• Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    The statements he is making would have had anyone socially ostracized and effectively exiled. Yet, here is a presidential candidate saying the most batshit things you have ever heard. Schools performing gender affirming operations? How the fuck you get to the point where you believe that? Show me the operating room in the school. This is why I believe we are fucked. This doesnt go away, not even if Trump dies. We have to find a way to deprogram or find a way to build resistance to this bullshit so that when our generations die out, the following ones are less prone to propaganda and manipulation. And gee, I wonder Why Rubepublicans have been destroying education for longer than I have been alive.

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      24 days ago

      I bet if you scoured his printed quotes by day you could find something that’d have disqualified anyone else for each day. Yet some people actually believe the shit that comes out of his upper anus.

    • Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      24 days ago

      His lies/alternate reality are not so much believed as embraced - the people who support him already loathe and hate the things he’s talking about. All he’s doing is lending them legitimacy. Most people are, by and large, reactionary and seek out things and people that confirm their own beliefs. Nothing here is new apart from the scale of it and the new technical ability to increase that scale.

    • Soup@lemmy.cafe
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      24 days ago

      He doesn’t believe any of it. He just knows his loyalists and followers are fucking stupid. So he’s taking advantage of this for votes. He’s desperate.

      The problem is. He’s hit his threshold. He’s not picking up new voters. So he’s going further into the abyss to try and get the full-time bat shit insane voters.