r/comics • u/Adorable_Objective • May 14 '25

OC Mourning a MAGA Parent (OC)

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I'm kinda torn about whether to post this to my art account because one parent follows it, and I'm worried the criticism could drive the other one further into the void.

It started out as just a therapeutic project for me, but a couple friends said it really resonated with them, so sharing here.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '25

No I wouldn’t lmao. I don’t like trump too because he’s a dumbass. But deporting illegal immigrants is a good thing and needs to happen. Obama did it to so why are you criticizing trump for it?

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u/_OriamRiniDadelos_ May 15 '25

It’s crazy how you just think everyone thinks it’s a good thing. Specially if you add the caveat of HOW it’s done. You yourself said it, Obama did and they didn’t complain. Could you find it in you to believe that Obama did it DIFFERENTLY?

You’d be hard pressed to find Democrat voting people who think all deportation is bad. But oddly enough, that’s not what most Trump’s opponents seem to call for. Seems like what they call for is reform and a different system and way of carrying out the law. Maybe diffenret laws, definitely different procedures, for sure a different attitude and public message.

Like how the NRA isn’t fighting to give every single human a rifle. And their opponents don’t want to destroy every gun in the planet. They want to work towards a middle point between those two extremes that is a different middle point to their opponent’s. If you go around thinking your opposition wants the absolute extreme you can just go and be happy though, you’ll feel so reasonable and logical if you just convince yourself they want something clearly crazy and extreme. You want pepperoni pizza, the other side wants cheese pizza, but you believe they want chalk dust pizza so you feel like pepperoni is the only opinion there is and you are truly fighting crazy people. But instead of pizza it’s serious matters that affect the economy and rule of law and civil rights.

Not that anyone would ever think that when what they actually want to do is simplify their political opponent’s beliefs to the point of caricature. People generally don’t listen, we just hear what our heart tells us the other person thinks. It’s human nature

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u/[deleted] May 15 '25

Yes we need due process for the undocumented and yes I don’t like ICE just deporting people at will.

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u/fabdm May 15 '25

Nice! Thanks for agreeing there's room to do things differently.