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  • After 2016 I spent a lot of time on reddit talking to Trump voters to understand why.

    Overwhelmingly they believe things that aren’t true. Basic misconceptions of the world cascading in on one another culminating into the stupidest vote of their life.

    One guy thought Obama was a vain man because he named his healthcare plan Obamacare. When I told him the healthcare plan was called the Affordable Care Act, and that Republicans and the media called it Obamacare as a way to hurt it, his brain couldn’t process it because why would the media parrot Republican talking points if they were all biased towards Democrats?

    You can understand how this individual would make this mistake. He pays just enough attention to be misinformed. Three generations of right-wing propaganda, the world’s most disciplined messaging machine repeating the same lies and half-truths have absolutely run roughshod over this type of person.





  • My english teacher told us about The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks back in the 8th grade and I checked it out of the school library.

    The main character is a very eccentric and disturbed teenager who kives on a island with his weirdo father and who built a clock device for ritualized insect deaths, that involves a lot of urination. He gets a call from his brother who escaped the mental hospital and is on his way home, and then things start to get really fucked up.




  • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldHmmmm
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    29 days ago

    Our concept of evil has changed overtime. In Dantes Inferno the people at the bottom of hell aren’t the people who killed the most, it’s the people who are most famous for betraying others. One of them is there because he stabbed the Hitler of his era in the back to protect democracy.









  • In the run up to that question they were discussing trans mass shooters, then the questionnaire pivoted to mass shootings in general (to show that trans shooters are a tiny tiny minority) which Kirk then tried deflecting by asking about gang or non-gang related shootings.