• @[email protected]
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      Simple answer is that the majority of Americans still either completely agree with him, or they just hate the Dems so badly they’d vote for a potato before they vote for anyone with a D next to their name.

      That or we continue entertaining the January 6 type of fantasy where we believe the entire thing was rigged.

    • @[email protected]
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      We’re pretty dumb and ignorant. Our education system is awful and incredibly inequitable (funded by local property tax so only nice areas have adequately funded schools). I recently read that like half the country reads below a 6th grade level. And we have an overwhelming level of right wing disinformation coming from “news” outlets like FOX, OAN, etc.

      Even with all that, about 1/3 of the country loves Trump like he’s a god, 1/3 hates him like he’s the devil and 1/3 is completely tuned out of politics. Shit is about to get real bad here and no one will be able to ignore the economic disaster so I think those numbers will change in the next few months.

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        Half of adults read at or below the 6th grade level.

        That doesn’t mean they don’t have an expansive vocabulary, it means they can infer but not abstract.

        So, it’s bad if my daughter suffers they may infer from their own suffering, but women in general and possibly ways their daughter may suffer elude them.

        • Prove_your_argument
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          The trans vaccines leave chemtrails on your autistic activist judges who are reinventing the constitution by sticking to constitutional precedent and allowing billions of brown people to flood in from mexico.

          We’ve got to build a wall to keep QAnon alive because hunter biden’s laptop autopen’d Project 2025 which has created the agenda which says state’s rights are important, except only when it is incongruent with the heritage foundation’s agenda.

          Everything I have said is true, signed, DumpyJTrumpetbooty

          • Prove_your_argument
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            112 days ago

            This is basically the current administration, in a post.

            If you’re still trying to understand it, you really need to read between the lines or perhaps some tea leaves.

            If you actually look at the decisions being made, a lot of people in a lot of very deep red areas are getting a bunch of federal cheddar. Plus dumpy’s fam has made billions on their own crypto during all of this by using the popularity.

            Then there’s all the quid-pro-quo ‘dealing’ we keep hearing about, but we only hear the public side of it. We don’t hear the private business negotiation where the terms are only sweetened after a bribe is agreed upon.

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      233 months ago
      • voter apathy
      • he didn’t win by as many votes as the largest election against him (2020)
      • he was never popular among all people, but is among voting people
      • electoral college doesn’t make sense

      We have a broken election system here in the states, but not a popular president.

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        And what passes for the lefty party ran with genocide on their back and couldnt pull that off.

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          And the voters who support Palestine sure did a good job keeping the worst of two options out.

          Ohhh well, at this rate the Palestinian question, likely won’t be an issue next election.

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            I can’t agree with this. Both of the parties are pretty evil, and I am pretty strongly against the Democratic party, but I can’t agree that they are just as fascist. Sure, the Democrats helped build out the tools for fascism, and they don’t really put up a fight against the fascists, but there is a difference, however small it might be.

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            Republicans however also: deport people with a legal right to be in the country, including citizens, without due process. Want to destroy all progress made on issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community. Wish to reduce women’s rights, some including voting rights. Want to abolish the separation between church and state.

            Even if there is a close resemblance between the two parties on Gaza, but there are plenty of other issues where they are still incomparable, and ignoring these differences and calling both parties equally bad does not help.

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            Don’t get me wrong the democratic party is shit, but I don’t recall paramilitary thugs dragging people off the streets and disappearing them under Biden or Obama.

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                43 months ago

                I dont disagree with that, but you said “probably just as fascist as republicans” which is obviously not true as, again, only one party is using paramilitary violence to target unwanted groups and political opponents.

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            33 months ago

            continuing to claim this in the face of what’s currently occurring in the US is not simply naive, it’s downright idiotic

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      53 months ago

      I think most people don’t realize they are mad about the repercussions of a somewhat “unchecked” capitalist system and point the blame (rightfully) at “insiders” and “elites” who they believe are enriching themselves at our expense. The Reich wing media also works wonders at directing “class conflict” into “social conflict” blaming immigrants and people who aren’t the same as them for all of our issues…

      Where they fall flat is voting for the absolute embodiment of capitalist greed and somehow believe that because he isn’t an “insider” that means he gives a shit about them…

      Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

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        I forget where I read it originally, but I think a lot about “You hate every piece of capitalism but don’t connect the dots to see the big picture”

    • Meursault
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      I mean… As an American, that’s certainly a valid question. The short answer is that the modern American political two-party system has become the biggest shitshow in American history. For a longer explanation, I saw a video on a Canadian PeerTube instance that really explains the situation better than I could.

      Here you go.