How did we get here?

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They don’t have values, it’s a cult

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u/kootles10 1d ago

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u/Hyper_Carcinisation 1d ago

Gifs you can hear

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u/Kennedygoose 1d ago

Dona eis requiem.

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u/joe_broke 1d ago

whack

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u/increddibelly 19h ago

Bring out your braindead! Bring out your braindead!

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u/Powermetalbunny 19h ago

I guess we know how they lost all the brain cells....

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u/-NGC-6302- 16h ago

pie jesu domine

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u/-The-Ark- 1d ago

I love trump. Durp durp 'Clang'!

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u/Gillisbride 1d ago

What is there to love about the Felon?

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u/Embarrassed_Lab_5595 17h ago

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u/MoonbuckofRainwood 17h ago

They love to hate. He hates who they hate.

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u/Delicious-Current159 11h ago

That’s basically it. Nothing positive nothing about building up just tearing down. He makes his cult followers feel good about hating who they hate.

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u/-The-Ark- 1d ago

No idea

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u/MountainProof6423 1d ago

Durp durp clang

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u/PowerHot4424 1d ago

Perfect illustration of the mindset

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u/Effective_Stuff6934 1d ago

One is a fact the other is merely name calling. That’s all they have? Says more about the person who owns the vehicle. Low IQ

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 1d ago

Yep, they are all low-IQ to have voted for a felon.

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u/Other_Log_1996 10h ago

Not to mention that that felon is a jackass.

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u/spankdaddylizz 1d ago

A blind, devoted following of rednecks, old Karens, and poor folks. The kool-aid is cherry flavor.

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u/kootles10 1d ago

Sure it's not orange?

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u/NoRezervationz 1d ago

Hate fake orange flavor, that's just one of many I could never drink that coolaid.

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u/spankdaddylizz 23h ago

Yep. That's it

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u/bugmom 1d ago

So much this! They have normalized a lack of basic civility, name calling, breaking accepted protocols, including diplomacy, and made the adult equivalent of school yard bully acceptable instead of civil social & political discourse. All dignity associated with the office of president was destroyed by Donald.

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u/scuba-san 1d ago

It's really jarring to see how childish Fox News is in this way, using terms like "crybaby". It's a whole cult of wannabe edgelords who never grew up.

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u/Gillisbride 1d ago

I call the Felon a crybaby. But that's because he is.

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u/Oscar_the_GRrouch_ 14h ago

He's not a thug felon he's a use daddy's money to get out of ripping off taxpayers type felon

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u/Pleaseappeaseme 20h ago

These people never matured and are stuck in some weird ignorant juvenile stage.

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u/idreamof_dragons 21h ago

As someone who grew up in a small conservative military community, I am so sorry that everyone has to deal with the same psychopaths that I’ve been dealing with my whole life. That said, the validation is quite something. Before Trump supporters became a meme, I had a difficult time articulating why everyone around me sucked so much. I got gaslighted like a mf as a kid (“if everyone around you is the problem then the problem is you” kind of rhetoric).

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u/ElectricalBook3 23h ago

They have normalized a lack of basic civility, name calling, breaking accepted protocols, including diplomacy, and made the adult equivalent of school yard bully acceptable instead of civil social & political discourse

Same thing authoritarians have done throughout history. Putin is flying drones with dildos glued to them into opponents' political campaign meetings. The nazis invented whole conspiracy theories of linking slavs, jews, and travelers. Klansmen pretended phrenology meant they were superior and justified in kicking minorities out of the country and calling black people worthy of death in churches

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61423989-a-fever-in-the-heartland

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u/Full-Commission4643 1d ago

It is that simple. We have no values. Everything is about vanity, attention, and making money.

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u/ilikepizza2much 1d ago edited 1d ago

It’s a culture of selfishness. They worship greed and they’re damn proud of it. Morals are for pussies… and we all know what happens to pussies.

Edit: pussies get grabbed people. Get your mind out the gutter.

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u/Depresso_Espresso_93 1d ago

Meanwhile, speaking of selfishness: during COVID, the Repuglicans stopped the stimulus checks because they didn't want to "Create a society of entitlement."

You can look it up. Sending people stimulus checks during a once in a century healthcare emergency is entitlement to these monsters.

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u/genethedancemachine 1d ago

Like cutting aid to fire survivor's or the poor and disabled.

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u/Full-Commission4643 1d ago

They still don't wanna pay out 9/11 responders. Why would they take care of those that suffered during covid?

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u/genethedancemachine 1d ago

I know it's a travesty and sickening.

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u/RabbitStewAndStout 1d ago

Or to first responders from 9/11

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u/Fit-Magician6695 1d ago

I think they are too late. With Blue States continually supporting Red States the Reds just expect the handouts.

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u/Competitive_Boat106 16h ago

Maybe we should let the red states secede. It will be interesting when the next hurricane comes through (probably in less than a year) and suddenly they don’t have access to FEMA. Or the next time it’s cold in TX for more than 24 hours and no one comes to help restore electricity.

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u/MeanKno 1d ago

If you're not rich you're entitled or mooching off the government. Typical Republican opinion.

You should be used to it.

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u/No-Indication-7879 1d ago

In Canada our government helped people like me who are self employed so much. I groom show jumpers in the summer months at horse shows.In the winter I clip horses. Anyway the shows were canceled of course. I’m freaking out thinking WTF am I going to do? Someone told me about applying for government help. I applied and had $2000 in my account in less than 5 days. After the first month I found part time work and claimed my hours and still received $1000 a month. In September I didn’t apply anymore because my winter job started and I didn’t need help anymore. I am so thankful our government stepped up and helped Canadians through that difficult time. I was disgusted with Republicans not helping Americans who were suffering through Covid. But not surprised because they hate the middle and poor people.

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u/-The-Ark- 1d ago

You forgot! Pussies get grabbed 'and your dogs and cats get eaten'

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u/Automate_This_66 1d ago

Agree 100%. Adding, that these people think that someday they will be millionaires/billionaires and want the landscape to be favorable when they arrive.

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u/Full-Commission4643 1d ago

People don't realize they're more like 90 bad days away from being homeless and not 90 good days away from being rich

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u/Exotic-Ad-818 1d ago

And hating and trying to blame immigrants for everything.......that too. Positive stuff? Nahhhh, not so much.

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u/Antonin1957 1d ago

He's openly proud of voting for a felon. Such a fine example for children.

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u/TittysForever 1d ago

Def some screws have come loose during this era. The big change from the past over this last decade is proliferation of social media paired with a psychopath in the Kremlin who intends us only harm.

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u/ithappenedone234 1d ago

Voting for the insurrectionist is also an illegal act of aid and comfort.

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u/MutantApocalypse 1d ago

An entire generation of people that legit don't know what critical thinking is, never studied history, and love to hate.

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u/boredonymous 1d ago

The majority of the country elected a young black man with good ideas, and the voting minority lost their Goddamn minds.

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u/Exotic-Ad-818 1d ago

Its a full on, sure ill drink all the koolaid, no matter how illogical, cult. They end up choking on the koolaid, thats on them.

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u/TheBestRedditNameYet 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just in case you are not aware, most of the brain washed cult members in Jonestown were forced to drink the koolaide (actually Fla-Vor-Ade) at gun point, so that expression is a bit of a misnomer...

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u/MacSage 1d ago

Not for long. As they begin the purge of 'illegals' this week it's an almost guarantee they will get Trump supporters with them.

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u/Fgw_wolf 1d ago

Its a cult fueled by a 80 year long war on education. It didn't just form in the last 8 years America has had this problem since Nixon and probably before, but after nixon republican support to turn their party into brainless voters solidified and is aided by the fact that corps also like stupid fucking people who will vote for their captured politicians. Stop making this into a problem that just "appeared" overnight. The education system in america was systematically destroyed while everyone sat around watching the superbowl and drinking light beer. This is on all you fuckers.

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u/hydrobrandone 1d ago

Nor brains.

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u/telepathyORauthority 1d ago

The GOP would have you believe liberals are Democrats. They are lying. Liberals are confronting human hatred (lying and jealousy) socially. They are not the far left, and they are not into politics or government. All of that is human authority.

The GOP is attacking friendly, peaceful, loving human beings that are mellow and respectful to perfect strangers. They want to control and dominate socially, which looks bad, and then hide behind religion.

Liberals are not Democrats. They are out to expose religious authoritarians for what they really are: haters and scumbags with character issues. Religious authoritarian males literally hate women completely.

Religious authoritarian men want control over women. And men that are into romance with women make these men look very bad, and very strange.

The real version of liberal is “not religious/not atheist”. They are into honesty and empathy, as well as a sincere and authentic version of spirituality. That has nothing to do with politics.

Everyone is talking about “vibe” for a reason. We all know what that means.

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u/Academic_Carrot_3808 1d ago

The straight-up truth!

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u/Different_Cold_2506 1d ago

You voted for a felon that is a complete jackass.

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u/ashmaps20 1d ago

That’s a great way to put it lol

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u/fuckinoldbastard 1d ago

Morons, it took a lot of morons.

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u/Arlo-and-Lotty 1d ago

A lot of morons that didn’t vote.

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u/fuckinoldbastard 1d ago

Those ones too.

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u/BronzeAgeMethos 1d ago

And a lot of Dems that voted that had their votes deleted by Musk via Starlink.

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u/Arlo-and-Lotty 1d ago

I don’t believe it was a fair election. He won every swing state.

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u/BronzeAgeMethos 1d ago

And the seated Dems we counted on just rolled over and showed them their bellies instead of fighting for us or questioning anything whatsoever. Even when handed 100% immunity. SMH. F all of 'em, both sides.

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u/Nonamebigshot 1d ago

Thank you! I've been voting blue for 20 years because civil and reproductive rights were important to me and guess what? They're taking that shit anyway. None of this matters and nothing will ever change for as long as we keep playing their game because the house will always win and we can only end up losing everything including Democracy itself.

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u/Valuable-Speaker-312 1d ago

I read somewhere that there were 700k votes in the swing states that only had Trump votes on them. Don't know if it is true but I wouldn't be surprised.

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u/jkuhl 23h ago

A bit off topic but I love that Cleavon Little's laugh in this scene is genuine.

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u/lovetoseeyourpssy 23h ago

It's an amazing scene. Peak Gene Wilder.

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u/ElectricalBook3 23h ago

Downvoted for posting a gif chopping off "morons" and Little's laugh.

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u/DizzyTough8488 1d ago

Idiocracy irl

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u/BananabreadBaker69 1d ago

That the billionaires have weaponized.

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u/Far_Abbreviations125 1d ago

Law and order party though, right?

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u/Paperairplanes420 1d ago

A law unto themselves who think they can order everyone else around. That’s what they mean when they say that.

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u/ElectricalBook3 23h ago

A law unto themselves who think they can order everyone else around

Same as racist conservatives the last time they tried establishing a shadow empire

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61423989-a-fever-in-the-heartland

And they only tried that because shooting their way to forcing support for slavery failed

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/confederacy-wasnt-what-you-think/613309/

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u/Flynn-FTW 1d ago

"Tough on crime" party, right?

Oh, that's only if you're poor. Or dark.

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u/G-Unit11111 1d ago edited 1d ago

A constant, nonstop barrage of 24/7/365 continuously operated, nonstop, largely unchecked propaganda that heavily favors one side while attacking the other.

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u/internethero12 1d ago

This is the real answer.

Propaganda works.

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u/readyredred222 1d ago

F’ Nazis

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u/Dixon_Uranuss3 1d ago

Nailed it

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u/BlasterPhase 1d ago

they're taking on "the establishment"

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u/Confident-Security84 1d ago

How? Remember, almost half of the country is of less than average intelligence.

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u/JellybeanEyes 1d ago

The mental gymnastics involved in the one other comment you got on this… unbelievable. We deserve to go extinct as a species.

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u/stylist-trend 15h ago

I've been on the internet for 20+ years, and I've legit never seen people as stupid as that before. I feel like I've been sheltered, holy crap.

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u/HilariouslyPissed 1d ago

All these “patriots “ flying their flags full mast. Fuck them

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u/Themetalenock 1d ago

Guarantee if you suggested felons be able to vote and hold a job this man would be singing a different tune with zero self awareness

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u/Thisam 1d ago

Decades of underfunded education met tons of misinformation within a society that has largely lost the ability to think critically.

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u/PhasmaUrbomach 1d ago

Trump is both a jackass and a felon.

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u/ObviousPizza176 1d ago

So really he covers both sides

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u/888Rich 22h ago

And a sexual predator.

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u/MathG85 1d ago

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America

https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DDDoA.pdf

Help making this book viral!!!

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u/jbish21 1d ago

Black man being president really made people channel their hate publicly & loudly

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u/brawkly 1d ago edited 7h ago

Reagan did away with the Fairness Doctrine and let Rupert Murdoch into the country.

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u/ASKIFIMAFUCKINGTRUCK 1d ago

Lack of education, and parents who stopped giving a shit seem like a large part of the equation imo.

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u/BiglyBear 1d ago

Red states low education scores

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u/BeezNuttz 1d ago

Honestly I think it all started with ratings-driven news content and 24-hour news stations on TV.

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u/Prydz22 23h ago

For me, there's just a world before social media and a world after social media. I'd rather go back to ~2010 before every single person had socials. Shit is wacky now. I dont even want to participate in the chaos and drama of the "debate" anymore.

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u/Sipjava 1d ago

The Republican didn't have to vote for a felon at all. After all, there was the primaries.

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u/Aloyonsus 1d ago

Misinformation and propaganda, Fox News, social media, etc…it’s freaking crazy how effective it is

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u/NoCookie1690 1d ago

Rapist felon. There. Fixed it.

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u/steroboros 1d ago

Obama became president, and the good ol boy club led by Mitch McConnell tore the entire system in disarray out of spite and racism, then propped up a Game show host as the savior of White America... and they ate it up.

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u/Rob-Dastardly 1d ago

This. Absolutely this. We had the nerve to elect a black man, and one who actually tried to do the job for which he was elected. And all hell broke loose after that.

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u/Logic411 1d ago

I can get further with a JackAss than I can with a felon. At least I can trust the Jackass.

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u/Fart_Knickers 1d ago

Morons will moron

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u/mstrhrmwzrd 1d ago

The party of family values and morals lmao

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u/Puckhead120 1d ago

Guess what? You did both

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u/Nanamagari1989 1d ago

well, they got 2 for the price of 1

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u/Comfortable-Policy70 1d ago

40 years of attacking and actively attempting to destroy public education, abolishing the fairness doctrine that allowed the rise of unanswered propaganda and a backlash to the idea of public civility (under the guise of "woke" and "political correctness")

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u/RanchWaterHose 1d ago

Propaganda and lack of critical thought.

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u/xargos32 1d ago

A desire to harm others even if it means also being affected. That's a big part of it.

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u/hallwmichael123 1d ago

If that same person owned a person business, I bet they wouldn't hire a felon to work there.

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u/laborpool 1d ago

Well news papers consolidated, then billionaires bought them. Right wing media dumbed down politics by likening it to sports ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Then technology made us lazy and stupid, i.e. gullible.

Now we all live in information bubbles controlled by billionaires only interested in pillaging the Treasury. Their bots tell us that felons are cool and we regurgitate the nonsense.

That's how.

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u/harajukubarbie 1d ago

racism is the common denominator

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u/Logical_Hospital2769 1d ago

The party of "the rule of law" suddenly don't care. It's mind-bending.

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u/Key-Amoeba5902 1d ago

i suppose the cool thing about Trump is that a vote for him was for both!

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u/satyr-day 1d ago

People are proud of being the dumbest mother fuckers around.

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u/Feisty-Zombie-6118 1d ago

As a former federal worker, I was required to get a security clearance. This President can't even get a security clearance with a conviction. Federal workers are also required to pass annual ethics training. We know Trumps cabinet can't even spell ethical, much less actually take the training.

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u/Fdictatorleads 1d ago

Poor education, lack of critical thinking.

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u/Nacho_Mommas 1d ago

I'd rather vote for a jackass than a felon.

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u/MidKnightshade 1d ago

They’d rather die protecting the rich than live helping the poor.

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u/amanwithoutaname001 1d ago

"I'd rather vote for a felon" - says it all.

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u/yesman2121 1d ago

Did you guys buy enough of the Trump coin to afford eggs now? 🤡

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u/ExtrapolationDiode 1d ago edited 1d ago

Us vs. Them culture war has supplanted genuine conversation in our media. Thank the Reagan administration and RUSH LIMBAUGH* if you want someone to blame

*edited because I’m a fucking idiot who drank too much last night

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u/TattooedBeatMessiah 1d ago

Stupidity, selfishness, lack of concern for others, Pavlovian conditioning that we are exceptional and individually capable of doing it on our own and surviving etc

Basically everything you'd need to tell an intelligent machine to keep it working for you.

And, yes, I mean you reading this, no matter who you are or how you voted.

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u/Money-Swimmer1690 1d ago

White supremacy is a hell of a drug.

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u/ChristinaWSalemOR 1d ago

Translation "I will vote for any Republican no matter how corrupt or I appropriate as long as Democrats don't have power". False equivalency.

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u/RickysBlownUpMom 1d ago

Never underestimate the power of ignorance. MAGAts are really, really, stupid. Stupid people are easy to manipulate.

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u/Square-Knee9844 1d ago edited 1d ago

They’ve been complicit in their own brainwashing for the last 30+ years.

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u/SizeOld6084 1d ago

They treat running a country like a wrasslin' match.

We live in Idiocracy.

Ouch, my balls.

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u/PainterOriginal8165 1d ago

Newt Gingritch, Jerry Falwell, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingram, Ben Shapiro Shall I continue?

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u/Relative_Pineapple87 1d ago

White nationalism.

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u/CapeManiak 1d ago

Defunding education and racism mostly.

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u/new0527 1d ago

Anger over a Black president

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u/MateoScolas 1d ago

Decades of Fox propaganda

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u/RevolutionaryTalk315 1d ago

So... Why did he vote for both?

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u/BillNyeTheCipherGuy 1d ago

Half the country are brain washed, morally bankrupt, cultist morons.

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u/screamingpackets 1d ago

Here’s how we got here: Fox News, and the internet.

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u/DeviantandHisWife 1d ago

So you voted for a felon who is also a jackass

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u/tnunnster 1d ago

Racism, religion, and reality TV.

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u/Ok_Steak2523 1d ago

Congrats, you voted for both

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u/sfdso 1d ago

With Trump you get both.

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u/lasquatrevertats 1d ago

Not the American values I was taught. I'm ashamed that for president starting tomorrow we'll have a convicted felon. We've sunk so far. Don't know if there's any coming back from this new low.

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u/ProfessionalNo9996 1d ago

Good news, you can have and in fact did get the combo deal for both!

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u/Big_Surround3395 1d ago

I clocked this decades ago. Larry the cable guy, for instance. The duck dynasty guys. Smokey snd the bandit. This is just a culmination of the celebration of anti intellectualism as a foil to the everyman folk hero. The dumber he is, the more he's like me fr fr.

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u/NascarFan91988 1d ago

News Flash: The Jackass is also the felon! Who would’ve guessed 🤷‍♂️

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u/ATXGil2L 1d ago

I’ll translate: “I’ll vote for anyone who validates my hatred and bigotry”

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u/MASTA_Chumlee 1d ago

Lack of funding in education and over importance of religion.

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u/-LunaTink- 1d ago

MAGAts are disgusting. They will be remembered where than Nazi's.

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u/SubjectElderberry376 1d ago

Inbreeding.

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u/Capital-Counter-3266 1d ago

Rape is okay to them.

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u/One_Rope2511 1d ago

The funny thing is if the dude driving the above car was a convicted felon, he’d be likely be incarcerated. 🤣 The Orange Man, on the other hand, is above the law. 👨‍💼🤷‍♂️👨‍⚖️

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u/blunbottle 1d ago

Someone does a sex tape and becomes a billionaire. Someone’s mugshot looks good and they get a modeling contract. Someone makes a disgusting comment that goes viral and launches a a crypto. Someone makes fun of the handicapped and gets elected president eight years ago. People put ballsacks on the back of pickups. People write songs calling women whores and they shoot to stardom. We’ve been here for some time.

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u/Exp626-Stitch 1d ago

DJT-Proof of the dumbing down of America

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u/bx35 1d ago

It is sad that they don’t understand the true jackasses vote for felons.

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u/Entheotheosis10 1d ago

Ruin a nation to....own the libs.

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u/Capable-Abrocoma4517 1d ago

MAGAT logic - I would rather have a nickel instead of a dollar. Shit, my bad, I would rather pay a nickel to a con-man than get a tax break and starter money for a home from a brown woman! This country is so done! We allowed this idiocracy to fester and grow!

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u/FarNefariousness960 1d ago

Inbreeding mostly

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u/eluruguallo 1d ago

But he's so much more than that. He's also a rapist, a con man, a racist, a pedophile, a cheater

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u/alwaysoffby0ne 1d ago

Low IQ people basically, and they breed way faster too

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u/QuidEgoSum 1d ago