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Social identity is a helluva drug (lemmy.world)
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[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

It's the same playbook as foreign sanctions elsewhere.

The Assads, Kims, and Putins of the world can get their people to rally into a "bunker mentality" which helps prop up their regimes as a grand and noble struggle.

Trump has brought the same energy home. And history shows you can milk it for decades or generations even before something essential craxks.

[-] s0upybl00per@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Are we all just cowering down? Reading these comments makes it sounds like we should just all give up.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

**EDIT: Like you all didn't just try to get us all to vote for a literally brain-dead guy who let you get poorer for four years. You may not want to admit it, but you're the same as they are.

LOL

The irony here is that this meme is equally applicable to all partisans no matter your team color.

[-] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Like you all didn't just try to get us all to vote for a literally brain-dead guy who let you get poorer for four years.

?

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

If you haven't had to actually look at your grocery or medical bills for the last four years, then I'm jealous of you.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

Medical cost-to-value and care availability in the US is horrible. The baby steps toward lesser horrid like not allowing denial of insurance due to preexisting conditions barely scratch the surface.

If you are comfortable sharing (I know conversations on the internet can go unproductively negative fast, and engagement is often not worthwhile), do you expect to see costs like medical and grocery get better while Trump is President? If so, are you expecting to see that benefit this year, or for it to take a few years?

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

No, unfortunately. The only way to achieve change is to commit a spectacular act of vigilantism or be a billionaire.

Look at the choices we were given in the last election: two old, publicly cognitively-impaired men, both of whom had four years to demonstrate to great effect that legislating in a way that allows workers to obtain a reasonably good standard of living wasn't a priority. I realize the Dems switched out their candidate, but the new one said she wouldn't change anything about the last election, so it's fair to say she'd have done nothing about poverty too.

[-] Lyrl@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago

Fair, thanks for replying. I suspect I am much more worried about deteriorating conditions than you, and that different risk/benefit weighting leads me to different conclusions, but it's helpful to hear other lines of thinking.

Also, your serious replies prompted me to comment-stalk you a little, and led me to a few interesting conversations the lemmy algorithm had not otherwise shown me, so thanks for that, too!

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 0 points 4 months ago

Yes, but the number of Trump supporters is dwindling.

[-] MrFunkEdude@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

They've been saying that since Cheeto ran for office the second time and look where we are. 🙄

[-] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world -1 points 4 months ago

GUNS

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