It’s lead and microplastics that are poisoning the blood of our country
And fracking wastewater.
And lead. Don’t forget lead.
And hate. But worst of all: lead.
Hate may just be a symptom of lead.
wrong! microplastics poison our bones.
meh, I’ll just get an Adamantium skeleton upgrade
That may sound better if it got turned around to "Rally immigrants tell Trump is ‘poisoning the blood of our country’
Political candidate tells nation of immigrants that immigrants are BAD. Film at 11.
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Political candidate that is married to an immigrant tells nation of immigrants that immigrants are BAD. Film at 11.
Isn’t he married to an immigrant?
Baron is an anchor baby.
Slaves and mail-order brides are OK.
Yes, and look what he’s done to the gene pool. The man speaks from experience.
Its ok because he married one of the good ones.
(White)
Can this guy just drown in the fucking tub already, Jesus Christ.
I fully expected him to have already died on the shitter pushing out a McWopper
Wrong kid died
That running gag had me crying.
Watching it all from Belgium, it seems that the contested speech of Trump is purposefully aimed at:
- making the previous wrong remark yesterday’s news;
- flooding the news/people with controversial remarks so it’s impossible to ‘keep count’;
- raising the bar of what shocks Trump-supporters and -opponents.
Fuck, it’s a good strategy
What was yesterdays remark?
Exactly 🙂
You know who’s not ‘pouring into America’? People with options.
Unless you’re fleeing the third world, I can’t imagine why America would even be on your radar. He’s obsessing over the wrong problem.
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It’s all a diversion to avoid people thinking about actual problems
So my aunt and her kids fled the war in Ukraine and is living in the French part of Canada. At the time she applied for the US too, and they recently answered so she decided to go to Detroit instead of staying in Canada.
I’m in Canada and I’m like whyyy???
But apparently “it’s easier for her kid to become a firefighter there, school and medical care is covered for new immigrants, and she can take classes for herself for cheap too, they don’t have to learn French and the immigration is less strict”.
Honestly, in part I understand it’s not perfect here, but I highly doubt it’s better there, both situations suck until they get better. I’m just afraid they’re blinded by the “grass is greener on the other side” bs. Because no way is education and medical care is cheap there after a certain amount of time.
She should have moved to any one of the other provinces to meet her requirements.
Sadly she doesn’t have family there. Only in the French part and Detroit. And she chose Detroit over us 🫠
she chose Detroit over us
Montreal here. Gotta admit, that stings.
That’s such a great way to put it.
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No, he’s not charismatic, not that far from grave and doesn’t have any ideology or potent supporters (like officers, aristocrats).
While intelligent people don’t think Trump is charismatic, he is undoubtedly considered to be charismatic by stupid people. He has situational charisma - when he’s ranting about some weird idea that he think his supporters will glom onto he’s considered to be very charismatic despite the written versions of his speeches sounding like the ravings of a man who just met Cthulhu.
Your other points are 100% though - he is WAY older than Hitler was at his peak, and he has this terrible knack for throwing his sycophantic and powerful supporters under the bus which leaves him lonely in his power. I think he likes it that way.
Malignant narcissism. Anyone who threatens him in any way, real or perceived, is his enemy.
Someone needs to do the Hitler meme but with a trump speech
Trump is racist. Big fucking news. His supporters don’t care about racism. They are racists and they see racism as a good thing.
It’s not just racism. It’s straight up Nazi ideology.
But that’s not new either. We’ve been calling Trump a Nazi for the better part of a decade now. These idiots have spent so much time denying that patently obviously fact, it’s become part of their core identity to deny trump is a Nazi, even as he directly quotes Hitler.
We can’t reach his base but we can sure as hell pressure people not in his echo chamber.
When whatever conflagration that MAGA causes is over, those who survive will have a duty to record what Trump and his supporters were. No Milgrahm experiments to explain why people reflexively obey authority. No excuses about how Trump was so charismatic and could sway and persuade.
Nobody is being tricked or persuaded. Trump is paradoxically the most transparent politician in American history. He’s no great persuader. Listening to him speak is like watching a drunk man cross an icy street. The truth is LOTS of Americans fucking love fascism! They want people to be harmed and killed. They’ll suffer hardships, and take losses to make it happen. They raise Trump on their shoulders because he tells them what they want to hear. And they’ll happily hoist someone else up should Trump stumble.
Remember the Dominion lawsuit against Fox reviled that the network presenters were cowed and intimated by the viewership. All these years people like Jon Stewart told us that Fox news radicalized Memaw and Poppop. Maybe all along it was the deplorables that radicalized Fox.
At some point, people will be standing in the rubble of American cities asking “how could this happen”? Tell them Americans wanted it; Americans voted for it; and Americans gleefully held hands and jumped into the abyss.
People want to believe that deep down, most people are good. I believe this to be a lie people tell themselves. No, most people are awful and would fuck over anyone they don’t know if they do much as think it will make them better off.
I think you’ve got it twisted. People do awful stuff because they think it’s good. The Nazis thought Jewish extermination was helping. Theirs a Documentary on Netflix about German soldiers tasked with shooting Jews. For most of them it was a horrible ordeal. One of the biggest motivators for continuing was the thought that shirking one’s “duty” meant your comrade was going to have to do it for you. (one of the rationale for the concentration camps was to spare the death squads from PTSD)
I mentioned the Milgram experiment. If you take psy101 they’re going to tell you that that experiment proved that humans will harm each other for the sake of an authority figure. But that’s not true. Repetitions of that experiment that replaced the lab-coat guy with one wearing a military or police uniform and you went from the vast majority willing to harm people to the vast majority refusing. People weren’t obeying authority, they were volunteers who wanted to help science. They thought continuing a harmful experiment was their duty.
You’ve probably heard that quote from Fred Rogers about how when something tragic happens, “look for the helpers”. Well, it turns out that many of the people who cause tragedy think they’re helping.
Yes, Trump supporters honestly believe that the vast majority of undocumented migrants are criminals and terrorists. They honestly believe that the Democrats are trying to create a Soviet style dictatorship. They honestly believe we need a strongman to rid the country of people who are genuinely trying to destroy it. I know a bunch of them; they think they’re helping.
That’s the kind of uneducated opinions that Trump proclaimed his love for.
People are good, until they aren’t. That’s the trick: Creating environments where people become more awful, more quickly. Like upgrading your barracks in a RTS game.
We’re all still animals following basic instinct. When we feel that our “herd” is threatened, we get ugly fast.
It’s really easy to play on those feelings.
I think it depends on context. If you’re brought up in a wholesome environment with respect and positive values, you’ll realize that living like that is better. If you’re brought up in a cesspool of fear and violence, you’ll think that’s the way the world is, and you’ll behave accordingly.
It’s not that America is inherently bad, or any particular cultural system. It’s that when a society doesn’t maintain its values and spiritual core, it will rot from the inside out.
The problem is our society has sold out so much of our community, our education, our values for convenience and corporate greed. This is like what the Right used to blather on about, but they’re to blame for most of the real depravity. In any case, we’re just seeing the fallout.
asking “how could this happen”?
That they won’t do. They’ll simply blame democrats and liberals.
Bruh you cannot apologize for Fox. Their on-air people lie to anyone who will listen every God damn day, why would they stop lying just because they’re under oath?
“Americans”
Trump didn’t win the popular vote before and he won’t win it this time either. When he wins he’ll win with a minority of voters, with likely less than 50% of Americans even casting a ballot at all. It’s a very specific subset of Americans that are throwing the rest of us off a cliff.
Now there goes a man who really hates his own grandfather…
Title gore.
Do we have that yet in lemmy? c/titlegore
OK Drumpf… Whatever you say…
And for a decent percentage, mRNA gene therapies known now by the false monicker of “vaccines.” They changed the definition, that’s why. And, I am stuck in the old definition.
And sugar, corn syrups, etc.
Altered messenger ribonucleic acid in T-cells categorically can’t change the organism’s (in this case, a human’s) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). RNA, structurally, has different nucleotide base-pairs.
Clearly a jab at big pharma mongol Vivek Ramaswamy.
big pharma mongol
Maybe you meant to say “mogul”?
nah I think they had it right
But the guy is Indian, not Mongolian.
