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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 209 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

I just can't imagine how she Justified supporting him to herself at any point. His involvement with Epstein is not new information. We've known for years and years.

[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 139 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not just that but the “grab them by the pussy” dude will bring justice to rape victims? That’s a serious moment to repose and question your judgement skills.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Old men who lust after teen girls are not looking for intelligent conversation.

[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 77 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm starting to believe the average conservative is just that stupid. They can't connect the dots on their own and they can't tell the truth from lies. If you tell them A -> B and B -> C they won't come to A -> C. You have to explicitly show them A -> C for them to see that. And that works only if there's nobody else (like Trump) telling them A can't lead to C.

I can imagine her justifying supporting Trump because Trump said he had nothing to do with the kids stuff. We've known for years but for her all it takes is Trump saying he didn't do it and in her eyes we're wrong.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"Conservative". Self identifying conservatives need lean into the question "conserve what?" harder.

Methinks many succumb to mistaking politicians mean the same as their best hopes of conserving community standards against degeneracy, rather than conserving the corrupt establishment.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"Conserving the corrupt establishment" is the only thing "conservative" has ever meant. Any claims to the contrary have only ever been lies intended to delude their marks and useful idiots.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s not quite as simple as stupidity. I think it’s poor critical thinking, plus a strong resistance to questioning their own beliefs. Combined, those things do appear to be stupidity, but there’s a difference.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Combined they appear to be stupidity because they are stupidity.

What else would stupidity be?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t exactly know, but I’ve met conservatives who are highly skilled in their own complex fields of expertise. They can’t possibly be stupid and still be good at their jobs.

I think dismissing people as “stupid” just helps build barriers. We need to understand why conservatives do what they do. Why do they consistently vote against their own interests? Why are compassion and empathy seen as weaknesses?

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

We need to understand why conservatives do what they do.

They are stupid. They don't have to be stupid about everything to be stupid about their voting choices. They vote conservative/Republican/whatever against their own interests for a wide variety of reasons from it being the one their parents voted for all the way to dumb shit like 'owning the libs' because it makes them feel like they are on a team with people as stupid as they are. If they weren't stupid they would notice the fat fucking orange turd who can't string words into a coherent sentence is the face of the party tearing down every positive thing the country does.

They are stupid in lots of different ways. Can't fix stupid. We need to motivate the unengaged voters by having the party farther to the left actually stand up and accomplish things in a way they get credit for.

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

All of the dots were connected for them. All the way from hunters laptop to trans woke Marxist grooming of kids rampant throughout our pretty independently run education systems, Biden's letting millions of criminals into the country to rape and murder our families and inflation that came from... Uhh well they just said it was Democrats fault.

When every mother father sister brother friend coworker and aquantience is getting fed lies 24 hours a day intentionally made to make you hate specific groups of people, "They're raping the dogs!" It gets to the point you don't have to believe everything is true, you just know you can't ever vote for Democrat.

People start to believe things and eat up the lies on accident. A good example is Nancy Pelosi. She has some shit policies and views, but anyone who has ever stated she was involved in insider trading has been a MAGA supporter. Every one. There have never been any evidence that she was involved in insider trading, and people have looked for near 2 decades now, but guess what, people who don't like the way our capitalistic system works, are prone to want to hate or dislike rich people, so they want to believe it's true, and they do. And they spread that misinformation far and wide helping support MAGA. Most didn't do it intentionally, but that's the end result, building support to mistrust and hate anyone left of MAGA. So when the option was MAGA or anyone left of MAGA, a good chunk of people said.. well I guess MAGA isn't that bad.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

He's admitted on television to sneaking into locker rooms at beauty pageants, and talked about his own daughter like his trophy girlfriend. How those don't trigger anything for her is astounding.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Because all his other deviancy didn't affect her until this one.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because she believes she's the exception. All conservatives believe they are the exception.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why the hell would a real survivor vote for the thing that assaulted her?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

its like a gay/trans person voting for trump.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks ago

Or an immigrant voting for Trump

Or a person married to an immigrant voting for Trump

Or a farmer voting for Trump

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Perhaps the operation was so big she didn't know :(((

She didn’t know he was involved with Epstein maybe but it’s not like it’s been a secret that Trump is a creep and a rapist

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I suppose the assault would've addled her brain enough

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Genuinely: how do you do those mental gymnastics. That’s fucking wild.

[–] TommySoda@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

The problem is that they believe what they want to believe, not what he actually says or does. It's like a game of telephone where nobody actually fact checks each other. One person sees a speech by Trump that says he's going to solve affordability by defunding stuff that he doesn't care for or doesn't benefit from. He tells his friends and coworkers that Trump is going to solve affordability but barely mentions how. Those friends are also conservative so they don't ask for more details they just say "hell yeah, about time" and then move onto the next topic without elaborating. Next those people tell their friends the same thing and if they get asked how they just say "I don't know, it's just what x was saying."

Fast forward a few months and it's election day now everyone associated with that person, some of who don't spend a lot of time on the internet so they aren't really up to date on current events, have this vague idea that Trump will solve their problems. They're too busy with their own lives and never get a good opportunity to do look things up or actually research what candidates are doing what, but they heard Trump had some good ideas and they've voted for Republicans before, so why not?

This is the reason why republicans and Trump love the poorly educated and love making life expensive. It makes people so caught up in their own bullshit and so uninformed that they make poor decisions because they either don't have the time or don't understand what's going on.

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[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.zip 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Far too many people on Lemmy genuinely not understanding the level of propaganda these people are existing in. Breathing it. Eating it. Sleeping in it.

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 weeks ago

which is even more incredibly fucked when you consider the illusory truth effect, or the effect of something seeming more truthful by the mere repeated exposure to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect)

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

They choose to be. Never been easier to find different sources of information.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Not a valid excuse antmore. We all have access to the internet and can look any of this shit up.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Facts don't counteract propaganda, at least not on their own. This is well studied.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then why haven't you fallen for the propaganda? Obviously there's more at play here. Like a willingness to question things or an unwillingness to reject things just because you don't like it.

These people are not infants.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I did fall for it. I was a vehement conservative/Republican all through high school and the first year or so of college; I bit down hard on the propaganda and bought it fully. What got me out of it was meeting people not like me and learning that they aren't as evil as the conservative media machine says they are. Once I realized that that was a lie, it was just a process of investigating the other lies. In the meantime, friends from the conservative world started to insult and even threaten me for voicing questions, while progressive folks welcomed me to hang out with them and talk about what I was learning.

That process started in about 2006 or so.By the time Trump came down the escalator, I was fully deprogrammed. At this point, I more or less identify as a democratic socialist.

My experience matched pretty well with the research: it's almost exclusively personal relationships that break people out of the bubble.

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

It's important to remember that none of us are immune to propaganda. Doesn't matter how smart we are, we can still fall for it.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So proving OP's point that you genuinely don't understand how powerful propaganda actually is and the level of it these people are drowning in.

Heavens Gate got a group of people to commit mass suicide. It's clear you have no idea how powerful propaganda can be and what it can make people do.

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[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 weeks ago

What a dumb bitch.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

An Epstein survivor that voted Trump...

I mean, talking about missing brain capacity here, this is THE example, ladies and gentlemen

Get raped and vote your rapist for president. I have no words

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

You are simplifying things. Trump is only one of hundreds of rapists that were involved with Epstein.

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[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I am genuinely baffled by how stupid people are on a daily basis. I can basically not identify with people any longer. My life is like watching a really long, boring, unbelievable horror movie that never seems to end by myself.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

I was always thinking, when watching horror movies, "how can you be so stupid, why would you do this obviously bad thing?"

Ever since trump came into power, horror movies suddenly started to make sense. People are gigantic brainless idiots who can only think about themselves

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Same.

I honestly don't understand how they fail to notice something seems inconstant with their beliefs until trump is personally stomping on their balls. Its baffling.

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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Given the propaganda going around at the time (both times, even), I imagine a lot of people are in the same boat. A lot of people got real drunk on desperately guzzling the hopium, and are now "enjoying" the hangover.

Maybe I should have leaned into the sarcastic tone harder every time I said things like "maybe they care". I didn't realise their rose tinted hopium steamed glasses would have them interpret that literally!

~ Just in case it's not too late (especially with all that "third term" noise going around), I'll re-tell this little story:

In 2004, an ex-colleague of Trump's was back in our home town, in our fave pub, telling us stories about what a joke Donald Trump is, what a played narcissist, being primed by his psychopathic handlers for a puppet presidency. ... It seemed a bit too far out there implausible in 2004, and remained seeming implausible for about a decade... :/

Moral of the story:

He's their boy.

(So, stop falling for it.)

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also, impeachment's nothing.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Shitty people can also be victimized.

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[–] LucidNightmare@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Stupid. Stupid is the reason these assholes should come last.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago

Any complaints about Trump don’t matter if you didn’t vote for him.

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