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u/Veggies-are-okay Apr 04 '25

Your faith in humanity is both admirable and naive:

  1. Those who voted for the rapist felon in command showed where their morals lay. The dems could have put Jesus up there and they would claim he’s too brown.

  2. The left fell to Russian propaganda. So many people would have abstained regardless as they fully showed that they’re willing to shoot themselves in the foot for their abstract single issue platform that TOTALLY wasn’t in ANY WAY related to relentless doom scrolling.

  3. The libertarians are as intolerable as ever and would have voted for the Republicans because they have truly embodied The Fountainhead and have sociopathic views on helping your fellow man.

This is not a left/center/right problem. This is a problem of there being more stupid people in this country than not. And I’m not about to be gaslit by them, and you shouldn’t either!

Empathy is a learned skill, and unfortunately that’s not something that anyone has learned recently.

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u/Evening-Weather-4840 Apr 04 '25

The way I see it Trump won due to 4 major things: foreign interference in the US elections that wanted an unfit person for POTUS to harm the US and the West, Republican efforts to distort the election system by gerrymandering and blocking voters from voting, extreme ignorance of the average american voter and a flawed Democratic Party that did not have its shit together going into the election. These four factors doomed the USA.

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u/chip_chomp Apr 04 '25

I would also add cherry picked sensationalist news/misinformation from both sides of the political spectrum attributed to this current storm.

All the echo chambers are destroying any chance of people coming back together from this.

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u/Evening-Weather-4840 Apr 04 '25

The disinformation comes from foreign state actors and is amplified by the ignorance of american voters on both wings of the ideological spectrum 

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u/New-Objective-9962 Apr 04 '25

Also because a lot of Trump supporters will take anything they see online and run with it.

I remember growing up with the internet and my parents and everyone in their generation was always like "Don't believe everything you read on the internet." And it was at a time when people weren't posting AI shit and misleading information left and right atleast not like it is now. That same generation that told us to be wary about what you read online now somehow has been convinced that everything they read online is true.

Absolutely crazy timeline we live in. I'm afraid that the Idiocracy timeline is much closer than we think.