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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 3 hours ago

Above the golden M. Of course

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 14 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (4 children)

Doubters gonna doubt, but I honestly do believe the time is coming where it will be hard to find any American who admits to having ever voted for Trump.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 2 points 26 minutes ago

Oh, I'll keep reminding the ones I know who did. One of them is a narcissist who cannot admit he has ever done anything wrong or apologize for it. I call him dad.

Welcome to my trauma dump.

[–] czardestructo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I thought that was going to be the outcome of the first presidency, but then they reelected him even after January 6th. He is still a king maker in this mid-term, all my hope is gone. Americans are hopeless.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's gonna be like how everybody says they hate Nickleback now.

They sold 50 million albums to somebody.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago

It was me, I spent generational wealth on buying as much merch and albums and concert tickets as I could from Nickelback. Nickelback is awesome!

~~dont worry guys, I'll take the hit on this one~~

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

I thought that was gonna happen after Jan 6. But…. Here we are.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 91 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I'm just happy to see Americans using the correct "you're" at this point.

[–] starik@lemmy.today 2 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

They probably learned it at one of the elite universities everyone from around the globe comes to the US to attend.

[–] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 39 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

There finally figuring it out…….. 😜

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 hours ago

Jesus crust.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 27 points 16 hours ago (5 children)
[–] LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 15 hours ago

It's actually their're.

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[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Their they're now...don't be hasty.

[–] SystemDisc@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

It’s not their they’re, it’s my they’re

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (6 children)

Shouldn't the Americanized version of "you're" be spelled "yo'r"?

Hmm... Curious. 🤔

Edit: Didn't think I needed to state that this was a joke. I was simultaneously playing on the Colour → Color and Centre → Center. It wasn't that deep...

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[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 121 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That might just work if any of them could read or decide how to feel on their own

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 67 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

with any luck they'll confuse it with a McDonald's commercial and follow instructions blindly

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 14 hours ago

Mcfuckin' had it

I think it'll be the opposite, they will start reading the sign see the McDonalds and then suddenly their eating fries and nuggs waiting for Fox to tell them how to think about the world.

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[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 16 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's right, idiots, stay in your cult. Once you get duped you become branded for life as a stupid cultist, so you may as well stay and fester in the only culture that will ever accept you. Get comfortable licking that boot, because you need community to live and we will never allow you to join ours, so don't even think about it as an option.

...sarcasm, obviously. I hope.

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 11 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

With how badly they've all abused all existing social contracts, I can see how some might arrive at the conclusion of refusing to enter into any more with them.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 16 hours ago

I too understand it. I have spent a big part of my life feeling the same way, after I spent the first big part of my life being immersed in the cult and parroting a lot of the same abusive, authoritarian ideas.

After I got over the collectivized hatred, which included no small amount of self-hatred, I started to get more specific and practical about dismantling the systems that ensnare people in the house of mirrors of learned hatred and distrust. One of the specific practices I find helpful is finding cogs that want to come loose, and helping them come out completely. Other helpful people did that for me, and I try to pay it forward. I think this group is doing something similar.

I also think that grouping everyone who's ever been a part of MAGA into the same "categorically irredeemable" group is inaccurate and counterproductive, and it forces people who want to leave to stay in, because they don't see where else they can go. Cults are fragile, and public ones, like MAGA, cultivate that outside pressure by being heinous on purpose, and on behalf of the group, because it creates a societal debt that its victims feel they can never repay. Once someone becomes convinced that it's too socially expensive to "come clean", so to speak, they are trapped. The only way to get them out is to show them that they have somewhere, anywhere, else to go.

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[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I’m surprised at how unriddled with bullet holes that sign is.

I passed some farmer's big "Trump 2024" sign once - it looked like it had been hit with a couple dozen small red... somethings. I kinda wished it had been from a paintball gun with enough to drip down & look like blood.

[–] Seimhe@lemmy.world 42 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

That does seem like a very effective ad.

[–] lyrial@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 hours ago

I don't think that it is directly aimed at MAGA (but also kinda). It is a link to talking points to help people you may care about leaving the cult.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 22 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That's where, I love leopardsatemyface and I'll always laugh, but I will genuinely be happy as people leave the culture and mind fog. Its acceptance and openness which will win people back, not demeaning them.

Do they deserve it? Absolutely, but I keep that at a meta level online. Individually I believe we have to be the bigger person and open our arms

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I have a VERY hard time with this these people literally want me (a lesbian) to not exist. They have wished me dead so often that honestly I don't have any empathy for them. Funny how so many of us are exposed to the same propaganda they are but don't get sucked into the bullshit.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 17 hours ago

That's why if they're coming out of the fog we show welcoming, but I also agree there are hard lines. It means you're giving up that hatred.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

…For McDonalds.

I kid, but hopefully it helps some lost souls.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

clicks on link

It's goats.ex

[–] valar@lemmy.ca 16 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] JTode@lemmy.world 9 points 18 hours ago

I ain't writing them off just yet.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Bout damn time.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 11 points 21 hours ago
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