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I know it can be entertaining (in a schadenfreude type way at least in my case) to read about people who got screwed over after voting so eagerly for Trump and his cohorts. But this seems like a really powerful, helpful, and positive website.
And I applaud these people for publicly acknowledging their mistake. It wasn't easy, but it's a brave thing they are doing. We all make mistakes (some bigger than others of course). But the important thing is to learn from them.
It's through these people that others can hopefully learn and find a path out. Even if it's just a couple of dozen people, that's something.
They were stupid for supporting trump, but in truth, many of my friends are stupid and I love them anyway (and I hope they feel the same way about me). This act of stupidity is harder to forgive, but I suppose if they've come around I can learn to accept them as allies.
Stupid and/or selfish, racist, etc.
Everyone should be given the opportunity to make amends.
Unless they’re ICE
Sure. My statement isn't without nuance. If someone commits a crime, if they go along with hate speech, support a fascist regime, or impinge on peoples' rights in the name of a government, there should be legal consequence.
But even then, and I understand this is the internet so I have to spell it out nice and clear for everyone, if someone has paid the price, done their sentence, and is honestly, and truly, and really reformed, that should be taken into consideration. That doesn't mean they can have every comfort back, or people need to forgive them, or anything else... but to remove all hope of redemption after someone has paid for their actions is bleak, dark, and does not embody humanist spirit.
In other words, we don't have to be nice, but we also don't have to sink to their level.
That said, if they do it again, they can go fucking die in a hole. Respectfully.
Even ice might someday rejoin society. They should never again be allowed in a position to deprive people of their human rights but it’s possible
No, even ICE, if they truly turn their backs on them. If they're never allowed to change then they can never change. That's stupid. What's the point of doing anything if we force our enemy to fight us forever anyway? You can't win (unless you kill them all).
I'll take any ally we can get. Hell, they could even be the most useful allies. They're on the inside. If they see that it's evil and decide they want to fix things, they can feed information or sabotage it from within.
This doesn't meant we totally forgive them. Justice means they're held accountable for their actions. However, this can be done after we win. Until then we need to leave the door at least ajar, because we're going to need as many allies as we can get.
Yeah, all right. If you can find someone who has served in ice, somehow doesn’t deserve to be jailed for a very, very long time, and then somehow totally reverses their insanely backwards thinking, then okay, they can be redeemable by serving on the front lines.
No, they were lied to, just as anyone is when they support Democrats or Republicans. Yes, a small contingent are weird, culty fuckers who support everything their party does, but there's also a significant percentage who don't, and those who don't want Gestapo shit will need to learn to work with people who may think differently than they do.
If I pissed on you and told you it was raining I would be lying to you, but you'd still be a fucking moron if you believed me.
We can disagree about fiscal policy. I'm not entertaining a difference of opinion when it comes to who deserves human rights.
No, they chose to only believe the media sources telling them what they wanted to hear.
These are not children, stop infantilizing them. This is the third time he ran, no one was ignorant of who he is.
If people had had more compassion on folks leaving the Qanon cult way back when, and actually offered resources to deprogram and reintegrate into society instead of just blaming them for falling for the propaganda in the first place and treating them like they're inherently flawed people with no hope of recovery, then maybe so many of them wouldn't have just settled right back in to other right-wing echo chamber.
They collectively had no where else to go, so why is anybody surprised that it turned out the way it did?
Man I'm tired of everyone and everything being blamed except for Trumpers themselves. These people are adults, not children.
You're failing to distinguish between people trying to leave the cult, and people actively participating in it. Thus missing my point entirely.
I have no sympathy for any trump supporters when it blows up in their faces, but if they finally realize they were wrong and decide to try to do better, it doesn't atone for voting for him three times, but it's a start. And if you have any idea how democracies work, you should want resources to be available to them to help them find their way out of the muck and do better. Otherwise you're just kicking them back into it and wondering why trump has so many supporters after they all go back to the cult.
We should seize on any opportunity to deprogram right-wingers. Unless you're an essentialist who believes people can never truly change their opinions and beliefs?
Yeah so they can vote for Republicans anyway. No one is forcing them into it. "deprograming" Qanon wasn't turning people into Democrats. Again, these are adults making adult choices for which they are responsible.
There were stories about people waking up from the Qult, and their recovery process was very much like the process of recovering from any other cult: long and difficult, and impossible without social support.
I never said they aren't responsible for their choices, for fuck's sake. That's the opposite of what I said.
This post is about a website that helps people "leaving maga." What the fuck are you trying to argue, that no one does that and we shouldn't help them? Anyone who leaves maga is a plus, even if they're still responsible for their own voting record.