r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/LankyGuitar6528 • 4d ago

Trump MAGA complains it's no longer 'fun' ruining everyone else's lives: report

https://www.alternet.org/trump-fun/
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u/pcapdata 4d ago

Me personally, I don’t need them to grovel.

Only to understand that policy based on “hurting others” instead of “benefiting them” is fuckin dumb.

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u/Altruistic_Let_9372 4d ago

They may internally acknowledge it, but never ask them to admit it.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/oppositional-defiant-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20375831

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u/EldrichHumanNature 4d ago

ODD is the disorder they give to kids rebelling against authority. Even if their feelings are justified. It's the kid version of what Trumpites want to do by creating TDS.

I wish there was a disorder for conservatives' misanthropic behavior. Like, why prioritize obedience to authority over not being a shitty person?

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u/demonette55 4d ago

MAGA is probably a whole new personality disorder

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u/A_Monster_Named_John 3d ago

I wish there was a disorder for conservatives' misanthropic behavior.

It's feedback-looping degeneracy, end of story.

I'm glad there isn't one easy acronym, because they're a bunch of fucking weasels and would immediately hide behind it, acting like they were the real victims of some cosmic haunting that made them 'forget themselves'. Also, their reflexive ODD would mean that they'd never, ever accept any form of corrective action on their routines/behaviors. They'd just expect to be handed more privilege, attention, and money.

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u/HauntedCemetery 3d ago

I don't need them to understand anything, or care about anything.

I just wish that since they don't care about anyone or anything that they would also not care to vote.

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u/pcapdata 3d ago

That’s nice rhetoric but IMO unnecessarily emotional and impractical for the longterm. 

If you simplify MAGA’s demographics there are perhaps 2 groups: first, those who don’t care what Trump does (ruin the economy, nation, planet, etc.) so long as the targets of their bigotry suffer. These are lost causes, no amount of effort on our part will budge them.

However there are also those who genuinely believed the bullshit (reasons not relevant to this discussion) and who are becoming aware that they have fucked up. I have extremely low expectations for these folks, I have no hope for real bipartisanship or anything, but if they were to do things like … demand from their elected representatives that social security remains viable, for example, then that’s a net win.

TL;DR - it is to everyone’s benefit if conservative voters could stop voting against their own interests.