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[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 101 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Turns out that the definition of people in those two prompts didn’t change, it’s just different. In 2020 they meant people=me, now it’s people=them

They’ve know all along that they were facsist

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, only kinda. They don't actually know what the word "fascist" means.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They also don't understand what liberal means, which means individual freedom, freedom of speech, private ownership and trial by jury, and basically the opposite of marxism or communism

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 14 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Apart from private ownership how are the rest antithetical to Marxism or communism?

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[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

Of that list, marxism only opposes private property. It doesn't oppose the rest of that list, it's merely not immediately concerned with them.

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

In 2015, it was people=them during the Jade Helm Scare. Abbott was so convinced in the Russian propaganda that he sent the national guard to watch a military exercise. He was convinced that Obama had shuddered several walmarts, emptied them, and was going to use the army to imprison them in said Walmarts. The russians even came up with blueprints for the Walmart prisons.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 62 points 3 months ago (1 children)

2016: THE DEMOCRATS ARE RUNNING A SECRET CABAL OF PEDOPHILE OLIGARCH BILLIONAIRES, VOTE TRUMP TO EXPOSE THEM
😡😡😡

2026: TRUMP IS RUNNING A SECRET CABAL OF PEDOPHILE OLIGARCH BILLIONAIRES, VOTE TRUMP THIRD TERM
̄\_ (ツ)_/ ̄

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The reason they hated the idea of pedo dems is because of the implied heresy in imaginary blood drinking or whatever. The idea of them being atheists, pagans, or gay satanists or whatever. Screaming about pedos was just a marketing avenue and protective tactic because if you tried to defend people who were accused of pedophilia you ran the risk of just being pedojacketed yourself.

They're already starting to say "Epstein was based, actually" in some rightwing political spaces. Saying he understood power or masculinity or whatever.

They never actually cared about children or pedophiles. They just hate "the other". They're OK with children being married to adults in number of US states law-wise and rightwingers will defend that, as long as its "trad" or "christian" or whatever.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I mean it's like that meme when Lisa Simpsons goes "as usual, the playground has got the facts right but the point wrong entirely", because yes, there was in fact a secret cabal of billionaires doing demonic shit to children, but it wasn't Democrats, and wasn't strictly Republican either, it was capitalist oligarchs, whose allegiance is not to any party but themselves, and the fight is not against a political party but against a class of neo-nobility, meaning it is against the rich, who pay off public servants on every side. It's not about left and right, it's about the astronomically ultra-rich and poor. Kings and queens. Again.

That said, Republicans are way overrepresented in running the errands of that nobility and willfully and openly support their reign and actively seek to destroy democracy to achieve their goals, but still.

[–] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

THEY WANT TO TAKE OUR GUNS

Tromp: I wanna take the guns

OK DADDY 😍

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Tread on me, daddy! 🐍

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 19 points 3 months ago

Every accusation is a confession, right?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago

Same with masks

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conservadongs were ludicrously outraged over Ruby Ridge and Waco for fucking decades. Timothy McVeigh blew up that federal building over it and stared defiantly into the camera as the lethal injection took him at his execution. All because they thought federal agents overstepped and people died for it.

They’ll say ICE is different because illegal emigrants are breaking the law. But the day of the RR standoff, agents were there with a warrant to arrest Randy Weaver on federal charges!

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conservadongs were ludicrously outraged over Ruby Ridge and Waco for fucking decades.

Republicans did have an anti-government libertarian side in the past. But this has basically died after the post-9/11 rise of the security state.

If Waco happened again today, most republicans would side with the government, not with the cultists.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Turns out checkpoints work just as well against cars as pedestrians, you 15 minute city conspiracy theorists.

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 15 points 3 months ago

Remember, those conspiracy theories about Obama and Biden only came about because the right so desperately wants to do the same to the people they hate and fear.

The idea that the left has exactly the same genocidal impulses as them is absolutely necessary to their psychological wellbeing. They have to believe that their hatred is normal. If they accept that they are the abberations, then they are forced to confront the moral consequences of their beliefs.

It's the same reason why they deride empathy, and dismiss genuine concern for others wellbeing as "virtue signaling." It is so important to them to believe that cruelty is a foundational component of human existence, rather than a symptom of how deeply unwell they are.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

It's because Republicans and Neo-Liberals think we are as evil as they are.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Doesn't matter to them if it's not happening to them.

Trash humans gonna be trash humans.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (12 children)

It's almost like bots really have taken over the net. Combined with corporate controlled media (even websites, not just traditional media).

Maybe much of what you see if a Psyops to divide people to keep them infighting.

As the internet has become more accessible, anonymity on the internet has become less and less fun. Trolling used to be so... less destructive than it is now. Some take what they see at face value and will even spread it if it aligns with what they think but not what they'd say or do.

Lemmy isn't immune to this either. I don't know how many anti-Kamala threads I saw on Lemmy during the election trying to convince people to not vote - what a joke.

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[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 months ago

They want to be comforted that the camps will contain the people they want them to not that there are no camps.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Projection is all they are.

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