• NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    It goes to show that they know full well who their audience is. They are actively manipulating the stupid. “We’re trying desperately to appeal to the ‘school bad, football good’ morons. If only their pickup trucks could vote too.”

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      This response is so telling. Bluesky is fucking AWASH in comments like, “ha! how can anyone be this dumb?” “Has anyone ever been stupider?” “HEY, they said A when yesterday they said B!” Americans still refuse to look at what the far right is doing right in their faces.

      This isn’t stupidity, it’s a intentional tactic. For MAGA, it’s a sycophancy test. The more absurd the claim, the more useful the test. Believing it or agreeing with it is so far from the point. It’s about ensuring the base continues to publicly demonstrate their willingness to abandon reality on command. “The more obvious bullshit we ask you to swallow or horrendous racism we can get you to defend, the more enthusiastically you will have to do it because you’d look SO WEAK choosing THIS spot to draw the line.”

      For the rest of you, it’s a demoralization tactic. They’re rubbing your nose in how ridiculous they can be and STILL be an electoral threat. They know their supporters won’t abandon them, and they know that their opponents will do little more than express outrage, call them stupid on social media, and move on. “We can say absolutely anything, no matter how absurd, and you still have no choice but to treat us like legitimate opposition. What the fuck are you going to do about it?”

      “The animals jump onto the solar panels and get fried,” Trump says. Not because he’s an idiot, but because the truth doesn’t matter when you’re not actually trying to convince anyone of anything. It isn’t about persuasion, it’s a demonstration of impunity. They’re showing everyone listening that they can make a mockery of reality, demand that their followers applaud, and force everyone else to spend their time arguing about whether the fucking animals are actually getting fried.

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        I was actually referring to the base, not this guy specifically. I understand that the politicians and think tanks and pundits and entire conservative system know exactly what they’re doing. Totally agree with you on all points.

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          The base knows too. They love how upsetting it is for the people they hate to watch them do this. Their willingness to debase themselves is fueled by spite.

  • Nalivai@lemmy.world
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    Michael Joseph Rogers? Why does he hide his name? Why is his name this weird? Joseph? It’s not American name, it’s middle-eastern one, and he tried to hide it? And Mike? What the hell is that, he was assigned Michael at birth, what right does he have to change it? What if kids will see it? Groomer, changing names like that.

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    Well they didn’t get to the point of openly supporting felons, rapists, pedophiles, and traitors by being intelligent.

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    That particular name isn’t even a difficult name to pronounce for an American English speaker, so this is doubly dumb.

    The only thing you’re going to be off by - as I understand it - is the “h” in Rahman is more glottal-stop guttural than we’re used to pronouncing. Everything else is standard American English phonemes.

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    i have a three syllable last name that the average American can’t pronounce, it’s really not that hard. the average American also has the reading level of a 6th grader

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    What this motherfucker is also saying is that if your name sounds like that, he’s not going to represent you and therefore you shouldn’t vote for him or have any expectations of representation. I don’t know if he’s thought this through, but his racism has probably overpowered any higher-level thinking capacity he might have.

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    “The guy with the long name that’s not Republican”

    There I said it, even without touching it, you can do it as well, racists.