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That's the right thing to do. Making it easy for people to accept that they were wrong makes it much easier to pull support from the opposing party. If you constantly ridicule, mock or insult them, they are much more likely to stick with their opinion simply because they do not want to accept that you were right.
A vast majority on lemmy should learn this aswell.
from what i’ve seen, yes people are angry but people are willing to accept apologies that aren’t based entirely in leopards eating faces… you don’t get a pass for your shitty ignorant behaviour just because that behaviour comes to bite you in the ass
you get to apologise and have it accepted if you’ve seen the harm that’s been done to other people and are genuinely remorseful
Getting apologies would be nice, but it starts with acceptance. Right now, if a Trump voter can accept that they messed up or were led astray, and they can be convinced to join the resistance, that's all I care about. I care less about hearing an "I'm sorry" than I do about having more people on the streets today - actions speak louder than words, and to turn down someone who's joined our side over something as petty as "Have you apologized yet?" would do little more than push people away.
We need a united front right now, and just as former Trump voters have to suck up the bad feelings of having contributed to this mess, we have to hold off on purity-testing our fellow protesters and accept that to fight the oligarchs, it takes all of us, regardless of our feelings toward each other.
Nah fuck that
We dont need traitors in the mindst. Why would you allow traitors into your resistance. We don't need the trumpers to take back america. There's more of us then there is of those traitor fucks.
They are Nazis. Plain and simple see them everyday in Florida with their Trump stickers and nazi flags.
I highly doubt this. Sure, there are more people opposed to Trump than there are Trump supporters. But Trump supporters are more cohesive and easier to mobilize. When it comes to getting people off the couch - particularly to achieve goals through violence - I expect you'd be outnumbered at least 3 to 1.
This is how you lose. If you don't allow people who wake up and turn away from the naziism a chance to do so, you've stupidly removed the opportunity for there to be fewer Nazis
Last I checked it took a world war to stop the Nazis but go on.
Il see yall during the revolution.
Curb your extremism.
They aren't "traitors". Many of them fell for propaganda. Do you unironically believe that parents are voting for trump when they know their parents will be deported? Do you think that illegal migrants will vote for trump when they know they will be deported?
Stop with your edgy hardliner attitude. This is how you create rifts in society.
They are traitors.....they voted for a traitor???
Did Trump bot steal top secret documents?
Did Trump not commit sedition?
Did Trump not fill his cabinet with Russian agents?
Traitors. Including you for defending them.
And to answer your questions yes you idiot Trump said he was gonna do all those things and the very same people voted for him still. Shows the racism and bigotry of this country.
So fuck you.
Probably did all that, but that's not what he's marketing it as. I don't think you understand how voting works for many people - they don't watch every a politician says or does, they watch the stuff that is shown on TV, read a few flyers and that's it.
I'm not defending anyone. I'm telling you that your shitty attitude and your wannabe edgy 16-year old "IM NEVER GOING TO FORGIVE THEEEEM!!!!!11" is not helping turning the situation in the slightest.
Also, I'm not american. Can't really be a traitor to a country I don't belong to.
Okay, then please riddle me this - why would an undocumented immigrant vote for someone that is publicly announcing he wants to kick them out? Maybe because he phrased it in a way that implied that it's not going to affect them?
No, it shows that elections in america are more of a entertainment show than a political event.
No you.
Sure they voted for a traitor, but where do you want democrats to look for votes? The left?