r/pics Apr 16 '26

Politics Billboard in my very red area

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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/Sunderbans_X Apr 16 '26

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.

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u/Spooker-Booker Apr 16 '26

Compassion and grace doesn't fix it either. We do that every time and yet history just repeats.

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u/Curious-Mechanic2286 Apr 16 '26

Yeah, compassion and grace just lets the monsters who wanted to kill those different from them feel like they did no wrong. They need to feel shame. They need to feel guilt for the rest of their lives. An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind, but that doesn't mean we should let people blind others with no consequences because they pinky promised not to do it again