Sunk cost fallacy

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There's a lot of interesting answers.

Hi, yes, uhm, if your mind is at "concentration camps are a possible future I envision" you are already at the point where you *know* you voted for the bad guy

Culling is the only solution.

Sadly some of these idiots still blindly follow him.

Nit some. A LOT!!!

WOW

...in most cases, tyranny was maintained by the self-interest of people that sought to profit from their own domination, rather than it being maintained through force. To reverse this process, he called for people to engage in civil disobedience and take back the power they had given to their rulers

So only when they come for her will she hate them……

What in the goddamn hell do people see in Donald Trump? Why does the fucking media like him so much? What if this should have happened before but disease got to people like Trump.

Hatred. They are so full of hate for anyone who isn't them, and he hates those same people. All they wanted was an ethnic cleanse, not cheaper eggs.

Let's be honest, your average MAGA voter would swallow it if he was told by the Party that a concentration camp actually is a kind of summer camp where they help kids with ADHD to concentrate.

I saw a meme picture of Jim Jones and Donald Trump with the caption "Only difference is Donald would charge you for the Kool aid

People have already let their children and spouses die or even killed themselves in support of this sack of pigshit. There is nothing he can do to sway their support. That's what makes it a cult.

magaheads will never admit dtrump is wrong therefore his supporters can never be wrong...

They just like to criticize instead of problem solve

I don't think many people know about your history. We did it to a cherished Canadian, David Suzuki here as well and just like in America, it isn't taught about properly.

I asked my dad the same question and he said: it's better for my portfolio.

I have a sister so deep in the cult she has no mind of her own left. Very Borg. I expressed fear for my son, married to a first generation Mexican and she seriously flipped out. Crazy ranting about Biden and then said my worry is just "deranged drama". I haven't spoken to her since.

Turning back means admitting they gave up empathy and truth for grievance and control. Roddenberry envisioned we could grow beyond this. Instead MAGA choses hate & fear and calls it patriotism. “I’d visit my daughter in the camp.” That’s not a mother's love. That’s compliance wearing a crucifix.

I think that's the real crux of the matter. They're in too deep now. They'd have to admit their actions destroyed people's lives, their communities, and the global reputation of this country. Easier to clam-up and say 'It's all lies! Fox and Trump said so!'

More proof that the right only cares about themselves. Empathy is non-existent in MAGA world, along with brains.

Wow

What would it take? I thought we were way past that What ELSE does it take?????

For some, they will take this attitude to the grave. They have dug themselves in so deep that admitting they were wrong about one thing, would collapse their entire house of cards.

This is disturbing beyond reason. These are the kind of people who gleefully sacrifice their own children to *gestures broadly* whatever.

Visit you?? Like… because you were rightfully incarcerated?

Permission to hate. It was never ever given before. Its the only thing that matters to them.

To expect sanity in insane people is insanity. It is very sad, when people show you who they are, but, even when they are relatives, believe them, and cut them out of your life. You can love them from a distance and protect your own life and keep moving to protect humanity.

Just be patient, they will get to you.

And that also means that whoever gave that reply has already rationalized away everything up to that point.

If you continue to let her in your life, that is your fault.

They don't put the neurodivergent in camps. According to history, they euthanize them.

In the US, they will completely cut the meager, ineffective supports (DoE, IDEA), then remove those students as noncompliant and disruptive. Any existing specialized support programs are vulnerable to being warped into “camps”.

It's so painfully obvious that even my autistic ass can see the forest for the trees. What's MAGA's excuse?

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In Hitler's Germany there were being taken good care of in specialized institutions. Unfortunately, they all died of heart attacks. Strange that that happened.

Looks like one needs reeducation academies.

It's not wrong to ghost your parents for being cruel. This is a cruel, delusional, MEAN-spirited, UGLY woman--she is NO "mother".

Bold of the mom to believe she actually COULD visit the daughter and kid! The disappeared don't have visitors day.

I thought this, too. I just didn't want to add to the bad.

Or at the very least, an extremely ideological, lazy, emotionally distant woman

All the more reason to run from that toxicity. My heart breaks for her grandchild...

I would rather have an ADHD kid than a sociopath for a mother.

Great article on even educated people supporting a moron!

It's a cult, cognitive dissonance is an essential component keeping the cult followers comfort levels intact while advocating heinous things like kids in cages, deporting legal citizens, etc.ask them when they started liking the asshole and why. It may lead to the epiphany that is necessary

Exactly. I blocked my aunt on facebook when I shared my heartbreak over a young man and his tiny child who drowned trying to get to safety in the US, and she said they deserved it. It’s devastating.

“Well if it affects MY social security or MY life I’ll believe hes a bad choice.” “She was just as stupid as he is” 🙄

So. You might want to consider legally cutting ties, because if medicare / medicaid is eliminated, in like 37 states you could become financially responsible for your parents if they become indigent, even if they are toxic and you have been estranged your entire adult life.

That is some twisted shit. These people are all narcissistic sociopaths.

Beliefs are a powerful thing. People willingly make others suffer, suffer themselves and even die for it. They may never abandon their beliefs. Only voting more than enough consistently matters.

To the woman that wrote that, “If it’s not one thing, it’s your Mother.” She sounds like she never liked having children and found no joy in being a parent. Best to cut ties with that toxic person.

not buying an ounce of this bullshit. there will always be a reason why trump was the better candidate.

There will always be a reason—just never a good one. History books won’t list excuses. Just consequences.

Some folks will not have a redline. They have been conditioned by their religion to follow the cult leader. At all costs.

It's a cult

This is shocking, disturbing, disgusting, make me sick to my stomach kind of behavior... I would, at that very moment, never speak to that woman again, and tell people my mother has passed.

Goodbye Mom it hasn’t been that nice knowing you!

I mean...I wouldn't be surprised if they wanted to put teachers in concentration camps eventually. Trump loves the "poorly educated" after all, and the right wing tends to hate science in general. But they've got their hands full doing that to brown people first...

My dad, even before Trump, hated teachers, to the point that he just blocked out the fact that I was one.

That's awful. Teachers have such a critical, vitally important role in society, but get far too little respect or compensation. Can't imagine how much worse it must be to be looked upon so unfavorably by your own parent for such a career, on top of everything else.

The disrespect for my education hurts even more knowing that nothing I do will ever be right from his POV. And my MAGA stepmom reprimanded me for having my student loans forgiven because of disability.

No she wouldn't visit me, because we'd be done once she said that. That's not my family. My family is the people who love and support me, and challenge me to be better when I fall short. Blood doesn't make someone family.

They won’t change their mind until they’ve been directly affected themselves, not before. As long as it’s only happening to someone else you can rationalize indefinitely.

Kinda depressing that there are people whose answer is narrower than "when they start having concentration camps".

Cognitive dissonance. Makes them double down.

The 'Kool-Aid' they drank was strong.

What will the cult members do when their cult leader dies?

MAGA cult members will continue to be faithful until his resurrection

WTAF

I’ve been wanting to know the answer to that question now for weeks. It has to be painfully obvious to them that they made a choice that is now not reflecting.

The MAGA "christians" do not follow Jesus's teachings to love everyone. They follow manipulating preachers and feel superior until it comes to something they care about. Only then do they object. Sadly so.

Families are falling apart over the magat movement, showing how truly evil they are, all because they feel they've been allowed to be such hateful people by an orange clown...

My mother doesn't care. When she complains about things that Trump does (she won't admit he's at fault....) I just remind her that this is what she voted for. Every time, she stops speaking to me for at least a week. Wait until she's paying out of pocket for 2 elderly folks who aren't healthy.......

I’d reply the next time when she comes back around “new phone who’s this?”

Simple my old friend. They lie just as often and as badly as Trump does.

They can't admit having done this to the country.

Hahahaha! Good luck keeping us caged!

They’re fascists/nazis/zionists. I’m sure there are other labels I’ve forgotten. Soon it will be “american”.

Wait until she finds out they won't let her visit her child in the concentration camp . . .

If that was my mother, it would have been our last conversation, ever.

magats will reject everything that says they are and we’re wrong it is so hard for people to admit that they have been tricked

So many people can’t feel pain unless it’s their own. They’re completely deficient in understanding, sensitivity, empathy. Their hearts are hard as rock. They will tell you, however, that they are good people.

Why haven't they? Leaving trump requires courage.

No need to ask. The answer is invariably, "when it effects me."

I don’t think your mom knows how concentration work there are no visiting hours!

That teacher and ADHD thing just... what?!?

So she’s ok with putting some people in camps, just not teachers and kids with ADHD? The hate is the goal

People underestimate the inability of people to own up to a mistake Learn how to tackle that and you’ll unlock the secret of how to make MAGAts turn on Felon Trump.

But taking away they $ they receive for that child is ok? These people are deranged.

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And then the answer will change like it has so many times already

The prison in El Salvador is Dachau. It is the brand new outsourced concentration camp prototype. Who said MAGA don't pay attention to history. They learned about plausible deniability.

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Again, they only act when it hurts themselves. They are fine hurting others.

They just haven't gotten there yet.

How completely brain washed are you to not be aware of the history here?

In other words, Republicans don't care about anything unless it affects them personally. We've known this for years. This is also why they consider those with empathy or being "woke" to be weak.

Play the long game and put her in the shittiest nursing home you can find when it's time and tell her you'll come visit.

When we wrestle back our country from these fascist pigs a lot of them will pretend they were on our side, hoping we’ll forget It’s too late I know who they are & I’m not gonna forget

Guess who is NOT getting a visit in the nursing home?

Set the bar low and you'll never be wrong. All about selfish wants.

We need a second TARP - That stands for Trump Administration Relief Program

Folks, in the article, there are people who are literally insane: not only the woman on the "cover" (Does she know what happened in concentration camps? Come visit who, her child's remains?) but there are a commenter's parents who are even WORSE! To say that those two are fascists is an EUPHEMISM!

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To stop supporting tRump would take a total MAGA frontal lobotomy - I'll chip in to Go-Fund-me. 💵

I cut off an entire branch of my family because they're MAGA. And it sucked, because there's basically nothing left of my family. But it's better to have no family than to have trash family. Our morals are just too different. As in, I have morals and they don't. 😮‍💨

I hear you. I’ve stopped associating with most of my family.

It's difficult. May we both end up with amazing found families. 🫂

I always remember that Trump said he could shoot someone in broad daylight on 5th Ave, NYC, and not only would he get away with it but his supporters would insist on his innocence. Remember they believe he’s no longer a felon bc he wasn’t sentenced.

Every day they don't stop is another day they will have to admit they allowed themselves to be used. So the ego cost of stopping just keeps getting higher. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogniti...

Because they don't have the capacity.

My list to date. Pls message me if I missed any ALTGOV pages. Follow them!

Do they allow visitors at concentration camps? Hmmmm…..

They never care about anything unless it happens to them.

They have not come for them yet.

And I thought it would be putting a Kennedy in charge of something. But then again it was RFK Jr. (the looney one).

I wonder if they will stay with him if he declares an emergency, declares martial law, “temporarily” suspends the Constitution, and “postpones” the mid-term elections? Because I’m really afraid he will do something like that. I’ll be happy to be wrong.

Estrangement from MAGA relatives is a moral imperative.

Wow, it is incredibile the level of manipulation on which these poor people are under, purely distopyan.

They're lying. They'll follow Trump over a cliff... well, Trump's not going over a cliff but they'll jump if he says so

So she will continue supporting Trump until his policies actually hurt her own family? What would Jesus do?

A labotomy. Once people are Indoctrinated they tend to stay that way. Especially when their so called news is actually Pro MAGA/GOP Propaganda We have a serious problem in the USA 😔 Joe Biden was slammed for trying to regulate the factuality of News/Info but he was on the right path .

This. Their propaganda is either QAnon-based or adjacent/inspired. They NEVER admit when Trump has done ANYTHING wrong, even when it comes to things like "The Covid vaccine is unsafe because it came out too fast/wasn't tested enough!", which is thanks to Trump and "Operation: Warp Speed".

They hang on to every word not just because it aligns with their current biases, but also because they're lead to believe this is all part of a "greater plan" and that they need only "trust the plan".

Oh it's a plan alright 😁 Just not the 1 these knuckle heads thought. This is what happens when people turn off any factual based news & live 24-7 in a world of conspiracy ,Hate & Indoctrination Remember those kids who created "Birds aren't real" Most of their parents fell in Q ,Info Wars etc

I asked 1 once, Aren't you amazed that Vaccines can now be created using mRNA Tec which eliminates the most time consuming part (Moding a live virus into a weaker strain) Do you want to go back to dial up modems ? He just regurgitated some crap from God knows where. Ugh 😩

When Qanon turned into multiple millions of people falling for about the dumbest & most obvious hate cult ever, I started to realize just how illinformed & gullible these folks were I actually got banned from YouTube for " Humiliating Others" The ignorance was both staggering & frightening.

I literally predicted Q's so-called "Operation: Shadowprez" post 2 weeks before they made it. All I did was think to myself "What's the DUMBEST possible way Q can try to spin Trump's 2020 loss to make it seem like he still won somehow?", and horrifyingly, I was right. :/

The Qanon cult really showed how truly Indoctrinated they are & it's scary. A key thing all RW propaganda media does is make these types Feel Smart 🤓 It dismisses Science knowing it's over their heads ,so they feel Justified & think they know something all us " Normies " just can't see.

“You’d come to visit, but why do you think they’d let you leave?”

Omg, that’s MAGA all the way. Even as they starve, they’ll be saying it’s Biden’s fault, or Hillary’s, or Obama’s.

...or Cambodia's rapacious bicycle exports...

“I don’t understand why my kid doesn’t come to see me anymore or return my calls!”