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Nnno. No. See, as much as I agree that they're wildly mislead and that does absolve them of some of the malice, the only way they'll ever change is to face the reality of what their actions result in.
What about their families? Their children? People who had nothing to do with any of this and are just along for the ride? Wishing harm on red states and counties is cringe.
What about my family, my children? Why is the onus of acceptance on me, a member of the group they revile, and not on the people who vocally want to put me in a camp? Sure I'm better than them, for example I don't on a personal level wish most of them any ill, but "wanting them to see the result of their actions" isn't exactly round them up and deport them!
Fuck's sake, get some perspective.
You're the one missing perspective, friend. Go outside.
... Wait, why is your perspective the singularly true one?
I'm simply glad they're getting exactly what they asked for. "Less harm" was an option, and they knew that. They chose otherwise.
They did not know that, obviously, or they would have voted differently.
Nobody was unwillingly unaware of what the GOP wants/does. They chose to insulate themselves in right wing media, they chose to ignore the literal millions of people telling them what Trump wants to do, they chose to ignore Trump saying what he wants to do, they chose to ignore Project 2025 which was plastered everywhere for months prior to the election.
There is no more benefit of the doubt for these people until they fucking admit what theyve done, and they don't seem to be willing to do so. So fuck them.
You are the cringe here with your disingenous concern trolling.
No, it's genuine.
You realize that makes it even more embarrassing, right...?
The embarrassing thing is wishing harm on working class people instead of building solidarity
But... they wished the harm on themselves. That's the whole point, that letting them suffer the consequences of their actions is the result of their own damned actions.
But they didn't. Shelby County, TN, which is where this plant is, is a blue county that overwhelmingly voted against Trump and the Republicans. It was 36.42% Trump, 61.80% Harris in this county. Shelby county is majority black, and you're over here giggling that these people are breathing in carcinogens from an AI data center. Hate poisons your mind.
People are pretty clearly talking about Tennessee as a whole, and you know that. Hell, the article itself discusses this in terms broader than just the county. Are you so dead set on being right that you can't even reflect on your own position? Seriously, this is starting to progress beyond embarrassing and is becoming straight up concerning.
What a cop-out. You don't care about better outcomes for people. You care about winning.
Lmao what are you even talking about.
Just defending my apparently-controversial assertion that wishing harm on people in Memphis because Tennessee wound up voting for Trump in the 2024 election is cringe.
That hasn't been your claim until just now, though. You've been claiming that people experiencing the consequences of their actions is wishing harm on them, and that the positive expectation resulting from those consequences is somehow a moral failing on the part of the expectors. This latest thing is just what you've pivoted to to try and recoup some face, but you're going to be much healthier as a person if you accept both that your initial position was wildly unpopular and try to work out why that was the case. It's just us two here, nobody else is ever going to read this, does it really matter that much to convince me of your position?
FWIW I agree with this newest one, that wishing the consequences of other people's actions befall the blameless isn't healthy. But accepting those actions will befall them nontheless is realistic, and hoping positive change might arise from the suffering is the only positive outlook you can have here.
Well obviously I know that acceptance is healthy, and I'm doing a lot of work lately to focus on that. I still just overall think wishing harm on people is unproductive and unhealthy, even if the other person deserves it. That's the core of my point. This new point I did pivot to is an example as to why that sort of behavior is unhealthy.