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Legitimate question- do you know any IRL? I am convinced that these people will stand by Trump no matter what. I live in a Trump heavy district and everyone is talking about how hard this is but how it's all actually a genius negotiating tactic. They truly cannot believe that Trump isn't their Savior.
I know a guy who did a 180 in the first month. Of course he never likes to remember that he was spreading conspiracy theories about Harris, or calling Trump "the devil [he knew]." He just knows he's watching his crypto gains vanish into thin air.
i agree, if people are bought into the propaganda, they wont be deprogrammed as easily. the only people i saw that broke out of being a republican, was older people, especially the way they were treated by younger magas.
I mean, kinda. Guys I heard talking sounded the most concerned I've ever heard them. Normally when talking about trump they're self assured, certain. Today, they were basically talking like they were reassuring themselves. Which is quite interesting. But still in the cult.
I still have family in the rural Midwest and the cope is real. There's a handful of people back home that will admit Trump sucks and of the farmers that my family knows, only one regrets their vote, the rest are smoking the copium hard.
they actually believed he only says things to get himself elected thats about it, or he would walk back the promises designed to hurt them. oh and conservatives are always addicted to drama/ propaganda, hence why they fall for scams very easily.
Nope, they're still full-on MAGATizing out there. If they realize anything yet, it's only subconsciously and they'll never admit it, even to themselves.
Narcissists will never admit they're wrong, or apologize.
"My team no matter what!"
Who cares?
The media is pushing this narrative about "Trump voters" so that liberals will go "FAFO" and jerk off about leopards. The fact remains that most of the people hurt by these policies didn't vote for them.
I loathe voting for neoliberals. I'm fully aware it's harm reduction and this ship has been sinking under Neoliberals and Fascists since Reagan converted his former opposition to the corpo take into today. I haven't had a candidate to vote for in a general election in my entire life. I'm 40. Yes Ive volunteered in primaries for a better path.
But I did eat the rancid shit and vote neoliberal every time, because affirmation ribbons you can't eat or live inside are still better than scapegoats. I hated voting for Kerry, Obama, Clinton, Biden, and Harris, but I took my medicine and did it with a funeral dirge in my heart telling myself it's better that less people get hurt than more. The ship has been sinking my entire voting life regardless of party, but it's been crystal clear it sinks faster under fascists than neoliberals. Something something to that starfish it mattered.
The people that could vote for Harris but didn't can get fucked right along with the Trump voters as far as I'm concerned. My empathy is reserved for people too young to vote and people who voted against this.
Willful ignorance about your own society and governance is no excuse. "Teehee I'm not political I'm keeping up with the Kardashians/stupid sports GAMES" means you didnt care about anyone else, feel free to diaf.
Right there with you, I chose the lesser of two evils in my mind, simply because there were no options to pick from. I did vote Sanders simply because it was a refreshing and mature take on the things that mattered in my mind to society, not the Red vs. Blue rhetoric, finger point, gas lighting debauchery that picked up since Trump joined in with politics. Democrats are largely playing by the book while Republicans are burning it, the we need to have a third party that douses the party formerly comprised of Conservatives in gasoline and watch them burn while simultaneously archiving the democratic senior leadership. AOC is a breath of fresh air and someone that at least has some empathy and life experience to the average American, not these silver spoon fed premadonna's that play at leaders. These people spend millions to keep their cushy gigs, while single mothers skip meals just to feed their kids. Disgusting in my mind and I am only a few years younger than yourself, enough is enough already, but it would have to be a radical hard fought battle at this point to pull a third party out of the rubble that is the politics of this country at this point. All this talk of owning the woke, well guess what, it seems more are waking up to your bullshit and you are fire selling the country cause you see the end of the tunnel and its not light.
I've been a Repub since forever, abstained until I realized I was being an asshat and finally voted Harris for the same reasons. Hell, at the end of the day, do I vote for an economics major/ Attorney who supports the judiciary or a literal Nero who wants to make bank while the world burns?
Can we just go back to politically arguing about a balanced budget? Why does that now seem like an insane position?? I'd like to get off this ride now, plz.
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They didn't vote against them either.
Noncitizens can't vote. A lot of people who voted for Harris are being harmed.
I hate to be the one to tell you that the world is not just. The idea that people who suffer must deserve it is a cop out.
Not all of them. Just got off the phone with my dad where he was celebrating the successful effort to curb waste fraud and abuse. apparently this was all bidens fault and thank god we have trump to guide us through to prosperity. now, I just need to put my paycheck into crypto and I’ll be one of the new lords of this coming age..
thank god, was beginning to worry after checking on my 401k…
Sorry your dad is an idiot.
The Boomers became Republicans when the GOP pretended to be sane, namely Eisenhower. That's what their parents did, and that's what they do. They also grew up in an area that produced males with John Wayne Syndrome: real men never admit fault, never apologize, fight at the drop of a hat like overgrown 15 year old boys, and never show any emotion except for anger and contempt. Empathy is for pinko commies, and women.
The thing is they've been brainwashed by Fox, Right Wing AM radio, Right Wing news rags. Who know exactly how to pander to, and enrage these people. It's intentional. It's why those propaganda organs exist: to enrage old white people.
It's not an excuse, but that's what's happened.
The only way to get through to these people is to fuck with their money, and their embarrassing gay, or interfacial lovin' kids. And even then they'll find a way to blame it on "The Libruls."
says you, but he’ll beat that cancer with the ivermectin, I’m sure of it…
See, this is what saddens, and enrages me. Ivermectin does not work.
They should be using WD-40 and duct tape. Any fool knows that!
Sorry he's dying too.
It’s all wrapped up with a beautiful bow, the biggest, best bow ever, people are saying that, a bow like you’ve never seen before, everyone knows there is no better bow in terms of wrapping.
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This is a great article, more than just bait for "You voted for leopards eating faces and now you're surprised that a leopard ate your face" comments.
There's a great opportunity for Dems here, if they are willing to take it. Point out to the conservative little people that Trump's friends are the rich and powerful and the little conservatives will get nothing and like it. Highlight that Trump is hurting farmers so he and his rich buddies can get a tax cut. Remind them that the GQP doesn't care about people. It only exists to get stupid rich off of everyone's labour.
There's a great opportunity for Dems here, if they are willing to take it.
Probably not. Every time the leadership is presented with an opportunity, they choose to do the exact wrong thing.
"Hmm, rise to the moment and present a real alternative? Why, when we can just run a shitty uninspiring candidate and just say 'vote for them or Donald Trump kills everyone?'"
Indeed. Hence my 'if they are willing to take it' bit. They most likely aren't.
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I wouldn't hold my breath if I was you. The current DNC is too afraid that they'll scare off the rich donors if they attack Republicans. They're worried about collateral damage if they take pot shots and accidentally hit one of the rich donors.
Both the GOP and the DNC want to focus on culture war bullshit rather than anything class related because neither wants to do anything that would run counter to the interests of the ultra wealthy.
A lot of those donors are also the ones losing as well. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing. Might as well try.
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You can't convince ANY Trumper or Independent. I spoke with my ex-husband again about all this last week. He's very wealthy, hates Trump, but hates all democrats too. So he threw his vote away to the 3rd party will be buying more TSLA during the dip. And here is why I'll never talk about politics with him again; he thinks it's a GREAT IDEA that Muskrat is taking a sledgehammer to the government. Doesn't matter that Musk is an unelected foreigner doing major damage to our country. "It's what's needed." Ex-husband said.
I always believed he was smarter than that, but nope. He's got enough money to ride this out and retire at 55.
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Because they are fucking ignorant of how the world works.
Most people are. You vote based on your vulgar popular impulses, not based on some PhD level insight into market mechanics.
It is very easy to get people to go against their own best interests with a sufficient degree of propaganda. And the volume of propaganda has been tilted towards fascism for (conservatively speaking) a decade.
Wall to Wall "Immigrants from gangs affiliated with the CCP are doing a 9/11 every day to your jobs and your white women" coverage for most of a generation is going to shape public perception regardless of how High IQ the audience.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Thank you.
Rural people, by and large, aren't stupider people -they just have different experiences with education than urban voters. These are human problems, organizational problems.
It is true that when the People to Square Mile ratio tilts a certain way you're less likely to encounter opposing viewpoints, which favors conservativism. But these are generalities, nothing more.
I'm sick of seeing rural America get thrown under the bus by so many publications. A truly democratic America would see the breadbasket for what it is - the bell curve.
But these GODDAMN FASCISTS have gotten so entrenched in conservative circles over the past century, making it more and more impossible for reasonable Satan-fearing blue-collar Anarchists like me to do our FUCKING JOBS and help them build STRUCTURES THAT WILL HELP THEM... sorry I get a little annoyed
Where was i?
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It’s the information environment, stupid.
Same conclusion as everyone. If Democrats want to survive, they have got to start pushing these online information siloes shamelessly like Republicans do instead of rambling on about issues, door to door, like it’s 1950. It’s like they’re fighting drones with swords.
It sucks. But if they aren’t going to reign in big tech and literally criminal media, well, they better join the mess they're complicit in.
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