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How much do you blame the people who voted for Trump or other fascists? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Mr_Fish@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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To be clear, I am only talking about people like the average working class Trump voter. The ones who just got caught by misinformation, and just haven't been able to find a way out. Trump and all his mates are terrible people, and should be held accountable.

The average voter is another thing. My attitude is that I got lucky, and found out that Trump and his mates are terrible, instead of getting sucked down a rabbit hole of supporting them. Knowing how fascism works, I don't know if I'd be able to reliably land on the right side if fascism happened in my home country. And if I don't believe I could reliably spot fascism, I'm not comfortable acting like those who support Trump could have.

This isn't a discussion of "just be a good person". I know plenty of amazing, caring people who believe they're doing the right thing.

This whole idea of "I can't say is reliably avoid fascism" is based on this, the school that became fascist for a week. As bad of an experiment that was from that teacher, it was an effective way of teaching how people fall for what should be obviously a bad thing.

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump has already been tougher on genocide, dipshit, you just don’t realize it because you’re a BlueMAGA fanatic that spent the last year doing everything you could to deny and downplay the genocide that Biden was overseeing.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm British, i have no skin in the game. I'm just on the outside looking in and seeing it for what it is

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well you're clearly not seeing it for it is, given you're adopting the hardcore BlueMAGA stance. The fact that you're not American just makes it even worse that you're engaging in partisan genocide denial.

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not denying any genocide. I'm on palestines side, fuck Israel. But thinking that not voting for kamala was the only way to stop it is a stupid as fuck opinion. Now we've still got genocide in gaza AND the rest of the world have up deal with the government your country has ever put into power. Which freshly will likely take a lot of precedence to deal with over dressing with Israel. So now the world has one more catastrophe to deal with. Good job.

And what the hell is this blue maga shit you're on about?

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago

If you were actually on the side of the Palestinians you'd be aware that there's a ceasefire and be happy about it. But because it makes Trump looks good just going to ignore it, because you never cared about Palestine.

BlueMAGA is people like you who have adopted all of the behaviors of MAGA, but for the Democrats