• FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I cannot bring myself to believe that this is real. The only way I can believe someone so eloquent of a writer would believe Trump is if they are in on it and it seems she’s not a billionaire. Also, I don’t think people who would vote for Trump 3 times would ever have the ability to reflect and change their view on him.

    If they would be capable of that, we wouldn’t be here in the first place.

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      7 hours ago

      For me it was how easily they slipped in the phrase “Epstein shutdown” that gave it away. That just seems so clearly phrased by someone who always hated Trump cosplaying as victim of a face eating leopard.

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      24 hours ago

      100%. Rightwingers believe people who use welfare are mostly undeserving except the occasional outlier. They’d more easily accept that the dems simply won’t let Trump release the Epstein list or some conspiratorial nonsense than call it the Epstein shutdown. This is a lib doing a “How do you do fellow cultists”.

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        Rightwingers believe people who use welfare are mostly undeserving except the occasional outlier.

        And all of their family members who rely on welfare are in the “outlier” group. Because they aren’t like those other people. They really need it.

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          Or they also hate their family members. It can be pretty hard to convince these types of people that your medical conditions are actually real if they’re not as visible as e.g. amputated limbs, and then they just see you as lazy failures or something.

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      21 hours ago

      The moment she expressed concern for people who weren’t her, or directly related to her, was what broke the suspension of disbelief for me.

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      22 hours ago

      The belt got tighter and tighter until it started to hurt them personally. Then they started to reflect.

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      12 hours ago

      Don’t doubt the human capacity for self reflection deception. I’ve met quite a few of articulate imbeciles who voted orange.

      Edit: deception. Self deception. Autocorrupt got the best of me.

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        Edit: deception. Self deception. Autocorrupt got the best of me.

        This shit is why I never use autocorrect. It’s way too easy to end up saying this kind of absurd garbage, some typos and typing slightly slower can never be as bad as that. And I’m already the type who might forget a “not” and thus say the complete opposite of what I intended …

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        20 hours ago

        Kelsey Grammar, who player Frasier and the X-man Beast, is famously a Trump asslicker.

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      13 hours ago

      If you haven’t had the “pleasure”, talk to a Republican in real life. This is how they think…