Submitted 11 hours ago by snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Its like everyone is in shock because the GOP is doing exactly what they said they would.
All that matters to them is that brown people get oppressed, queer people are pushed back into the shadows, women don’t get any rights, etc.
They only marginally care about things like not starving due to being fucked over by the rich.
I find it very strange that so many American women vote to reduce their own rights.
Because they think they are somehow better than other women. As the Barbie movie said, hating women is the one thing men and women both agree on.
American here. As do I.
I know black people who voted for trump. I have zero explaination for you.
Like Serena in The Handmaid’s Tale
Notwithstanding all of the points already made in the comments here, a large number of these people are informed (I use that term loosely) wholly by right-wing media sources anyway, which happily lie to them about the causes of their problems as well as the effects of what their politicians are doing. In short, they don’t believe GOP policies are personally harmful to them because Fox news is constantly blaring at them that the price of eggs and gasoline, why they can’t find a doctor, why they haven’t had a raise in 20 years, etc. is actually all Joe Biden/Kamala Harris/AOC/Obama’s fault, or because the Mexicans up the street stole all the jobs, or whatever.
These people live in a constant roiling, seething ocean of propaganda largely comprised of utter falsehoods that are nevertheless plausible sounding to the uneducated, and they believe all of it.
Think of how stupid the average conservative is, then remember: half of them are stupider than that.
I keep wondering the same thing.
It’s especially galling when I see some cautionary piece in the legacy media about how some Republican policy “might” lead to some negative consequences. As if they’re unaware of that and it’s up to the media to gently nudge them and point it out.
The Republicans are fully aware of the harm their policies are going to do and that’s much of the point. They quite simply want everyone who’s not one of them to die. They’re not only okay with that - they’re eagerly looking forward to it.
The lack of empathy is a conservative hallmark.
Elon Musk , “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy,”
‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party. - Adrian Bott
those people will look at people they despise, and if they’re even worse off, their own suffering will have been worth it.
The idiots who voted for this thought it somehow wouldn’t apply to them
And not nearly enough of them will admit that they did it to themselves and learn from their mistake
That’s because the sort of people who vote against their own interests don’t grasp the idea of consequences. I’ve heard that science says we don’t fully understand consequences until a certain age. I’m becoming more and more convinced that some people just never develop a sense of consequences. These people really need to be studied.
Answer: when they’re dead.
Probably from not affording food.
It’s reciprocal. I want them to die.
Very few od the population supports GOP. The people do get it
The problem is that the US isnt a democracy. Overthrow the plutocrats and this issue goes away
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And we wouldn’t have it any other way~
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
They didn’t even realize covid was killing them while they died in droves, so my bet is on never.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
And they blamed Fauci who Trump hired and could have fired at any time.
NABDad@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Trump didn’t hire Dr. Fauci.
He was Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from November 2, 1984 to December 31, 2022.
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 7 hours ago
My aunt was one of those covid deniers. She argued that if it was as bad as the experts said ot was “people would be dropping like flies”. To her it was either people are literally dropping dead suddenly in the streets or nothing is happening.