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There is no quiet part any more. The racism is loud and clear. Quotes from the "comedian" speaker before Trump at his Madison Square Garden Rally (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 43 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Jesus that's gross. I've said this before and I know my non American point of view is irrelevant but I cannot fathom how Trump is even a serious candidate in a western democracy.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    According to somebody I know who's voting Trump? Economy bad, so everything and everyone else be damned. He doesn't like Trump, but he'd vote for actual Hitler himself if he thinks he would improve the economy over the other candidate.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think it's pretty simple.

    We want to think we're not assholes, as a country, but we are. The more important thing though is that we're mostly economically poor assholes, and we got poorer under Biden these last four years, so people care less about what a huge asshole and fascist Trump is as he's the candidate of change.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or the fact that Biden's leadership ensured we became less poor over the past four years than the rest of the world. The GOP is also gaslighting that it's all because of immigration. They also have no understanding that tariffs and mass deportations like Trump is suggesting would absolutely crater the economy. No sense of neuance for at least 40% of Americans whatsoever. Everything is about "fuck you I got mine".

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