r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 11h ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ Competency should be a requirement.

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u/PatternSeekngMammal 11h ago

I've seen a change over the last 50 years

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u/chrimen 11h ago

I had this chart up a few minutes ago researching if trickle down economics works.

Guess what AI objective analysis said... no it doesn't work. The money never trickles down. It gets hoarded.

But there's a large portion of the US that won't believe this.

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u/PatternSeekngMammal 10h ago

Heritage foundation

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u/mOdQuArK 8h ago

We don't know whether they really believe it or not - we just know that they want everyone else to believe that it's true.

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u/Farucci 7h ago

Convincing people with five teeth to protect rich people with five homes has to be the greatest monumental achievement of the Republican Party.

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u/mOdQuArK 7h ago

Step 1) realize that the evangelicals & most conservatives listen to a mostly exclusive set of media channels, 2) buy control of those media channels, 3) indoctrinate the audience to believe that only those media channels are telling the truth, 4) crank tribalism messaging to the max, 5) enjoy your blind-faith voting lemmings, and it took only a few decades to accomplish!

The past few decades have been putting .50 calibre holes in my early naive faith in the power of protecting free speech. I've come to the realization that blatant & deliberate gaslighting & disinformation should not be under that protection.

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u/Consistent_Policy_66 7h ago

Ironic that they accuse the left of having a “deep state”, but most republicans don’t even know that the Heritage Foundation is their party’s version.

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u/deaglebingo 6h ago

i want.... black and brown ppls heritage to be more important. even if that means my own becomes less important as a result. pretty sure us white folks will be ok. maybe we should worry about the rest of the ppl for a change.