• U7826391786239@lemmy.zipdeleted by creator
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    9 months ago

    i knew it would be in the article at some point:

    Yet Todd still says: “I voted for Trump. I don’t regret that. We’re God-fearing, conservative people.”

    troompa loompas could literally be starving in the street, their whole family dying of polio or some other shit we thought we got rid of, and they’ll still sing the praises of the one who directly caused all their problems. because jesus, guns, and get rid of the brown people

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      9 months ago

      Worst part is a modern US Jesus would be all eat-the-rich anti-establishment, founder of a commune (or several as he travels), and get killed “by accident” in an ICE raid.

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      9 months ago

      And that quote is why I laugh at these fucking idiots. I genuinely do not have the capacity to empathize with people who are so idiotically and uncritically dogmatic.

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        9 months ago

        If you asked them what their dogma is and where it comes from, they wouldn’t have any reply. These people are narcissistic, unserious and willfully illiterate.

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, if you keep saying “no matter how much you hurt me, i am still going to keep voting you into power”, then you shouldn’t be surprised that they hurt you as much as they can.

      Having a limit on something that you see as a deal breaker is necessary and good, yet these people see that as a weakness

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 months ago

      Remember the Hermain Cain Award subreddit?

      Hundreds of documented cases of people vehemently refusing real treatment for a ‘fake’ disease, being immensely cocky and belligerent untill very nearly the end, and then, near the end… still somewhere between defiant, in denial, and delusional.

      … Those are the private citizens in the US with the vast majority of the guns.

      You are completely correct, many areas of the US will collapse into pockets of highly armed, highly religious cults, utterly bereft of anything resembling logic, beyond the sociopathic logic of how to run a cult.

      Basically, a couple of David Koresh’s for every county. Good luck!

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        9 months ago

        I am convinced that gun owners should be required to carry gun insurance… (policies for every gun they own) and I say that as a gun owner… we have to carry car insurance, another lethal weapon that at least has a plausible other function. I live in a Blue State. Liberals also own guns, we just don’t post pictures of them or open carry them in public. We actually follow the laws of our state for permits.

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      9 months ago

      Jesus loved Rome and thought empire-building, pillaging and murdering were virtuous activities! 🙄 But this nonsense is exactly what these Burgers believe in. As always, their “religion” is just narcissistic performative nonsense, without submission to God.

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      9 months ago

      Anybody who says “we’re a God fearing family” should be immediately locked up.

      Firstly because it’s a meaningless platitude that doesn’t actually make sense, and secondly because it actually means “;-) I’m a Nazi, but obviously I would get offended if you ever actually called me out on it”.

      No nice person has ever said that.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        “I have no Ethics or Morals, so I only ever do the right thing because I fear the wrath of an All Knowing and All Powerful entity if I don’t”

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          9 months ago

          You missed the second bit, which is

          “All the time acting in a manner that does not in fact suggest that I actually believe in an all-knowing entity. But rather in a way that suggests that I am using religion as a shield for being the world’s worst person”

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        9 months ago

        It kinda makes sense to me. If I believed in the judeo christian god - an omnipotent being that has a vengeful, murderous history and has the emotional maturity of a 3 yo - yes I’d be living in fear of it.

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        9 months ago

        Firstly because it’s a meaningless platitude that doesn’t actually make sense

        The world runs on meaningless platitudes for these people!

        I am not disagreeing with you; you’re very much correct. But I think it’s important to point out and not just let it pass by.

        It’s all part of the talking point conditioning and conforming that the right leans on so heavily. You need to superficially signal the right virtues with your appearance and speech.

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        9 months ago

        This but unironically.

        It’s called Sunk Cost Fallacy, a basic concept in economics that even explains how gambling addictions begin and why it’s so hard for people to stop until they’ve lost everything.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        Exactly.

        It’s a coping mechanism for having a purely emotional relationship (i.e. pure tribalism) with a political “side” that has now been going on for so long and so intensely that it has become part of their personal identity, and then being negativelly impacted by the choices of the leaders of “their” side.

        By this point such people would have to accept that what is now a huge part of their personal identity is bullshit, and people with the psychological and intelectual maturity required to be able to accept something like that and move on wouldn’t have become tribalist muppets in the first place.

        They will never, ever do that, rather what they do is invent excuses and deflections of blame.

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      9 months ago

      This is the biggest difference between democrats and republicans… Republicans will vote, democrats wants purity on their ideals otherwise they don’t vote.