I believe that we have reached the "finding out" phase : politicalmemes

[+] Kraiden@kbin.earth 182 points 11 months ago

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[-] yarr@feddit.nl 33 points 11 months ago

Mother fucker, HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO ALL OF THIS CRAP!! un-fucking-believable!

Hahaha but that's when they say "oh he was just trolling" or "wow, you liberals can't even tell he was joking!"

[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

I thought the whole point was that the dems are liars and the reps just openly say "how it is". Nothing changed, MAGA did not change their rhetoric. I'd really like to know what goes on in their heads.

[-] Birch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 11 months ago

I'd really like to know what goes on in their heads.

[-] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

That GIF is honestly too flattering. More like a child curled up in the fetal position, quivering like leaf, holding a loaded gun, sweating profusely, thinking everything from a housefly to a mote of dust is a'ginnim

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 121 points 11 months ago

The fact that they think the modern Democratic Party is Marxist is crazy

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 108 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Their entire echo chamber is paid to say that over and over and over so it just becomes reality to them. I explained to a coworker that basically anyone that even slightly understands Marxism hears the right say that nonsense and it sounds like if I were to say "Donald Trump is a vegan organic farmer."

It's the same category as "woke" like this book:

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

Hallmark of brainwashing. Bypass critical thinking with vague statements of the outsiders "evil", but keeps followers from actually thinking about what they are saying with those statements.

[-] Brickhead92@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Oh yeah! Well then how do you explain that the transmission is working in kahoots with this engine! /s

[-] M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 7 points 11 months ago

It's the "trans" mission.

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[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Damn trannies, ruining women’s sports (that I don’t watch anyway). How would you like it if a female you knew had to use a bathroom with a …. Woman?

That’s why I like electric vehicles: no damn trannies. Gasoline engines are so woke! Wait …..

/s

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[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I looked it up and see, "Marxism is an economic and political theory that examines the flaws inherent in capitalism. It's primarily based on the work of German philosopher and economist Karl Marx. 1. Marxist theories were influential in the development of socialism, which advocates for the shared ownership of the means of production by workers"

... That sounds like it aligns with how I see it. I like to examine the flaws in capitalism and I don't think that we, as a group, are benefitting from once CEO per company making an ass load of money via greed. Am I Marxist or no?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Don't confuse "post-Marxist understanding" with "being a Marxist."

Marx defined and described an ontology that even his opponents use as tools to describe the economy - but it wouldn't make sense to call opponents of Marx as 'Marxists' would it?

Just examining flaws in and of itself isn't socialism, although arguably saying capitalism has no flaws is pro-capitalist.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

Do you want to abolish capital, corporations and private property?

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm starting to like those ideas... don't threaten me with a good time. (Can't be worse than the global oligarchy we currently have).

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 8 points 11 months ago

Instead of checking a dictionary, do you want to ask actual Marixists what they think of the Democratic Party? You can find plenty of them around here. They tend not to have anything nice to say about the Democrats, and would be insulted at the comparison.

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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

They're talking about the modern Democratic Party, not you personally.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 110 points 11 months ago

"Does he still have your vote?"

"Yes."

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 35 points 11 months ago

"he literally is going to enrich himself at our expense and do nothing to help you. Nothing but lies to get elected."

"I mean sure, he'll throw us all under the bus for a buck, but I can't vote for the Demonrats they kill babies to make the bindings for Das Capital, they facefuck Santa Claus, and they just legalized beating white Christian men with discarded genitalia from gender surgery for the sin of being conservative. It's mandatory in Commifornia now. Don't you even pay attention to Reality™©®!? Sean Hannity said so which means it's 100% TRUE! It's like all you do is watch biased media! Sean Hannity says that we conservatives need to work together to get Republicans in office so obviously he's not biased, he's one of us!"

[+] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 102 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[-] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 43 points 11 months ago

She was sugarcoating her bigotry and here you are questioning everything

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

"my mind generates words to say that make me win every encounter"

"I must fully understand psychology for it is impossible for others to be wrong -- perhaps it's my understanding of the cosmos. Perhaps they are victims of a grand campaign of misinformation. Nobody would disagree if we had the same facts, right? I must retreat to my haven in the mountains and meditate of mankind."

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 11 months ago

People are primarily driven by emotion. Some people almost exclusively so.

You can't really convince people of things with facts and figures. That's like trying to heat your bedroom by making a bonfire down the street.

We're all emotional, and all of us sometimes follow our feelings over more rational motivations. But a lot of people are pretty much all emotion, and they vote for bad policy.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Emotions are important to a full inner life, but letting them decide how you behave is a sign of immaturity.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

People are primarily driven by emotion

Some people are driven by emotion, some driven by facts and logic. The balance has shifted to the "poorly educated" who are helpless against Putin's psyops and Republican manipulation - "They are eating the cats", indeed.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 11 months ago

I think it's important to recognize none of us are immune to emotion. We're not Vulcans. Some people are a little better about keeping them in balance, but even that depends on factors like "did you get enough sleep?" and "do you feel secure and safe?"

If you stress anyone out long enough they're going to become more emotional driven and less coolly rational.

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

How did the conversation actually go? Because my immediate question would have been "why was that your deciding factor?"

[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months ago

Grandpa was crying about losing his workforce at the factory due to border laws.

Oh sorry did the consequences of your vote come sooner than you thought?

Dumb cunt

[-] Kit 51 points 11 months ago

I'm curious what Trump lie led to this

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 22 points 11 months ago

The possibilities are endless!

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

The ouster of Bob Good and the H1-B visa controversy, I think.

[-] Pika@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I'm guessing probally the reverse inflation / food prices lie, it's the only one I ever see bitched about, but yes there are many

[-] errer@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago

This small vocal fraction of MAGA on social media is so insignificant and irrelevant to most of the people who voted for Trump. There’s absolutely no chance my dumbass aunt is aware of any of this.

[+] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago

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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 15 points 11 months ago

Because while liberals have a vague, uselessly imprecise understanding of what some unimportant words mean, like liberal and socialist, the conservative base holds knowing things in active contempt and the leadership likes to keep them that way.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 36 points 11 months ago

Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.

[-] Entertainmeonly 10 points 11 months ago

Bush Jr was really something else. 😂

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, but remember when we thought you couldn't get any worse than him?

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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

love me some isms, comedy gold

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 11 months ago

They misunderestimated me.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 28 points 11 months ago

It's almost as if Trump is a symptom and not the cause of the MAGA movement.

[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

I wish the finding out phase were only this bad, tbh. The real shit goes down starting in at least 23 days and only gets worse after that.

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

I wish Democrats were as cool as conservatives think they are.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

The full scale of the finding out part will occur in 2028. Yes, the USA is going to be a massive train wreck with Putin's Sock Puppet increasing socialism to cover up his failures. For example, farm subsidies in 2017 were around $7 billion and in 2020, he nailed $23 billion. The abused Payment Protection Plan...$953 billion down the drain. We'll see if the Louisiana bird flu really mutates and busts out of the red run turd hole.

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

Openly evil Marxist traitors.

As opposed to the guys doing a bait and switch right? No betrayal there...

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

This is the perfect opportunity. MAGAs have been betrayed by their leader, and their leader (Musk) is inviting dozens of scabs from other countries to do what would otherwise be high paying jobs for peanuts.

We can turn the Left Vs. Right Dichotomy into a Rich Vs. Poor one. Much better odds

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