• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    “The Lunatic Left strikes again!”

    I can’t believe the amount of propaganda that floods USA society. Right-wingers genuinely don’t believe their side is violent and dangerous because of shitbags like Trump and Musk.

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      It’s not that they don’t believe their side is violent.

      They believe their violence is justified. It’s everyone else that is wrong.

      It’s a subtle but important distinction because they will gladly accept violence for their ends. They already have during January 6th.

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        My trump supporting father says that any violence committed on Jan 6 was secretly conducted by ANTIFA or the feds to make trump look bad.

        That said though they do like violence from their side just look at how they react to protestors being run over but that’s OK because they were committing the horrific crime of blocking the road

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        You’re right. I should revise my statement to say that they don’t consider themselves violent compared to “the Left” (by which they mean libs, who they think are socialist communists because they’re completely brainwashed). They don’t have a coherent understanding of modern politics beyond picking a side and shouting loudest.

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      Citizens United spelled the final nail in the coffin.

      It should come as no surprise that with the

      • Decentralization of media,
      • The massive rise in wealth inequality and number of billionaires,
      • Deregulation of money as speech,
      • And foreign interference from Russia, Israel, China, etc. muddying the waters…

      … And finally, combined with

      • Eroding education standards
      • Distancing of parents from their children
      • Widespread mental disorders and substance addiction and sometimes literal brain damage (lead poisoning, head trauma from football, etc.)

      … That intellectualism is losing the race. These people live in completely alternate realities. Principals of religious faith have now fully been incorporated into political ideology. Once untethered from reason, it’s all about what you want to believe.

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      3 days ago

      As soon as I saw “CDC” in the first headline I saw, I knew what kind of person did this, and what their political ideology was.

      So fucking predictable.