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Would you support the Gun Act?
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2026
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This will probably sound rude, but I don't mean it to be: what is the point of this comment?
I agree with you that America as a whole deserves whatever it is getting right now, but I also believe collective punishment is immoral. Everyone who voted against this doesn't deserve it, that doesn't mean anyone else has an obligation to save them from it, but they definitely don't deserve it.
So why laugh at Americans, or rub this in their faces? Especially here on this platform where almost everyone is directly opposed to the current administration, and didn't vote for it. If you were saying this to Trump supporters I guess I could understand it, but it still wouldn't help anything.
So I'm genuinely curious, do you think this kind of comment helps anything? If so, what?
Probably schadenfreude, annoyance and frustration combined, I would guess. The US politics are blastered constantly on your face on the web, news, everywhere, and dominate the discussions on Fediverse as well. Being here, you basically cannot escape, reading people from the US fighting each other about things, that sound asinine, in the context of many other cultures. I have observed this annoys many people (myself included, though I try to just avoid engaging), and with how the Trump idiocies fuck with the rest of the world as well right now, these combined seem to cause all sort of unhelpful lashing outs.