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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

They're too deep to take it back now they gotta go full nazi and act like everyone else is the problem

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Some believe that we are reclaiming American greayness. That the tariffs are just china writing a big check to the usa. That majes feel like we are finally fighting back.

You have other that just feel good that dei, woke, sjw, litard, liberal, etc etc policy are goibg away. So society cab finally put good compient people in jobs and not be held vack by forced racial quotas.

You have other that love tge nazi salute stuff and really feel lije the government is finally working for them.

You have many who just feel good its not a democrat in office

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Causing a complete collapse of society to own the libs.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The complete collapse of society, but not to own the libs. It’s to set up a new political system controlled by billionaires as techno feudal lords:

https://piped.wireway.ch/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no%3Fsi%3Dfev-OzgZmzcUfsPW&t=1

They’re not even trying to hide it:

https://thenetworkstate.com/the-network-state-in-one-sentence

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

This is actually what many of them want: no government at all telling them what to do, but they’re safe because they got guns! And that’s where the thought process ends.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

"That'll show em!" They said, proudly looked at the divet in their face where their nose used to be.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They don't all agree on anything. Logic and reason aren't part of the requirements for MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Their actually frowned upon. They love the uneducated.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Pretty sure the common denominator is “owning the libs.”

It’s not just liberals that are voting against their opposition more than they are voting for the political candidates they vote for; the other side is largely doing the same. That’s why American democracy is failing: we’re so disillusioned with our own parties that we’ve been reduced to voting for them just to keep the opposition from power. Hence, no matter how we vote, we’re dissatisfied, but we tell ourselves pretty stories to make it all right. The only real winners are corporations, which have all of these clowns in their pockets.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reactionary ideology is all about protecting privilege by demonizing marginalized people. They believe in zero-sum rights and privileges: in their view, expansion of rights for another group inherently means a loss of rights for them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bingo. Conservatives believe that if someone outside their group is given anything, they lost that thing.

It's stupid simple, zero-sum game theory is the only thing they believe in.

Lemmy: "It's RACISM!"

No, it's far simpler than that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

It’s also racism.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They want you to suffer. Their lives are miserable, and their media has taught them that it's YOUR fault. So now they want you to suffer.

Hint: the reason it's this way is that the elite control the media. If you're fighting with your financial equals on the other side, then both sides aren't getting together to fight the rich.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hint: the reason it’s this way is that the elite control the media. If you’re fighting with your financial equals on the other side, then both sides aren’t getting together to fight the rich.

The focus of this cartoon is, I believe, an Austrailian(?) politician. I think it works though as "generic oligarch" or "Republicans."

Don't forget folks:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I believe the Australian is Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox news and The Daily Mail

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Validation of their feelings and a return to a mythologized past. Try having a reasoned political discussion with someone like this:

Well back in my day things were just better. America was the best and we didn't have to apologize for that. And the blacks and mexicans and what not didn't complain so damn much because folks were wired different back then and there wasn't nothin to complain about. Chuck Berry. You know Chuck Berry? Greatest rock and roller of all time and he was colored. Didn't nobody have anything to say about it, he was just damned good at guitar. Now the kids - black kids - listen to all sorts of damnable noise and them from the cities in gangs shooting each other up and corrupting good white kids in the small towns and suburbs getting them into drugs. We'll be lucky if we dont end up like another Chicago. And they whine and complain about racism, but we had a black president and look how that turned out. Granted he was a muslim and not even a citizen, but try tellin them that. I mean hell look at what Hillary did to all them folks at Benghazi - just let them muslims kill all of em, probably wouldn't have been politically correct to fight back. Dumb broad even wrote it all down - the emails. Had her dead to rights - she should've hanged but thats what you get when you have all those corrupt democrat senators in charge of the kangaroo court. And those democrat cities just keep letting illegals stay because they know they'll vote democrat - they don't care how many of them are raping and murdering women and kids long as they get their votes. Not even just the mexicans anymore, you got those communist gangs from venezuela taking over whole apartment complexes and the defunded police can't do anything about it. You know something was wrong with that Biden election - not just illegals voting but I saw on Fox that they were sending out whole reams of mail-in ballots to blacks and college kids and what have you. And then they take all the conservative ballots and conveniently lose boxes of them. Maybe Elon's going to fix it now since he knows all about those voting machines. Liberals voting for dead people too, but that's been on the news since Bush - I don't know why nobody does anything about that. Now you know what's really racist is planned parenthood - nobody hates babies, especially black babies, as much as planned parenthood. They kill more black babies than anything and the demonrats just keep convincing folks that its OK. Makes me sick that we kill hundreds of thousands of babies every year and i dont care what color they are. You know another thing? We knew which bathroom to use - we figured out a genius method. I'll tell you: drop your drawers and look down. Then you'll know. And you'll know if you should be on a mens or womens track team and if you should wear dresses. It's probably because all the kids have autism from the vaccines these days - now I guess they're mutants because of that COVID mRNA vaccine too - but not me. No sir. I'll stick with the DNA god gave me. That's probably why all the boys think they're girls now. Or cats and try to piss in litterboxes at school. People knew who and what they were once. They knew their place, worked hard, and didn't complain. Now if we can just get Trump in for a few more terms then he'll set everything straight and get rid of all those regulations so I can afford eggs again.

That is roughly paraphrased from my parents, grandparents, other family, some senile guy at the grocery store who wouldn't stop telling the cashier about Chuck Berry, etc. They don't have rational political goals, usually. These folks are genuinely operating on an entirely separate set of facts and assumptions to us. Their brains are co-opted by decades of counterfactual propagandized conspiracy theories, which are too numerous and ingrained to easily disabuse them of. They are faced with an increasingly complex world and are constantly told versions of events that are terrifying or disgusting to them and spoonfed the solution: fascism, piece by piece, until you get MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I couldn't even finish the paraphrased quote. I want to slap this nonexistant being who never actually said those things, because they never existed....but in a way they exist everywhere. Like I just screamed, knowing I can't reply to you, and put some facts in place, because you're not actually saying those things. You're showcasing the spirit of someone who does say those things. And I get it. I do.

I just also want to scream into a pillow.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's exhausting. And trying to convince someone like that of anything is basically impossible. I have had painstaking, well-reasoned and well-sourced political discussions with many people like that. Funny thing is, I can almost always get the to agree to progressive or socialist policy goals. But, there are all these ideological land mines and, if you trip one, then they fall back into their defensive web of miscellaneous falsehoods and conspiracies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's the crazy thing. If you explain leftist policies to them they will generally say that sounds good. But once they hear a trigger word like socialist or even Democrat they're out.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

They get to be part of a cult of hate?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Owning the libs, getting to say r*tard, and grabbing them by the pussy

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Some migrants got harassed, they can pretend they set our allies "straight", dei got "dismantled, funding cut to orgs they don't like, pardons for j6 fed collaborators, security removed from political enemies...

As what Trump actually did for them as voting block, they are selfless, they need nothing as long as libs destroyed by daddy for the loolz

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There is no more consensus about anything between MAGA people than there is among the left. People are individuals and they have different values. Voting for a party/candidate doesn't mean they agree on everything. There's likely greater differences in views and values within the groups than between them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

the left

Quick reminder: America has no left. The Dems are centre-right vs GoP far-right (and counting).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

This is very true.

Here in Missouri, for instance, voters went red but also passed a $15 minimum wage, required paid sick leave, and voted down an abortion ban. It's ironic, considering Democrats always insist that if they just get more ~~conservative~~ centrist they'll win elections.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

It hurts people who aren’t in their arbitrary in-group, and they believe that is good. They believe any affliction to them by way of those harming the out-group is a necessary sacrifice to cleanse society of the evil sin of not being in their arbitrary in-group.

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