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When ABC News' Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they "signed up for," Trump responded: "Well, they did sign up for this actually."

https://xcancel.com/ABC/status/1917379788408312308

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[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

It's racism and sexism. Trump stands for hurting non-whites. As long as non-whites are being hurt, the racist people will endure anything.

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - Lyndon B. Johnson

Just like with Hillary Clinton, many people will never be ok with a woman president.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

The DNC stands for hurting non whites. Trump hurts all people.

[-] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I was with you right up until the end.

Hillary's gender is a weak excuse that the DNC and the establishment Dems trot out to try to duck the blame for sabotaging a sincere progressive in order to run a neolib weasel who gives paid speeches to international bankers and idolizes Kissinger.

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago

Well, that's great you have "deeper" reasoning for not voting for Hillary Clinton and getting us the first Trump.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 13 points 4 days ago

This works for Republicans of color also, they see themselves as a step up from the "others". They may not be white, but they aren't just Black/Hispanic/[under-represented group]. That one guy in SC stated online "I'm a black Nazi!"

[-] DrFistington@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

To be fair, Trump also stands for hurting whites. That's the problem with fascism, you don't ever really eliminate the enemy. You just redefine who the enemy is whenever it's convenient. Eventually, if there's nothing but white people left, then a sub group of them will become the new scapegoat, and then when they're gone another, etc.

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Trump is only for himself.

People think they are in Trump's group, but even Jeff Bezos got publicly slapped yesterday.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 4 days ago

More generally, it's in-group vs out-group. For many people, the in-group is "white men" and the out-group is "everyone else". But this behavior is pretty baked into humans. We'll form stupid groups over anything. I was reading a book about how people change their minds, and it talked about some experiments they did. Like, they gave kids at a summer camp different colored shirts, and sure enough they formed separate groups. They had to stop the experiment when one group tried to burn down the cabin of the other group.

I don't know how to fix this.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

The in-group is the working class and the out-group is the wealthy.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago

If you know a way to get from here to there, please share. At my old job I tried to radicalize my coworkers so they'd understand our interests align with each other more than ownership. I had some success.

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