• Nurgus@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    They aren’t stupid. They’re reacting intelligently to the information they’ve been saturated in. Unfortunately that information is maliciously poor.

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      11 days ago

      They’re dumb as shit.

      Misinformation is ample & fully aware “the impressionables” get targeted on social media… but unless they’ve been living on a different planet they’re fully aware of Trump’s history. His felony convictions alone were global news.

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      11 days ago

      I said that years ago but times change. The nonsense they need to convince themselves of is absolutely wild and it must take a herculian daily effort on their part to maintain their collective insanity if we decide to say they aren’t stupid.

      So much of what they hear should qualify as the moment they went “hey, wait a second” but they just keep on going deeper and deeper. They are fools and everyone else needs to deal with that.

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      11 days ago

      There’s an ethical obligation not to let yourself be a rube. They failed in that.

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        10 days ago

        This is the most libbed up comment I’ve ever seen.

        Y’all are fucked until you figure this shit out.

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      10 days ago

      Not to mention the fact that democrats/liberals have consistently failed to counter message against this propaganda or even acknowledge the issues that face americans.

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      11 days ago

      But he was already president for 4 years and everyone on the planet knows how incompetent he is and how little he cares. This isn’t a: let’s see if the fat pedo is a good president, it’s a case of: we (should) already know he’s incompetent but we also hate brown people just as much.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      All this republican nazi propaganda is blatant. Nobody gets the excuse of thinking any of it’s true. It presents as horseshit, not even as some genuine misunderstanding.