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"We need to talk to them....try to understand what they're feeling" (Original Post) durablend Nov 2020 OP
I Can't Say I Disagree With You Me. Nov 2020 #1
I don't care what they're feeling because I know what they're thinking. Dagstead Bumwood Nov 2020 #2
Mandated Mass Psycho-Therapy stillcool Nov 2020 #3
Or this maybe... 2naSalit Nov 2020 #10
oh wow...definitely that. stillcool Nov 2020 #12
So would I! 2naSalit Nov 2020 #14
I know what they're feeling. Phoenix61 Nov 2020 #4
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. soothsayer Nov 2020 #7
When we lost in 2016 we were told we had to try to rsdsharp Nov 2020 #5
How about the reverse? Shouldn't they try to understand us? CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2020 #6
If you mean before commitment then I agree PirateRo Nov 2020 #8
Yeah right VA_Jill Nov 2020 #9
I'll gladly volunteer at a reeducation camp MyNameGoesHere Nov 2020 #11
I don't give a damn what they are feeling. smirkymonkey Nov 2020 #13
This pic always comes to mind.... spanone Nov 2020 #15
I better not. tavernier Nov 2020 #17
I know what they're feeling, and I'm fine with it. Actually, ... Brother Mythos Nov 2020 #16

Phoenix61

(16,993 posts)
4. I know what they're feeling.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:21 PM
Nov 2020

They are scared and angry. The world is changing around them. Technology is hanging the job market and brown and black people, especially brown and black women, are stepping up to fill those new jobs. There’s no way to “fix it” to make them happy.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
7. The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:26 PM
Nov 2020

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

- Antonio Gramsci

rsdsharp

(9,137 posts)
5. When we lost in 2016 we were told we had to try to
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:21 PM
Nov 2020

understand the Trump voter. When we won this year, we’re told we have to try to understand the Trump voter.

Fuck that. What’s to understand about stupid and racist? When are they going to try to understand us?

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,523 posts)
6. How about the reverse? Shouldn't they try to understand us?
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:23 PM
Nov 2020

Instead of attacking us with such names as 'libtards.'

PirateRo

(933 posts)
8. If you mean before commitment then I agree
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 06:31 PM
Nov 2020

For anything else, I do not care about Nazi feelings or thoughts. I understand everything I will ever need to know about them and learning that much was a waste of time and life. I will not invest another second of my life there.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
13. I don't give a damn what they are feeling.
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 08:13 PM
Nov 2020

They have all proven themselves to be worthless excuses of human beings and don't deserve our consideration.

Brother Mythos

(1,442 posts)
16. I know what they're feeling, and I'm fine with it. Actually, ...
Sun Nov 29, 2020, 08:20 PM
Nov 2020

they deserve much worse than simply feeling bad.

And, just because they're losers, it doesn't mean they have to be sore losers. Just losers.

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