Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists?
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 day agoI dunno I’ve watched enough of the maga people talk to be pretty confident they just hate the world.
The “this guy will shake things up” argument would make sense if he hadn’t already been out single most corrupt president in a generation.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
You seem to be talking about influencers and whatnot. I’m talking about your average Joe in the middle that doesn’t really follow politics but was mad at things getting more expensive over Biden’s term. They aren’t large in numbers, but they tend to determine elections.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 20 hours ago
Ah, yes, there are also the terminally dumb and uneducated. But those people are just weaponized votes. They don’t appear to have their own thoughts or agency, just mindless drones following whatever their one podcast or one cable network or their one YouTube guy tells them to do.
But no, there’s also plenty of videos of random magas in various formats, and a driving factor for those people appears to be hate (with a healthy mix of not understanding the concept of cause and effect)
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
The messaging was:
What do you expect the average person to take away from that?
Harris ran an awful campaign IMO, so it’s not surprising that people opted for the alternative.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 10 hours ago
What do I expect them to think? “Trump was a shit president last time, why would I give him another shot”
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This is the response to people being unhappy prices sharply increased under Biden?
A statement that will always remain relevant: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 18 hours ago
No, they arent dumb for not liking price increases. It’s the lack of understanding of cause and effect that makes them dumb, not liking or disliking an effect.
The reason that saying is relevant is because people are stupid.
Of course as with many situations, trump is the exception to the rule: because congress isn’t doing its job and is allowing trump to randomly increase costs by 100% then 50% then 200% then 100% over the course of a single summer, he has had an outsized impact on the economy in a way that no other president has had for generations. And he managed to do it twice, the first time bungling covid so badly that he contributed heavily to the massive inflation we’ve experienced since he was last in office.