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Any former Trump supporters ready to eat some humble pie, admit the mainstream critical narrative was right and this guy really is a freedom-hating fascist con

• decremental 11mo ago
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• usefulcat 11mo ago
  Venting may feel good but it does more harm than good to your ostensible cause because it makes it trivially easy for those who disagree with you to dismiss you out of hand (which they're probably already very inclined to do to start with). Assuming you're sincere, of course.
  • mindslight 11mo ago
    That wasn't me venting. That was me earnestly reaching across the partisan divide, hoping that some more people have fallen out of the reality distortion field. In real life, I've met people who have, and they're quite apologetic about it. Online, they're rarer. I get the red tribe's general frustration! I'm a libertarian who was both sidesing up until Covid. Heck, I had still thought there was a good chance of Trump coming around to actually leading until through like June of 2020. My comments were not meant to be inflammatory. They are dispassionate technical descriptions. The strength of the words reflects how bad this guy is for our country.