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There is a saying I've been using a lot lately:
"May you get exactly what you voted for."
I love it, because It works as both a blessing and a curse. If they voted for kindness and compassion, then I'm wishing them well. If they voted for chaos and cruelty, then I hope that cruelty falls down upon them the hardest. You can tell someone this seven if you're not exactly sure how they voted. Though, if they react poorly, you probably just found out.
Or maybe they're just upset that you're using the deaths of children to be smug.
There's a lot more going on in politics than "insert vote, recieve outcome voted for". Gerrymandering, simply being stuck in an area where you are the political minority, politicians campaigning on an entriely different platform than the actions they take later while in office... I could go on, but I expect my words would be wasted.
The dead girls weren't even old enough to vote.
In b4 you start running your mouth off about how it's okay to wish death on the bad people because of what they're doing to you/the good people. Two wrongs don't make a right, and even if it did, you're aimed at the wrong targets. Get your scope zeroed in properly.
Maybe but 75,000 dead kids in Gaza killed by US weaponry, so maybe they just have the perspective that we don't really care about kids at all. After all we shoot them in classrooms all the time as well.
Irrelevant. I speak only of intent.
Then they didn't vote for anything, and thus my blessing/curse is irrelevant.
I wish for people to get exactly what they voted for. If you voted for compassion to others, I wish for compassion for you. If you voted to hurt other people, I wish for you to get every ounce of cruelty you wished upon others to be brought down upon your own head.
I wish only that people's cruelty be directed right back to them. If you feel that someone telling you "I hope you get what you voted for" is anything but a blessing, then that says some pretty damning things about you. If you voted for good intentions to others, then I am wishing good things to you. If you voted because you wanted to see people killed, then I hope your wrath falls on your head instead.
Respectfully: As I've already stated, none of this exists in a vacuum. You don't get to just declare shit irelevant. Regardless of your mental gymnastics, you are peacocking/gloating about having the right beliefs/voting policy in the aftermath of these children being dead.
Disrespectfully: Your belief that you can somehow claim any sort of moral highground here is absolutely ghoulish. I sincerely hope you never are denied compassion or help in your time of need by someone professing beliefs like yours.
The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one. And Texas has a problem of Republican politicians leading the state to disaster. Whenever a disaster strikes due to Republican policies, Republicans circle the wagons, huff and puff, and say, "how DARE you. How dare you make this moment political! Now is not the time for politics!" They commonly do this after school shootings, and now you're doing the same thing after a mass death event caused by Republican policies.
Life is political. The right has trained people to view being "non political" as a social good. This allows them to play politics more freely, while the rest of the population is obsessed with not introducing politics except in a few narrow windows. Republicans bake politics into their entire life from their social circles to their religion. Democrats are more concerned with appearing noble, haughty, and above it all. They hate dirtying their finely manicured hands with the rough business of politics.
I'm sorry, but these hundred people are dead largely due to Republican policies. The flood was exacerbated by climate change, which Republicans support. The relevant federal programs were slashed due to a Republican president, and local Republican leaders refused to invest in badly needed flood warning systems. This is not a natural disaster; it's a Republican disaster.
Natural disasters, in terms of death toll, are always more of a function of politics than nature. Japan manages to have giant earthquakes with low death tolls; their political system is functional and provides and enforces good building codes. In more corrupt nations, the same strength of earthquake will kill a hundred fold more people.
You're sanctimoniously claiming that isn't the right time for politics. But this is the exact right time for politics. If you want to make changes, the time to do it is when political pressure is greatest. Otherwise, we just end up with less-than-useless "thoughts and prayers."
But I suppose you care more about covering for conservatives than you do about actually saving lives in the future.
Excuse me? I didn't say fucking anything about keeping this from being political. I suggested some extra patience and room for nuance when judging the voting populace on the actions of their elected officials.
Beyond that, did my phrasing about getting your scope zeroed fly over your fucking head? Only clipped your ear maybe?
To make it crystal fucking clear: I told you that your take is absolutely fucking ghoulish to direct at the victims and I stand by that. Go after the fucking politicians with all you fucking have, not the people who have lost their kids.
That's it. None of this fucking essay you've imagined into my motiviations. I'm done, so feel free to crazy up some more shit I never said. Have fun with it. Go nuts.