Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists?

• balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨22⁩ ⁨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)

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The messaging was:

    • Harris - I agree with everything Biden’s did and wouldn’t change a thing
    • Trump - Biden’s economy was a mess and I’m going to fix it

    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.

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    • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What do I expect them to think? “Trump was a shit president last time, why would I give him another shot”

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        To the average voter who doesn’t follow things very closely, the options were basically:

        • bad, but the same as the previous admin, which did stuff that negatively impacted me
        • bad, but different; the last time they were in office, they didn’t do things that impacted me too much

        Unfortunately, far too many people blame the economy on the sitting President, when they often have little influence on it. Trump was president during an economic boom, and got out just as COVID was going. Biden was president through COVID, and by all accounts was incapable of the job during at least part of his term. What do you expect the average person to do who doesn’t follow politics closely but catches bits and pieces closer to the election? Of course they’ll go with the person promising change over the person promising the status quo…

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  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

    Ah, yes, there are also the terminally dumb and uneducated.

    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.”

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    • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨21⁩ ⁨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.

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