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[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 104 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

The OP is battling against what Faux Newz, Dipshit Donnie, and other right-wing propagandist shitrags are telling his employee, all which the employee takes as indesputable truth. If he can override that much brainwashing he can convince anyone of anything.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

"The Big Lie" is what Sanders is calling it.

[–] jabeez@lemmy.today 14 points 10 hours ago

How many "big lies" are we up to now?

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

But the guys in OP, they don't turn on daddy Trump. It can't be that they were lied to, then they'd have to do something alien to them like introspection. No, it must be...an honest mistake? Honestly have no idea how they'd justify it internally.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Because to these people, being ‘bad’ isn’t something you do, it’s something you are. You may thank certain types of Christianity for this nonsense.

So the thinking goes something like: ‘I’m a Good Person. And as a Good Person, I only vote for/support Good People, because I am Good. So the people I voted for are Good, because only a Bad Person would vote for Bad People, and I’m not Bad, I’m Good. So Trump can’t be Bad; he must have just made a mistake.’

This is also why they favor punitive jailing instead of trying to reform criminals; criminals are Bad, and so they will always do Bad Things. It’s also why they do stuff like try to get rid of abortion. If a woman got pregnant from ‘sleeping around’ then she’s a Bad Person and deserves to be punished by carrying the child to term.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

How does the saying about selling a lie go?

[–] jagermo@feddit.org 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well, a lie can be half around the world before the truth even has its boots on.

That's because the lie's boots have already been licked clean.

Three liars makes a tiger