Progressive Politics

I especially disagree with the assertion that Trump supporters are only “idiots.”

I’ve seen extremely intelligent, post-college-educated people support him, full throated. Ones who’ve never even touched Facebook, nor Twitter.

January 6, all the controversies, they’re just alarmist noise because that’s their whole information environment. They’ve turned into climate change skeptics for similar reasons, despite being atheists/agnostics with a strong belief in science.

Hence, I think the joke is on the writer of this piece, sadly.

Information bubbles work.

This isn’t going to end. Were cooked.

Our future is similar to VR addicts in cyberpunk fiction. History and reality do not matter. It won’t be for Trump, but enough of the population will get drip fed praise for regimes that they will stay in power :(

It's too bad mass discontent has no influence on the actions of our government.

To be fair, a non zero number of MAGA voters despise anything they are told to despise. So they are just getting back what they deliver on cue from the media they digest.

If FOX or The Donald doesn't tell them they're despised, how would they ever know? They are not reading Jezebel.

Last year we hosted a holiday dinner and included a neighborhood couple we had never met. Within minutes it became apparent we had invited a Magat POS. He actually exceeded expectations, bringing up Trump time and again and ignoring the fact we kept changing the subject. It took one of us openly ridiculing Trump to get him to finally shut the fuck up. It was only because we didn't want to make other people there uncomfortable that he wasn't out the door on his ass.

His wife (not Maga) has since approached us asking to get together and we've politely declined. No need to tell her we'd rather have triple servings of Taco Bell lettuce during a root canal than to ever spend a minute in her husband's miserable presence again.

Not just Trump supporters. Republicans, Christians, Lying Centrists.

They are clueless. Protesting we will get overwhelmingly massive honks and waves and thumbs up and other signs of approval and then once or twice amidst it you get the maga yelling loser or fuck you. Its like are they congniscant of how overwhelmingly in the minority they are. Does all the adulation happening in the midst of their vitriole make its way into their senses at all.

I wish every single one of them the day they deserve.

The life they deserve.

I wouldn't expect them to.

The social media algorithms they're addicted to have effectively reconstructed their reality. If nothing else, they're a walking demonstration as to why punishing and regulating social media companies is a moral and global imperative.

I watched my MIL turn around. The family is split on the topic, but the more the problems compound the less sure the MAGA supporters are becoming of their decisions.

Not sure how much Americans are aware they are despised as a collective about electing this twice, doing fuckall about it, blaming everything and everyone else and now pushing it onto the rest of us.

Out of 266 voters, three downvoted. I’m curious who that 1.13% were here on Lemmy. They’re clearly out of their comfort zone.

Gonna get down voted to shit for this, but that's a crap article. It's just one guys saying "I hate MAGA, and would happily watch them drown". Since he never talks to them, the title is completely unsupported. A better article would have at least looked for some evidence, e.g. via some interviews or surveys or something.