For real. Coming to grips with the fact that more than half of the people around me (Midwest US) voted for this motherfucker to come back has been incredibly difficult. I do not trust my fellow Americans to do the right thing anymore. I no longer believe that most people are good. MAGA has fully exposed the selfish, rotten core of a hefty chunk of the populace.
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Cruxifux@feddit.nl 1 day ago
The popularity of Trump in the USA scares the shit out of me. It’s absolutely disturbing to see from the outside. Like we have trump people here but not 40 fucking percent.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 16 hours ago
Garbage in, garbage out. Most people have terrible taste and don’t have any clue what is good for them or their relationships with others/their environment. We are just monkeys with calculators after all
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
I’m from the US, and I only left a few years ago, but I can’t really recognize it anymore. I used to work at the headquarters of a fortune 200 company, which is probably the most conservative environment I’ve ever been in (though it was still in New England, so take that with a grain of salt). Sometimes I think about my former coworkers and try to imagine them as trump supporters, which is difficult to do. I have no issue picturing them as diehard Kamala supporters, and I can imagine them being totally unmoved by the genocide in Palestine, but one of three things must be true: society is so stratified that I just don’t know many trump supporters; people have significantly changed since 2021; or they were hiding.