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[–] ZeroCool 142 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

Yes but Trump, Musk, Thiel, and other billionaires will get a little bit richer and all they had to do was tell a bunch of stupid fucking yokels that it's okay to be bigoted trash.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 83 points 1 week ago

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

  • Lyndon B. Johnson
[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago

"They can have theirs (money and racism) if they let me have mine (racism)." - a stupid fucking yokel

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 125 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I sincerely doubt most of these stories are actually happening. It's true. But I doubt the actual interaction occurred. Seeing this same story different ways all over the internet. I live in a region surrounded by right wingers and aside from those flags and occasional hats, I hardly ever hear anyone outright talk about their politics.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I actually believe it because it's exactly what happened in brexit. Conservatives voted to leave and then they found out what that meant.

Conservatives were so focused on winning that they didn't bother to actually look into Trump's "policies" and are now Pikachu faced when understanding it.

These are the same assholes that are going to completely forget two years from now that Trump raised prices and will still vote Republican in the midterms.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's a succinct way to put it. It's definitely hilarious watching them bleed from their own hubris, though.

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[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 84 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

As an European: The Brexiteers who "suddenly" were excluded from free travel and prolonged stays within EU due to their own voting gave a stream of similar stories. It was and is hilarious to watch.

I do believe that such dialogues are really happening and will continue to happen in the US around the clock from now on.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I particularly love the stories where they owned real estate or villas and they're like "this doesn't apply to meeeeee, right?!"

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Narrator "It did in fact, apply to them."

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[–] Sciaphobia@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For this to be true, a MAGA diehard would have to have listened to an explanation of what a tariff is from a left leaning person they are trying to taunt, understood the explanation, and believed the explanation that left leaning person gave them that disagrees with what Trump has said.

I have no doubt many MAGA types could understand the explanation, but when in gloat mode, I seriously doubt much listening would happen. Even if they did listen, the chances of them believing that explanation over Trump's seem low to me.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just statistically they have to happen. There are millions of democrats with maga neighbors that cant shut up about shit but dont actually know what they are talking about. Whether these stories happen to the people that post about them is a different question.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (12 children)

There are millions of democrats with maga neighbors

Democrats be like:

🔴Cut out MAGAzis from their life.

🔴Treat MAGAzis cordially to find out how fucked they are going to be.

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Believe it or not, any sufficiently large group of people will have people who behave differently within it

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Find out their weaknesses for when the purge hits.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bullets. Like most people, they are weak to bullets.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Taken from a 196 post i saw earlier

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I have a friend who has had success with pointing out that gutting social welfare systems means they won't get a check anymore.

But, those people were willing to have an actual conversation about it.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago

Can we stop with these "and then everyone clapped stories" it's just as bad as the fake trans stories conservatives made up to make themselves angry.

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here bro, for your next tweet: . . . . . . . .

Spend them wisely

[–] uranibaba@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Okey, I get it now. That was funny, it just took reading the other comments first.

[–] VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just was at the grocery store. Was joking around with cashier, he and the bag boy talked about the ad playing over the loudspeakers about avocados from Mexico. They seemed nice. He finishes ringing me up and I groan. He says he's really looking forward to prices coming down in the next four years. I started laughing at him, saying that's not how tariffs work and that we're all fucked.

What a wonderful day in the neighborhood.

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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well the part about the neighbors not how tariffs work is believable. I have lost count of how many people just think china had to send us money directly to us.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

And it's been part of the conversation for the better party of a decade. There's zero excuse for the level of ignorance of some people.

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[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Shiv nice thought though if you're going to make up stories I would recommend and you don't have to take this on board it's just a suggestion but believe me punctuation makes your posts vastly more readable I promise I'm not joking thanks for listening as you were

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am by no means a bright example, but Bro you have a war going on with punctuation...

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 17 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] nicerdicer@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's like the five stages of grief but with not knowing what the consequences of voting against your interests are.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

1 - Gloating

2 - Hubris

3 - Denial

4 - Doubt

5 - Leopards ate my face

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

One thing I've learned is that Kamela Harris needed to just play a PSA explaining why the hell a Tarrif is.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I have a neighbor who voted for Trump. He relies on aspects of medicaid, to get insulin, that the GOP have directly targeted for removal from what it will cover. I told him this, he didn't believe me. So I showed him it in writing from a GOP source. He said that Trump will find some way for people like him to get their insulin. They just want this particular way gone because it's a bad method. I even pointed out that there was zero discussion of changing these policies, to make them more sensible, or anything like that, just an outline that they plan on stopping that coverage. He just doubled down that he won't be abandoned, they aren't just getting rid of the coverage, they are getting rid of THAT SPECIFIC WAY OF DOING IT because it is inefficient, or whatever.

If you explained that tariffs would hurt their income, and employment, in a way they understood, they would just assume there was something being cooked up to make sure that didn't happen. Now that all the manufacturing companies, here, are demonstrating that there will be big losses of profit margin, and cutting compensation to workers, they are mad. However, I personally doubt they will stay mad, or mad enough, or that they won't just end up blaming Joe Biden for it.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

God, if only it was that easy.

These people will willfully forget the lesson within a day so they can go back to bootlicking.

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[–] CasualPenguin@reddthat.com 19 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The issue is you can't teach someone who not only doesn't want to learn, they react in opposition to the idea of understanding anything outside of emotional reactions.

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[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 week ago

this is anyeurism potential

[–] rotten@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

/c/thathappened

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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh jeez, even if it isn't true, "It's okay, I'll be able to afford the price increase no matter what. Best of luck to you though." is the best possible response to anyone convinced that tariffs are a good idea.

Just agree with them and say "I don't mind paying 2, 3, even 4 times as much for groceries and other household items if it teaches China a lesson. Elon said we were going to need to make sacrifices to do this."

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[–] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does punctuation count towards character count on Twitter? Cause that could explain a complete lack of it

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[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago

That 1 comma didn't really help in making sense.

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

"So, are you going to pay out of pocket for college now?"

"No, I'm getting student loans."

"Do you know what department in the federal government does student loans? The department of education, which Trump is going to get rid of."

"Damn it!"

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[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] genXgentleman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This election proved that there are a lot of dumb-asses that need to go back to school to take U.S. Government, Civics, and Economics because they didn't learn it the first time, or they never had to take them to graduate high school. Seriously, why in the f#ck would you entrust the economy to a dumbf#ck who bankrupted TWO casinos!! The freaking business model, of a casino, is people walk in, then over the course of two to four hours hand you all their money and then leave. You REALLY have to be a dumbf#ck to fail at that.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Americans are even dumber than that.

A few weeks before the election Donald Trump and Elon Musk had a little circle jerk podcast interview with each other. They spent time talking about how anti-union they are and how much they hate worker’s rights. Then working class Americans went out in droves and voted for those two rich assholes who openly talked about wishing workers had less rights.

We made a guy who was the first president in U.S. history to stand on a picket line with striking workers step down because he was old. Then we hired another equally old rich guy who openly talks about wishing workers had less rights.

That's how stupid Americans are. And this election showed us that the majority of Americans are that stupid. When a majority of a society is that stupid, there are no happy endings. We're set for a period of long decline.

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