• markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    I legitimately cannot comprehend polls where people who voted for Trump in 2024 changed their minds.

    Trump- “Hey I’m going to do all this terrible shit”

    Voters- “I’m going to vote for Trump presumably because I like his platform”

    Trump- *does exactly what he said he was going to do*

    Voters- >:(

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      I recently overheard a conversation between two people complaining about how, after the election, their friends unfollowed anyone who followed Trump.

      Their argument was “I only voted for one issue. It’s not like I have time to know everything.”

      It was an aggravating interaction, but also a strong reminder of just how ignorant the average voter is.

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        I only voted for one issue.

        Hm, I wonder what that was.

        Regardless, it’s not like someone is going to spend four years on one issue.

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            IKR? These people wanted to pretend they were picked on, the poor dears, for espousing small government, personal responsibility, waging war on “socialized medicine”, trading wicked memes about “Going Galt” or how the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.

            No, it’s always about them wanting to force people to host the worst versions of what a human being might say on their private platforms - spreading xenophobia, anti-gay, anti-trans, misogynist hate speech, or spreading outright lies about, oh, I don’t know, a pandemic.

            Gosh, I wonder why what offends conservatives the most is when people want to disassociate from them for this last stuff? I mean, if it’s not a central plank of their movement and their platform?

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      I think a lot of them heard what they wanted to hear. Certainly few wanted to read anything about Project 2025, even though it was a click away. Or voted with their “tribe” and know next to nothing about that tribe’s decades long platform, Taco’s specific agenda, Project 2025’s agenda, or the conservative “movement” that underlies all of it.

      Or they were simply racist AF and thought all the undesirables were going to be whisked away as if by magic and without any kind of visible consequences like women shot and children gassed. Or they thought he “didn’t really mean it” but he’s a miracle-worker on the economy…

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        But that’s because Trump speaks in open ended words like - freedom, patriot, illegal. People create their own narrative for what those words mean, and apply it to Trump and then are surprised that their definition doesn’t match trumps… I mean they can’t know everything right? /s

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      Oh don’t worry, most of them who voted for him a third time are still cheering on the leopards with glee as all the smart-ass minorities and democrat-run areas get what’s coming to 'em!

      I went and looked at the profile of a real life trumper who is no longer a friend, on a social media site that I also mostly avoid, and they are openly supporting ICE.

      Their justification is literally “imagine if you or your loved one was killed by an illegal” after listing a random list of names of people who were supposedly killed by “ILLEGALS.” But it’s a 3-paragraph post written by somebody who seems to think they are very clever for coming up with a weak metaphor for “imagine if somebody got some shit instead of you” so it’s probably just a copypasta from some grifter they follow.

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      There was also a manual out. You didn’t even need to listen to him, you just had to read…