• WanderWisley@lemmy.world
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    A hardcore maga coworker told me that “if” it’s proven that Trump “was” in the Epstein files he will still vote for him because I’m his own words “I would rather vote for a pedophile than an honest democrat.”

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      I always point to the Alabama Senate election between Roy Moore and Doug Jones. Roy Moore, known pedophile, vs. normal Democrat. Far too many conservatives went on record saying “better than a Democrat”.

      They are so anti-pedophile until suddenly they’re not. What a disgusting thing to change your opinion on, person to person.

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        Sad thing is he has 2 sons and they are also hardcore maga too. His oldest son has a toddler and he’s said he’s gonna raise his the right way in that to be conservative.

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          Ask him what specific conservative policies he supports. Don’t even push back at first, just make him try and articulate what principles he even believes in that aren’t in opposition to something. Like ask “if all the liberals vanished in an instant, what do you and your side believe in and want?”

          So many of these people are so wrapped up in fighting boogymen they just truly haven’t even realized how hollow the cart they’ve attached their horse to is

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            Yea the thing that really pisses me off about him is like most boomer or boomer adjacent people is he is extremely privileged. His dad was a founding member of Boeing after WW2 and his dad had a hand in establishing Lockheed Martin. When his dad passed he got a huge inheritance like millions and he still complains about lazy millennials and Gen Z not buying or able to afford homes and groceries.

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        No they pearl clutch and love America and the democracy it has. But they have been taught that Democrats/Liberals are horrible, disgusting people. It’s a knee jerk reaction at this point. My brother, who is hardcore maga, said “no I don’t think they are talking about you. You aren’t a ‘liberal’”. Like he was saving me from a terrible slur. And I had to nicely tell him that I am, in fact, liberal.

        It kind of feels like the hatred against “the gays” in the 90s. They need someone to hate and right now it’s the Democrats and liberals, and I guess everyone else the media has told them to hate (lgbtq, trans, etc).

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            It’s a 1 party system.
            No matter what side of it, it supports the genocider state, multinationals, bombing brown people and terrorizing the rest of the world.

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                  Lol why are you insulting me now?

                  And I never lived in a fascist dictatorship, my grandparents did. What countries are not Nazi countries for you?

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                    OK none, but some more or less fascist for sure with red MAGA and Blue MAGA (fascist-lite)the US is on it’s way.
                    But they were acting like nazi’s to the rest of the world since forever anyway.

                    Shitrael definitely.

                    The germ country can’t help themselves, always on the wrong side of history and they are just inherently evil and despicable.
                    One day they will discover a fascist gene, only found in germs and shitraeli.
                    They are also born without a soul.

                    I would be happy they if they stopped existing, the world would be a much better place

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        These people aren’t sophisticated enough to know that small-d democrats are a thing

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        Ackchyually it’s not a democracy, it’s a constitutional republic, and those are words I read off a screen. They mean that my political team is better than yours and that owning land should give my political team more voting rights than yours.

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      either that or its a low information i know one in my family, they either become defensive say “i dont care” or i dont know his policies, but still support him.

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      What!? Absolutely vile and disgusting. “I rather vote for a p*** than an honest democrat.” Are we in hell? Are we in hell? I am gonna assume most magas are p****. Every single one of them.

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      both sides of your pedo-uniparty are sick cultists. the same blind fanaticism where they choose not to see the evil of their own side in the face of obviousness.
      this ‘comic’ is a great example.
      Whatever the other side does or says is bad.
      If they said the sun comes up in the east they would deny it.

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        Lol. Lmao, even.

        “I’m okay with fucking kids. I’m okay with law enforcement murdering citizens in the streets. I’m okay with taking rights away from trans people. I’m okay with bombing children on the other side of the world”

        “I want everyone to have affordable healthcare, education, and to be free to live their life”

        BuT bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe

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          I’m okay with law enforcement murdering citizens in the streets

          That’s literally the only difference.
          And ‘citizens’, AKA yourselves is all you selfish cultists care about.
          Genocide Joe, besides actively aiding in genocide also put plenty kids in jail and many non citizens died under his regime while in ICE custody.
          He deported a lot more than Trump too.
          Of course blue magats didn’t care about any of that until they started bothering YOU and killed 2 white americans.
          You know their names and made a big fuss about it, the Mexicans, Vietnamese,etc… murdered before didn’t matter much.

          taking rights away from trans, affordable healthcare, education…

          You literally did the meme

          Sure Trump is worse for americunts , to the rest of the world continuously suffering from your warmongering and imperialism it makes no difference.
          On the contrary, I hope he does his worst, makes you suffer and runs your shithole into the ground.
          You fully deserve it.

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            You fully deserve it.

            Considering I’m not even American, what exactly do I deserve from this?