Still waiting for all those talking heads to try out waterboarding themselves so they can prove how gentle it is.
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Clbull@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think the only reason Republicans still win US elections is that your average American is stupid enough to think that waterboarding is an extreme sport.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If it was, Kahled Sheik Mohammed would be the world heavyweight champion
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’d love for this to be the case, because it would imply the problem could be educated out of them.
Instead, I believe, based on a mountain of evidence being in what the actual talking points of the republicans are, that people are instead so much more focused on hurting the people they believe should be hurt, that they are willing to make ridiculous, absurd, obviously poor trade sacrifices in order to hurt those people.
I think that they basically majority feel this way, until they specifically are hurt, and then in those situations, its not like their viewpoints have changed, except that they don’t want to be hurt themselves.
To me, this is the only theory that makes sense and explains everything, like even how some marginalized people like many latin people (such as cubans) support the regime.
They believe themselves to be better than their neighbours and think their neighbours deserve pain. Only when they themselves, personally, experience that they, infact, will never be accepted as the ingroup, do they actually have a temporary change of heart.
Unfortunately, for all of these people to have that temporary change of heart, so many would be dead it wouldn’t make a difference.
This is just one of the many reasons its wasted effort to try to convert maga people, and makes much more sense to try to wake up the people with voter apathy.
kirao47@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The story of greyface i¯\_(ツ)_/¯
enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Cuban-Americans are very split politically. Actually, every Latino nationality has varying political belief patterns when it comes to voting in the USA.
Older Cubans tend to be conservative because they were driven out by Castro and the Republicans were more aggressive toward Castro, also, some were rightwingers in Cuba and many of them rather terrible people and they naturally like to carry their ideology over their homeland.
Their children do not vote the same way as much, their grandchildren are majority on the other end.