• phx@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Killed in a school shooting, probably. Meanwhile, A certain party is fielding the Antichrist for a second term

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      8 months ago

      Have you ever sat down and talked to a Trumper about politics? I don’t mean dismissing everything they say and calling them stupid, I mean actually listened and asked them questions? I just did that a couple days ago and it was a real wakeup call for me. Holy fucking shit was that person crazy! It’s not like a couple of differences of opinion. It’s a thousand different topics that they’re completely detached from reality on. Literally every single thing this person said was bat shit crazy, far-right propaganda, engineered to make them impossible to reason with. I ended up just wishing them a nice day and moving on with my life, deciding never to speak to them again. I do not see how we can ever get these people back to normalcy. It’s insane, man… and sad.

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          8 months ago

          LoL yeah that was my last encounter as well… a family dinner around the holidays with some relatives that should lay off the substances and internet “news”

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        8 months ago

        Oh yes. One person started by calling Biden a puppet, which - in a sense of being beholden to corps etc I could kinda see - but then they went off about him being an actual (animatronic, robotic) puppet controlled by Bill Gates and i kinda exited that convo as fast as I could…

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          Haha. It’s … Well idk what the fuck it is. These people are beyond help. Are they all trolling? Is 35% of the population of the United States all-in on one big trolling game? It’s so preposterous that I don’t see how they can be serious.