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  • Looks exactly like the kind of messaging that republicans have kept on quietly pushing towards potential left-leaning voters to keep them unengaged and aloof, for years and years.

    A large serving of divide and conquer propaganda, plus making voting more difficult wherever they can, plus extreme flagrant gerrymandering. Cripple and destroy government programs whenever in power, keep on blaming “both sides” for it, election after election.

    “Look how stupid they are! They keep on falling for it, we keep on serving it!”


  • London and Tokyo taxi drivers are the apex… the map apex… the mapex (pronounced MAY-pex)?

    “Take me to that hotel that’s in front of a pub, I think it’s called The Fox & Hounds… I think it’s between a park and a Tube station”, and the crazy bastard could figure out exactly where you meant, even though there are multiple pubs named The Fox & Hounds in London.





  • What you are saying is this:

    Couldn’t hear the endless barrage of republican dog whistles. Too subtle for his mind to capture.
    Heard the shrill, blunt whistle loud and clear.

    Because everything this orange asshole is saying directly, is what most previous republicans have been implying for decades.

    They’ve been incredibly successful when they’ve been subtle, too.
    For example - calling the war on minorities “the war on drugs” and filling it with “refer madness” propaganda. They’ve gotten the taxpayer to foot the gigantic bill for decades now.

    Social media broke peoples’ brains, that fucking algorithm is tuned to keep users anxious for unnaturally prolonged periods of time.
    They were warned they were the product, not the customer. They didn’t listen, they were too busy paying attention to what the algorithm was throwing their way.



  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldDivide and rule
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    One faction has a messiah fixation, thumps a Bible they’ve never even read (they just let some pastor tell them what’s in it), obsesses over guns and other peoples’ private (by which I mean sexual) lives and reproductive organs. They’ve been told and so believe that Sodom and Gomorrah was about the sex, but it was about righteousness and hospitality - and these are two things that they themselves lack completely.

    There is a real problem, a real danger, because it fits historical patterns we’ve seen before - the so-called “ideas” that they spout with the language that they use - and they end up mindlessly, senselessly bringing EVERYBODY down with them.

    They are a menace to all of us. Including themselves, but they don’t see it. And neither does the “both sides” argument, a lazy excuse for not acknowledging that the proverbial emperor has no clothes.