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Well, you've got to be mental to support Trump. So this was to be expected.

From a catholic standpoint, the last 2 popes were pretty progressive tho.

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/s not necessary, the meme already implied sarcasm

It's working out OK over here. No interactions with known magas (or any conservative for that matter) that aren't obligated by work or family.

I'm about five years into that philosophy and really, yeah, I'm feeling loads better.

Indeed. I wish all the conservatives in my life could somehow have the fever break. I honestly think if some intervention was done, especially in their media diet[1], AND they got some form of therapy, whether it was also pharmaceutical or not, I seriously think at least half of them could be weaned off of conservatism.

Sadly, there is likely no way that intervention is going to be done at scale. Sometimes spouses or family do it, but I think it's quite rare. Whole lot of men have zero friends and very little family in their lives, I think and Faux and hate radio is always going to be a flick away for people that don't have real people in their lives. And the con elite know this. It's often why this stuff is pushed out there at a loss, even if it loses money for years, like Faux.

[1] I remember reading recently that even having to have moderate weekly/daily amounts of something like CNN (lol), IIRC, would tend to moderate their views.

In other words MAGA would be very upset at this if they could read.

Seriously. Next time, ask one of them that repeats "maga!" without any sense of irony what that even means. I've done this for at least one of my in-laws in Taco's first term.

I tried to ask what "great" is supposed to mean. What is Taco going to do for his policy? I also asked when it was last "great" and when did it stop being "great"? I didn't try to "debate" him, I was just asking more clarifying questions about his statements.

Seriously, they find this truly baffling, by the way. They expect either: people will get mad and react to them (thus, "liberal: owned"), or to give a thumbs-up and yes-and them with all the latest hate radio/Faux talking points, or what most people do, which is to try to change the topic or wander to another room, etc. Asking more questions about their claims is just not something that happens in most cases, I think.

About the only specifics on any kind of policy seemed to involve punching down on others. Getting women in line, showing people with degrees that Taco is actually smarter than all of them, othering any non-xtians, most especially Muslims and atheists, "closing the border" (wtf?), an obsession with trans and gays and what they are seemingly "getting away with", Blacks being put in their place because too many quotas, and so on.

When I asked how their life would be any better....it was even less coherent. I couldn't really get anything out of them. It was all about these stupid petty phantom grievances about what other people - mostly in big cities they don't even live near - were up to, and about reining them in.

hey now, I've had only positive experiences with cunts.

I honestly do think quite a bit of it is constant saturation of hate radio and Faux News, combined with loneliness and/or undiagnosed mental disorders.

People are alone in their cars quite a bit and I don't know if you've driven through certain parts of the country, but if you don't have podcasts/satellite radio in your car, there is almost nothing but country music or hate radio in some parts of it. The con elite knew what they were doing when they funded all this stuff, often at a loss.

I bet more than half of the people deep in the conservative cult could be deprogrammed, but I just don't see anything like that happening at scale. And it would be way too easy for them to slip back into old ways, since it's like junk food in a food desert - it's ever-present and easily accessible nearly everywhere, and there is virtually nothing healthy offered to counter that terrible diet, whether it's a food diet or a media diet.

magas kind of look like ai slop to begin with

It sort of does have that look, doesn't it.