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[–] Soup@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (2 children)

TL;DR: more brain-dead fools who, at their core, genuinely do care about the working class but are too stupid to see the mountain of evidence to show that Trump’s “love” for the working class is as real as unicorn farts. Others also want “change” even if that change is them going from having rights to not having rights, and a few are the worthless protest voters as well.

I honestly still don’t get it, but I don’t have the level of brainrot of these people so maybe that’s a good thing.

[–] Nurgus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (6 children)

They aren't stupid. They're reacting intelligently to the information they've been saturated in. Unfortunately that information is maliciously poor.

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

They're dumb as shit.

Misinformation is ample & fully aware "the impressionables" get targeted on social media... but unless they've been living on a different planet they're fully aware of Trump's history. His felony convictions alone were global news.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I said that years ago but times change. The nonsense they need to convince themselves of is absolutely wild and it must take a herculian daily effort on their part to maintain their collective insanity if we decide to say they aren’t stupid.

So much of what they hear should qualify as the moment they went “hey, wait a second” but they just keep on going deeper and deeper. They are fools and everyone else needs to deal with that.

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Not to mention the fact that democrats/liberals have consistently failed to counter message against this propaganda or even acknowledge the issues that face americans.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

There's an ethical obligation not to let yourself be a rube. They failed in that.

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

This is the most libbed up comment I've ever seen.

Y'all are fucked until you figure this shit out.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

But he was already president for 4 years and everyone on the planet knows how incompetent he is and how little he cares. This isn't a: let's see if the fat pedo is a good president, it's a case of: we (should) already know he's incompetent but we also hate brown people just as much.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

All this republican nazi propaganda is blatant. Nobody gets the excuse of thinking any of it's true. It presents as horseshit, not even as some genuine misunderstanding.

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Real ‘salt of the earth’ people.