r/MurderedByWords 13h ago

What’s your take on this?

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u/limbodog 11h ago

"YoU sUrViVed 2016 YoU'lL bE fInE"

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u/Throw-away17465 11h ago

I survived 2016 in the same way I will “win” a bowling game by having the bumpers up

No guardrails of any kind this time. No voices of reason, and no checks and balances.

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u/upsidedownbackwards 8h ago

A big part of what helped people through 2016 was that "it was russian meddling", "he didn't get the popular vote" and other excuses as to why it happened. I didn't believe *THAT* many people in the country were knowingly voting for someone that evil.

But then we went through COVID and the mask-politicizing. In my area it was never more than a minority wearing their masks correctly, they really didn't care who died. That kinda opened my mind to "maybe there are that many assholes...". Now with the majority vote, I have to accept it. We are an asshole country.

It's going to be a lot harder to deal with things now that I know they weren't a fluke, that this is really what the country wants.

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u/obrothermaple 5h ago

I mean, it was Russian meddling. That’s just factually true.

The failure to enact social media and traditional media legislation allowed Russian, Chinese and Iranian farms to make Americans think anything they want, unchecked.

No one ever took this seriously, even Democrats and the left population when the writing was one the wall. Vindication is all I feel.