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Leopards Ate My Face

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A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans.

“Votes have consequences,” he was told, with many comments from Twitter/X users relishing the notion that another MAGA voter was suffering because of their political choice. The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.

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[–] letsgo2themall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

"I've got far left leaning friends" sure pal. That has, "I have a black friend so I can't be racist" vibes. Have the day you voted for.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 8 hours ago

The worst part of owning the world's tiniest violin is having to look for it so damn often.

Seriously, bud. It's a damn shame that you voted to hurt people and ended up getting hurt yourself. I almost think it would have been better not to elect a nazi asshole.

[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 hours ago

I know it's tempting to mock people who are leaving MAGA but actually the better thing to do is seize the opportunity to educate them and hopefully get them to never vote Republican ever again.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

The more those metaphorical leopards eat their face, the more radicalized against Trump they might become, and the more radicalized, the better.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago

It is very hard to feel pity for people who only feel pity for themselves, and never for others.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago

to everyone in America who is suffering, I feel you you, unless they were MAGA, in which case eat shit you garbage of a human being

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 31 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Are they being mocked, or are people just pointing out the reality of the situation?

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I mean, I haven't read anything specific to this case but knowing the internet and knowing how people treat others regarding "leopards eating faces"

It's almost guaranteed they were being mocked.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 8 points 16 hours ago

When you're delusional reality becomes your enemy.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago

All I can say to that small business owner is that they clearly are starting to come a loooooooooooong long way. https://redsails.org/

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 61 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

He voted for him twice and says would vote a third time. What a pathetic piece of shit.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 25 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Its not a sports team, and people like this don't understand that you don't just vote one way because its the team you cheer for. Vote for what affects your life in the most positive way.

This dumb ass got what he deserves.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I don't disagree with the sentiment, but I do disagree with your reasoning

Personally I don't vote for what affects my life in the most positive way, because that seems a little selfish although it's understandable.

I vote for what I believe affects everyone's life more positively, even if it's not necessarily a benefit to my specific situation. I might not be gay but I would vote for the candidate who supports gay marriage vs the one that might give me a $1000 check for tariff profits.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

You vote for the greater good

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

...pathetic piece of terminally stupid shit.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 17 points 18 hours ago

schadenfreude

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 37 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

He should be mocked and ridiculed until it penetrates his tiny brain that he is part of the problem and he is getting what he deserves.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Critical thinking? In this world???

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 23 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

On one hand he voted exactly for this.

On the other hand, he is a worker that was systematically exploited to be less educated about political affairs and then exploited further by having his work taken from him.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

No. He has access to all the same information we all had. He chose not to care. Ignorance is not an excuse anymore.

[–] BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

This is the right take here. I'm sure without all the propaganda far less people would support Trump.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 15 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It doesn't take much education to know what a lying, fascist sack of shit Trump is.

With cleverer, more sneaky politicians, I might pity the man who didn't know. Not with this one. All the morons who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were doing.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again. These people are both stupid and so propagandized so as to be effectively cult members, nothing will change until the propaganda sources are annihilated and their economic backers hanged, butchered, and burned to ash.

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

I'm always torn between accusing people of willful delusion, and sympathy for the difficulty of breaking out of a cult you're culturally incentivized towards. I genuinely think that if the 'Left' had the funding the 'Right' does, this wouldn't even be a contest. But one side is playing with a crazy big handicap, and we know from history exactly the kinda of culture that leads to. Discourage critical thinking, and you will find yourself with less and less critical thinkers around you.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's shitty that people relish in the suffering of another but it only takes a room temp IQ to have realized Trump was a con man in 2016. It took even less intelligence to realize Trump was unfit to lead in 2020. Voting for him post Jan 6th? You're a fucking traitor.

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[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

On the one hand, he's a fascist. On the other hand, HE'S A FASCIST.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago

Well on the one hand, he IS a fascist, but on the other hand, he's ALSO a pedophile!

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[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 45 points 1 day ago

He can get a job as a picker on another farm. Maybe one owned by a big corporation. Maybe his own former farm once it's sold. They are freeing up work conventionally done by imigrant workers, right? Hard work pays off under conservatives, right?

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Well 0 fucks given. Anyone Saying this wasn't told to them a million times doing the election are either fucking stupid and shouldn't vote, or clearly living in a fucking vacuum on Fox planet.

i had to eat notebook paper as a child, suffer beatings, and survive homelessness. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get good, i guess?

[–] unicornBro@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is there any reason to believe that he wouldn't vote for him a 3rd time?

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago

no, because he will if he has the opportunity

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

Wheelhead got exactly what he voted for. And Republicans have the answer: grab those bootstraps.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 9 points 23 hours ago

The thing with that kind of mindset is that it doesn't propagate as within a population not driven by exceptionalism. They feel so special that they can point their fingers and rest assured they are different or would be safe, because they wouldn't commit a specific attributed mistake. Until it happens to them, but couldn't possibly happen to the rest, and again and again.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago
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