• T00l_shed@lemmy.world
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      No, you see, their social support is ok, because they are down on their luck, through no fault of their own. Buts it’s those other free loaders are the problem.

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        Oh, they like being told what do. As long as it’s by the right people, as long as they’re told that they get to make others’ lives worse.

        That’s the secret. Just about every “alpha” (with VERY few exceptions) is also a submissive “beta”. They’ll give up their morals, their daughters, their god, their freedom, whatever.

        That’s the fundamental difference between the left and the right. The left believes in cooperation, the right believes in the authority-submissive, alpha-beta dynamic.

        These people just aren’t in on the secret. As soon as they really start complaining they’ll be told to fall in line.

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    My in-laws voted for him because - no joke - they didn’t want Kamala to give money to “poor people.” My in-laws are on social security and Medicare. They ARE the poor people. If they think we will be paying for their shit after benefits are cut, I’ve got news for them. FAFO.

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      “Those other people didn’t earn it…like us. They are lazy welfare mommas. They need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, like we did.”

      - your in-laws probably

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        I’ve straight up heard someone say that about her disability. She claimed she earned it by going through the stuff that traumatized her to unemployability. It’s wild

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          of course… trump is hella racist and so is america and that’s why he won….
          it’s just about impossible for someone to support him without being racist. that’s why when you pin a trump supporter down on “why trump though?” it’s always some bullshit reason, and if you break it down or disprove it, they eventually regress to “i don’t care”.
          all their hypocritical outrage over supposed moral violations of the left? they don’t actually care about that… they just want to yell something at the anti-racist people and they can’t get away with overt racism just yet….

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      Exactly, your part in this is over, now you’re just a loose end.

      When dealing with the devil, NEVER, EVER put him in a position of power unless you have effective leverage.

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    Sorry, guys. You voted for this so the billionaires can deliver austerity to you, an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of government largesse for themselves.

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    This is what Trump ran on. This is what President Musk promised on Xitter pre-election.

    Why would you think otherwise?

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      He also ran on ‘i won’t touch social security’ and they heard the option they wanted to hear despite it being an obvious lie he will if he can.

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        Yes, but it was mapped out pre election. Project 2025. I get it, no one wants to even skim a 996 page document, but it was all right there.

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        And bush sr. said “read my lips: no new taxes.”

        When will people learn these fuckers are all liars? That shit was almost 35 years ago. We never learn.

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    Trump will not only cut their benefits and siphon off the money for his billionaire investors, he will convince them it’s really better this way that they struggle to survive. Makes them stronger.

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      Well, what else are they going to do? Go woke, go broke! I mean, the Demoncrats will transition your boy at school, while forcing you and your spouse to sit through DEI re-education camps at work! And don’t get me started on forcing everyone to eat bugs, own nothing, and have us switch away from fossil fuels!

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      Ahhh… the old if you think this is bad, imagine how much worse the next/other guy/party will be if I can get away with this much.