• tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I firmly believe that if any other candidate, in a primary or general election, either republican or democrat, had said this, it would end their campaign.

    We have become so accustomed to Trump saying outrageous bullshit, that this will be forgotten in less than a week, and most voters will never even hear about it.

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      Trump has steadily pushed the limit of what a politician can get away with for years. He is a master bullshiter devoid of any moral capacity to feel shame and bullshited his way through everything. No low will ever be too low for him.

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        Idk I loved hearing about him muttering “I won” over and over to himself when he lost the 2020 election.

        And if that was bad, losing to a brown woman… My God.

        I can only HOPE that there are lows too low for him. He’s surely speeding towards that finish line.

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      Within a matter of hours there was already a swarm of apologists going “here’s what he actually meant”.

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      11 months ago

      He really could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his voters would love him for it.

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      At the risk of flogging an already well-flogged dead horse, MAGAts don’t care what he says as long as it upsets people they don’t like.

      And when those ideologies come back to bite them, they’ll blame those same disliked people for either causing it or not stopping it, because neither they nor their preferred politician(s) could possibly be to blame for it.

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        Our biggest mistake will be never addressing these people’s bullshit. I mean it’s not like they can be punished but allowing it to go on with no remedy leaves us all exposed.

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          People often segregate themselves into bubbles separated from others they oppose. I can say since the political affiliation is known from past elections, that has become a stronger factor when I am deliberating on which places I would want to live. I’m sure this is adding to the polarization, where people are gravitating to communities that more often reinforce their beliefs and give them fewer opportunities to challenge them.

          How can we counter this polarizing force?

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            I’m not sure but I’d like to have some ideas. This is one of those questions that is reason for academia. It deserves study and research. Now funding that research may be impossible because it doesn’t serve the oligarchy but you know, that’s why we fight.

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      They believe the lie that a bunch of dead people and illegal immigrants are voting and tipping the scales for the left. When they hear “fixed” they think Trump is going to stop that fake problem from happening.

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      And people still calling P2025 a big joke.

      It reminds me of the movie Mars Attacks when the aliens kept saying “we come in peace!”, and laughing as they were blasting everyone.

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      11 months ago

      Vance said he wants only people with kids to be able to vote. And they will be able to vote on behalf of their children until they can vote for themselves. These people are something else.

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    11 months ago

    We know Trump, you want to illegalize elections and have life time appointments for President.

  • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    isnt that common knowledge? he just said the quiet part out loud now.

    he would have to eventually, to manufacture peoples consent.