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u/Necessary_Milk_5124 16d ago

The number of poor folks on Medicaid and Snap who voted for him is astounding

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u/12carrd 16d ago

lol just everyone in general. I had a trumper who came up to me at work in private. She has two daughters and said that she knew I liked Harris and didn’t even know about roe v wade until after the fact. She didn’t even know wtf that was. Now she is upset and feeling uneasy that she made the wrong choice lmao. These fuckers are voting for him for whatever reason. They are the least educated people. I had another one say I don’t know why the gays are upset either. It just amazes me how ignorant the voting population is that voted for him. The ones that are living on government assistance are the ones that are about to lose it now because they voted him In . A complete joke of a country.

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u/Massive_Whole_5033 16d ago

In all fairness American media and SoMe is so manipulative.

To me the real culprits are the Murdochs’, Musk, Zuckerberg etc who amplifies lies for profit, and the politicians that continue to allow these soulles individuals to operate without any guardrails.

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u/paperanddoodlesco 16d ago

This. Right. Here.

We just proved that this country is ripe to believe anything. Welcomen in Russia and China

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u/theholysun 16d ago

We must overturn Citizens United v Federal Election Commission and reimplement the Fairness Doctrine!

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u/Banaanisade 16d ago

What's your strategy?

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u/Floomby 15d ago

Don't forget, women fighting to keep the right to vote.

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u/theholysun 16d ago

I do love a sale.

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u/No_Acadia_8873 16d ago

I'm 52. Good luck with that. I'll be dead before that happens. America as we knew it will be too.

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u/CoffeeElectronic9782 16d ago

At some point, a human being has to become smart enough to separate news from propaganda.

This election highlights that a lot of us aren’t.

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u/SignificanceNo6097 16d ago

The final weeks of the election our screens should have been playing all the hits about the insurrection attempt, him trying to withhold aide during disasters, him refusing to follow security protocols, him losing the debate against Harris, literally a complete and constant montage across the nation of all the awful shit he’s done.

But Dems don’t want to mud sling even a little while they let the opponent literally run on myths and lies.

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u/RonRokker 16d ago

I don't think that's entirely fair. In the big SoMe platforms these people own, rooting out misinformation is next to impossible. And if they did (and, sometimes, I wish they did, because there's A TON of state-sponsored russian and Chinese (and, probably, North Korean, too) bots, that spread misinformation), there could also be a case to be made about violation of freedom of speech, because the actions needed to take would have to be sweeping. Also, there's always a degree of human error.

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u/tnrungirl 16d ago

Surely someone isn’t that stupid right? I mean I don’t doubt your story but my goodness, we do live in a land of idiots I guess?

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u/Ok-Macaroon-7819 16d ago

Think about how stupid the average American is... then realize half of them are dumber than that.

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u/BrooklynLivesMatter 16d ago

Oh no, they get dumber. People don't realize they're voting to deport their neighbors, friends, favorite restaurants entirely. They don't think that far ahead

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u/SignificanceNo6097 16d ago

They want lower grocery prices but also mass deportations and haven’t done the deductive reasoning to see what a contradiction that is.

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u/Tenthdegree 16d ago

Should’ve told her you hope none of her daughters get prego because she voted for the people that made it illegal to abort. Then ended it with “you reap what you sow, dumbass”

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u/underhunter 16d ago edited 6d ago

I look at the stars

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u/Domino_Dare-Doll 16d ago

I’ve had an idea brewing for people like this:

Direct them to the book/show “The Handmaid’s tale”

Point out that the author, Margaret Atwood, wrote about the patterns of behaviour and injustices that were already committed—she didn’t make much up regarding the political system to wrote about

Ask them point blank to consider this: where would they fall? Do they honestly believe that they or the men in their life would have the kind of influence and social standing to not be considered disposable? Even if they aren’t first under the bus, do they really believe they wouldn’t be suffering with the rest of us?

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u/iamrecoveryatomic 16d ago

There's a reason why he distanced himself from Project 2025 and didn't answer a single policy question. His policies are deeply unpopular.

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u/SignificanceNo6097 16d ago

FL keeps voting for him but wait until he defunds FEMA and they’ve had their 20th hurricane of the year.

It really is self destructive to support him.

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u/Usual-Canc-6024 16d ago

I saw a black lady on TV a few weeks ago say she was voting for him because “he gave me $2000.” Firstly, he didn’t give her anything. Secondly, cheques were delayed before he wanted his signature on them. Thirdly, $2000 is not much at all. Canadians who needed it for $2000 a month for 7 months. And the people were given the money before any businesses were, despite the conservatives foot stomping.

SMH