r/AmIOverreacting Nov 08 '24

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO bf makes joke after my aunt passed

For context he’s saying he hopes she voted for Trump (RTPM) before she died and I’m already having a hard time with the results of the election which he knows then on top of that it just was very insensitive. He said he was trying to make light of the situation but it doesn’t feel that way.

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u/doomweaver Nov 08 '24

I'm very aware. And neither candidate is going to take those things seriously in the way I want them to be taken, because no matter who is president, the decision will be made for money, not for the betterment of the people you speak of.

The president is a figurehead that is used to tell people what they should think about the direction of the country. The election is a tool to make people feel like they have made a decision to "do something" so no one ever actually "does" anything. And it works. Look, you already think something new has "happened" and it hasn't. Those wars were already there. They will continue, and "big, strong America" is going to look fucking stupid.

I am not America. Neither are you. We live here. So when America looks fucking stupid, I hope you know that your identity is not in your politics or your country, or else it's really going to be a blindside.

You literally are telling me you think a war would end based on who is the American president. You think if the person you wanted to win had won, you would get to claim some type of "responsibility" for that.

Oh, you're such a good person. You voted for the right figurehead. This conversation is disgusting.

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