cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29369418
“I didn’t vote for this”
Yes… you literally did vote for this.
it’ll never cease to be hilariously ironic that conservatives love to call others naïve, as they themselves fail to realize that people will tell blatant lies in order to get votes
It’s all projection. Poorly educated people cannot comprehend that people smarter than them exist.
Anyone who think they are smarter must be an idiot and must be more naive than a them to believe they are actually smarter.
While I agree, education and intelligence are not equivalent. Be careful when calling well-educated people “smart”
And I bet they’ll do it again in ten years when the next swindler comes along telling them lies.
Yea fuck this man sideways.
These idiots really don’t understand how it works, do they? “trans the kids”
nobody was transing the kids, idiot Austin. That’s not how anything worked.
Honestly the best response to that kind of thing is just “lol based” completely short-circuits them
They have to. Their world view is so fragile that accepting they’re wrong about even the smallest thing risks shattering the whole.
So I am someone who used to get defensive when I was wrong about something, until I heard a great trick. Think of being corrected as knowing the truth, then spin it in your head that now that you know the truth you are now right. It’s selfish as hell, but it works for me. Less defensiveness, less arguing, better mentality.
So he clearly shows he knows next to nothing butwhat he’s been shovel fed. He’s using trans in a verb form, which shows his ignorance very clearly. Maybe if he learned more or met some trans individuals (you see, it’s an adjective in this sentence), he might understand more. But empathy is a sin, so can’t do that. That Bible he knows 4 words from says so, he was told it said that, along with hating homosexuals and immigrants… jfc, I’m so sick of blatant stupidity. I can forgive ignorance, but wanton idiocy just flabbergasts me. We as humans crave knowledge and are by nature curious. Why some people are content to just sit like automatons and refuse to learn anything I just cannot comprehend.
Conservatism is, as always, a complete failure of empathy, a lack of ability to recognise that if you don’t care about other people and you choose to put people who also don’t care about other people in charge, the people in charge simply and absolutely don’t care about you or your friends or your family.
Conservatives don’t understand that “them” and “us” are actually all just us.
people picked wealth over human rights and healthcare. now they get neither
It’s a genuine mistake (/s), they thought that pro-business/anti-regulations would help their small business.
As with everything, they lied. It’s about billionaires making more billions, at the expense of EVERYONE else - workers, but also other businesses. I’m convinced that all the rest, including the racism, xenophobia, transphobia, misogyny and overall bigotry are just tools to convince people to act against their own interests.
people picked wealth over human rights and healthcare.
Let’s not pretend that either human rights or healthcare were on the ballot in 2024.
The republicans came within a vote of defunding Obamacare in 2018 and have talked about kicking out immigrants for a generation. To say that neither of those things were on the ballot is incredibly naive.
Sorry, I thought you meant universal healthcare, not a half measure from a decade and a half ago.
Democrats already adopted republican border policy last year.
Neither was on the ballot. Neither candidate wanted universal healthcare, and neither was going to protect civil rights.
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