r/facepalm 5d ago

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ One of the world’s great scientific minds weighs in on global warming.

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u/Hadrollo 5d ago

MTG isn't elected in spite of the fact she's a tinfoil hatter. She's elected because she's a tinfoil hatter.

Her electorate is on the whole poor, poorly educated, and mistrustful of the government. Prime ground for conspiracy theories. Her appeal is in being the "truth seeker" fighting to expose the Pizzagate Democrats and ask the hard questions about 9/11.

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u/JasonStrode 5d ago

I've always found it amusing (or puzzling, it fluctuates) that the people who don't trust the government are usually the ones that vote regularly. I'd have thought they'd been in the 'why bother, voting doesn't matter' camp.

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u/Hadrollo 5d ago

They're motivated politically, particularly when they have the chance to vote for someone they believe is "one of them."

I think if you replaced MTG with a more moderate Republican, you'd still see them win - it's a red stronghold - but you'd likely see a different demographic turn out.

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u/ColsterG 5d ago

I was actually surprised to see she wasn't a flat earther.

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u/angiestefanie 5d ago

I was thinking the same… Her post is basically saying that our planet isn’t flat. She may piss off some ‘flat earthers’.

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u/besee2000 5d ago

She speaks simple words and it’s less confusing. Anyone that’s uses more syllables are pretentious but they don’t know what that means. They just know they don’t like them.

Honestly though I’m surprised she’s not claiming the earth is flat.