• Signtist@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    To be fair, as a democrat, I generally view conservative voters as easily-misled people - essentially “dumb,” I view conservative leaders as thugs trying to overthrow America, and I view conservative corporate heads as ruling class elites. When you’re using such an overarching term as “Conservative” or “Left” it comes with the unsaid caveat that there are many subgroups that can differ greatly from one another.

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      I don’t know how anyone wants to self identify as a conservative whose platform is currently:

      1. The dumbest with Donald Trump slurring and stumbling over his speeches

      2. The thugs trying to overthrow America with “Project 2025”, war on WOKENESS, book burning and being anti-choice

      3. The constant meddling of oil companies, cable companies, news companies into what information we get - along with dark money getting funneled to politicians to suddenly say moronic shit like “we can’t take gov money to feed school children”

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        The conservative voters I know all stand for one thing: stubbornness. They make a decision to do something, they do it until they die, and they take great pride in doing so.

        It’s essentially vikings if, instead of needing to die in battle to get to Valhalla, you needed to die of an easily-preventable disease because you never got that weird lump checked out, because if you’d admitted you had a problem you’d be weak, which is worse than death.

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          “Shouldn’t you be trying harder to convince me?” is the new “You should smile more.”

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          Now you’re reminding me of my uncle and his multiple hernias. He waited for years to get them taken care of because he didn’t want to have to deal with the recovery time.

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        Because of propaganda.

        1. A Self-made Business Man™ is miles better than Bumbling Biden the fascist communist.

        2. WOKENESS IS KILLING AMERICA. Books brainwash you into being woke. Project 2025 will save us from woke.

        3. Thats the liberal media, “my guys” are normal working men, they wear plaid shirts sometimes and pose for pictures in a workshop.

        No I don’t actually believe any of that, but that’s your list in conservative language served to the masses by your friendly thousands of miles away neighborhood newscaster propagandist.

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        Oh, they just relate to the poor speech, lack of coherent sentences, and overwhelming pride.

        They just shout “one of us, one of us” a bit louder with each misstep.