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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The people who support Trump after even 2018 are literally so cognitively disabled, I would genuinely submit for consideration that those people are as true to NPCs as possible. 

Your average cockroach is more capable of self reflection and complex critical thinking than your average Trump supporter.

Bacertia is a better candidate for holding its own personal, and expansive personal thoughts than a Trump supporter.

ChatGPT is more capable of hallucinating genuine human empathy and emotional intelligence than a Trump supporter.

Cosmic background radiation is more grounded to Earth than a Trump supporter.

These people are simply stupid beyond repair and shouldn't be respected as equals in any capacity.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i wonder if you are aware that you are brainwashing yourself

[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

One thing worth considering, is that on a global/historical basis it is not unheard of for whole societies (strong majority if not overwhelming majority) to descend into degeneracy, chauvinism and corruption.

In a sense, this is not something specific to the US. These things unfortunately happen.

I see where you are coming from, but I think it's dangerous to give too much benefit of the doubt and to look at things as we want them to be, not how they are.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The only people brainwashing themselves are those so fucking stupid they think people who've gleefully supported Nazism for over 10 years now don't explicitly and knowingly support autocracy and genocide.

Maybe stop coping and pretending these assholes can be redeemed in any way and aren anything but a hostile enemy that'd see you and everyone like you die, and are currently making big strides to seeing that through.

The left loses when we constantly shoot our own balls off and attempt empathy and understanding to these sadistic sociopaths who've only ever demonstrated doubling down in that direction.

So get with reality or sit down and shut the fuck up, because people like you hold all real progress back. Stop cucking yourself to Nazis.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's your favorite Obama war?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Give us a list of them so we can choose.

[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 0 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There's Libya, Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, & Somalia. Iraq and Afghanistan are carryovers from Bush, so those would be cheating.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Great choice. An African American turning one of the wealthiest nations in Africa into a failed state with open slave trade markets is quite the achievement. I, myself, and more fond of the Syrian war, where the US, the biggest military in the history of the world, literally ran out of bombs, cause it dropped so many on one nation, whose oil fields are currently controlled by America. The bombing of Yemen is also great! We successfully bombed not just weddings, but also school busses full of children, and even made Jim Carrey into a world famous artists of his drawing of the incident. And also where Obama successfully took out a family member of a known terrorist, his 16 year old American son.