Submitted 3 weeks ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I mean yeah.
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
LBJ was taking about race. It the quote “give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you” applies pretty much universally to a third of the population, maybe more. Probably more.
Every fuck time there is a Republican president they claim he is sent from God. A new Messiah and anyone who doesn’t pray to him isn’t a real Christian.
It’s manipulation and using Christianity as a weapon for political gain. Only the weak willed ones fall for that.
This is why I laugh when anyone claims that church and government is separate in America. You literally swear on the Bible before taking office. Honestly, to me, America has always had a similar air of religious fundamentalism as some middle eastern countries. I have always seen them as extreme af. The whole abortion debacle is totally about religious values and religious control. No one can convince me otherwise.
You literally swear on the Bible before taking office
Haha and even more ironic here is that trump skipped this step this time and nobody said a word.
It’s usually a Bible but you’re allowed to swear on anything.
He’s a false messiah.
Only the weak willed ones fall for that.
So, half the voting population.
Also, there has to be something else because I wouldn’t consider myself strong-willed but I’d never fall for this sort of kneejerk rhetoric leading straight to kneejerk voting.
Half of the voting population? Where’d you get that from?
I really don’t think even half of Trump voters voted for him because they think God wanted them to, and Trump voters don’t make up half the population.
Of course. Does their voter base strike you as people who give two shits about their own well being?
They run on spite. They don’t want to win- they just want you to lose. And they’ll pretend to believe whatever might have to be true to make them feel like you have.
Sorry but his voter base strikes me as people who only care about their own well being and they always flip their shit when the wrong people get burnt.
Sure, if “caring about their own well-being” = “maintaining their very fragile shitty worldview and trying to hide their pants-wetting cowardice about anything unfamiliar,” sure.
This is accurate. I have a decent amount of Republican family and friends and this week was the first time I’d seen them go, “wait, oh HELL no.” I mean there is now a Republican group that is suing this administration for not following due process and circumventing Congress. That says a lot.
Just think about a retiree boomer who had their savings wiped out. What’s left to lose? Personally, I think there is a Julius Ceasar moment coming. Not condoning that but the writing is on the wall.
It seems to be necessary that they both be personally affected, and recognize that, for them to start caring.
That depends what you mean by “well being”. Tons of MAGA folk have voted for Republicans who are cutting the social services they depend on. Clearly that is self destructive, and they know it. Rural hospitals, food stamps, national pension, etc.
That is to say, your comment doesn’t line up with reality. There must be something more going on in their heads.
Conservatives will shit their pants if it means liberals are grossed out by the smell.
Incontinence isn’t much of a put-down at this point. Trump has literally been in diapers for over a decade.
Yes. They will also sacrifice their own children and their wellbeing.
For the cult? Yes. 100% and they will never come around. There were people in the concentration camps (single digit not trying to rewrite history, this is all according to eye whiteness accounts of soldiers that feed the camps) who were still 100% to nazism and Hitler.
Not a direct answer, but the nazis created hierarchies inside the camps:
arolsen-archives.org/…/prisoner-groups-in-the-con…
It stands to reason that some of them thought they were better, and still nazis.
The first hand account I personally heard was a man named Johnson, don’t recall his first name, but his son is named Eric and he was my high school history teacher, who also served as a green beret, the father was a medic, he was traveling with a British group of soldiers, he had to do triage at a camp, lost of details stuck out to me, the nazi staff threw grenades into the offices to destroy documentation, the train tracks had been blown out for days at least and there were carts full of human remains they were transporting to who knows where. When they were gathering all the survivors they found a man alive hung on a meat hook, and he said there were a single digit number of men who came up to them, did a nazi salute and explained they were in the camp mistakenly and wear always good obedient nazis. He focused a lot on a man carrying around his brother, he did triage and told the man his brother was only hanging on by a thread, his eyes were already dry was his main concern and he marked him as ‘‘aid last’’ basically, he likely wouldn’t survive under any circumstances. Then decades later he was commuting to work in SF where he lived, and stopped to by a paper got the train, and after he spoke a man he didn’t recognize stopped him and asked if he remembered the man carrying around his brother, and he did, the man was the brother who was carried, he somehow managed to survive and recognized his voice after all those years. They stayed in contact for the rest of their lives. And lastly a student asked him what the most shocking thing he witnesses, and he said the most shocking thing that he really still didn’t understand is that the people who survived the camps and walked out weren’t destroyed, even so soon after liberation they had the capacity for joy, love, and lived their lives. I’ve talked to two men who were American soldiers and witnesses the camps in that context, and believe me, just being there for a day or two was a burden they could hardly carry, it was a living nightmare. But people survived. Anyway, That’s all I remember about it, I haven’t been able to find anything on my own to point to, but that’s enough to at least connect the story to a person I know he talked about it publicly at some point.
It takes much longer to fall out of love than the other way around.
The good news is that the magas cherry pick what lies they want to believe. And they’ll wholeheartedly believe when he says it wasn’t his dumb economic policy but [insert scapegoat here] that increased the price of eggs twentyfold.
A gifted politician will find a way to give these people an out that doesn’t require them to admit they ran behind the wrong fasces, but somehow reinstalls stability in DC. If you can’t cut a path like that all they can do is double down because sure as hellfire they won’t admit he was, or indeed they were, the problem.
They already have.
“My foot has a bullet wound if I keep shooting my foot until no foot, then problem solved”
The fuck are you guys talking about? Go outside and touch grass
nice
BigMacHole@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’m a Republican and THIS type of RHETORIC is Why this Country is So DIVISIVE! WHY can’t you Just Treat us like PEOPLE? GOSH! SO WHAT if I want Trans and Gay Kids to be Slaughtered like Sheep while Blue States literally BURN? YOU need to STOP being so DIVISIVE!
Scranulum@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Oh god this was good, it nearly got me. Flawlessly executed. The wanton capitalization is just. Perfect.
whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
You forgot “I used to be a liberal until radical leftists started putting people up against the wall for mistakenly using the wrong pronouns. So really, it’s your fault that I changed my screen name to 14Pepe88, changed all my opinions about vaccines, want to abolish the income tax, and am now okay with concentration camps at Gitmo. So, like, now I’m a centrist, and you have only the Marxists to blame.”
Seleni@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh man this is perfect lol
I remember a meme circulating a little while ago that went something like, ‘People who change their opinions because they’re annoyed by liberals are weak-willed; liberals are annoyed by other liberals every single day.’
HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see that shit so often on Reddit and you hit the nail on the head. Like so many people blame feminists or some shit for making them vote for trump.
FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
I felt my blood pressure rising as I read this
Perfect satire!
blarth@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
Random caps
<chef’s kiss>
Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
we’re talking about politicians. anyone less of a multibillion dollar corporation doesn’t count in this scenario.
no disrespect towards you personally, that’s just the way it is. that;s why many dems turned into diet republican
db2@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m stealing that.
Letsdothisok@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh gross. The ignorance…