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Family in Georgia says they're forced to sell home to help power data centers (www.msn.com)
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[–] 41 points 1 month ago (1 child)

It’s wrong to steal people’s houses and to pollute the place they live, no matter who they voted for.

But I’ll be damned if I shed a single tear if these people happily voted in the regime which brazenly supports stealing people’s houses and polluting where they live.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You can still empathize with people who were uninformed and subsequently exploited / harmed.

    Giving into the “me vs them” team mentality is giving the oligarchs exactly what they want: divide and conquer.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    They were informed. They were warned. They were told about “project 2025” and how bad it would be. They’ve been through one trump presidency. They knew what they signed up for.

    My stance on trump voters:

    If you voted for him the first time, you made a foolish/uninformed decision. But forgivable.

    If you voted for him the second time, you’re a dumb person and I don’t trust you.

    If you voted for him this third time, after the insurrection, after how horrible he has proven to be, fuck you. You’re evil. No pity from me.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    It is frustrating that a person can be as willfully idiotic as they can and if they get taken for fools by the fascists, that the left is right there with a safety net preventing them from finding out after they fucked around. I think at some point you are enabling idiots to go on being idiots without consequences.

    Largely I agree, but at some point kindness in the face of hatred becomes its own kind of idiocy. You can't be allies with someone who is ambivalent or worse about whether you live or die.

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