• FishFace@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    Who’s “they”, now? I think that plenty of politicians knowingly misrepresent things like this, but I don’t think the average Trump voter/Fox news watcher understands. Otherwise the politicians and the news just wouldn’t have to lie.

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      24 hours ago

      This is somewhat of an encouraging thought. They have to lie to keep people on their side. Unfortunately the lies work, but at least the people don’t support their real agenda.

      • nomy@lemmy.zip
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        22 hours ago

        It’s pretty much this from top to bottom.

        There are true believers, grifters, and idiots all throughout the movement. Sometimes you can have various shades of believer/grifter/idiot all rolled into a single person.