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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Glad to hear that you were (assuming probably still are) open to changing your point of view and mindset.

It's hard to challenge oneself to fight against conditioning, of which we're all subject to many kinds, to think rationally and freely.

You're not wrong about lack of education and propaganda creating a bubble of alternate reality for the MAGA folks. Like straight up I think they're not even living in the real world. That and the insane lack of empathy is just astounding to me. I wouldn't want anyone to be treated so poorly as the immigrants ICE have been rounding up.

It sickens me to think my fellow countrymen are capable of such cruelty on a grand scale. One wonders where their humanity has run off to.