How to tell it has stuck
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
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It was always going to stick.
Conservatives are all about conformity on a base level.
Telling them that they as a group don't conform to society and that they're the outsiders is enough to literally break their brains.
It's why they're always talking about the "silent majority" they legit believe their beliefs are the default.
Literally why they never stop complaining about immigrants. Telling them that even the majority of white people don't conform to their beliefs means they're going to drop everything else to refute it.
Their entire identity is based on conforming to social norms, telling them that even when they conform to their own norms doesn't make them fit in to society as a whole makes them question which side they should be conforming too.
Approach it right, and it ain't hard to make them flip. Happens all the time when rural people go to college, or kids go on social media.
We had a local candidate who wouldn't shut the hell up about being part of a silent majority and then he lost the election in a landslide. Even if there hadn't been two conservatives splitting the vote, it wouldn't have been close, and you could tell it just broke his brain a little bit. He made a statement about how he was so shocked - he really believed there were all these voters out there supporting his bigotry quietly but never making themselves known, and he couldn't fathom that they just didn't exist. Meanwhile, he seemed to think that the huge amount of negative feedback he got from real live human beings couldn't possibly be significant. Unfortunately, that lesson didn't stick and he still shows up to meetings to publicly embarrass himself occasionally.
Yep
The election fraud shit was the natural path forward for them.
Like, the voters may be ignorant. But the people calling the shots at the Federalist society and other places aren't stupid. They know basic psychology and how to manipulate their voters.
The election fraud shit was the natural path forward for them.
It's less threatening to their worldview to believe that the election was stolen than to question whether their core beliefs are wrong. It's literally a Simpson's "Am I out of touch? No, it's the kids that are wrong" moment
Better example is American History X.
That old ass racist was just brainwashing kids and using them as disposible tools.
That's how Republicans (especially trump) treat their voters.
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Isn't this DCs version of the avenger's?
Nah. They're from the OC...
Don't call it that.
Exceptional
I've been to grade school, so I know how to handle these situations. Saying, "I'm not Penisface! Stop calling me Penisface!" over and over is the best way to get the kids to stop calling you Penisface.
Nuh uh! Stahp it! No you... 😢
I'm familiar with dickhead but penisface is a new one. Are you missing an eye or something?
No, he's just a penisface.
Lol ... penisface
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You have to be a massive snowflake to be triggered when people call you weird. You have to be a turbo snowflake to get triggered if someone else is called weird that you don't even know.
To be fair, The Good Liars handed those out. The same people are :19 seconds into the video. People still took them and didn't understand how stupid it looks.
https://www.tiktok.com/@thegoodliars/video/7408266806613364011
Lol at the "we ran out of the red ink"
Just a normal man who paints himself orange and stores state secrets in cardboard boxes the shitter, is in court fighting porn stars, and kicks it on Epstein island.
Who doesn’t live next to someone like that?
Vote trump good, no vote loberal, bad. Give money trump. Bestest choice.
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That's just fuckng hilarious. Someone now needs to make identical signs for the other things he is.
Donald Trump is not a moron
Donald Trump is not a cheater
Donald Trump is not sporting a comb-over
Donald Trump is not a felon
Donald Trump is not a liar
Donald Trump is not a fascist.
Donald Trump didn't fly on Epstein's pedo express 7 times. (Was it more?)
Donald Trump doesn't sexually assault women.
Donald Trump doesn't grab them by the pussy.
Donald Trump is not beholden to Putin.
Donald Trump didn't store classified nuclear secrets in a random bathroom at Mar a Lago.
Donald Trump didn't deregulation trains leading to a colossal spill in East Palestine, Ohio.
Donald Trump didn't disband the pandemic response team two years before Covid.
Donald Trump doesn't need two hands to hold a water glass. (He just does it that way for fun?)
Donald Trump didn't appoint assholes to the Supreme Court who have made it exponentially more difficult for women to get proper health care.
Donald Trump didn't cut taxes for the ultra wealthy while raising them for everyone else.
Donald Trump doesn't ramble incoherently virtually every time he opens his mouth.
Donald Trump didn't fuck Stormy Daniels while his wife was pregnant and then pay her hush money with campaign funds
Donald Trump didn't bankrupt six casinos.
Donald Trump is a bigly stable genius. Covfefe!
Who needs satire when this is our reality?
Why do Maga couples look like pieces of bacon that were cooked for different lengths?
Sun exposure is a very strange part of toxic masculinity. Some believe that being toasty and working outside all day make you manly.
"I'm not weird!"
- the refrain of every normal person
"nuh-uh!" said the weirdo
They should try, "no, you're weird!" next. I'm sure that'll work.
He got a note from his doctor and it says he's certified not weird, he's the most normal.
lol
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What a bunch of weird people.
Huh... weird.
Having a single small yard sign for a politician is kinda not weird only during their election season. Having more than 1 sign is kinda weird, but more than 1 yard sign for the same politician is pretty weird. Having a politician-specific flag year round, or any other signage for a politician outside of their general election season is very weird
Politician flags are so weird, no matter the politician. Can you imagine how Fox "News" would have reacted if everyone was flying Obama flags back in 2008?
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Buncha weirdos.
Hahaha these fucking idiots have no idea why the "weird" thing is working. Clearly. If they did, they wouldn't be feeding into it with this shit.
"Normal" people (AKA people who know they're weird and don't care) would never even consider "weird" an insult, let alone be compelled to make a sign about it. They're just advertising that they're conformists.
I love how they are hit by this.
This is politics today, no content, only feels and being the loudest.
We are doomed.
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"I'm not crazy, I have a document that says so!"
I think a few of them may have donkey brains. Let's send them to the nitwit school to be safe
Classic Idaho.
"I am not a crook"
"I'm not a witch"
politics 101, don't say you're not something if you don't want it to be the most popular thing people remember you for.
also i wonder if this was made by a troll and handed to these people. reminds me of that guy who went up to MTG and Gaetz and said "people say you're crazy, i don't think you're crazy" to MTG and "people say you're a pedophile, i don't think you're a pedophile" to Gaetz and kept saying "this guy is not a pedophile" until they took him away.
Viewed through MAGA red tinted glasses, those signs read as:
DONALD TRUMP
IS WEIRD
Funny how whenever Trump needs money Putin gets a blowjob
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