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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

33% of Americans approve of:

Child trafficking and rape

Collapse of rule of law

Shifting the tax burden entirely onto the poor

Mass kidnappings of minorities and dissidents

The building of concentration camps

Illegally kidnappibg foreign leaders

Raping developing countries of their resources

Unnecessary, unprovoked and illegal wars of aggression

Bombing of little school girls

Genocide of Palestinians

Genocide of Hispanic Americans

Genocide of anyone not white

Rampant stagflation

Collapse of any semblance of the American dream

And that's just scratching the surface

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

But surely the leopards won't eat my face.

I hope those people burn in hell.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I know it's not an excuse, but I doubt they all know and knowingly support all of this. There's plenty of people utterly un- or misinformed about what's going on in the world or inside the US. There was this video recently where they interviewed beach-goers about the Iran war. They barely even knew what a war or Iran was.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The thing is, you can tell them all about it and they still won't question their support

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the ignorant way they cope with the truth does come close to malice.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I know the video you're talking about.

I doubt a bunch of random fuck beach going horny frat bros are the best metric for measuring gauging the degeneracy and malice of the average right winger.

We've far exceeded the point where MAGA ignorance and MAGA malice have converged, and are one in the same. Behind them is a river of blood that only grows.

And when confronted with reality, invariably they will choose to reject reality, rather than come to terms with their actions. They are all simply evil, ignorance or intention be damned.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right. It's not an excuse. In fact at this point, I don't even know why it would come into consideration.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Because you can't dismiss 30% of a population. They need to at least partially be taken along, just because they're too many to just declare war on.

Let's declare war on a more manageable percentage and definitely without compromising core values. So we gotta pierce the bubble of the misinformed, but defeat the ones who misinform out of malice and self interest.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Wars have been fought and won against worst odds and worse circumstances.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wtf? Is that a typo, because Whittier is the street I live on.

[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It was autocorrect. I must've been typing 1 handed

[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Then I realize it's not a part of a menu to pick from ..... it's bloody fucking ALL of it!