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PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months agoAndrew Tate is a role model for millions of boys and young men.
Okay, maybe they don’t have the context needed to understand that he’s just a rapist who is desperately trying to pretend his father’s abuse was love in disguise.
But the man claimed he was the world’s first trillionaire. That’s the kind of lie a literal toddler would tell, yet grown men believed it.
Are they the majority? No, probably not.
But I can’t remember another group of people so deliberately, unapologetically stupid as modern reactionaries, nor a time where they’ve wielded so much power.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
No, hard stop. Not even fucking close. Your examples are confirmation bias.
Do you not remember the Christian groups of the… 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s? They always have, you just weren’t informed via the internet about it.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Articulate the group of people you’re talking about then, because you’re awful confident about who they are, how many of them, what they believed and how much power they weilded.
Steeve@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
What? That was a direct response to your comment. I quoted you, it’s clear who “they” is. Try reading that again.
Do you really think that I have to provide evidence to disprove bullshit anecdotal claims that were never proven in the first place? That’s not how discussion works.
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Okay, so you don’t actually know who you’re talking about, but you’re certain you’re correct.