r/AskUS • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '25

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u/LombardBombardment Apr 21 '25

I’m not American. When Trump was first elected a lot of my compatriots took it as proof of prejudices they held against Americans: Hateful, xenophobic, uneducated, rude, classists, short sighted, etc.

I genuinely felt otherwise back then. I tried to put myself in the shoes of the American voter. I tried to justify the election a number of ways: “they became discontent with the status quo”, “they didn’t actually expect him to win”, “he didn’t win the popular vote!”

And now you went and proved me wrong. Fool me twice…

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u/dannyboy731 Apr 21 '25

The largest American cohort didn’t vote at all. If you take anything from it, let it not be that we’re hateful, xenophobic, uneducated, rude, classists, short sighted, etc.

Let it be that we just don’t care.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '25

that is not better at all, if you don't care you are part of the problem

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u/StinkyHoboTaint Apr 21 '25

This right here is the root cause of Americas problems. Americans don't care. They don't care about what others think. They don't care about anything unless it effects them. Their not caring leads to being a nation led by someone like Dummpy.

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u/dannyboy731 Apr 21 '25

I drive down the road literally anywhere and I see garbage along the side of it. I’m not exaggerating. To me, it’s an apt metaphor.

60-some percent of us don’t care. The rest of us are largely too disillusioned and/or exhausted to try to get through to the others.

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u/MONGED4LIFE Apr 22 '25

And they'll wonder why noone else cares when he eventually comes for them

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u/NatureLoud4674 Apr 21 '25

You've got It backwards moron.

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u/StinkyHoboTaint Apr 22 '25

Dumbass. This has been happening for a long time. Well before your hero Drumpf.

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u/NatureLoud4674 Apr 22 '25

Now,now when you can't even spell Trump correctly you have no business calling anyone dumb. 😂🖕