They didnt have contempt before the election?
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None of us give a shit what the pedo protectors think and we seriously doubt they are actually able to think in the first place...
That's okay, same here limp dicks.
The 30%. So, either the neighbor to your left, or the neighbor to your right.
Nextdoor in my neighborhood is full of people crying. This is New Mexico, did they really think we'd vote for an R for Governor this year? They screamed about it for a year, and the state went ahead and quietly voted D. I used to tell them to move back to Texas, but, OOPS! LOL.
I've been having a ball on Nextdoor since the election. Their tears of impotent rage sustains me. It's been a challenge getting in on the comments before the whole post gets nuked, though.
Reading Nextdoor since the election has been crazy. It was full of stupid conservative stuff before (seeing their thoughts on water usage is about as stupid as you might imagine) , but now it's them crying about the election.
These are the same people who cheer for pedophiles, grift, and war crimes. Nobody cares what they have contempt for.
Something about boos and cheers.
Fuck MAGA voters.
They’re going to demand to see the polls’ manager.
Again.
Maga voters can choke on a big blue cock.
They can enjoy Bluekakke 2026.
🤣
Elimination of fascists is the rational choice. There's no emotions involved.
No no, there's emotion.
You can hate something and also be correct about it.
Contempt and a lack of empathy are definitionally what it means to be conservative.
Also, fear, and money, and power. It's all tied together.
So, successful business owners, almost always--they're the ones who cry about taxes. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/
Naturally fearful people are good targets for the propaganda and Fox News. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes
The uneducated are easily convinced that other people are responsible for their woes.
Bigotry, wherever it comes from.
They're also a defining characteristic of nazi's.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge
I truly believe that unless kept in check the right wing in any country will slowly move towards fascism and Nazism. I feel like we must assume that any and all moves made by conservatives must be assumed to be working towards those ends and treated as such.
That's what they said
that's cool, i have contempt for MAGA voters.
I have a seething burning hatred and wish everything they voted for happens to them.
Speaking with AlterNet in August, University of Bristol cognitive scientist Dr. Stephan Lewandowksy argued that one can understand supporters of President Donald Trump by understanding their psychology as analogous to that of internet trolls.
"We know that trolls take pleasure in trolling, which means getting other people upset," Lewandowsky told AlterNet. "And I think that's what we're observing here — this is basically trolling behavior. So would these people score high on the dark triad? I would think yes, but I don't know of any data that's done a personality profile specifically of MAGA voters. We do have it for trolls, though — I have data on that. People have published research on it, and the similarities are just overwhelming. So I'd be very surprised if these were well-adjusted, nice people."
Absolutely bang on, and anyone that’s spent any amount of time with hardcore Trump supporters knows this.
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If anyone is emotional, it's the right wing. Most emotional bunch I've ever seen.
Naturally, they think only having empathy is "emotional". Naturally, they don't count the emotions of jealousy, bitterness, anger and fear as emotions.
What a bunch of fragile, easily triggered snowflakes
Wah, it's so crazy, it's almost as if whenever you promise "no war" and "Epstein files release", and then you go to war and sit on the Epstein files, you lose.
Who knew?
"fuck their feelings" with a healthy serving of "I don't care, do you?"
MAGA voters have had outsized media representation. How many sidewalk interviews have I heard with, "I'm not a racist but"?
Now that they are a vanishing minority, it's super annoying to hear about them.
They are still among us, unfortunately. The floor is somewhere around 25 - 33% of them...short of systemic change to our education system it's not likely to change, and even then, it would be future generations, not the people living today - barring any kind of advancement where people could vastly upgrade their intelligence.
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so we're still going to be profiling every Trump voter within throwing distance of a microphone? 10 years wasn't enough to figure these people out?
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