A nation of idiots.

  • theblurstoftimes@leminal.space
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    3 days ago

    And yet they voted for trump because he was supposed to be the second coming magic man changing everything with a whim of that magical tether ball pole up his ass.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    /facepalm You have to be a really special kind of idiot to believe that.

    Of course, the same set of fucking morons thought Biden did something to have inflation spike in 2022 - you’d ask them about Russia attacking Ukraine and they tend to glitch out.

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      They believed in post birth abortions and ivermectin too. I feel like manipulating them is like shooting fish in a barrel.

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        Yep. Gullible as fuck. That’s why they always target Christians too. Republicans know they’re easily mislead already.

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    Relax, it’s 41.6% of 500 republican primary voters. A combined majority chose Trump, Congress or Corporations, which frankly are all good answers.

    And again, these are GOP primary voters- although they have an open primary so it may include some Democrats and Independents. Just, not as many as registered Republicans.

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    Yesterday I was at the grocery store and I saw Biden walking around raising price on various meat and produce.

    When I confronted him he pointed to his secret service snipers, asked if I was feeling lucky and did triple backward handsprings to the nearest emergency exit.

    When I was bringing the groceries to my car after I found a note saying he’d have my family killed if I said anything.

  • ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world
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    Which confirms what fox news and GOP leadership has successfully leveraged for years without remorse: southern conservative voters are highly vulnerable to propaganda, and are unable to change their views based on new information. They just blindingly believe it. This is why religion makes sense to them and why science is confusing and viewed with suspicion. Now where that intellectual stubbornness stems from I don’t know.

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        No, it comes from chronic undereducation.

        Ignorant opinions are borne of ignorance. Ignorance is cured with education and knowledge.

        Ignorant masses are much easier to control, which is why education is… not exactly a priority in a lot of places.

        The entire right wing is built on ignorance and anti-intellectualism, which is why reality has a perceived left wing bias. Every right wing talking point is built on a lie that most right wing supporters are too ignorant to see through.

        Thus the circle is complete.

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      3 days ago

      Speak with a twang and wearing a cross and they’ll hang their parents if you tell em the country is on the line

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    3 days ago

    ‘You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know…morons. What did you expect?’

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        They’ve been propagandized by the fascist grifters to believe education is not of the Lord, and their legacy racism/hate has been encouraged to stoke a cultural war. Why turn on your oppressors when you can receive “protection” from gays, commies and brown people?

        Hatred is just a result of class oppression anyway. When you’re economically and culturally oppressed, you’ll believe the grifters who distract you with convenient scapegoats.