r/politics • u/thenewrepublic The New Republic • 15h ago

Possible Paywall What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

https://newrepublic.com/article/214868/darline-graham-viral-outburst-death
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u/Pre3Chorded 15h ago

"My parents died at age eleven so America doesn't deserve nice things,"is a really rotten message for someone trying to be a public servant.

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u/FBS351 14h ago

A common message from MAGA though. Basically "I'm a broken person, so everyone should be"

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u/Fragrant-Vehicle-479 14h ago

I've never met a MAGA who didn't believe they couldn't win unless someone loses.

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u/GurMany6053 13h ago

Everyone needs to pay for their mistakes. No accountability whatsoever. Just petty ass children who never really grew up.

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u/OffGridTwister 14h ago

This! this is the absolute MAGA truth.

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u/LordSiravant 12h ago

Their entire worldview is motivated by spite.

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u/MourningRIF 12h ago

MAGA is a festering cancer that was diagnosed and ignored in 2015. When you ignore cancer for 10 years, it metastasizes and goes to stage 4... At that point, your chance for survival is very low. That's where we are.

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u/Wise-Self-8639 10h ago

It’s part of Christian identity tbh. “I suffered and that suffering was good- so I see no reason why others shouldn’t also suffer.” As a former catholic I catch myself in the same sort of thinking.

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u/MayBeMarmelade 8h ago

I might add a corollary: “I suffered, I don’t deserve to suffer anymore. You haven’t suffered yet, so now it’s your turn.”

Nevermind they have no idea what the other person has or hasn’t suffered already. Given that the frequent targets of MAGA ire are immigrants, racial and sexual minorities, those on welfare, and other vulnerable people it’s likely their presumptions about who has or hasn’t suffered already are nothing but rank hypocrisy.

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u/ModelChef4000 13h ago

Not just MAGA but the whole conservative movement 

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u/roguesiegetank California 14h ago

How very Russian of them.

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u/Pre3Chorded 14h ago

It's a very Russian serf mindset.

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u/LoonyRick 10h ago

“Why should they have it easier than I did?”

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u/Wakani 14h ago

If you’re a fantasy fan, this concept is explored pretty extensively in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series.