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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Doubters gonna doubt, but I honestly do believe the time is coming where it will be hard to find any American who admits to having ever voted for Trump.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's gonna be like how everybody says they hate Nickleback now.

They sold 50 million albums to somebody.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

It was me, I spent generational wealth on buying as much merch and albums and concert tickets as I could from Nickelback. Nickelback is awesome!

~~dont worry guys, I'll take the hit on this one~~

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

I thought that was gonna happen after Jan 6. But…. Here we are.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Meanwhile if you drive down I-40 in Tennessee you'll see billboard for the Trump Superstore

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago

As an American, I can confidently say that despite the deep breath and eyeroll I just had, I, in fact, do not want to know what that is.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 82 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

That might just work if any of them could read or decide how to feel on their own

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 31 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

with any luck they'll confuse it with a McDonald's commercial and follow instructions blindly

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 9 hours ago

Mcfuckin' had it

I think it'll be the opposite, they will start reading the sign see the McDonalds and then suddenly their eating fries and nuggs waiting for Fox to tell them how to think about the world.

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago

Maybe it'll make them accidentally stop eating McDonald's.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That's right, idiots, stay in your cult. Once you get duped you become branded for life as a stupid cultist, so you may as well stay and fester in the only culture that will ever accept you. Get comfortable licking that boot, because you need community to live and we will never allow you to join ours, so don't even think about it as an option.

...sarcasm, obviously. I hope.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 7 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

With how badly they've all abused all existing social contracts, I can see how some might arrive at the conclusion of refusing to enter into any more with them.

I too understand it. I have spent a big part of my life feeling the same way, after I spent the first big part of my life being immersed in the cult and parroting a lot of the same abusive, authoritarian ideas.

After I got over the collectivized hatred, which included no small amount of self-hatred, I started to get more specific and practical about dismantling the systems that ensnare people in the house of mirrors of learned hatred and distrust. One of the specific practices I find helpful is finding cogs that want to come loose, and helping them come out completely. Other helpful people did that for me, and I try to pay it forward. I think this group is doing something similar.

I also think that grouping everyone who's ever been a part of MAGA into the same "categorically irredeemable" group is inaccurate and counterproductive, and it forces people who want to leave to stay in, because they don't see where else they can go. Cults are fragile, and public ones, like MAGA, cultivate that outside pressure by being heinous on purpose, and on behalf of the group, because it creates a societal debt that its victims feel they can never repay. Once someone becomes convinced that it's too socially expensive to "come clean", so to speak, they are trapped. The only way to get them out is to show them that they have somewhere, anywhere, else to go.

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[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 47 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I'm just happy to see Americans using the correct "you're" at this point.

[–] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 16 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

There finally figuring it out…….. 😜

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

Jesus crust.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago (5 children)
[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 hours ago

It's actually their're.

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[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Their they're now...don't be hasty.

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 1 points 7 hours ago

It’s not their they’re, it’s my they’re

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Shouldn't the Americanized version of "you're" be spelled "yo'r"?

Hmm... Curious. 🤔

Edit: Didn't think I needed to state that this was a joke. I was simultaneously playing on the Colour → Color and Centre → Center. It wasn't that deep...

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Ya'll depending on the state.

EDIT: Thank you all for the grammar lessons. Seriously. I actually do enjoy learning about stuff like this!

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

The word "Y'all'd'nt've" ("You all should not have") is used where I live with no sense of irony. Your friends do you a favor, and it's a natural reaction.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 hours ago

Or y'alls, which could mean either your or you're depending.

"Y'alls dog got out again," or

"Y'alls really tryin mah patience"

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Y'all is "you all", the contraction occurs directly after the y.

The translation for this sign would be "y'all ain't lonesome".

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

Well that was uncalled for, sugar.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I’m surprised at how unriddled with bullet holes that sign is.

I passed some farmer's big "Trump 2024" sign once - it looked like it had been hit with a couple dozen small red... somethings. I kinda wished it had been from a paintball gun with enough to drip down & look like blood.

[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

That does seem like a very effective ad.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That's where, I love leopardsatemyface and I'll always laugh, but I will genuinely be happy as people leave the culture and mind fog. Its acceptance and openness which will win people back, not demeaning them.

Do they deserve it? Absolutely, but I keep that at a meta level online. Individually I believe we have to be the bigger person and open our arms

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 13 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I have a VERY hard time with this these people literally want me (a lesbian) to not exist. They have wished me dead so often that honestly I don't have any empathy for them. Funny how so many of us are exposed to the same propaganda they are but don't get sucked into the bullshit.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 11 hours ago

That's why if they're coming out of the fog we show welcoming, but I also agree there are hard lines. It means you're giving up that hatred.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

…For McDonalds.

I kid, but hopefully it helps some lost souls.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

clicks on link

It's goats.ex

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] JTode@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

I ain't writing them off just yet.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 8 points 16 hours ago
[–] obvs@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

Bout damn time.

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