• GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Not that shocking when you really think about it. Nixon had 24% approval when he resigned. Since then entire right wing media networks have been created specifically to ensure republicans don’t have to suffer the same accountability. That’s to say nothing of the countless bots on social media.

        Think about how much money and influence is being focused on keeping Trump and the GOP palatable until the midterms, then remember that only 1 out of 3 people are actually being fooled into thinking he’s doing a good job.

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      33% of Americans approve of:

      Child trafficking and rape

      Collapse of rule of law

      Shifting the tax burden entirely onto the poor

      Mass kidnappings of minorities and dissidents

      The building of concentration camps

      Illegally kidnappibg foreign leaders

      Raping developing countries of their resources

      Unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal wars of aggression

      Bombing of little school girls

      Genocide of Palestinians

      Genocide of Hispanic Americans

      Genocide of anyone not white

      Rampant stagflation

      Collapse of any semblance of the American dream

      And that’s just scratching the surface

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        I know it’s not an excuse, but I doubt they all know and knowingly support all of this. There’s plenty of people utterly un- or misinformed about what’s going on in the world or inside the US. There was this video recently where they interviewed beach-goers about the Iran war. They barely even knew what a war or Iran was.

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            Because you can’t dismiss 30% of a population. They need to at least partially be taken along, just because they’re too many to just declare war on.

            Let’s declare war on a more manageable percentage and definitely without compromising core values. So we gotta pierce the bubble of the misinformed, but defeat the ones who misinform out of malice and self interest.

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          I know the video you’re talking about.

          I doubt a bunch of random fuck beach going horny frat bros are the best metric for measuring gauging the degeneracy and malice of the average right winger.

          We’ve far exceeded the point where MAGA ignorance and MAGA malice have converged, and are one in the same. Behind them is a river of blood that only grows.

          And when confronted with reality, invariably they will choose to reject reality, rather than come to terms with their actions. They are all simply evil, ignorance or intention be damned.

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      Based on what? Even Nixon bottomed out at 27%

      People need to get a grip on the fact that at least a quarter of this country are shameless white supremacists.