• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    It’s because making the world better requires change and conservatives are terrified of everything, especially change.

    Go up to a conservative. Any conservative. And ask them to talk about politics. No other prompt. Just talk about politics. Don’t interrupt them for maybe 5 minutes. They’ll spend at least 95% of their time talking about fear, in some form or another. Conservatism is built upon, and maintained, by fear.

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      But its always the dumbest fear.

      Its not like “im worried about some idiot POTUS destroying my livelihood through his own ego and a misunderstanding of economic policy” or “im not going to be able to afford health care when i inevitably get sick”.

      Its always “if you let gay people get married then people will marry their pets and that would be an atrocity because reasons”.

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    Here we go again: “bad” being transcribed as gay. Why can’t people get past this shit? Why must we still make gay be an analog for bad? As a lifelong gamer, gamer culture is 100% part of the problem and a primary vector for disinformation, puritan culture, sexism, homophobia, and other kinds of hate and ignorance. We have to be fucking better than this.

    It’s so subtle to some, yet so corrosive and insidious.

  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Billionaires control the media, including millions of social media accounts. Normal people want him.

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      10 hours ago

      Not to mention all the people in this thread defending the gay jokes like it’s 2010 and we’re on the r/TumblrInAction subreddit.

      I’m just waiting for someone to get called an SJW for having a problem with Nazis getting lumped in with gay people.

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    They are so far deep into a propaganda bubble that there’s no way for you to understand it. If you could see their social media content you’d be amazed of how many lies they buy without questioning.

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      This is exactly it. I’ve tried talking to a few of the guys that I work with and they are fully sure that every democrat wants to kill all the babies and turn all of their children trans. I pointed out that abortions should be between a woman and her doctor and that the government shouldn’t be involved at all… I got a sparkle of understanding from one of them but then he doubled down that MOST abortions are purely for convenience. Like first of all, no they are not, but even if they were it’s not anybody’s business. Trying to get him to understand that I’m not pro abortion, I’m pro mind your own fucking business.

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      Seriously. What candidate is it that this innocent perfect figure here represents? Which politician is it that is like this?

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          No, I understand words. For example, loosing means to let something free, as opposed to losing which is what you would do in an argument with me. Allow me to continue:

          LOSING means 800,000 people out of work. LOOSING means letting ICE run rampant and dragging people out of their beds.

          Neither of the words mean troops deployed to our cities, since they’re really just standing around doing nothing. The national guard are literally standing around, because it’s illegal for them to do anything else, and so far their commanders are following the law.

          Just so we’re in the same conversation:

          loosed, loosing

          to let loose; free from bonds or restraint.
          Synonyms: unbind, loosen
          

          lost, losing

          to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery.
          

          I DO NOT SUFFER FOOLS.

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    That’s about right. Its sports team political party mentality.

    “I say socialist you say where”

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    They want someone to blame for their perceived misery, and to vent their anger at others having it better than them.

    It’s easier to do that instead of being introspective.

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      The same people who thought a mural of a Soviet leader kissing another man is a definitive condemnation of socialism lol.

      Like, yeah he did that. And?