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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • Appreciate you taking the time to break it down! I see where you’re coming from and I’m sure all these 3 groups exist, but I see it quite differently. I’d say the first two groups are very niche compared to the 3rd, to the point where they don’t matter much.

    Way I see it, the average maga voter is a much simpler beast. As an outsider, I view Americans - especially people outside of the two big cities which act as cultural centers - as a happy go lucky bunch in their core. There’s these generations after the first settlers who found it easy compared to the rest of the world to make money and live prosperously. That makes them very open and positive to the point where they seem gullible sometimes. These people have been seeing their quality of life deteriorate as capitalism inadvertently pushes wealth to the rich and they feel deeply betrayed by the previous administrations of career politicians. They want things to go back to better times and their lack of education points them in the wrong direction. They are not inherently racist but they are afraid of the future. Fear makes them huddle close to the familiar. It’s super easy to blame the foreign for one’s problems and that’s what we see here too. That’s why you’ll see the pattern where they’re hostile towards foreigners but at the same time if they know you personally you get a pass. Juan is a good Mexican, it’s those others that are up to no good. They view Don as a successful businessman - probably because of too much Fox as you said - and they also recognize that he is different in the way that he speaks and acts. He’s raw and simple, doesn’t hide what he ultimately wants, it’s a stark difference from normal politicians. From there, it all goes downhill with the injection of racism and national pride. Ultimately, from Nixon onwards to say the least, all administrations have consistently contributed to the slow decay of the American middle class and people want actual change. Obama failed them miserably because he looked and acted different but his policies were not. So now it’s time for the unhinged ultra right to have a go. If this doesn’t lead to the end of the world somehow, we might see a swing of the pendulum. Doubtful without a big investment in basic education but one can only hope.


  • I was thinking of the common rust belt dweller when I wrote that. How else would you describe the vast majority of magas who shot themselves in the foot twice by voting orange? He is actively taking whatever they have left and handing it out to the 1%. I hear what you’re saying about reforgers etc - I’m sure all kinds of evil/crazy/weird exists - but I cannot believe that the basic maga voter is anything other than uneducated and misinformed.

    People have tried to make sense of the don phenomenon saying he’s good at selling these ideas etc but I don’t believe it. For me his success is down to two things:

    1. People have been fooled by the establishment politicians one too many times and they will vote for change no matter what that is.
    2. Racism is embedded in our genes or something from the time we were monkeys. It doesn’t take much to invoke its power, unlike other survival strategies like socialist ideas which require a level of sophistication most people sadly lack. The fact that a political cult has been created around an incompetent personality is because at the core of it lies this instinct. It’s why you see people not reacting logically to the crazy stuff that’s happening.

  • Ougie@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzDik Piks
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    That goes without saying. But to be clear, we don’t know the dick pick timing. Also I think that regardless of the vulgarity and the obvious stupidity of sending your meat to a person who didn’t ask for it, there is something positive to be found in any expression of desire towards oneself no matter how crude and idiotic.


  • Ougie@lemmy.worldtoAntiTrumpAlliance@lemmy.worldEpstein files
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    The only difference between Republicans and Democrats is that the former based their entire election campaign on releasing the files. In terms of corruption they are one and the same. Funny thing is, such monumental fuckups don’t even affect them because their voters are so smooth brained.












  • The other day we went to the gym with a friend and afterwards he said let’s go eat at the food court. We each got stuff from different restaurants and he got his first, so he went to get a table while I was waiting for my food. As soon as he sat down he started eating so 3 minutes later when I got there he’d finished half his meal. I didn’t appreciate that because the whole point was to have a chill chat whereas now he was done and I felt like I had to rush because I was wasting his time with my tardiness.


  • It’s a reference I didn’t think you’d get but maybe someone else wasting their time reading this whole conversation unfolding under this silly little meme might enjoy.

    To use your logic, you don’t get to decide how I interpret the responses to my comment. So if you don’t like what I said you can give me your little downvote and kindly fuck off unless you have some meaningful retort about my actual opinion on ADHD & autism diagnoses.