When Bush Jr was president I was absolutely confounded by how people could support him. Then I got older and could see how people don’t know how to do basic research.
With Trump, you just watch a speech or see his social media posts. It should be immediately apparent to anyone that he’s a spineless, lying, idiot.
Trying to comprehend how such a loser remains in power hurts my brain.
Propaganda is MUCH more effective than most people think.
In popular media, it’s usually only the stupid and the weak willed, but in reality, pretty much ANYONE can be fooled to a lesser or greater degree by propaganda if it’s persistent and/or effective enough.
The fascist Republican party is literally a religious cult, complete with being just as difficult to escape without strong social support and deprogramming as for example Jehovah’s Witnesses or Scientology.
People fall for propaganda because they want to - they’re not stupid, they’re playing along because they like it.
A lot of them, sure, but far from everyone.
Just because a lot of them are assholes looking for justification for their bigotry doesn’t mean that every one is that.
My (now atheist and progressive) partner grew up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Republicanism. A couple decades after she managed to break free, she’s STILL shunned by most of her family and has a strained relationship with the rest.
To pretend that it’s just assholes being assholes together for no other reason than their own free will might be comforting to you, but it ignores key causes and thus makes it harder to combat the cult.
People fall for lies that they want to believe, not because they’re simply assholes, but because the truth is hard and painful.
That’s why social support and deprogramming is necessary, because you need to ease people into a very difficult reality.
They’d rather just play along because it’s easier, safer, and more comfortable. They like it.
Terry Goodkind is a terrible author and even worse human being, but his “First Rule” was pretty accurate. To wit: “people will believe anything if they want it to be true, or if they’re afraid of it being true.”
There’s a reason a lot of propaganda is either saying how great things are under a group (even when they clearly aren’t), or fear-mongering about their opponents.
Another example, see: ads
There’s a reason the advertising industry is maaaaaassive. And no, you aren’t “immune to ads” or willingly make yourself “less likely to buy the product”. You think you are, but you’re not.
You’re not immune to propaganda
Adblock on every screen nearby. No broadcast / cable TV. Aggressively filtering things that add ads.
People model this as an insane overreaction. The world outside is a madhouse.
Yeah I think the people who drank the Koolaid were WELL indoctrinated into this stupidity before Trump came along, they don’t question Trump because they never questioned anything that came before when it was maybe reasonable (not really).
You gotta have faith /$
I should make a $faith crypto coin…
Oh. It exists. It’s at $0.00
Never discount… people, too.
How many out there think: “He’s just like me, but gets to say what he wants to!”
Not just once, twice. I try not to think about it because it’s enraging.
Just remember - voters looked at the 2 candidates and said ‘yup. I like the orange one’. This is not a good look, America.
Their pastors and bishops tell them who to vote for based on a single issue. It’s really that simple.
Looks like someone is getting a tariff.
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The only thing he knows is projection
He knows this particular string of hurtful words because he’s heard it before.
Anything he doesn’t like is illegal
Traditionally, in America, Comedians are the loudest, and most protected 1st Amendment Free Speech voices. So the orange painted rapist can just fuck off!
Someone should explain him the very basics of US law, like freedom of speech. Some other laws, too, maybe.
It would be a waste of a perfectly coherent explanation. The inability to understand is all on their side.
Why? Do you think he’s unaware?
I’m not sure, taking his mental state into account.
He’s a fucking idiot is why he thinks that
Alternatively, these feelings about this post are falling prey to fascist tactics. Freedom of Speech is a concept of the past and they will keep “joking” about it as they clamp down more and more till criticism is silenced out. The whole time, these feelings will have been unwillingly supporting it by dismissing the carefully orchestrated circus show of smoke, rights violations and mirrors as merely being the mirrors, circus and smoke.
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They’re also doing an amazing job of very accurately depicting all his minions.
Oh no, the would-be dictator got his little fee-fees hurt!
Snowflake. No one cares about your feelings, orange psycho.
Unfortunately, you’re very wrong about that. Nobody SHOULD care, though.
I keep forgetting Trump is supposedly only 79. He does appear even older.
He is best at aging.
More Russian style politics from chairman mayo
The US is a shit hole country.
Enjoy spiralling the drain together.
I agree and I live here.
Making moves to leave, permanently, though. This place sucked before Trump, and now it’s just absolute gutter trash.
Honest question where will you go that has educated voters who cannot be swayed by propaganda & misinformation?
It’s more about maybe living out the next 10-20 years of my life before wherever I go becomes completely overtaken by fascism. On the whole, I think everywhere will succumb to it eventually.
Trump says [insert completely wrong bullshit here]. Again.
