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  • My conservative 70 year old grandma hates Trump and says she's surprised he hasn't been shot every time he's mentioned, and she's been saying it since 2018. She hates trans people and she'd still be on the same side as the people in this thread saying "too bad he missed". The people saying political violence is bad are further right than anyone I've ever met in meatspace.

  • I think it's hard to pull off for non-narcissists, though.

    No, being visibly neurodivergent is terrible for your chances in politics unless you can lean in to the ND image. Look at how many people call Zuckerberg a robot or a lizard because he has visible autism. Elon kinda got away with leaning into the autism ND image for a while, but it didn't do anything for him after he started openly being a Nazi, because the people who admire an openly autistic person aren't Nazis. As a right wing political figure, being openly neurodivergent is terrible for your image, and that's why Trump presents himself as a neurotypical. And while nobody can say for sure without actually evaluating him clinically, I think it's fair to say his neurotypical straight cis male persona is genuine. Trump is not a member of a socially disabled vulnerable minority.

  • Undertale isn't a masterpiece. The moral of the game is that children who are beaten shouldn't fight back. The mother figure everyone fawns over is an abuser who beats up a child for trying to leave her. The game is only popular because its target audience are adults who were abused as kids and want an excuse to slip back into that mindset and be told their trauma reactions are justified.

  • I didn't do that, the DNC did that. I may be the ally of the DNC today, but my affections are fickle. I will aid the DNC when and only when it suits my goals. One day I will call Biden a corrupt fascist puppet, and the next I will defend him from the same accusations. The difference is that I will attack him when there's a chance to get someone better on the blue side of the vote, and I'll defend him when the candidates are set and he's the only one who can defeat Trump. It is all a utilitarian calculation to me. I am not so privileged as to bring feelings into my decision about who to vote for. There are more important things at stake than how I feel.

  • Oh they certainly have the right to vote for fascism. And I have the right to call them assholes about it. That's the democratic process in action. Democracy isn't when your fascist ideas are never challenged, that's fascism.

  • And people wonder why so many gender non-conforming folks are refusing to vote for Biden.

    I don't wonder that, because we're not refusing to vote for Biden. Except for the suicidal trans doomers who are willing to throw their lives away making a political statement. Which is absolutely tragic, but also fuck them for risking all our lives too.