• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    It is okay to dislike or even hate Biden. Please do so for real reasons, not smear campaigns invented by the Grand Old Pedo party.

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    the only requirement for people to believe a lie, is that they want to believe the lie

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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    I would be happy if as a movement, we on the left never mentioned Biden’s name again.

    I didn’t hate the guy and he did objectively good things as president, but he did nothing but harm to our politics by having no spine and not setting up anything to safeguard us against fascism, and made it easier for the right to trample our country and steal all our money.

    To say nothing of how he mishandled the changing of power when the country suddenly realized he was soup in a man suit.

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      This post isn’t about Biden. It’s about Trump supporters and how willingly they will believe something or ignore something.

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        Sorry, I didn’t see the “no talking about Biden or other aspects of the meme” sign.

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            I’m sorry I made you feel attacked for posting your meme. But not sorry about what I stated.

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              Attacked? That wasn’t even in my thoughts. It looked to me like moving the goal posts. I don’t know why you decided that Trump being a pedo or MAGA defending him wasn’t the subject here but I do know that you decided to go on a rant about Biden that wasn’t even tangential to the subject at hand.

              I wasn’t attacked. That’s just you making up an excuse to not listen. You were doing whataboutism. If you want to complain about Biden then go create a meme and post it. I might even like it because I could sure use less Biden. But to come into this with "I wish there was less Biden. Let me tell you about Biden, the person I want to never hear about again. Just to be clear I am talking about something I don’t want anyone else to talk about. He lives rent free in my head so I have to turn every conversation into something about Biden, the guy I don’t want anyone to talk about.

              It looked like you had a bad motivator unit.

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    I understand how easy it is to persuade crowds to believe things. Just keep blaring the message you want them to hear until a few of them start chanting along, and once it becomes a normal idea to have it will keep spreading, and by tying it in with the things they do believe in: maybe racism, maybe the illusion of fairness, or maybe a thin veneer of communism; suddenly the message becomes a part of their own identity by being attached to those thoughts and feelings they already had.

    What I don’t understand is not how or why, what I want to know is simply how did they become these sort of creatures in the first place when so many of us do not. Are we all equally susceptible or are there two breeds of human alive on this earth? Is it genetic or is it learned? I simply cannot bring myself to relate.

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      It starts with unhappiness and the belief that you are always right. Then it goes to “it’s okay to do bad things because I’m a good person.” Then things degrade from there under any leader that tells you what you want to hear.

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        I wouldn’t describe myself as having grown up happy, nor do I imagine a lot of the privileged and wealthy who now push extreme beliefs were unhappy.