A couple things stand out to be from that response:

1. the original post doesn’t mention Republicans at all. It’s like someone making a post against dictatorships and getting an essay and how “these anti-Trump posts are unhelpful.”
   If something so cartoonishly stupid or evil is so clearly about a given group or person, that’s an issue.

2. the reply literally says “they don’t want leopards eating faces, they just refuse to listen to people trying to stop leopards from eating faces” which for all practical purposes is the same thing. “We literally tried to stop this exact thing from happening that is now happening to you, and you refused to listen and made fun of us” is a fair criticism to make.

3. “they believe bad things will happen anyway” except the bad things that are currently happening were not happening before, and they were predicted to happen by the people trying to stop this that weren’t listed to. Citizens who haven’t been charged with crimes weren’t being deported before Trump took office. People said Trump would be a dictator and where dismissed as “fear mongers” by the people who thought "bad things happen anyway, don’t fight it’, and through their actions actively helped bad things happen. Which brings us to:

4. what are they suggesting people do? Pussy foot around the most aggressively rude and ignorant people who not only refused to listen but actively insulted those who tried to warn them this would happen? You think these people are going to listen if you keep turning enough cheeks? Man who’s wife was deported doesn’t regret voting for Trump

You try to meet someone supporting a fascist regime half way and they start stepping backwards. These are the people that when “first they came for the socialists” they cheered and celebrated. Next when they come for them I’m going to speak out, but I’m also going to tell them “this is the exact thing people were trying to warn you about!”

They do, but he’s their dictator. As long as they believe he will do the things they want they’re okay with it.

“It seems like something is being left out”

“I don’t know the whole story, I won’t read it for myself, and I won’t listen to other people about what it is.”

“Why am I being downvoted?”

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If my tool sucks, I will tell it so

So thanking your tools: dangerous on a humanity level scale

Telling your tool it sucks: Normal behaviour

I open my door, the warning goes off, and I say “thank you car.” It’s better for me mental well being than saying “oh fuck.”

And you FEEEEEEEEL like it doesn’t matter. What’s the difference?

I thank my car when it alerts me that I left the lights on or my keys in the ignition. I’m not anthropomorphizing my car, I’m practicing appreciation for the benefits my tools provide.

How’s it feel to live in the cyberpunk prequel?

Those who study history are doomed to watch as everyone else repeats it.

Oh no, Trump is polling poorly? Surely if he wants to be elected again he will change course…

“we’re pleased to announce that we have created the corporations from ‘Please Don’t Create These Netrunner Corporations’.”

Of course. He didn’t even say he’s cancelling the tariffs, this is a “pause”, so other countries are still going to continue with their plans to make alternative trade agreements outside of the US.

He found a suitable outgroup to vilify. Fascism 101.

These Countries have not retaliated in any way

They very much have. China has just become a convenient “out group” for Trump to demonize.

I’m talking about right now. The present. Millions of people actively protesting in the present is not good enough for you.

Yup, the election was a huge fuck up. It’s already happened and over with. What would you prefer people doright now? Bitch on Lemmy that people fucked up in the past instead of actually doing something?

Okay, do you have a time machine that will let them go vote?

“proper action wasn’t taken in the past therfore I won’t accept any action being taken in the future.”

they want to think this will be easy and won’t require real sacrifice. they’re lazy and naive.

That’s not at all what the responses (that have been up for hours before you posted this) have been saying.

how about i do WTF i want? you’re not the judge of what works and what doesn’t.

Says the person judging what other people do, and what works and what doesn’t.

Millions of people protesting isn’t good enough for you?