• Typotyper@sh.itjust.works
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      I’ll leave this here for others like me who apparently are really out of the loop

      Groypers, sometimes called the Groyper Army, are a group of alt-right, white nationalist, and Christian nationalist 41 activists led by Nick Fuentes. Groypers are a loosely defined group of Fuentes’s followers and fans. They are named after a cartoon amphibian named “Groyper”, a variant of the Internet meme Pepe the Frog.

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      I’m sad that the supposedly better side is spreading missinformation and propaganda just like that.

      Specially because it’s pushing a propaganda about “If your parents are X you are X”. Which is really harmful for all the people not following the same ideology as their parents.

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      We’re starting to see Democrats react to things the same way MAGAs do. It may not be pretty, but the Michelle Obama Doctrine of “When they go low, we go high,” led directly to the successful rise, and revival, of MAGA, so getting a little ugly has been needed for a long time.

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        Michelle Obama Doctrine of “When they go low, we go high,” led directly to the successful rise, and revival, of MAGA,

        Do you mind expanding on this.

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          They shouldn’t have been so polite at the rise of MAGA. THE FBI have known that Trump was tangled up with money laundering for Russian Mobster Oligarchs since at least the early 90s. I always assumed that the reason they never arrested him was because he was an informant.

          So they knew exactly who he was when he got the nomination in 2016, and they should have arrested him then, but the Democrats were too polite. That’s what kept Obama from being a great president - he was too polite to fight back. We ended up with Trump as president as a result, with the predictable incompetent results.

          But we managed to wrest it back, and had the opportunity to crush MAGA for all time. Biden would have been well within his Constitutional rights and especially his RESPONSIBILITIES, to declare Trump and his henchmen to be National Security Threats, and arrested immediately following his Inauguration, and I mean within minutes.

          But Biden followed the same weak polite policy for his entire presidency, and not only didn’t press the prosecution of Trump, and others, he didn’t promote his many other successful policies. In the absence of his celebrating his own success, MAGA was happy to fill the space with flat out lies about the same policies.

          We saw them stealing the election in real time, and I have a hard time believing that our intelligence agencies didn’t know exactly what was going on, and yet the Dems did absolutely nothing, and allowed MAGA to steal another election, and probably every election in the future.

          And then there was the Dems standing aside, pouting, snorting, and stomping their feet, as McConnell stole two SCOTUS seats, instead of doing anything substantial.

          MAGA exists because bullies can only exist when someone agrees to be their victim. This is why I have been an Unaffiliated Independent since I first registered to vote in 1977. I don’t want to be a bully, and I don’t want to be the weak weenie victim.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
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      I have a lot of hate in my inbox for telling people that latching onto the groyper narrative was the equivalent of the right claiming the shooter is trans. They sure are quiet lately.

      You dumbasses out there just want distance from someone you don’t want representing you.

      BE INTELLECTUALLY HONEST YOU FUCKING CHILDREN.

      We don’t win by being as deluded as the WWE spectacle chuds who don’t think and just want sides and teams and fighting for territory.

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      They just needed it to be the right so bad that they went with whatever they could find.