• Metz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If I use the R word a few more times I’ll probably get kicked off the server. But you have to admit, some of them look very R…

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    the kind of people who dont give the least bit of fuck about pretty horrible things until it happens to them after which they love to play the victim

  • Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    I think it’s about time that the progressives start pandering to the dumbass class. Promising to do all sorts of dumbass and unconstitutional things and then supporting actual progressive policy when they get into office.

    If this worked for the current Manchurian dumbass candidate - progressives can surely get their deception game in order.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Wouldn’t work.

      That is unless they go all in and start carrying crosses around and talking about Jesus nonstop and somehow convince those folks that their opposition are all secret Satanists.

      Makes my stomach hurt.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    When I examine my German family tree, this is the kind of shit they fell for too. The only difference, the USA had a healthy economy before Jan 2025, while Germany was a wreck.

  • El_Azulito@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I get the sentiment, but posts like this only foment the hate from either side even more. Just adding fuel to the outrage, and as long as we keep doing it like this, there will never be an offramp. The freeway will simply end in fire. This strategy is not tenable.

  • peekingduck@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Honestly it’s not a bad thing to be able to see all these humans who are about as useful as smegma. See them, single them out, and when the time comes, well, you know lol……

  • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yup, and the pandemic showed us how stupid and ignorant they are, too.

    Leftists were hesitant with good reason and could be educated. These folks had no chance out of their own volition.

  • Vespair@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I’ll never recover, personally. The way my world-view was shattered by how many not just nameless strangers, but people I actually know and interact with, are the worst sort of hateful monsters.

    My world is a different place now, and I don’t think I’ll ever feel the same.

    • Auli@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      I know. I have flat Werther’s in my family. Real life people who think the earth is flat in 2025. Like did anyone think this is where we would be growing up.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s stupidity and immaturity more than maliciousness, at least in the case of the US lumpen. The results might be more or less the same but the reframing helps with living in this world and believing in people’s ‘well-meaning nature’.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        I appreciate this, and it does help turn the ire into pity a bit, but I do worry that unfortunately the effect sort of remains the same regardless

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The best advice I can give to anyone regarding MAGAts is to take advantage of them.

    They’re letting us know how stupid they are. They’re marking themselves.

    So take advantage of them. Run some scams on them. They’ll fall for it. Don’t let Daddy Trump be the only one robbing them blind.

    • vividkitten@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I thought about running a far-right merch store selling shirts and stickers with all of their shitty little half-brained slogans on them and donating all the profits to left-leaning organizations. Make them indirectly fund the people they’re trying to harm.

      • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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        2 months ago

        My baby insanity wolf self already does a variation of this.

        When my conservative family and acquaintances give me gifts, I donate the gifts to charities or political groups that I know those folks would hate to support. Uncle Ben gives me a debit gift card? That’s going to Bernie Sanders and the ACLU. Cousin Jen gave me a digital photo frame? That’s getting sold and the money’s going to Planned Parenthood.

        The fact that I repeatedly tell these people not to give me any gifts and yet they still do is the icing on the cake.

      • modus@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        If you see pop-up shops selling Trump merch, they’re often run by immigrants. Money is money.