▲ 1109 ▼ Conservative Americans are legitimately braindead (thelemmy.club) submitted 1 day ago by Ragdoll_X@sh.itjust.works to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world 165 comments fedilink hide all child comments Excerpt from this Substack post: https://nickrafter.substack.com/p/the-rent-may-always-be-too-damn-high
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago (2 children) I've also heard of such a "conservative" calling for the nationalisation of Google in order to save it from socialism. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (3 children) ...wh...what? What are the inner workings of that person's brain... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] mcv@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago* If you look at it very superficially, the "logic" is not actually that hard to follow: Socialism is bad Google is doing something the person considers bad (be nice to minorities, LGBT or something) The person therefore thinks Google is being taken over by socialism Trump is anti-socialist Person trusts Trump Trump is the government To stop Google from its evil socialism, the government should step in and take over As long as you're unburdened by the slightest inkling of what socialism actually is, this line of "logic" makes some sort of sense. permalink fedilink source parent [–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago Because they legitimately don't know what they're saying. They're just saying "them big college-soundin' words" without any clue to their meaning. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago You're giving them too much credit already permalink fedilink source parent [–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago (1 child) I think there was a movie called Red Zone Cuba where the moral was everyone had to give their money and businesses to the US Government in order to stop communism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 point 13 hours ago Never heard of it, but i see it has a whopping 1.6/10 on IMDB. Must be a gem. But yes, that sounds like exactly the same sort of logic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (3 children) ...wh...what? What are the inner workings of that person's brain... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] mcv@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago* If you look at it very superficially, the "logic" is not actually that hard to follow: Socialism is bad Google is doing something the person considers bad (be nice to minorities, LGBT or something) The person therefore thinks Google is being taken over by socialism Trump is anti-socialist Person trusts Trump Trump is the government To stop Google from its evil socialism, the government should step in and take over As long as you're unburdened by the slightest inkling of what socialism actually is, this line of "logic" makes some sort of sense. permalink fedilink source parent [–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago Because they legitimately don't know what they're saying. They're just saying "them big college-soundin' words" without any clue to their meaning. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago You're giving them too much credit already permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago* If you look at it very superficially, the "logic" is not actually that hard to follow: Socialism is bad Google is doing something the person considers bad (be nice to minorities, LGBT or something) The person therefore thinks Google is being taken over by socialism Trump is anti-socialist Person trusts Trump Trump is the government To stop Google from its evil socialism, the government should step in and take over As long as you're unburdened by the slightest inkling of what socialism actually is, this line of "logic" makes some sort of sense. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 3 points 19 hours ago Because they legitimately don't know what they're saying. They're just saying "them big college-soundin' words" without any clue to their meaning. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago You're giving them too much credit already permalink fedilink source parent
[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 4 points 23 hours ago (1 child) I think there was a movie called Red Zone Cuba where the moral was everyone had to give their money and businesses to the US Government in order to stop communism. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 point 13 hours ago Never heard of it, but i see it has a whopping 1.6/10 on IMDB. Must be a gem. But yes, that sounds like exactly the same sort of logic. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 1 point 13 hours ago Never heard of it, but i see it has a whopping 1.6/10 on IMDB. Must be a gem. But yes, that sounds like exactly the same sort of logic. permalink fedilink source parent