These two sentences paired together is so fantastically american.

I'm British, but sadly we're heading the same way.

Just to be clear I think what you said is extremely shortsighted and self-defeating.

That does sound very British at this point, tbh...

> If they believed Trump, they deserve everything they get.

Is it a matter of "belief," or could it possibly be an optimal strategy to secure potentially two more Supreme Court nominations?

I wonder, is this what you’d say if “they” believed the Nigerian prince email? Everyone believes something outside of their expertise, everyone is riding the tide to some extent.

If many around me warn me about the Nigerian prince scam and I fall for it, then I think I deserve some of the pain. Sure, I'm still a victim, but personally I'd be questioning my intelligence and would try to see where I had failed so it doesn't happen again.

What if half the people you know falls for it and tells you you’re missing out?

It’s tough when everyone around you thinks you’re missing out. I found using MailsAI helped me focus on my own path without getting distracted by others. Made things a lot clearer for me.

It's funny that you ask that because around 10 years ago, there was this investment stuff going around in my community. No one warned me about the dangers and those who tried to convince me to join only said good things about it, but I looked at it and it looked weird. It was a pyramid scheme. So I didn't join, didn't lose any money or lose any friendships over it.

If I come here and tell you that I'm going to reduce expenses and debt while reducing taxes and also investing massive amounts of money to improve the military, healthcare, etc, something should go off in your head because it doesn't add up.

Voting for someone promising unrealistic things is no different from going into a dark alley in what you know is a rough neighborhood. A victim is still a victim, but grown ups must own up to their actions... and there's no other way of saying this: what you did was fucking dumb. It's even dumber if you do the same dumb thing twice.

Sure, kudos to you. Half the people are dumber than the other half, and thats accross the party lines. I still sympathize with all those people, even if they got outsmarted.

Its already that way with way more than half. I still find it hard to believe in the imaginary even though greater than 90% of people do.

Trump should have been a much simpler problem. Those who want to be stupid badly can't be helped.

Voting away democracy in order to install a theocracy - we laugh at Turkey in how they can either have democracy or they can have freedom, but not both. It seems America has gone the same way.

Yeah, but then they doubly deserve what they get, assuming happy scenario where they get consequences and not innocent people. Voting for Trump because you want to entrench even more corrupt and ideologically driven supreme court is not exactly an excuse.

Unfortunately, consequences wont go only to people who voted for Trump, they will harm quite a lot of innocent people.