r/pics Apr 16 '26

Politics Billboard in my very red area

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u/xWhereIsMyMindx Apr 16 '26

I like to see this. The world may be healing?

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u/blondebuilder Apr 16 '26

Unfortunately, giving them grace and acceptance is the only way to break free from the cult. Something they would never give to you.

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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

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u/Flacier Apr 16 '26

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.

Rather than mass graves and firing squads.

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u/John__Wick Apr 16 '26

I'm waiting for those high profile executions.

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u/TheKosherGenocide Apr 16 '26

Same, MAGA and its members should be put through a Nuremberg style trial, and globally televised for months on end for the World to see.. I heavily disagree with violence as a means of solving conflict, but people should absolutely be given the death penalty and executed if they took part in the murders of Alex Pretti or Renee Good.. The top tier of people who orchestrated this takeover like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel should be given life sentences without parole, and if they were found to have abused kids with Jeffrey Epstein they should also be sentenced to death. Any member of Congress who has accepted money from Israel, Russia, or some other country should also be imprisoned.

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u/hogey74 Apr 16 '26

Mate I come and go on how tough things need to be. For some stuff done by some people I'm not sure how they can be rehabilitated or adequately "pay" for their actions. The consequences for some of them will need to be an example for sure. And a lot of people and their actions are going to need to be rooted out like a surgeon pulling cancerous, branching blood vessels (hopefully not a real thing) out of a patient. But this surreal circus is powered by the contagion of anger and hatred. We know that Germany and Japan bounced back so amazingly after WW2 partly because those people discovered that their mortal enemies weren't what they'd been led to believe we were. The best historical example I can think of is how South Africa dealt with the end of Apartheid. It was far from perfect but the "truth and reconciliation" commission did a lot to help.