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[-] JohnScig@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Look, I try. Most of the time. I'm trying to be empathetic and nice and inclusive. But sometimes I wonder while fully grown adults can't use Google. Why they would believe the most obvious lies ("they're eating the dogs" is a great example - an absurd lie that was debunked 100x by every outlet within days). Again these are fully grown adults who choose to be hateful, angry and wilfully ignorant. In fact they revel in that ignorance. Warnings are "alarmist", factchecks are "biased", opponents are "traitors". These are fully grown adults that would trade the price of eggs for suffering of thousands of "illegals" and they entrust this trade to Donald Trump, a man who in his life has never taken a shot into a toilet that wasn't made out of gold. Like yeah, sure, THAT guy is gonna care about the poor.

My point is, we're all adults, we all make our choices as best we can. But if you keep making the same terrible choices and yell at anyone who tries to tell you they are bad choices, well... You deserve what's coming to you, because you've unleashed that on all of us.

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