• First Majestic Comet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I knew a hardcore Maga conservative once, this is very accurate to how they behaved, they really hate everyone, they just pretend to care about certain people so they can put down others.

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      My mom fell hard into Qanon in 2019, and it was crazy how she just flat-out stopped having any opinions of her own. We were never close, but we were at least able to have the occasional conversation before that, but now any attempt to talk to her immediately turns into her reciting something she saw on youtube. I can’t remember the last time she said anything to anyone that didn’t start with “So my videos said…”

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    The difference is something I call “selective collectivism”. The pulse shooting means that Muslims are a problem. One trans shooter means that we need an answer to “the trans question”. But when white conservatives commit more domestic terrorism than all other groups combined and even gather under a banner that says “we are all domestic terrorists”, neither white people nor conservatives will ever be expected to answer for a “domestic terrorism problem”. Men make up the vast majority of violent criminals, but to suggest that masculinity needs to examine itself and find a better way forward prompts immediate massive backlash. Is the latest outrage indicative of an entire class of people with deep-seated, fundamental problems or is it yet another lone wolf and absolutely not a reflection on the culture that created it? Depends. Do I personally like the villain?

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    I wouldn’t call it “thinking”. Conservatives react more than anything. They react to progress (–> hate), change (–> hate) and things they’re not familiar with (–> hate). They don’t pro-actively think per se.

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    MAGoos will spend hours lauding veterans, then spend twice as much time lauding the guy who says he ‘likes soldiers who don’t get captured.’

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    You can go further.

    So you care about your kids? Spare the rod spool the child

    So you care about yourself? Health food/healthy living is gay

    And MAGA didn’t do it to them they’ve always been like this. Trump just talks exactly like they do on Facebook. Verbatim. Theyre worshipping themselves when they worship Trump.