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[-] CultHero@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

I as a Canadian just don't get the appeal. He's not handsome by any stretch so there's no ascetic attraction.

He's not nearly as wealthy as he claims he is so it can't be admiration for his success.

He's got zero charisma so it can't be his charm.

He's as dumb as a pile of rocks so it can't be they admire his intelligence.

He's got the athletic prowess of a half dead goldfish and the skin tone of one so it can't be his physical ability.

I honestly just can't fathom the appeal.

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

He appeals to the hateful, and the stupid. He wants to hurt the people they want hurt. It's that simple.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago

I imagine if you were also as dumb as a pile of rocks you'd think he was perfectly smart.

There is no appeal, they're just too stupid to understand his flaws.

[-] Juigi@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

We are talking about Americans here. They aren't the brightest people. So to most of these points they think the opposite.

[-] in4aPenny@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Because legacy, independent, and basement medias are constantly beaming images of Trump at them, and when they're given no other option of ideas that's the only one they know. That's why I find it hard to believe that Trump is a Russian asset, then it would mean the media is also owned by Russians, but they're not, they're owned by Western billionaires. Trump has been engineered by the ruling class, and so has his popularity.

[-] YeeterPan@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

You think that Donald Trump won because too many people saw his picture on TV?

I'm going to say he won because he said the quiet part out loud and a good chunk of Americans are just dumb bigoted fucks. Especially now.

[-] DragonAce@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ding!! The ruling class used Trump to weaponize bigotry.

Whats fucked up is as I've watched all of this unfold, I can't help but briefly entertain the idea that those fuckers all decided to do their own version of Richmond Valentine's Plan from Kingsman:

When you get a virus, you get a fever. That's the human body raising its core temperature to kill the virus. Planet Earth works the same way: global warming is the fever, mankind is the virus. We're making our planet sick. A cull is our only hope. If we don't reduce our population ourselves, there's only one or two ways this can go: the host kills the virus, or the virus kills the host. Either way...

[-] elbucho@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I think that when a person with a relatively normal level of intelligence hears the word salad that Trump routinely strings together, their response is usually along the lines of: "What the hell is that idiot saying now?"

But when a MAGAT hears him speak, they think: "Well shit. I can't understand what he's saying, and I think I'm pretty smart, so he must be a genius!"

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 11 months ago

A lot of people have explanations based on rational reasoning, like if they see the same facts that we do, but reach different conclusions. But these explanations always come off feeling a bit, I dunno, wobbly. What if it's not rational at all? What if it's a form of brainwashing, or something like hypnosis?

What Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán Understand About Your Brain

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