#quietpartoutloud

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
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    26 days ago

    That would be the large subset who are victims of propaganda. I refuse to believe that such a large percentage of the country would actually be as awful as they seem if it wasn’t for the propaganda machine doing its thing.

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Lol, they buy into the propaganda because it aligns with their beliefs. They aren’t victims of blatant racist shit like this.

      Victims of the taxes too high propaganda, sure. But not this.

      • Worx@lemmynsfw.com
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        26 days ago

        … unless you’re saying it’s in their genes to be racist, then something convinced them that racism is correct. And that thing is a mixture of parents’ teaching and propaganda. And the parents got it from propaganda and their parents, etc.

        • snooggums@lemmy.world
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          It is how they were raised and their life experiences that influence their worldview. But as adults, they should have learned better.

          Willful ignorance is their own fault.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      Trump is currently controlling the largest cult outside of religion in the US. His core is going to take a long time to deprogram enough to return to society when he finally stops getting a platform to mobilize them all. Some of them were awful people before Trump, but so many everyday people got pulled into the cult through Fox or Facebook or Twitter and their conditioning keeps them loyal.

      I think contrary to at least some cult leaders, Trump has nothing but absolute disgust for his followers, and uses them solely to get him power and to grift so he can afford to keep the machine of hate going.

    • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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      You’d be surprised how our system turns people into sociopaths. It enables them and even rewards them.

      Just look at the richest people in our society and how most of them have sociopathic tendencies. They lack empathy.