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[–] [email protected] 232 points 1 year ago (50 children)

Trump went from majority support to majority support. He will win the nomination because conservatives, Republicans in particular are terrible, awful people. None of this is really even new, they've been terrible for decades and decades.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its astounding how gullible a majority of them actually are.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We need to find some way to meet their needs that isn't politics, because the needs they are meeting have nothing to do with governance.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is nothing you can do that they won't turn into politics. They turned the existence of groups of people into politics. That's right by simply existing its politics. And there is no way you can avoid it.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We need to find some way to meet their needs that isn’t politics

Uhh, an MMO where they can run around shooting at minorities and yelling racial epithets into their mics?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They're scared. They are powerless to affect an uncertain future. They'll get worse the longer they have to live like this. I guess we have to fix the world?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They need to stop actively working against that then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and a drowning man needs to stop thrashing and pulling down his rescuers, but he's fucking drowning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They are easily scared you mean? For people who are so easily scared of everything, they sure seem to embrace guns and COVID like it's their new Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

An acquaintance of mine and I were discussing a physical altercation that occurred between him and a random other customer at a convenience store and the ubiquitousness of guns. A scary (jumpy;nervous) person with a firearm is perhaps more dangerous than the habitual criminal with a gun because they’re more likely to fire without reason.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Your false bravado isn't fooling anyone. If you're not scared, you should be. If you feel in control of your future 20 years from now, you're lying to yourself.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been so annoying since burning crosses fell out of style.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

More to do with enforcement than fashion. Which means it is still happening where they can get away with it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Bullets? That will definitely work

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