• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 day ago

    I’ll never understand why people shit on him for fictional things when there’s plenty of real things to shit on him for.

    I honestly think it helps him/MAGA, because it teaches them, their supporters, and impressionable others that people make stuff up about him to criticize, so they can safely ignore criticism of him.

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      1 day ago

      Because the only things that actual bother him are being called a fucking loser and weirdo. The actually shitty things he does, he would do a million times and feel nothing.

      And what you say can’t be true, or the millions of lies he told would matter more.

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          22 hours ago

          He doesn’t want to look weird. That’s all. He wants people to think he’s normal, and by proxy, that all of his insane fascist beliefs are normal.

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              9 hours ago

              I rather think that would answer the question for most people. Were you confused on how he doesn’t want to look like a weirdo so that his fascist beliefs are normalized?

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                8 hours ago

                You’re confused if you concluded without evidence that he gives a shit if the left pretends he fucks couches while he’s shuffling minorities off to concentration camps.

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      1 day ago

      To a fascist, image is everything. Ruin their image for the sad, fucking weirdos that they are makes fascists weak.

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      I think part of it is about making him into a joke to prevent him from gaining the cult following necessary to be another trump. I don’t think trump supporters would care about the valid criticisms, but the idea he has sex with couches is provocative and humorous, and seems to have become one of the only things a lot of people know about him.

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        1 day ago

        There’s plenty factual stuff to use that far right people hate though:

        • Being in the military with zero people skills means he was an ineffectual leader and a desk driving paper pusher

        • He wears eyeliner

        • He grew a beard to hide his weak chin

        • He’s a white nationalist with a minority wife who looks like she’s at gunpoint every time she’s on camera

        Again, inventing a lie to attack him with will just galvanize his supporters. Use what’s already true and very conflicting with far right ideology.

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          21 hours ago

          The attack point has to be something that both sides of the political spectrum finds repulsive. If only right wingers have a problem it makes the lefties look like hypocrites, and if it’s something only people on the left care about it’s ineffective.

          Eyeliner and weak chins/beards aren’t things people on the left tend to take issue with, while white nationalism and misogyny aren’t things people on the right take issue with.

          The military thing could work, but it’s not punchy enough, it’s too specific and not very funny. The couch fucker jokes are easy laughs.

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      1 day ago

      Your standards for MAGA cultists is way too high. They won’t ever know the difference between fact and lie, and they won’t care if they eventually learnt about it. Words and facts means nothing to them, it is all about “winning”.