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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz

8mo ago

MAGA then vs now.

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Here's another.
GOP in 2016 = We need Trump because the rest of the world is laughing at America.
GOP today = Who cares what the rest of the world thinks?
- As a non american, the world started laughing the second the orange man baby became your president.
  it was sort of a mix of funny and nervous laughter though.
  wasnt pleasent
  
  I thought the laughing stared with George W.
  
  wasnt pleasent
  If you think it was bad on your end, you should feel what is like on the inside.
  
  Nervouscited?

Fascism's major hallmark is fervent hypocrisy. That's how people could live within half a mile of death camps and just casually brush the ash of burnt people from their hair, then smile like they're going on a picnic as they're led into the death camps at the end of their street, then ten minutes later, after seeing actual corpses stacked like cordwood, they're vomiting and swearing they had no idea.
We can't let the uneducated masses lead us into that kind of horror again, We need to educate them of what they're advocating for and why that's so horrifically dangerous. We need to stop hedging and beating round the bush, and lay out in detail what they're actually enabling. People die when this kind of nationalistic ignorance is allowed to proliferate. We need to stop this ignorance before it kills people.

Then: "Facts don't care for feelings."
Now: "Feelings don't care for facts."

Too many of those words are spelled correctly

"MAGA never ever said that."
-- MAGA
- It was actually antifa who said that, impersonating MAGA. /s

Woundful word from an old book I read discribes the way these people think well.
double-think
- 1984?
  
  Big brother is watching you
- Thought crime!!!
  
  That's double-plus ungood.
  
  Stealing Thought Property
- that implies they think twice? where in reality they don't think about anything

It's like they've unlearned object permanence but only for holding opinions.
Oh, wait, that's just a double standard. My bad.

I like it how the oxygen sucking maggot gets fatter every year
- Didn't wear a mask in 2020, either
- Does it? Looks just like some artist variations ngl
- Except 2016-2017

Ah you clearly know my conservative friend, Brian. His Facebook posts state he still wants to lock her/him up but was rather upset his lord and savior was now a convicted felon. Logic was never his strong suit, but he’s part of the friend group of mostly liberals and knows to keep his mouth mostly shut when it with us.
- I run around with a group and when the guilty verdict was rendered, oh my - the amount that started digging in surprised me. It's a group that typically doesn't delve into it and I saw that as a big plus. Now I'm not so sure what to think other than just keep my mouth shut.

3 downvotes on this, but no maga comments. Odd, usually the magas are the loudest assholes in the room. 🤔
- They been a little quiet since the 34 felony convictions and his off the rails rant.
  
  That's the benefit of trump seeing actual punishment for his crimes. His supporters won't vote for Biden, but they might feel dejected and stay home without voting. That's what trump supporters and Russian trolls are trying to do with Gaza.
  
  They been a little quiet since the 34 felony convictions
  Some of them have.
  Others have doubled down on both the volume and the insanity levels of their noise.
- Do MAGAs even bother on Lemmy?
  I rarely see MAGA comments here. And if I do they are downvoted to hell.
  
  Every once in a while I'll see a maga comment, and honestly the first I think is this person has some kind of mental disability. The commets are always deranged and from an alternate reality.
  
  I don't think they do, but I see a lot of liberals accuse communists of being secret MAGA for not supporting genocide, escalating the trade war with China, brutalizing protesters, locking migrants in cages, etc when it's Biden doing it.

They advocate for 'law and order' until it impacts someone from their own circle.
- The core conservative belief is that there are two groups: those the law protects but does not bind, and those the law binds but does not protect. Everything else flows from there.
- One of the cornerstones of evil. It's funny how they keep yapping about Animal farm and 1984 when the books keep reflecting their own behavior. 'Newspeak' and ‘Some animals are more equal than others’.

Rules for thee, not for me?

Who is her? Also him.
- Hillary and Biden
- Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden unless I'm missing something.
  
  I thought Hilary and Hunter Biden

I’m quite serious in that I think the right to vote should be removed from most of these people.
- Unfortunately that's not the correct solution. When we start taking away citizens' rights to participate in their public democratic government, we no longer have a public democratic government. Down the line, you would lose your right to vote as well, for a reason that you think is bullshit. And it would be bullshit, just like it's bullshit to suggest removing voting rights from Trump supporters.
  
  Yeah ok. I’m talking out my ass. But then how DO we tackle the brutal misinformation situation that has fueled these chucklefucks?
  
  But removing voting rights and ending democracy is exactly what the right wants to do.
  This is almost like a version of tolerance of intolerance that we see on the left sometimes.
- Nah, go the other way. Make voting a requirement. You vote, or you don't participate in society.
  
  Among other things, yeah, we really should make voting mandatory.
- The right thinks anyone democrat shouldn't have the right to vote. The lunatic I worked with thought that, and was going on about you shouldn't be able to vote unless you understand what you're voting for.... How ironic.

The moral isn’t “don’t be a hypocrite”
The moral is: be sexy and good looking
- I think the point is that the inner ugliness influences the appearance
- Hate and anger will make you ugly on the inside and outside.
- Who is sexy and good looking in any of this?
  
  Lemme rephrase: if you have enough charisma you can pull off anything and no one will notice
  The essence of politics isn’t to not be a hypocrite but to look good being one.
  It turns out true times and times again when after elections the ‘more moral side’ does the same thing as what they said is evil but makes it look like a good thing.
  It isn’t unreasonable to assume such skill also comes handy in day to day life. Look good, be sexy, get rewards. Spoils. Loot. Benefits.
  To swim in the sea of shit you need to have some buoy.

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