• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    Right. But that’s why they’re fed the excuses “they broke the law coming into the country!” “they committed a crime!” “they had gang tattoos!” when they overstayed a visa or applied for asylum, were unjustly convicted, or had autism awareness tattoos. But they’re fed lies, so in their minds it’s justified.

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      5 days ago

      “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

      This is why it is an individual’s responsibility to be critical of their own and others’ motivations, to attempt awareness of manipulations by others and our own self-deceptions.

      Even the best of my countrymen are not good at any of these things, but people that do not even make the attempt certainly seem to skew toward MAGA.

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        21 hours ago

        The Republican Party has been voting for defunding education every chance they can for over fifty years. They’ve also gotten away with being called conservatives when they aren’t socially conservative (voting for pervy Don) or fiscally conservative (in office for every economic downturn). The fools still calling them that might as well call them the angel kisses party of happiness.