Sorry if this is the wrong community for this. Not sure where else to put it.

  • PantanoPete@lemmy.zip
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    Identity politics exists to divide the working class. Keeping us all poor and fighting with eachother is the only outcome.

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      Far as I know, and correct me if I am wrong - identity politics can take two forms: There’s “individuals are different [in terms of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, …] and that’s great” and there’s “all preferred people must now unite against specific [ethnic, religious, sexual, …] minority group”. Not sure if you mean both kinds.

  • lennybird@lemmy.world
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    Well yeah.

    It’s also the reason he told Republican in Congress to tank the strongest Border Security bill in decades in 2024 after Republicans realized, “Oh crap, Democrats are actually going to vote Yes on it!”

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        Right. As it was, the entire party almost imploded following their commitment to overturning Roe. They learned their lesson that can only dangle solutions to the fears of their base, maybe address a symptom here and there, but never provide true solutions to the root problems.

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          It didn’t nearly implode.

          The south saw roe as the first step, but what they really care about are obergefell, loving, and everything else since the end of Jim Crow.

          They’re already reversing brown v Boe by eliminating the DoEd and re-enabling ‘Christian segregation academies’.

          They thought there would be more pushback, they were shocked to learn there isn’t.

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    Damaging the lives of minority groups has been the game of evil people for ages now.

    These are human lives, but to people like Trump they are just lubricant to throw in front of his trolly to grease the tracks.

    It’s disgusting, and he is disgusting.

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    PP has changed his ideologies recently, too. Don’t be complacent Canadians! Make sure you get out and VOTE!!

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        I have family that are fully on the maga train. There is no coming back from that. Will a few snap out of it every now and then? Sure. But there will be no way to unbrainwash them on a massive scale.

        How deep these people are down the rabbithole… and they have zero desire to listen to anything else. Trump could physically punch them in the face and they will find a way to avoid blaming him.

        They are losing most of their social security and had their snap benefits decreased by almost 50%. Their faith in trump is all they have. Their faith in Christianity. Trump is another god to them and there to save them. And nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise.

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          It’s wild. I’ve lost relatives to this nonsense and I don’t even live in the US.

          I’m currently fighting it with some friend’s family members that aren’t complete lost causes yet, but it seems to take a disproportionate amount of effort to disarm the programming, and then they just go back and their algorithms which are happy to spoon feed them more view confirming nonsense to regurgitate.

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    Well fuck me, I recently said that trans in women’s sports was a complicated issue. This is straightforward anti-trans propaganda. I also looked at some peer reviewed studies that showed there is no physiological advantage for trans women.

    We all make some assumptions based on anecdotal evidence, and the best we can do is learn from our mistakes.

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      thank you for interrupt my doomscroll to remind me that people out there are still empathetic and capable of learning/admitting to their faults.

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    This is like me admitting to wiping my ass after I’ve taken a shit. I mean we all know what they’re doing, they know what they’re doing, their supporters knows what they are doing. There’s no point in pretending that not almost everyone realize this. The tiny minority that are too stupid to know that Trump is full of shit is completely inconsequential.

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    The fact that this works just shows that most Americans are idiots and probably deserve what they voted for: policies that will put them further in poverty and loss of their rights.

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      The fact that this works just shows that most Americans humans are idiots

      FTFY. If you believe that people in your country would be different when put in the same situation then I’m sorry but you are one of the idiots.

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        I am American. I’m fully aware there are idiots in most countries. However the ratio of idiots to non-idiots is what really matters.

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      Not just Americans. Wedge issues have been a political tool for a while now.

      The Velveeta treason weasel is probably too dumb to realize it’s not even his idea.

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        Because it is your democratic duty to inform yourself about who or what you are voting for. Otherwise the system does not work and will eventually get rid of itself. Use it or lose it.

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          So by your logic… just the Trump voters deserve it and the rest of the country doesn’t? But everybody is being affected by it…

          Sounds about the same as blaming the Jewish people in Nazi Germany for Hitler.

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    raging is who they are. it’s what they do. he’s been doing it since obama, the far right since rush and fox ‘news’ each launched. it’s basically all they have. it’s not like they have policies or a platform to benefit the people, the nation, the world, the planet…

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    Yeah politicians have been doing this since the dawn of time. Trump is not particularly unique in this.

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    Does anyone know the date this took place? And is the Fox chevron referencing this event?