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Gay 'lifelong Democrat' who voted Trump opens up on what's happened to him since coming out as pro MAGA
(www.dailymail.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2024
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Oh there's plenty of hate on both sides, but in my experience, the hate I get from the Left is much more personal. The right just thinks everyone is an idiot. The left gets up and personal when they insult tho. Not cool.
I've had people on Lemmy who've followed me to other instances and other conversations just to downvote me, all because I didn't vote for Harris. The Right doesn't seem to put in that much effort it. lol
Just my personal experience, and of the guy in this news article, so YMMV.
Hopefully, now that the election is over, the venom and rhetoric can quiet down a little and people can start working together and not be so judgemental.
Both sides need to work on that, in my opinion.
The insults I get from right wingers tend to be things like “fuck you libtard pussy” while the worst from leftists is something like “I guess you love genocide”.
And maybe this is where we disagree, but I think the "fuck you libtard pussy" insult is way less severe than the "I guess you love genocide."
The fuck you comment is just dismissive and they move on.
But the genocide mark is implying that you love something you don't, and they are trying to trap you, guilt you, mock you, and make you feel like shit about your life and your choices.
Right insulters just want to ignore you and want you to go away.
Left insulters definitely don't like to move on. They want you to fucking hate yourself. That's the difference I see.
For the record, tho, I didn't bow down to either side's insults. I was proud to vote Socialist party before election day (early mail-in!), and still proud after the election. :)
And I STILL get DM's that say I am working for Russia and getting paid in rubles and that I want to destroy America. Even tho the election is over. Just because I voted third party. (Hi, poopernickel, I'm still not in russia, still not gonna vote for your party, and I'm still around!)
Conservatives have also in my experience been way more likely to say mildly veiled death threats, if that means anything to you.
At least the “guess you love genocide” is an attempt to persuade you about a political topic. It has absolutely nothing to do with “want you to hate yourself”. The “libtard” shit is precisely the topic here - just plain hate.
Not sure if you're aware that the scumbag you're attempting to converse with has been widely banned for being a sealion and troll. This is just one of their many alts. They spend most of their life just trying to piss people off. I think they get sexually aroused when they think they've pissed another person off.
Just a bizarre human, whose mission is to waste everyone's time and upset them. Literally never seen them interact any other way.
Definitely a concern trolling and “just asking questions” vibe.
How was I concern trolling or giving a just asking questions vibe? I posted an article, you responded and I responded. lol
Because you act like you don’t understand reasonable perspectives.
I do understand reasonable perspectives. I don't agree with yours though. And that's ok. We don't have to agree. You have your opinion, I have mine. It's over, man.
Disagreeing and understand aren’t the same things, though they can be related.
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You're not going to change my mind. I appreciate and respect that you have your opinions. I just don't share them. All good, friend!
There seems to be a lot of projection in your statement.
Wow, you are still really really mad I voted third party, huh? Sorry, comrade, I'll continue to vote Socialist just like I did last election. No matter how mad it makes you.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that.
I don’t have to agree to anything, but okay. You could come up with some reasons why you feel that death threats, slurs and insults are less hateful.
It’s also notable that the “fuck you libtard” type of response is far more common than the “you love genocide”. A small handful of leftists act like that. Much more common is moderate left/US liberal people who politely engage in conversation. You can see that all over Lemmy and Reddit. Meanwhile, try going to Reddit’s /r conservative and criticize Trump, or even just repeat things he’s said that make him look bad. You’ll get insulted and banned quickly.
US liberals look down on certain groups for features they could change - being sexist, ignorant, violent, you know, typical hardcore Trump supporters. Hardcore Trump supporters look down on people for things they can’t change - being non-white, poor, or a woman.
I mean, just read the posts on /r/conservative or /r/conspiracy. Check out the racism and hatred of women, the poor and immigrants among those communities. Saying US liberals are hateful compared to MAGA people is perhaps one of the most absurd things anyone has ever told me.
Which was happening on Lemmy pre-election. A lot.
But you're right, you don't have to agree with me on anything. And I don't have to agree with you on anything. I have received more hate from liberals on Lemmy than I have from conservatives. And they were more hateful.
My personal experience. And that doesn't match your personal experience.
You know about banning. Probably lost count of how many accounts you get banned from for being a sealion and troll 🥰
And how "many accounts" have I been banned? I was banned on one account, universal monk (Socialist Mormon Satanist), on .world. What are these other accounts you speak of?
Here's the mod log of my banning, for everyone to see. I stand by everything I did and said: https://lemmy.world/modlog/1252?page=1&userId=9454261
And the news articles I posted, and got banned for, that you all thought was "fake propaganda" ended up being true. And they were from legit news sources.
You do realise that Trump lost electoral and popular vote, right?! Guess it wasn't so fake after all, huh?
Yep, all because I didn't support Harris, I voted Socialist, and I posted ACCURATE news articles about how the polls were showing Trump gaining on Harris, before she DID get decimated in the election. She lost both the popular and electoral votes!
Hmmm, funny how that works, isn't it?
And yet here I am, in spite of your little creepy program that you wrote and offered to people so they could stalk and downvote every comment I make.
How are ya, friend? I don't see you over in c/politcs much anymore. What happened? Oh! It's became a toxic hellhole because you all are so mad that you lost.
Here's the latest modlog to there: https://lemmy.world/c/politics
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