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I genuinely wonder, do they just make up this obviously false BS to tell him to protect themselves? Or are they all on the same page with the BS to gaslight MAGA people?
In 30 years this will be a very well-studied period of human history and behavior.
Yup. Of course they know their voter base is stupid and uneducated and that Trump is dangerous. They don't give a single fuck. "Fuck you I got mine."
Yeah like I'd take the opinion of idiots 30 years from now criticizing us when they'll be believing empathy gives you cancer, or that retirement leads to violence; thirty years ago people were saying about us today that we'd be studying their failings and meanwhile we're fighting off antivaxxers and people saying gives you autism while we study those failings; thirty years from now those losers will be engaged in their own laughable failings, so they can get off their high horse cause they have their own laughable kooks.
both.
being crazy is not a political affiliation. there are crazy people on both sides doing crazy shit to 'own' the other side.
in 2009 I knew a radfem in grad school who would go around screaming at everyone to stop raping people. she was a very damaged person who projecting her abusive past onto everyone around her. and going to grad school writing papers about using artificial wombs to end women's oppression by men. she also was married to a guy who was a drug user and physically abusive to her...
she went on to work in a hospital admin board...