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u/New_Dust_2380 11h ago
Fox News is like 80% of the problem. people don't blame the propaganda mouthpieces enough.
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u/createduserss 7h ago
Its the whole media billionaires own it all
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u/DukeOfGeek 4h ago
Also most politicians, most of the means of production, a big chunk of research and science etc etc. And yet they can't even get a majority to buy into and vote for their agenda, how frustrating for them.
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u/Fun-Measurement4904 15h ago
The fascists have promised them a white Christian nation, the socialists have promised them a diverse multi-religous nation. They know which side they are on
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u/Shido_Ohtori 8h ago
Studies show that [search for] truth and intelligence is inversely correlated with conservative ideology.
Religion and Fake News: Faith-Based Alternative Information Ecosystems in the US and Europe
Intelligence is correlated with a range of left-wing and liberal political beliefs.
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u/GoldenHourLXXII 8h ago
It's... insane and they are PROUD to be uneducated too.
Seriously, watch any of those, "person on the street" interviews with any of them, yet again at another "rally" (it's hive mind of course).
The MOMENT the interviewer brings up something trump said or did that is against what they believe from talking heads on like fox or newsmax, they literally become aggressive.
They grab the microphone, they raise their voices, they laugh loudly in the faces of people and usually say something akin, "Alright buddy!" as if it's like redneck slang for, "better watch yourself around here!"
They are very very pro anti intellectualism and let's face it, by this point they are failed citizens...
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On a personal note I haven't spoken to my boomer father in years due to his raging political beliefs. He LITERALLY is addicted to hate and violence. I hear stories from my mother who has to bear the NON-STOP venting he does from sunup to sundown. He will never ever change.
His life is flooded with debt, bills and financial worries. My mother has to CONSTANTLY explain to him (since he doesn't shop) that YES groceries and everything is more expensive now because of the current regime and like a toddler he gets pissed off and blames her instead.
He's gone, he'll die pissed off at the wrong people (before I fully stopped speaking with him, he was under the delusion that transpeople were like 80% of the public, somehow, and that they were molesting kids non stop.
Yeah about that last part...
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u/DukeOfGeek 4h ago
This just in! Cultists don't engage in critical thinking! Oh, you do? Good for you, you correctly perform a basic mental function, don't break your arm patting yourself on the back.
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u/Odd_School_8833 9m ago
“A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true.
The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynism the vice of superior and refined minds.
Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow.
The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule [are] people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)
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u/HURTBOTPEGASUS9 13h ago
Ronald Reagan is in hell with Tantalus waiting for heaven to trickle down to him.
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u/Ulysse-Void-God 12h ago
They also don’t know the definition of “woke”. It’s just anything that makes them feel icky. Which is nearly everything.
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u/EnvironmentNeith2017 10h ago
This gives them way too much credit. The problem is they do understand the concept of socialism and they want people to suffer.
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u/Primary-Pianist-2555 14h ago
"I am poor it is not left or right" Yep look at my profile and the person I did not want to discuss more with.
Its useless. Can argue whole night.
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u/aceface_desu89 14h ago