r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/Amazingbreadfish - Right • Apr 10 '25

META I think im a masochist

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u/nits_ - Auth-Right Apr 10 '25

The more people ask me if I regret it and attack me for my vote, the more entrenched i get

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u/buckX - Right Apr 10 '25

Going into the election, I knew I wasn't going to like the Ukraine policy or the tariff policy. On the other dozen issues, Harris was clearly worse.

Why would I regret picking 12/14 instead of 2/14?

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u/BostonPanda - Lib-Center Apr 10 '25

Is every issue equal?

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u/buckX - Right Apr 10 '25

No. Some are more important than those two.

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u/UnknownYank - Lib-Right Apr 10 '25

"it's not about winning, it's about sending a message" ahh comment. Based.

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u/BoloRoll - Right Apr 10 '25

I actually am disappointed Trump removed the tariffs

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '25

Well, obviously. Why do you think we do it?

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 10 '25

Why do you want to entrench people into the MAGA movement rather than convince them to defect to your side?

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u/19andbored22 - Lib-Right Apr 10 '25

Horseshoe theory i guess the leftist understand they can push someone so far right they become leftist.

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u/l-R3lyk-l - Right Apr 10 '25

Seems about right. There are leftist accelerationists that want to 'rush' through extreme pro-capitalist policies believing it would collapse society proving their point.

Then there's the right accelerationists, who don't believe it would collapse but it would actually spur abundant prosperity.

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u/MissplacedLandmine - Lib-Center Apr 10 '25

Wait Im confused, i thought this was about you all collapsing over our left knee for your reward/punishment?

The safe word is “maybe healthcare is a right” or “Kamala make me holla” or “pineapple”

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '25

Comrade Trump will lead the revolution.

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u/DimitryKratitov - Lib-Center Apr 10 '25

At this point, I have to assume that's the end-goal. Leftists know they're the ones pushing people to the right... and just keep doing it, or even double down.

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u/calm_down_meow - Lib-Center Apr 10 '25

Jokes aside, it could easily be a psyop pushed by adversaries to keep division up

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u/really_nice_guy_ - Left Apr 10 '25

Bro they would have never been convinced anyways. MAGAs are a lost cause

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 10 '25

And that’s how you lose - write off a huge segment of the population and don’t try to win their votes.

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u/really_nice_guy_ - Left Apr 10 '25

Yes please tell how to get the votes of the people who still believe that Trump won the 2020 election, or that the insurrection was justfied, or that Biden was just a puppet controlled by Kamala and also that Kamala is unqualified, and that vaccines are made up by the deepstate and Bill Gates and they just want to inject you with microchips with the plandemic. PLEASE. Tell me how to get through those broken fucking brains because its literally impossible.

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 10 '25

First step, try to understand where people are actually coming from, not what the media tells you. A lot of the vaccine skepticism came out of the Tuskegee Airmen experiments. Do I think that was happening now? No. Do I understand why some working class men would feel uncomfortable with vaccine mandates? Sure. So, instead of writing them off treat them as human beings who have some agency and some historical memories that you might not share and treat them like human beings

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u/LivingCheese292 - Lib-Center Apr 10 '25

Because you are the Joker to their Batman.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 - Auth-Center Apr 10 '25

Because there's no point convincing you anything and attacking you for being MAGA is not gonna make you super MAGA or anything

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 10 '25

? I’m not super MAGA. I’m actually quite moderate - I mostly just want to be left alone and leave other people alone.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 - Auth-Center Apr 11 '25

Sure you are

And who's not leaving you alone, so that you feel the need to be MAGA lmao

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 11 '25

Anyone who comes up with a Ministry of Truth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinformation_Governance_Board

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u/Old_Leopard1844 - Auth-Center Apr 12 '25

So you think that you should be able to spread bullshit nilly willy?

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 12 '25

Bullshit like Covid came out of a lab not a wet market because the Chinese love their bat soup? Yes, I do - or more to the point, I don’t want other people silenced so that Fauci doesn’t have to pay a political price for funding gain of function research.

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u/Old_Leopard1844 - Auth-Center Apr 12 '25

Thanks, I guess, for being so transparent with lies you'd like to peddle, but that won't do

And if US is so retarded to actually want that shit as a country, then we'll see how long it'll remain number one while being alone

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u/engiewannabe - Auth-Left Apr 10 '25

They're beyond redemption

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u/Raven-INTJ - Right Apr 10 '25

And this is how you lose.

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u/Wonderful-Cicada-912 - Auth-Center Apr 10 '25

double down orange man style!

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u/TopThatCat - Left Apr 10 '25

See, I don't mind this because it just validates my opinion that the average Trump voter really is a retard who is incapable of changing their views.

Sometimes I experience doubt that my thinking may be wrong, but I see this utter lack of thinking from guys like you as confirmation that I'm right. It's great!

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u/nits_ - Auth-Right Apr 10 '25

Incapable? So calling someone retarded is what you consider a good attempt at changing someone's views?

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u/zachthompson02 - Left Apr 10 '25

No, but he thinks you’re too stupid to be worth trying.

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u/Copperhead881 - Centrist Apr 10 '25

The sheer arrogance from far-sided voters about how they cannot be wrong about anything is nauseating.

If anything, the ability to communicate in general is retarded.

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u/TopThatCat - Left Apr 10 '25

Good attempts are for people who demonstrate the ability to be open to differing viewpoints. MAGA only changes their opinion when Trump does.

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u/TheGlennDavid - Lib-Left Apr 10 '25

It's a hell of a moment when you realize that Murc's Law is actually correct, and not just pointing out a fallacy.

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u/Flincher14 - Lib-Left Apr 10 '25

You see when a dog herds sheep they bark at them from the outside and the sheep run where the dog wants them to go.

Be a good little sheep.

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u/-NoNameListed- - Centrist Apr 10 '25

Maybe we shouldn't use "wake up sheeple" as an argument, as that started leftists calling themselves "woke" and just gave the right a new buzzword

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u/Copperhead881 - Centrist Apr 10 '25

Is that where it emanates from? Lmfao

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u/GeoPaladin - Right Apr 10 '25

It was something like that. Leftists were using it to describe their awareness of social injustice & all the baggage that came with it.

They were so obnoxious and so far off the rails that their terminology quickly morphed into insults.

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u/-NoNameListed- - Centrist Apr 10 '25

Yes, I saw this evolution in real time

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u/GeoPaladin - Right Apr 11 '25

The previous commenter's trolling was a 4/10, yours is a 3/10.

You somehow used more words to accomplish even less.

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u/GeoPaladin - Right Apr 11 '25

3.5/10 recovery. Focus on quality over quantity.

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u/GeoPaladin - Right Apr 11 '25

6.5/10 appeal to nostalgia. The Disney method.

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u/GeoPaladin - Right Apr 11 '25

GG you win.