• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The ones voting for him are listening. That’s exactly what they think they want want. The average republican voter is simply too stupid to understand the long term implications of their choices. This is the same stupid push that led to Brexit.

    They’re being controlled by the smart republicans that are using it to enrich themselves at others expense.

    While democrats do this kind of manipulation too, at least they aren’t pushing straight up authoritarianism.

    • reverendsteveii@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Came here to say this. How many times are we gonna watch one of them “accidentally” quote Hitler in a speech, or talk about the benefits of slavery, or talk about how they want to make women second-class citizens, then pretend that they didn’t? They gathered under a banner at CPAC that said ‘We are all domestic terrorists’. When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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      1 year ago

      I honestly don’t know if I buy the “Republicans are all stoopid” argument entirely; there are plenty of relatively intelligent people that have supported him.

      More than a lack of intelligence, I think it’s more a radical lack of any empathy or concern for anyone they don’t see as being on their same side. I mean, the Republican platform is essentially nothing more than “Own the Libs” at this point. It’s not so much that they don’t necessarily know the consequences of their actions; they don’t care, and would rather prioritize hurting their enemies.

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    1 year ago

    OP, your problem is that you’re thinking rationally- his devoted minions don’t. They’ve been terrified into believing that they want- no…. NEED these things that only trump can provide. He’s the heroin to their junkie. Only, junkies are smarter than your average trump worshipper.

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    1 year ago

    Stop assuming they’re stupid. They’re not stupid. They’re monsters, they know exactly what they’re doing and they’re doing it because they want people to suffer.

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      1 year ago

      “The right people” to suffer. They never wanted themselves, their neighbors, or even the poor people down the road to suffer. They want all tge bad people Fox News tells them about to suffer and the fucking democrats just refuse to make the Fox News anchors happy!

      Stupid? No. We are all much more susceptible to propaganda than we think.

  • Iwasondigg@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Because he “owns the libs” and that makes them feel good. They have zero policy ideas or concerns, their only political stance is hurt the democrats feelings.

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    1 year ago

    Reading the article makes my blood run cold and starting to think about moving to Europe, and I’m not even that marginalized. White, male, gay, mostly cis. But then, if the US withdraws from NATO won’t Russia run amok in Europe? Is this WWIII?

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      1 year ago

      There it is, the dumbest thing I’ll read all day.

      Of all the hot takes I’ve seen today, this is definitely one of them.