President actually is...

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Depending on what they mean by "stop the war" in gaza, if they mean the current hostilities (which, yeah it's what she probably meant) or end the conflict in its entirety, that could be the biggest God damn ask I've ever heard.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Particularly since the US is not one of the parties at war.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 54 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm guessing leopardsatemyface is gonna be the new hermancainaward hotbed of schadenfreude over the next 4 years

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess you could also call it "they did nazi that coming".

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

"They didzi that coming. We all did."

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Only now, at the end, do you understand?

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 49 points 7 months ago

I don’t feel sorry for these people. We’ve been through the Trump administration once already. They completely knew what they were voting for.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

To be fair, Rashida Tlaib basically told them not to vote for Harris. Probably should reconsider voting for her next election.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

They still don't understand, they just don't like that it's going to affect them.

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 40 points 7 months ago (3 children)

“Cut off your nose to spite your face.”

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

reminder:

this election was lost on multiple fronts.

do not let articles like this, however truthful, and the inevitable spiteful comments underneath convince you that the next four years were caused by Arab-Americans.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

Yeah, even if we won Michigan, where the Arab-American vote is strongest, it wouldn't have reversed our defeat in the electoral college.

This is just more sad "But I didn't think Leopards would eat MY face!" that is happening in all kinds of demographics of the US electorate right now.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Headline is misleading. It was a quote from a single individual.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Cool, we all get to suffer for it

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Yes, no shit. We tried to tell you. Unfortunately you were too heartless to listen until it impacted you personally.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

20-20 hindsight is better than nothing I guess, unless you get it when you're looking up at the rapidly receding cliff.

Americans have taken WAY too long to figure out Trump is a con man playing them. Very special insight.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Too many Americans have NOT figured out Trump is a con man. This last election is proof.

[–] Netux@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Love how one person's quote is supposed to represent Dearborn. It was literally a fuck you to dems. Everyone in Dearborn knows trump is also going to do it. Rebuking the dems for doing it was the least they could do. They gave dems every opportunity to stop it.

If all of you libs that wish ill upon them because your team didn't win had a moment of self reflection you would realize that the dems weren't saving anyone even if they won. When fascism shows up, blue or red, you fight it.

Notice how the dems aren't doing every maneuver they can to clip Trump's upcoming power. Hell a bunch voted to allow charities and other ngos to be able to be declared terrorist. Thankfully some of the lesser known dems fought it off. The party leaders are part of the ruling class.

Get off your assess and start doing some direct community support or action, no one is coming to save us, we protect us.

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This doesn't even belong in this community. I think it being posted here makes people who don't read past the headline think they voted for Trump

Edit: I guess some of them did, but I don't recall Trump ever being dishonest about his support for Israel, so I don't see how he "played" them

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nope. Uh uh. No sympathy from me. My give a damn is broken.

You had SO many red flags

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago
[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It hurt itself in its confusion!

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[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't think leopards will be endangered much longer

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