Its like everyone is in shock because the GOP is doing exactly what they said they would.

  • Ænima
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    As long as others (e.g. brown people) have it worse, and their tribal mindset remains fueled by rhetoric that they are right and everyone else is woke, nothing will change.

  • Schwim Dandy
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    This seems the wrong community for this. Probably would have fit better in one of the 4 billion us political groups.

    • @Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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      My aunt was one of those covid deniers. She argued that if it was as bad as the experts said it 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.

  • @cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    Don’t worry. For most of them when they start understanding that their very existence is seen as a burden, they’ll be happy to say “I’m sacrificing myself for America!”. And die forgotten in a gutter.

    Brainwashing can go very far.

  • @peregrin5@lemm.ee
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    512 days ago

    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.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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    392 days ago

    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.

    • Skeezix
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      182 days ago

      Think of how stupid the average conservative is, then remember: half of them are stupider than that.

  • ssillyssadass
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    When they are the ones dying on the streets from preventable diseases.

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    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 the Republicans are 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.

      • @Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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        82 days ago

        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.

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    Very few of 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