This is what I was thinking too. Not just conservatives but the less educated, less informed which lean conservative.

It’s also a vicious repeating cycle. They get elected, and they are the primary ones who gut education, and force religion into the masses as much as they can. Thereby keeping the masses dumb and creating new generations of the same.

Fuck this makes my cynical. How the hell do we even compete against this?

Actually I changed my mind and disagree with my other comment LOL.

I still find it hard to call an extremely ignorant uneducated person a fascist, who is being manipulated by an actual fascist leader. They’re just potentially being manipulated. The dumber they are, the easier to manipulate.

Some or even many of these people conceivably would change their stances and choices if provided with lots of education. Some.

I’d say most of the maga base don’t know this though. Complete ignorance. Just “libs kill babies” is their thought process.

I have a hard time thinking that someone who is dumb and manipulatable by a fascist, is actually a fascist themselves. They’re just dumb and easy to manipulate.

Kindly, I disagree again lol.

Indifferent:

Having no particular interest or concern; apathetic

I still argue you need to understand it to be indifferent about it specifically. However, I do believe these people are indifferent to having a desire to learn what fascism actually is and actual historical contexts.

But we can agree to disagree 😀

Edit: oops “to be a fascist” yes I’ll agree with you on that one sorry. They can be fascists without actually knowing that they are and how to define it.

That has got to be a fucking onion headline. Yowza.

majority of Americans are fascists or indifferent to fascism.

I’m not convinced of that at all. Here’s what I see:

A large portion of ignorant uneducated and easily manipulatable people who don’t even know what fascism is.

• Large groups of religious people who focus on voting red because Christianity, their churches, pastors, and religious groups, and the abortion issue.

• Actual bigots. There’s a lot of them and they like the racism, anti gay, nationalism, deportation stuff. Want women subjugated.

• Bullies, tough guys, “alpha male”, and the “get money” crowd. There’s a lot here too, and many in poor young black and Hispanic groups in addition to a lot of white males. Not necessarily bigots, but generally want women subjugated whether they know it or not (sex objects).

• The large group of just vote red without thinking because it’s what family and friend circles do and always have.

The above I think don’t understand fascism at all. Not educated or informed enough.

Edit: I would say to be “indifferent to fascism” you have to actually understand what it is, and I don’t think much of the maga crowd does. My opinion/speculation.

I love chatgpt, and am dumbfounded at all the AI hate on lemmy. I use it for work. It’s not perfect, but helps immensely with snippets of code, as well as learning STEM concepts. Sometimes I’ve already written some code that I remember vaguely, but it was a long time ago and I need to do it again. The time it would take to either go find my old code, or just research it completely again, is WAY longer than just asking chatgpt. It’s extremely helpful, and definitely faster for what I’d already have to do.

I guess it depends on what you use it for ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

I hope it continues to improve. I hope we get full open source. If I could “teach” it to do certain tasks someday, that would be friggin awesome.

I knew someone would post this fast and I was not dissapointed.

Agreed. And stop getting free tax money.

And you for knowing the reference lol?

And me…

Billionaires get warnings lol.

Poor people get prison rape.

That’s a bingo

Yo go get the money but then still vote Harris. What’s he gonna do lol?

No safety standards. Need tax breaks. Billionaires bank accounts go brrrrrrr

Seriously, and it’s his supporters that are the problem.

Trump is obviously a buffoon, but it’s his mass of ignorant bigots, thieves, and exploiters that give him his power.

Even if he loses, these people aren’t going anywhere. They are the real problem.

This is so weird, wasn’t trump saying some really anti-jew stuff very recently?

Your comment would be spot fucking on, if it wasn’t for the “pale people” part. You’re words imply allowing extreme privilege for non-pales. That aint gonna fix anything. Hopefully that’s not what you intended.

Other than that, I agree with the rest 100%.

Ah nice, I stand corrected. Thanks for the info

projection

I dont think people use this term accurately, and it’s thrown around pretty often.

In my opinion, musk isn’t projecting, hes just a deliberate propogandist. He doesn’t believe what he’s saying, honestly he knows it’s a total BS lie. He’s just saying it to energize and sway the cult of dumb-dumbs, many of which will lap it up like hungry puppies.

Projection has a more specific definition which includes denial and actively believing in what you’re projecting. Musk is consciously lying and knows it.

Projection

Is she going to actually have to serve the time?

Or will she somehow avoid or get out of it due to ‘old conservative republican white Karen lady privilege’?