r/Ohio • u/CrispyMiner • 14h ago

Vivek's campaign is done and I'm glad

What Vivek did to Amy, using her abusive mother in a campaign ad, is horrible straight up. But it is also a good thing that he did this because it proved he would've been a horrible governor. Absolutely no morals in doing whatever it takes to win. This is who he is. He would've destroyed Ohio if he won, ruining the economy and destroying the land to fill it with data centers, and now Ohio finally has a chance to grow again.

I also genuinely can not believe he doubled down on the campaign ad. He could've salvaged his campaign if he just apologized and denounced it. Instead, he clarified that he was responsible for the ad and wouldn't apologize. Republicans genuinely will never apologize for their actions.

That being said, do not get complicit. Go vote for Amy regardless to ensure her victory

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u/gekkogeckogirl 14h ago

The cruelty is the point for MAGA. My maga family is slowly breaking away from Trump, but this isn't enough to make them vote democrat. At this point unless they're personally affected they do not care.

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u/sarcasmsosubtle 11h ago

It goes back further than MAGA. Back in 2014, my mom was murdered by her Republican boyfriend in an argument he started over her supporting Democrats. Republicans that she had thought of as friends came out to plea for leniency for her murderer andtried to tell me that it was her fault that she was murdered because she should have just submitted to him and agreed with his views. A young Republican group found me online and spent the two years between his arrest and sentencing running an online harassment campaign trying to mock me over my mom's death.

Republicans are structured entirely on the concept of tribalism with an in-group and an out-group. Their highest calling is inflicting pain on the out-group. The reliable Republican voters will see this ad and laugh about the possibility that Ramaswamy just retraumatized a member of the out-group. Knowing that the victim is now a Democrat, they would absolutely support the child rapist, the same way that they happily support a murderer. They are just evil people.

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u/Arkham8 10h ago

I’m sorry to hear that and I hope you’re doing well now.

Your point about this predating MAGA needs to be understood by more people, they’ve been building this machine since Nixon and it prints money so it’ll never stop running. We have to be cognizant that Trump and his ilk aren’t just an anomaly that will just go away.

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u/OkParsley8437 8h ago

I am so sorry. This offers a lot of insight to their thinking.

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u/cagedwisdom8 9h ago

I’m so so sorry for your loss. 

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u/Marty_Eastwood 14h ago

Your last sentence is one of their core tenets. It's not a problem until it's a problem for THEM.

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u/obsterwankenobster 10h ago

Apparently not even this is true, as we've not heard a peep about Republicans and gas/food prices

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u/DogLogForPresident 6h ago

Honestly, I'm getting to the point that I'm with them in the suffering being the point. I can't wait for my MAGA family to have to start selling off the family farms they've built, because they vote like idiots.