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This is just one of thousands of examples of immense disrespect. And his cult follows him along through everything.

I'm all seriousness, if you find this appealing, would you not be happier if you just move there? If you have no allegiance to this country, please be respectful, have some dignity, and don't actively try to ruin it for the rest of us. Stop trying to sabotage this country by actively undermining it.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

would you not be happier if you just move there?

It’s not super complicated. These people consume US-based propaganda constantly, but can’t move there because they have no skills nor enough cash to be able to immigrate.

I do wonder if at some point soon the US will grant “refugee” status to white Canadian MAGA to help them flip swing districts there.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If they move it will raise the average IQ of both countries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ll be the Debbie downer and respond to your silly joke with a serious reply.

Quite often political affiliation is related to cultural or geographical factors and not intelligence. I’ve lived in a variety of places both leaning conservative and liberal, including a couple US states. I’ve both met intelligent and idiotic people everywhere I’ve been.

I’ve also seen people be willfully ignorant on both sides of the political spectrum. This isn’t to say “enlightened centrism, all sides equal” because fascism is quite uniquely bad. But the tendencies to get into these bubbles are a human behaviour and not geographic.

Apologies for the pedantic response to what was clearly a harmless joke.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I see where you're trying to say here, but you're making the mistake of conflating conservatism with fascism. There may well be right leaning people and left-leaning people with similar IQs, but it requires a special degree of stupid and willful ignorance to believe the many, many lies that come out of the Trump Whitehouse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I’m not making any mistake.

Intelligent people can choose to be willfully ignorant, no matter their political affiliation. For example I personally know a person who is extremely brilliant yet parrot Jordan Peterson. This person is amongst the world’s most capable in his highly competitive and lucrative field — so while I find this person’s politics deeply abhorrent I cannot find him stupid.

The problem with over-attributing stupidity to things we simply don’t like is that it masks the other factors which produce the outcomes we as a society are trying to avoid, such as fascism.

[–] jaemo 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’m not making any mistake.

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Intelligent people can choose to be willfully ignorant...

Careful with that selection bias Debbie. Those things look sharp.