Nowadays, yes.
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reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Are all Republicans this childish and petty?
samus12345@lemm.ee 11 months ago
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
This is what they want. See, Trump is utterly destroying America’s economy and nucleus of global hegemony. The people are in for increasingly tough circumstances as China just stops trading with America, and all previous allies start to shun the country. Trump is trying to grow the US military to start his fascist wars of conquest both south and north. This will also put the people in increasingly dire circumstances, both with the massive amount of death involved in such a conflict and in the mass reallocation of resources towards war efforts. He can’t talk about those things openly to the people because he’d have to admit their lives are going to get significantly worse. So, what can he do instead?
He can do the same thing he’s been doing the entire time. Build a fervore for ethnic cleansing and eugencist racialist politics. The people are trained to lap it up without even thinking, and they get genuinely itchy for their next fix. Who’s the minority we’re hating today? Who’s the person of color we’re going to commit vile acts of cruelty on today? Where do I direct my homicidal rage at the threat to my inherent superiority today? This is how they are. Every single day, Fox News, Twitter, and the White House all come together to deliver. They fill the bowl, and the bigots heads are down gorging themselves on it while their own lives are horrifically torn apart around them.
It doesn’t matter what else he’s doing. He’s fighting DEI. He’s putting black people and women in their place. He’s making immigrants, muslims, jews, and the queers afraid again. His support base is unyielding. We know they will never yield because fascists never do. Even decades after the end of World War 2, many former SS and former Nazi supporters STILL thought Hitler was sent from God and that everything he did was right. Even as Soviet bombs were falling on their heads. The ardent supporters of fascism will support it literally until they die. They loved that Hitler was committing genocide. They loved that he was cruel and inhuman. They admired how the image he portrayed so neatly fit with their patriarchal worldview.
Are the people who support these kinds of tweets petty and childish? Absolutely they are. This isn’t even about pettiness though. This is what they voted for. They voted for people of color to suffer. They voted for immigrants to suffer. If it came out tomorrow that he died in that hellhole they’d all cheer.
tang999@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So well stated.
rustyfish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Remember when you have been 16 and you fell for every single rage bait there is on the internet, wasting your next 2-3 years on defending gaming and your virginity from SJWs and radical feminism?
Imagine you never grew out of that. That’s your modern day republican.
entwine413@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Some people never mature past middle school
desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
and failed to to develop maturity and independence in middle school?…
Absaroka@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Childish and petty? Or ‘winning’?
MunkyNutts@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
- Lyndon Johnson
toiletobserver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re actually not.
A lot of them are, and definitely the ones online 24/7.
But trump having the actual official White House communicate like this does add up and will hurt Republican votes.
trump isoving to fast and it’s what’s gonna end up stopping it. It’s why I hate when people act like trump is the problem, if he died today Vance takes over and they do the same evil shit, just smarter about it
Quadhammer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not nearly such a cult following though
pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
🌏👩🚀🔫👩🚀
AshMan85@lemmy.world 11 months ago
99.9% of them, yes
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
In the terminally internet-bound, this has led to some consternation.
Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The boomers are dying off.
They’ve decided to go after the edge lord young men for their next voter base.
Unfortunately it appears to be working.