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Lady regrets voting for Trump after her terminally ill, undocumented father is detained.
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No. We said the same thing for the last 8 years, and people like you thumbed your nose at us like little children. Consequences of your actions.
tbf these people have been misled by tons of lies and propaganda by the republican party
That's fair.
But it's also fair to call them what they are. Fucking idiots.
All the knowledge in the world is at everyone's fingertips now. It's a choice to be stupid as hell.
I got a typical public education. I'm not dumb enough to vote for Republicans.
I think the point of propaganda is that it works, so they don't realize they're stupid and need to look elsewhere.
They shove it down their throats that the other sources are all lies so they think they're being smart, and it's been happening their entire lives.
So while they're idiots, I'm not sure how much of a choice it is for a lot of them. They were manufactured that way.
The point they have with the propaganda is they hate people. "Ban all muslims" followed by a cheering crowd "build a wall" followed by cheering people. "I didnt lose the election they cheated--get them!" followed by a mob of thugs assaulting cops.
Its really not that nuanced. They just hate people. That's all their is to it. If they don't have hate in their hearts they wouldn't vote for trump. He's not even good for the economy for anyone who pays attention.
But when their parents were fed propaganda all their life and then they get born and it's just passed on as if it's normal, perpetuated by the ever increasing propaganda.
There's a lot of hate out there, and some people would probably end up that way regardless, but even that is being intentionally bred through the generations. The level of hate is way beyond what it should be nowadays though if people weren't spoon fed it all the time.
hate is not passed on like genetics.
I've known people who become spiteful/hate-filled over time because they like to have a punching bag, someone underneath them if they have sorry lives. Some of them just plain ol like to hate people. This is not nuanced. Some people are just terrible, awful human beings. We don't have to cross examine their upbringing to understand this.
One of my best friends growing up around berkeley had hippy parents, he is now a racist trumper. Parents had nothing to do with it. And his half sibling is part african american. You can't reason with shit people, and theres no point in trying to. He loudly claims that white people need their own country. He can go fuck himself without nuance.
Not by genetics no, but taught by parents and the circle they're brought up in who are also hateful, and hateful news they're told is the only news to watch.
Some people are terrible regardless absolutely, but the sheer amount of it were seeing right now is being generated by bad actors.
i agree. i also think the bad actors that can turn someone hateful are more easily passing their hate through social media/youtube etc
I hope the pendulum swings back and we get a decade where people make peace. i'm not hedging my bet on it though.
You need to have some intelligence to know how dumb you really are. The real criminals are the churches who back the grift thinking it will unleash some Christian utopia instead of the feudal system we left way back in the past when we decided Kings have got to go.
I said this exact same thing a couple weeks ago when someone was whining about "working class solidarity". "Oh boo hoo they were conned and manipulated" How come I can consume the exact same media as them and see through the bullshit? I'm really supposed to feel sorry for them? We've been telling them for decades they're being lied to; they enjoy it.
Sure, and they enjoyed participating in the hateful rhetoric and the discrimination of the outgroup that entire time, made them feel superior, until they found out they were part of the outgroup themselves.
It’s interesting that they’re still unable to see the connection between minority groups. For MAGA there is no difference between trans, Muslim, immigrant. They use the racism minority groups have against each other… and that’s how we got here today.
I think that there's been more than enough time for these people to look into the man they're supporting, definitely more than enough to sift through 'fake news'.
See how that seems completely fucking unrealistic to expect from any MAGAt? Lies and propaganda work because the people absorbing it are actually too stupid to determine the truth and need someone to think for them.
They probably think they are getting the truth so they don't think they need to look any further into it.
I have seen enough that I know I don't like and I don't agree in general with JD Vance, for instance, so I'm not going out to find redeeming qualities about him. I'm also not really watching things from him or trump for that matter. But, my brother who ended up going the opposite way of me politically, said the other day that Vance is "down to earth" and will likely go for president after trump. I see clips all the time of him speaking that show me he's not down to earth, but I'm also not seeing clips of him tailored to show me that it is true.
I can imagine that if you're only being fed the positive narratives of your side and only negative things about the "other" side you're likely to think you already know what's going on. We also know that both media and the almighty algorithms (like YouTube) will send you down these rabbit holes in the interest of views. If i don't search, most of what I get about Vance from algorithm based social media are the memes with his distorted face. If that's all you see, you're probably coming away with the impression that this guy is a joke. So if you tell me he's competent and down to earth, my initial reaction is that's nonsense. Is he? Maybe. It's not what I see and I've felt no need to look for it.
I have always been a nerd on the internet, so i have always been on these kinds of sites like Lemmy, reddit, imgur, old forums, where I can talk to people from all over the world. They have their echo chambers and little bubbles but it's still a more diverse group of opinions than what you're fed on sites like Facebook. But the usage on these sites is much lower, most people are not here. They're either not using social media at all, or they're on Facebook, tiktok, whatever. They're only seeing the cropped images, edited clips, news that caters to what they want to believe. If everything's telling you one thing, including things your friends and family are sharing online, why would you question it.
I understand the reality of what you're saying.
However, and this will seem harsh, it is stupid not to question the things you're being told. It takes a stupid person to allow themselves to be convinced to vote against their basic interests for the low, low, price of getting to be racist. It doesn't matter if your entire world tells you otherwise.
I agree. I don't know if I got lucky in that i have consistently been told to question things through my life by teachers, by my parents (who don't question things anymore), by people online.
I also think it's just how people work. What is it, every dictatorship has used propaganda to convince people they want these things? People heard trump say he needed to be a dictator for a day and they were happy about it. The only difference is it's easier to do now i would think.
I do consider myself lucky in that regard, as well.
Unfortunately, yes — I agree. It has never been easier to convince people of 'the truth' than it has today. There's an argument to be made that it's never been easier to debunk bullshit as well, however Brandolini's Law is still very relevant.
I'm sorry about your brother, and your parents. My mom is the only sane one in my family left, the rest are Trumpers or centrist liberals.
If this were the first time Trump was president, then fine, but it fucking ain't.
Did someone try to mislead them? Yes. Are they idiots for believing them? Also yes. Did they turn a blind eye when it was happening to other people? Yes. Are they sad now that it affects them? Oh yes. Am I sad that they are seeing the consequences of their actions? Hell no.
Other people have been paying for their stupidity for too long. About time they do some "finding out" given how they've been all too happy to do some "fucking around"