OP is very clearly saying *should* because that's how those areas voted, and has decided to disregard any pushback as "the stupid part of Bluesky."
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They just said that people should get the policies they vote for, you're the one pretending that means everyone who suffers as a result deserves it. And yeah, people should get what they vote for, protecting the electorate from the worst of the GOP is why they dismiss what they say as just words.
aug 29, 2025, 4:23 pm • 3 0 • view
No one but the people who voted that way deserve it, and I'd still rather they have public service than not. But we lost that fight, massive cuts did happen, and it's going to hurt rural voters more than urban. It's a bummer, but I'm not going to support cutting hospitals in my city, they can drive.
aug 29, 2025, 4:24 pm • 2 0 • view
You did the thing. You made something up, using words I didn’t say, something that directly goes against the words in the short three-post thread I wrote, then argued against the comment you made up. I don’t think another example of that was necessary, but thanks for providing one, I guess.
aug 29, 2025, 4:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Your words were "respect that voters are adults who make choices", and I asked how does that make sense when other people use hospitals in those communities than "voters who are adults." Your own words do not make a coherent statement.
aug 29, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
The voters, who are adults, have a responsibility to the other people in their communities who use hospitals. Those adult voters abandoned that responsibility, and now their communities will face the consequences of those choices. Why should my community bear the burden of their choices instead?
aug 29, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Why should we give hospital beds to someone injured while drunk driving? Why should we have summer school for kids who flunked classes? Why should alleged killers have public defenders? You help people as much as you can, even if you don't think they deserve it, because its the right thing to do.
aug 29, 2025, 4:52 pm • 0 0 • view
At a certain point, it becomes nigh on suicidal to prioritize the well-being of communities whose populations overwhelmingly want me and mine to suffer over our own. We’re well past that point.
aug 29, 2025, 5:14 pm • 3 0 • view
Now you're generalizing. Which communities? Everywhere in the US has a mix of left and right-leaning people, including urban centers.
aug 29, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, I am. What’s your fucking point? I should give a shit about regions proud to vote fascist by Assad margins? Fuck ‘em.
aug 29, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
You should give a shit because they are people just like you, with children, undocumented people, and other people who cannot make their voices heard on voting maps. Should I say “fuck ‘em” to the kids at bus stops in red states, or is that only okay when it’s indirect like you’re doing?
aug 29, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
For every one decent person helped by continuing to throw money at rural communities who resent where that money comes from, there’s another 2-4 people who would happily say “fuck ‘em” to me and my neighbors. We’re done cleaning up their shit.
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 2 0 • view
If rural communities love their children more than they love racism, they can simply start voting for Democrats. Otherwise, their revealed preferences are crystal clear.
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
I appreciate the confirmation that kids dying is okay as long as they live in the same county as a lot of stupid adults. That's not psychotic at all.
aug 29, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view