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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 205 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Of course his idiot dumbshit supporters all assume they won't be the ones suffering, it'll just be everyone else, and that makes it okay to them.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They don't understand that rooting for them, doesn't make them part of the team.

They don't understand that Donald Trump loathes them

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If Kamala wins, her Dept. of Education should really make a push to make sure that we are teaching fascism and WW2 in schools so people can recognize this shit and stop falling for it.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As a German, I have to sadly tell you that that's not enough.

It's important to teach media literacy and critical thinking too.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought critical thinking was communism?

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Which makes a solid case for communism.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the red states already hamstring k-12 to the point they can't function.

Feds never should have let that happen.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every single church that made a political endorsement needs to be stripped of its tax exempt status. And audited by the IRS.

Domestic terrorism is being fomented at the ground level in "religious centers," and we've gotta start calling things what they are.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago

Just frame it as “Muslim” and the right will get it done for you. They do love voting against their own interests.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 28 points 3 weeks ago

"The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them."

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

don't be silly, of course the leopards will only eat other people's faces.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

They’ll just be told to blame everyone else for their suffering, just like they have been for decades now. It’s all going to be heaped on the same old tired bogeymen: illegals, libs, the nebulous educated elite, etc.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is far more than okay with them when the right people are suffering hardships. They would elect the most overtly corrupt person to ever exist and destroy the country just to make sure the right people get hurt.

[–] Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

They just did elect that person