• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    These people fixate on the weirdest shit. People like my mom that lives in rural Oklahoma thinks ms13 is gonna kidnap one of her grandkids cause of these idiots. I can’t even fight it anymore, some people WANT to live in fear

  • Oniononon@sopuli.xyz
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    4 days ago

    He should take inspiration the one thing all popes have done and do it right this moment.

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    4 days ago

    I feel like it’s extreme ragebaiting/trolling. Either way had a massive laugh despite him being an ass

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      4 days ago

      It’s the worst. Even on the state level. People in the state I’m from used to have a positive stereotype about them, so that I felt good about sharing where I grew up in conversation.

      That state turned red and they’ve been legislating against anyone who isn’t a white, straight, rich person. If people find out where I’m from, I have to do extra work to make sure people don’t assume I’m a hateful idiot.

      So that’s what it’s like, but on the international level now. I wish I had dual citizenship so I could at least travel internationally with a different passport (or relocate altogether). I know Americans have had a reputation of being rude or entitled abroad, but that’s far better than people assuming I’m a Trump-loving, delusional, fascist.

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    5 days ago

    What did it say that the president of the USA is non-stop pulling attention seeking stunts like your crazy aunt on Facebook? Guess it must be lonely being surrounded by sycophants.

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      5 days ago

      Nah, he is just gaslighting everyone. Tons of insane and insulting shit to occupy the media and people, so that he can pull all the stunts he he wants. Drowning everything in noise so that no one knows what to focus on anymore. Don’t get me wrong, he is batshit insane bud there is a certain method to his madness.

      • cynar@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        It’s a terrifying mix of a Gish gallop (a stampede of lies and half truths, delivered so fast they can’t be countered) and razzle dazzle (camouflage via a swarm of irrelevant or counter intuitive points).

        It’s terrifyingly effective, and very difficult to counter.

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          4 days ago

          Would be much easier to counter if there was a functional system of checks and balances or a well-educated population that’d hold their leaders accountable, but here we are.

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    5 days ago

    Trump has said that although he was “confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian.”

    Uhhhh…he’s not even Catholic? That’s kinda a prerequisite for THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

    He’s completely trolling, right? I mean it’s gotta be cover for something happening that he wants to distract people from. He can’t be that stupid that to think he can actually be Pope…can he?