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      I went into a shop in MAGA country recently and shop owner broke away from his MAGA conversation to ask us if we’d heard about all the social security grift Elon had just found - apparently they paid over 50 billion dollars to people who’d been dead for 100 years - and did we think they should just refund that to us, or use it to pay off the national debt. He was legit excited.

      The misinformation and propaganda and whatnot is off the charts.

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        And by MAGA country I mean there was a shop just up the road called “Trump, flags, and more” or some shit.

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      Yeah no shit, it’s like saying half of Americans lean auth-right. A circular Venn diagram if ever I’ve seen one.

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      Why do we seem to gravitate to these kinds of people? Why are the worst of the people always the ones we always hear about. Is frustrating we give them attention, even negative attention is adored by these people.

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      I think a good percentage of those are either woefully uninformed or think people were making it up.

      But that’d be only very very mildly better.

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    36% positive. It’s always about 35% approval with the crazy authoritarian stuff in the US.

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    Bullshit, all these approval ratings stories are lies. To make you feel disenfranchised. They want you to be cared because "That’s almost all the republicans and they have guns. Don’t pay attention to them, The amount that actually approve is far smaller than the number they seek to force to hide away with stories like this. We are Legion, they are the minority. If Half the country supports the Billionaires, how is Bernie Pulling 12,000 people to a rally in Idaho? These stories are because they’re afraid, it’s just a psyop.

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    I read a biography about Elon about 10 years ago, I’ve liked him ever since. Everyone used to like him until the left got a stick up their butt. The left is really good about putting hate on a person. Assholes.