• spizzat2@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    I recently overheard a conversation between two people complaining about how, after the election, their friends unfollowed anyone who followed Trump.

    Their argument was “I only voted for one issue. It’s not like I have time to know everything.”

    It was an aggravating interaction, but also a strong reminder of just how ignorant the average voter is.

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      11 hours ago

      I only voted for one issue.

      Hm, I wonder what that was.

      Regardless, it’s not like someone is going to spend four years on one issue.

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          10 hours ago

          IKR? These people wanted to pretend they were picked on, the poor dears, for espousing small government, personal responsibility, waging war on “socialized medicine”, trading wicked memes about “Going Galt” or how the nine most terrifying words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help”.

          No, it’s always about them wanting to force people to host the worst versions of what a human being might say on their private platforms - spreading xenophobia, anti-gay, anti-trans, misogynist hate speech, or spreading outright lies about, oh, I don’t know, a pandemic.

          Gosh, I wonder why what offends conservatives the most is when people want to disassociate from them for this last stuff? I mean, if it’s not a central plank of their movement and their platform?

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            They wrap it all up as freedom of speech, forgeting how fucking stupid they sound while desperately wishing the concept of hate-speech would go away except when they try to use it by saying that “cis” is a slur because these people have two malfunctioning braincells at best.