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One month into Trump’s second term, many feel buyer’s remorse
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No they don’t. These headlines are telling you what you want to hear. Talk to people. The MAGAs love it. And Elon.
This silo-ing approach to information isn’t going to help any of us.
Think of it this way.
There are a lot of places where Federal jobs are a mainstay of the economy. Maybe the VA hospital, or the military base, or a Federal office building.
When people see their neighbors losing their paycheck, it might start to sink in.
Nope, not until they lose their own, and maybe not even then. I love a great FAFO face eating story as much as the next, but you simply canNOT exaggerate the levels of cognitive dissonance these people are capable of enduring before their heads explode.
"I'm totally fine with being hurt, as long as I think you're hurting them more."
She's not wrong. They will live like the 1800s. For a while.
Nailed it.
You're forgetting that the mentality of his base is "he isn't hurting the people he's supposed to be hurting" (which is an actual quote).
They want pure, vindictive cruelty against anyone who isn't them. They're just as evil as Trump is.
If it’s personal, sure. But if it’s not impacting their nuclear family unit, high odds it’s not a consideration.
Really. Talk to MAGAs. These headlines are a manipulation to keep Lemmy calm.
Nah. It's very much a "if their job was important, they'd keep it" mentality. I live in a basically forever red state; tariffs on coal are specifically threatening to close mines in WV because the Chinese won't import coal anymore (they are our biggest exporter). There isn't a single whisper of why this is bad for us; Trump has pledged to keep the mines open for years. He could put the lock in the entrance himself and the miners would kiss his feet as he did it.
That's scary.
I'm not counting on the hardcore MAGoos to change. I want the 90 million people who didn't vote to wake up
Would be nice, but if this election didn't wake them up, nothing is going to.
Hardcore Trumpers will NEVER regret anything. They'd walk into a gas chamber with a smile on their face and a song in their hearts, if Fuck Face waved them in. But to be honest -- at this point, I don't care if the truecvlt MAGAts love it or hate what Trump is doing, so long as they suffer in the long run. Let them laugh their way into ruin, so long as they are ruined, that's all I care about.
I'm surrounded by Trumpers, they're everywhere around here. So far I've talked to one with regrets, and he knew better.
What really gets me is how he's now complaining about stuff I warned him about back in September. He voted red because he thought it would help his imminent retirement. Also he didn't like Kamala.
This guy really thought the whole platform they've been pushing would settle into business as usual, and now he's a shocked pikachu.
Agreed.
Many is oversell.
Some is likely but not quite clear. If suspect many more faces will need to be eaten before there is any real shift.
The reports I've seen have all indicated those with eaten faces haven't changed their minds.
Cippola:s 5 laws of stupidity.
Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
Just talk to people.
Yep. Anyone who wants can check old.badplace.com/r/conservative and still see nearly unanimous support for everything he's doing.
I assume everyone knows what to replace badplace with.
They are my canary. When a few of them start to notice they've been had (and frankly I'm skeptical they will do so until someone they love is headed to a camp) I'll believe there's any substantive remorse among Trump voters.
Conservative has traditionally been the more normal thread while Republican is pure, unmitigated vitriol.
Honestly that just makes my point even stronger. The so-called sane conservatives are still cheering unabashedly.