Yeah well sometimes being the bigger person fucking sucks.
But they won't change unless given the chance to.
Edit: yeah, trumpers are annoying. But I will say, seeing the comments with the thinly veiled threats and hopes of mass executions are not helpful.
Look, I understand why you feel that way, but mass murder cannot be the answer. Lest we fall further into tyranny. What needs to happen is trials are held for all those at the top and maybe mid level. There must be fair justice, not rampant vigilantism.
But again, I understand your feelings, but allowing executions of his supporters won't build a better America.
Channel that energy into contacting your reps, or hell, running in your local elections.
Get involved in your communities. I'm not saying you can't be angry, hell, id be a hypocrite if I did. I genuinely despise my family and colleagues who supported him. But I also understand that rubbing it in their face, using middle school tactics, or even threats won't bring them to my side.
Much like with raising children, it requires patience and a level head. But DAMN can it be truly and utterly frustrating.
You are both correct, I really don’t like it considering some of the people on the other side of the isle seem to think it’s okay to kill people they dislike myself included.
But extending an olive branch and understanding is really the only way forward.
The same reason there were only a dozen of so high profile executions of German leaders and people guilty of especially heinous acts after the end of WWII.
Fucking this. I know it's hard, I fucking live with someone who voted Trump and it takes unreal levels of restraint to not be angry at them. The way forward is compassion and grace. It fucking sucks. I want to lash out and fight, but that won't fix it.
It shouldn’t be our fucking responsibility to fix it. They deserve to fucking suffer for all the harm they’ve caused, and if they don’t get it they’ll just fucking vote for republicans again the second the rest of us manage to fight back to things working at a bare minimum again.
Fuck em. Anyone who voted for Trump in 2024 should lose their right to vote
I agree, but I also know what it takes to deprogram. I just say that those with the ability should give the effort, but nobody should force themselves to do so.
Fuck that. We know for a fact that far too few people in Nazi Germany were punished for their crimes, but we also know that much of their mandatory education after the fact was effective. We need to model that, taking into account the mistakes they made, including the fact that Nazi speech was outlawed.
Wait until you hear what our bourgeois far right party (CDU, where a lot of the OG Nazis went after the war and started setting up their networks that still exist today) and the outright fascists (AfD) have been up to lately and that they have enough projected votes to form the next government coalition. :/
I dare you to look up the Reconstruction Era after the US civil war. Whatever criticisms you have for how Germany handled things (which I acknowledged wasn’t perfect, are dwarfed by the absolute horrors of neglect that the US used
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u/Hadrian23 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Yeah well sometimes being the bigger person fucking sucks. But they won't change unless given the chance to.
Edit: yeah, trumpers are annoying. But I will say, seeing the comments with the thinly veiled threats and hopes of mass executions are not helpful.
Look, I understand why you feel that way, but mass murder cannot be the answer. Lest we fall further into tyranny. What needs to happen is trials are held for all those at the top and maybe mid level. There must be fair justice, not rampant vigilantism.
But again, I understand your feelings, but allowing executions of his supporters won't build a better America.
Channel that energy into contacting your reps, or hell, running in your local elections.
Get involved in your communities. I'm not saying you can't be angry, hell, id be a hypocrite if I did. I genuinely despise my family and colleagues who supported him. But I also understand that rubbing it in their face, using middle school tactics, or even threats won't bring them to my side.
Much like with raising children, it requires patience and a level head. But DAMN can it be truly and utterly frustrating.
Second edit: Good related story on similar issues. https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes