• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The high “better off” opinion of the conservatives is probably based on “it is fashionable again to be openly racist”, nothing more.

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      15 hours ago

      A big percentage of that is people believing Fox News telling them things are better.

      My maga relatives have talked recently, again, about how much safer DC is and how the economy is “now going like gangbusters”. They really believe it.

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          2 hours ago

          Not in my experience. They just give really vague answers and either ignore or get upset when you press for more detail. Or tell you things that simply aren’t true

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            1 hour ago

            get upset

            That’s them being derailed. They’re upset that they don’t know anything deeper than the buzzwords they’ve learned.

            If they actually understood and believed their positions, they could answer those questions.

            Call them out. Call them cowards for refusing to engage in debate. That’s what they are.

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      17 hours ago

      Nahhhhhh, don’t forget the tax breaks going to rich fucks.

      The NY Times is undoubtedly skewed towards sampling New Yorkers, who are all biased towards higher tax brackets by the way megalopolis economics work in the first place.

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        16 hours ago

        don’t forget the tax breaks going to rich fucks.

        “This matters to me because I will be rich one day.”

        — Delusional morons.

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          15 hours ago

          Especially to those so dangerously close to grabbing the purse strings of the likes of 90’s Trump.