• benderbeerman@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Who, exactly, is shocked by these numbers? Even Tucker Carlson is flipping.

    You know you’ve fucked up as a republican when even Tucker won’t back you anymore. I mean, that dude is the lowest of lowlifes and even he is like yo man this is too far…

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        9 hours ago

        Have you met Americans? About 50% of the people in rural America that I grew up with are the dumbest people. Poor as crap, but keeps voting against their best interest. I’ll never understand it

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          In my experience it’s down to a horrid mix of tribalism, lack of education, and propaganda which further enflames the former two. How can folks better themselves if they can’t even fathom that their so called leaders are the ones fucking them over. This is why gas price is so notable because it increases the price of everything and propaganda doesn’t fill an empty stomach.

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            8 hours ago

            In an age where you have the breadth of the worlds knowledge at your fingertips there is absolutely no reason that anybody should be ignorant. ESPECIALLY about politics. You can learn anything you want, about anything, all you have to do is some unbiased searching.

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              The ability to parse information and disinformation is a skill like any other which requires the wisdom and humility to fully apply. A lot of folks grew up in near complete information bubbles and are incapable of even knowing that there may be a different path, there are legitimately people who think all Democrats are possessed by the literal capital D Devil, how the fuck do you even begin to unravel and parse that without just killing propagandists and preachers?

              I grew up on the edge of that environment and was lucky enough to break free from it all around 2015/2016 since Trump reminded me of those false smiling CPS workers who fucked me over repeatedly trying to put me with my rapist father. But most folks don’t have that type of automatic response to things, hell some suppress it to better fit in for sake of sanity.

              Come at it like you would a cultist be it Scientology, Mormonism, or Seventh day Advenentists. Because that’s effectively what it is since half this shit was being built up as far back as the 60s and most of these poor bastards weren’t even alive at the time.

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                I’m so sorry that you went through that. It’s awful. And yes I do understand how cultish those people are, it’s just so frustrating.

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                  The Allfather provides and my madness grants a certain clarity. Regardless it was an escape from the mindset and shackles therein, not literal escape which is admittedly a good thing. Economy is fucked in my region and getting even a shit job at the warehouses is basically impossible due to artificial agents, luckily I can call back on my grandmother and we have a certain truce on these things. I don’t talk about economic structures and my hatred for the stock market and she keeps the political bullshit down, if either breaks the truce it’s free game and we both end up pissy.

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      This seems organized, as even the conservative talking heads outside of the US are now turning on Trump. Perhaps their boss sent them a note.

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        8 hours ago

        “Hey, you know what’s a good distraction from the Epstein files? Let’s just throw the dirtiest mf under the bus when it starts becoming inevitable, the rest of the world will forget all about us having anything to do with it!!!”