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    1004 months ago

    Why would you have any respect for Trump supporters going to a Trump rally? Just because they were unlucky? They’re still shitty people.

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      634 months ago

      It’s a little more complicated for me considering my family once was Republican during Bush’s first term. Rural, Appalachian, Pennsylvanian. I know some of these people most likely. Dumb people who know no better. Manipulated by rich interests. Feeling many pressures no doubt but too uninformed to point the finger at the right problem.

      They Thought Were Free is a great book that explores this ignorance endemic in the Third Reich.

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        424 months ago

        Ok, I get that you have a strong desire to humanize them. But humanizing someone doesn’t mean you automatically respect them, other than affording them the basic level you’d give any other semi-sentient being. What is there to respect in people who cheer on an addlepated, narcissistic, fascist manbaby?

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          4 months ago

          Yeah I’ll admit respect probably wasn’t the best choice for words, but as a father I respected his shielding his family from bullets, which is probably what led to use of that word.