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I get the hate, but I just can't bring myself to be happy about someone losing their home.
If this were a normal, fairly subjective disagreement, I'd feel the same way.
If this were a medium level disagreement and they were objectively wrong, I'd also feel the same way.
Supporting Trump is stunningly, objectively wrong, and in doing so they're basically doing the opposite of this. They're supporting lots of people losing a lot more than their homes.
I fully support being happy about it.
The sad part about it is that they're probably blaming the democrats or the illegal immigrants or Zelensky or some other ridiculous bullshit, instead of facing reality...
This person was happy to screw other people over and voted for it. The fact that they're reaping the results of the hate they sewed makes me happy and I don't feel the least bit bad about it.
In every rational situation, I would fully agree. But this man elected someone who told them, to their face, that they would be downsizing the government. The WORKED for the government. I want to call it stupidity, but it was maliciousness that backfired, so yeah. Fuck em.
I think the only reason people ever say things like this make them 'happy' is in the absence of a more accurate label.
In a country devoid of legal justice, we've basically just been confronted by a thug who, while attempting to mug us at gunpoint, shot his own dick off when he was attempting to pull the firearm from his pants.
So for the victim, there's a degree of relief that the threat from that specific thug is now over (unfortunately we're being simultaneously mugged by thousands of other identical thugs...), a complete lack of empathy for the thug from the victim (if you put my life in danger, I suddenly don't give a single fuck about the quality or preservation of yours); and a recognition of the comical irony of the thug's own weapon being the thing that disabled him.
Against the contrast we've grown accustomed to of getting mugged and watching our assailants face zero consequences, the above stands out as uniquely positive, albeit morbid.
Another angle: if you've persisted on dirty, sewage contaminated water your entire life; then get the opportunity to drink a glass of pure, clean water, you might call it sweet even if it isn't literally so; it just seems that way relative to the vile biohazard you're used to.
So, happiness? No. The closest we'll be able to get to happiness? Yeah, probably.
Schadenfreude? Commonly translated to English as "joy at seeing other's misfortune." I hope in most cases it is more associated with seeing someone in the wrong receiving their comeuppance. The joy of watching your enemy suffer a setback or even defeat.
Kinda, but again I think 'joy' doesn't really hit the mark. We're all trapped in the same gas chamber; there are some trapped with us that we'll take the opportunity to tell "We told you so..." and when they complain that it hurts to breathe, we tend not to give a shit about their suffering cuz they literally asked for it.
It stands out as a silver lining, but only because the situation we're in is so shitty that it's the least negative part of what's happening.
Oh I sure as fuck can.
Then you do you boo boo
I'm simply happy that they're seeing what they wanted for other people. They voted for the man who openly said he would make life harder and kick people out of their homes, and they gleefully enjoyed it thinking it was only people they disliked.
I'm all for people learning lessons the hard way when they refused to see reason. Especially when the reason was to be kind and empathetic in the first place.
I get that we want to gloat. Because we were right. But what happens with this person? Does he see how wrong he was? Does he attempt to change his ways, and influence others who thought the same? Does this bring about any kind of positive change? Or does he just go live in his pickup truck with a camper shell and blame Obama and Biden because he’s poor now?
Think you're in the wrong community man. We're here to revel in the schadenfreude no holds barred.
He's not losing his home, it's the bank's home, being passed along to a new owner. He literally voted for what's happening right now, you reap what you sow.