• PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    It’s crazy that most of the country looked at that and said either “I want that” or “That’s fine, I don’t care”.

    • RawrGuthlaf@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      A large chunk of the population gets their info from Fox News and News Max etc. Many of my extended family unfortunately. They think that is reliable information and can’t be convinced otherwise. When I try to bring up facts they give me this look like I’m the crazy one spreading the lies. It’s a really sad state of affairs, they are genuinely good people otherwise. I think there are too many assumptions that people just wanted what we’re about to get.

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        2 hours ago

        Sorry no. If they voted for trump they’re not good people. They’re either assholes or too stupid to be making decisions for the country.

        Anyone who votes for mass deportation is not a good person. Anyone who votes to take away health care from a huge chunk of the population is also not a good person.

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          54 minutes ago

          It’s an environment issue for them, their belief system and past experiences shape their decisions. The DNC had opportunities for real change and did not take them, and that feeds into the establishment/ “drain the swamp” rhetoric. Calling people stupid isn’t going to help anything, they are heavily misinformed and tuned out living in a busy world. I don’t give them a full pass here, but if we’re going to change anything we need to figure out how to communicate with this segment and recognize their grievances.

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      19 hours ago

      They didn’t look at that. This is the frustrating truth we have to come to terms with. People are fucking oblivious. They vote for a single issue at most, and don’t understand what they signed up for.

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        19 hours ago

        It’s almost like someone has been systematically dismantling your education system for 50 or so years so they could reach this point.

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        17 hours ago

        Yeah, oblivious sums it up. Despite all the stuff that’s happened, and all the information and video evidence that’s readily available to anybody who cares enough to look at it, their team is their team. If you fancy yourself a smart responsible Christian, especially a white one, your ignorant ass is just a Republican.

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          8 hours ago

          The amount of people who are horrified now that they’ve had tariffs explained to them is… depressingly high.

          They didn’t wanna look up what a tarrif was before voting for Mr. Tariffs?

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            5 hours ago

            They just thought that was the magic word he was going to use to set gasoline prices back to what they were in 2016!

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        18 hours ago

        This may sound controversial and no I don’t have a way to implement it, but we should probably have a means to screen the knowledge of voters over the things they’re voting on before they can access a ballot box.

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          12 hours ago

          Consider that the MAGAs would be in charge of administering and scoring such a test and you’ll immediately see why that’s a bad idea.