Wasn’t sure if we were allowed to use that word in post titles so I censored it just in case.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” (That last describes the Democratic party to a tee.)
So yes, it behooves us to understand them if we want to win. If you want to rage and stick your fingers in your ears, good luck with the toddler approach.
And since 100 toddlers will take that statement to mean “appeasement” or “how to get on their level”, fuck you, you’re a child. Leave these discussions to grownups. In the mean time, go read a grownup book. (Hint: The Art of War is 100% applicable here.)
Here’s one with far too much nuance for liberals:
“When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”
Not even going to explain that one in modern political terms. In any case, we lost, and goddammit we’re not going to learn anything from it!
Some people would rather be right than try to solve the problem.
Genuine question. How do you solve decades of religious indoctrination, poor education, and racism en masse?
I could maybe educate my two parents, maybe. But then what?
Encourage them to educate their friends. Tell people you successfully educated your parents. You can’t change this alone, but that alone does heavy lifting in that sentence
EDIT: I think I’m just done here. The work will always need to be done by those most vulnerable and I’m just tired. I’m tired of being blamed and threatened when I’ve done everything I’m “supposed to do”. Donated to who I was “supposed to donate to”. Voted for who I was “supposed to vote for”. Understand whatever you want, no one on their side is really trying to understand me.
I just can’t pretend that my allies are allies. I’ll be yelled at for venting. I’ll be told to calm down when I’m scared. I’ll be told to be enraged while trying to find some peace.
You armed? Because you fuck well should be, as well as practiced and educated.
Oh shit. Just realized you missed the entire fucking point. You are losing Miss. Trans. It would be in your best fucking interest to figure out why you are losing and to do that you have to figure out what the enemy is thinking.
Or, you could keep whining about how these people have no empathy for you. Yeah. We already knew that.
Fuck yourself.
We do know them. They are mostly stupid. They are mean. They are all trash.
Some of them may not have been these things but if I have a garbage can and someone throws a perfectly good apple into, that apple is now trash.
One can remove the apple and culture the bacteria to prove it.
There is no reason to get to know the trash, it won’t stop being trash because I have further refined all of the smells and rot involved.
If getting to know trash was possible we wouldn’t be were we are. The left has been attempting to understand for decades and it has only lead to the bacteria and rot infecting the democratic party to the point where calls for a new leftist party are increasing with each cycle.
Way to miss the entire fucking point. Keep losing!
And that goes for all the sniveling little pissants hiding behind their hurt feelings as the reason they’re still voting for Republicans: Fuck off. Every last one of you is a fucking liar.
You’re trash. You’ve always been trash. When liberals were polite, you were trash. When liberals got a little rude, you were still trash. Now that we’re tired of your shit and treating you like the trash you are, you’re mortally offended and blaming us for being trash? Get the fuck out of here.
I love this point about trash people being trash no matter how you treat them. When people say that being rude to Nazis only makes them Nazi even harder, I say fuck it. They’re gonna be Nazis no matter what.
I’m about to be a broken record.
- People who vote for fascism are called fascists.
- A large majority of the electorate either voted for fascism, or couldn’t be bothered to vote against it.
- Popularization of reality denial in favor of believing what makes you feel a certain way has been going on for decades.
- “Understanding” Trump voters is like “understanding” flat earthers, plus bigotry. The root cause is that they’re fucking idiots.
All of this sanewashing and wanting to “understand” boils down to one thing: refusal to accept that America, and Americans as a whole, aren’t “good.” The assumption behind it all is that, well, if this is what the electorate said, there must be a good reason for it, right? America doesn’t really want the fascism that they were openly promised and then voted for, do they?
Yeah, they do. America wants fascism. That’s where we are. Hanging your hopes on that enough of the people who couldn’t be bothered to vote against it are going to suddenly grow spines and put up a successful opposition to it is useless, unless you are personally willing to be part of that opposition, and in a more active way than just protesting or calling elected officials or signing petitions.
Resistance isn’t futile, but it’s going to be expensive. You will be better off getting prepared now, because shit’s about to get real.
There’s also a lot of them who aren’t idiots but are just bad people. They knew exactly what Trump was selling and they liked it. They want theirs and want him to hurt others since they see the world as zero sum.
Calling them idiots is too big of a complement and takes away their agency.
Oh, absolutely. I tried to make sure that was included with “plus bigotry,” but you’re right. I hate taking away people’s agency, and I apologize for having appeared to do so.
Russia, for example.
Before the election I talked to an old friend. He’s into WW2 history. He loves history about how Americans trashed the Japanese and Nazis.
He was playing the “centrist” game when politics came up. He even suggested that America having a dictator is maybe what we need.
I thinks that’s average America. Americans cheering for because we beat Nazis while simultaneously wanting to be a Nazi.
yeah. vaccine deniers, flat earthers, maga. These things are just so insane there is no way I can understand them with my faculties intact. to think the earths circumfrence was figured out over two thousand years ago and how disease was the main cause of death before the 20th century and its just nuts.
Mainly because understanding them is simple: they’re a trail mix of NAZI’s, barely functional illiterates, and main character syndrome.
We do need to understand why people vote the way they do if we want to undo it. Might be too late for that though, seeing as we may have just elected the U.S. first dictator.
High quality rant
Very.
censored it just in case
Ah! He said it!
Now I said it! I just said it again! Gah!
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