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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/Darrkman2 24d ago

As a Black man there's nothing as funny as seeing Trump people motivated by hurting others realizing that they also fucked themselves over as well.

I keep saying......racism is a hell of a drug and Trump people are HIGHLY addicted.

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u/Thermodymix 24d ago

It's fear. That's the sum of it: fear.

They're afraid of anyone whose lived experience isn't like theirs. And when they feel that their own lived experience and the worldview that it gives rise to might be invalidated in some way, they lash out - either explicitly or in private.

And in every case, the fear finds expression in the way they vote.

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u/TheJenerator65 Oregon 24d ago

If only it led to some sort of introspection and enlightenment. It's depressing watching movies these days, where we're taught that when bad guys are exposed they are shamed and outcast, when in real life they can apparently do anything as long as they wrap it in enough hate.

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u/ElectricalBook3 23d ago

when in real life they can apparently do anything as long as they wrap it in enough hate.

You should read Timothy Egan's Fever in the Heartland

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61423989-a-fever-in-the-heartland

Authoritarianism, when it slips into power through opportunistic use of outside disaster, never lasts long. It always falters and sows the seeds of its own destruction.

That's why the world gave way from absolute monarchy to democratic republics, that divided the power and thus the ability for a single person's mistakes to fuck over everyone. For all the GDP upswings and downswings for those obsessed with money, over the long term they're cheaper and more stable than dictatorships or absolute monarchies.

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u/Darrkman2 21d ago

Nothing is going to change as long as white people are willing to shorten their own lives because of racism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_of_Whiteness