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"Trump doesn't live in our heads rent free" proceeds to start calling communists trump supporters because they hate Biden aswell

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[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 101 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Remember when they were handwringing about us wanting him to die from covid? Lol.

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 67 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Rachel Maddow wagged her finger at us after spending years making money by comparing trump to hitler.

Like if you really thought trump was hitler and you thought hitler was bad, wouldn't you be happy if he got sick and/or died? When trump made covid disastrously words with his response?

Not if you're a lib apparently.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well yeah, we wanted Maddow's money printer to die

Lib media wants him to live forever

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 22 points 9 months ago

Terrible news! The Senate Republicans have discovered necromancy through our bipartisan immortality bill and created a phylactery for Donald Trump! We condemn Trump's status as an undying lich and we will fight for you! But we need your support! It's crucial that you vote in the coming elections for the next century and donate to the DNC.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even my 80-year-old Christian grandma living in conservative land said she hoped Trump got covid haha.

[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think that’s because we’re tankies. We just know a good story arc when we see one.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 27 points 9 months ago

It can be both. stalin-approval

[–] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's extra funny cuz I regularly see liberals yearning for the death of regular republican voters. I've seen r/neolib poster fantasize about "culling the redneck population of middle America" in a civil war.

So, you're down to slaughter ground level Trump supporters but the idea of their dear leader choking to death upsets you? That'd be like if I jerked it to the idea of running over a regular Wehrmacht soldier with a T34 (which I do actually) but was AGAST at the idea of someone sniping Hitler.

Do any lurker Libs wanna explain this weird double standard to me?

[–] Magician@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

I think it just gets too personal for them. A million is a statistic.

Or maybe it's a different set of rules diluted from or diluted into what we see in media today. The villain gets a chance at redemption while the faceless mooks just fall down and dispose of themselves.

But with a single figure like trump, it's personal connection and the chance to be the bigger person. Just prove him wrong and you can change the world without a big disruption of the status quo.

Can't have one of your betters die off, just put more faceless people into the meat grinder.