The amount of comments I've seen from them the past few days about how they're wishing death on a portion of the country because the majority of people who can even vote, voted red is absurd. These are the very same people who can recognize the endless forms of voter disenfranchisement and pretend their part of the party that supports those exact people. Yeah, Texas is a dumbass state in a lot of ways, their power grid situation is really about as Texan as it gets, but it's also a "purple" state and it would be blue if it wasn't for gerrymandering and dozens of ways it screws over minority voters, all by design. How are they so gleeful about wishing folks who live there or other states freezing to death. Who do you think is the ones really suffering right now? The people who can afford to skip town and go stay at a hotel? Or the people putting on 6 different layers and burning every piece of fuel they can find that will burn?
Shit like that makes me have no hope sometimes, it's just so stupid. Have some fucking decency for once in their life. Not everything is red versus blue, they are no different than the reactionaries who crack jokes at California burning or Chicago going another weekend with a ton of shootings. What do they even get out of that shit? A quick laugh, and for what, to feel superior in some way you happen to live in a different part of the country when nothing bad happens? There is no hope for some people like that and they both pretend like they are the good ones cause they either have a BLM flag or a trump flag outside.
Who do you think is suffering right now the most though, I'm not buying this at all.
You can argue that libs haven't thought out all the implications of laughing at red states, but they're not gleefully wishing harm on anyone but Republicans. Shit, we do the exact same thing (albeit to a much lesser extent) here on chapo dot chat. Who do you think is going to get hurt the most as America declines?
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And when people say "fuck red states," it's an acknowledgement of the people hurt most by Republicans. The collapse of the Republican party is a real human thing that would help tons of people, too.
Do you honestly think some working-class Democrat in New York is thinking "lol fuck all those working-class Democrats in Houston and San Antonio"? Putting words in people's mouths and then getting angry about it isn't going to get us anywhere.
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There is no statement mentioned in the post. It's a "have you seen what people are saying" post that doesn't actually show you what people are saying, which is its own issue.
We shouldn't assume libs are compassionate, but we also shouldn't assume they're gleefully cheering poor people's suffering when their intent is obviously quite different. Especially when we routinely say "fuck this whole country" without literally meaning we want everyone in it, including its poor and struggling people, to suffer. We have to be a little self aware.