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      Watch the 20 v 1 where Mehdi from Zeteo takes on a bunch of MAGA folk. They’re all 20-30 years old and it’s fucking crazy how many of them are blatantly racist and/or fascist. I’ll have to come back with the video link for you guys.

      Edit: here you go https://youtu.be/2S-WJN3L5eo

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        Jubilee - Surrounded is a completely twisted version of reality where they have been called out for deliberately finding and paying people to take the most extreme positions to represent the worst of humanity.

        I’m not saying that there aren’t open fascists out there, many of them are now running our country in fact, but we all HAVE to start shutting the door on this kind of pandering rage-porn that makes us all hate each other for clicks. It’s making it all worse. Jubilee is not how people talk, it’s not how we reach each other and make change.

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          Isn’t that usually inverted though? Where the 1 is generally the one with extreme views and the 20 are deliberately picked to be inarticulate and oafish, thus promoting the extreme view? Admittedly it’s likely impossible to find a MAGAt that isn’t inarticulate and oafish.

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            From what I gather, they will try to do whatever they can to just ramp up the drama and conflict, whether it’s bringing in some outrageous character who participates in bad faith like Jordan Peterson, or if it means slipping a benjie to someone to play up being a crazy freak.

            Andrew Callaghan said that when he went on “against” 20 conspiracy theorists, the production crew kept telling him that he needed to push back harder, but he didn’t play by their rules and ended up having one of the better episodes, where he gave people a chance to be heard and listened and asked questions and it was very civil and friendly. Unfortunately, that’s not what gets the most views though, so that kind of thing is discouraged.

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          Thanks for this added perspective. I’m not surprised, but I did not know nor did it even occur to me that some of them may be paid shills.

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      or all the latinos that voted for Trump

      It’s like fire voting for water. It’s honestly hard to wrap your mind around.

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        I don’t know how true this is.

        I read recently that when Trump’s speeches have been translated for non-English speakers, they are wildly different than what he is actually saying.

        And when bilinguals translate for them directly, they aren’t believed because the literal translation is pants on the head crazy.

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          This was on a YouTube channel, so it was just some dude and not like an official news source, but back in 2020 I found a Trump speech with German subtitles. Specifically, it was the time Trump said to stop testing for COVID so that there wouldn’t be any cases.

          The exact quote is: “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

          But the subtitles meant something like “We’ve done the tests and have very few cases.”

          So, it completely changed the statement from something utterly stupid and ridiculous to reporting that the US just didn’t have many COVID cases, which was obviously false.

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    You should see the racists from my shit hole county. In northeast Pennsylvania. Legit going out of their minds. And saying shit like their 20k a year income could ever afford them a life in NYC. Like sit down Tony. No one cares what you and your 41bmi has to say. Maybe take care of your health before you open your mouth.

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    Republicans are scared shitless that people will get another taste of socialism like they did with the wildly popular FDR…

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    I’m not remotely entertained by shot like this and find it weird people are. It’s a weird sort of cope exactly like the meme is portraying. People are hurting everywhere because of the regime and you’re here laughing it up like we dun won it.

    I hope Mamdani does well because he’s going to be under a magnifying glass and behund a wall of anti person propaganda.

    Hell have to exceed what any mayor should have to be able to do and even then the media will call him mid.

    This is not a cakewalk.

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    R/conservative is really funny right now. They’re clawing their own eyes out over literal NYC just because it’s Daddy’s favorite place

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      Psyched for Mamdani and NYC but it’s hard to believe how many people voted for a sexual harassmer who is also openly corrupt

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        If you think that’s wild wait till you hear about all the law enforcement officers across the country that voted for a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.

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        Is it “hard to believe” when the Americans voted twice to elect a full on rapist for President?.. with the added qualifications of convicted felon, fraudster and 99.99% likely a pedophile?

        I think it’s time to accept Americans could not care less about sexual assault, women or kids rights.

        Yes, that is a generalization with a nasty connotation but that is what Americans have shown to be

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            The issue, IMO, is the “fuck you, got mine” attitude from so many Americans.

            Sure, someone who identifies as a “Liberal” may not want trans people be victimized but if they themselves are not trans (or maybe a close loved one), it’s really someone else’s problem not really worth doing anything about… maybe a post online

            Fascism has taken over in the USA because of decades of dumbing down the public and rage farming… but the actual cause at the moment is that the raging idiots are willing to take action while the rest, unless personally affected, “can’t be bothered”

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    Enjoy it while it lasts.

    Having lived through 2008 and ‘Hope and Change’, I don’t expect much out of Mamdani. I’d love to be wrong about that.

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      I think it won’t be for lack of trying. He will be stymied at every turn by the city council, oligarchs, feds, etc.

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      The big mistake of 2008 was thinking electing Obama was sufficient. He’d go get it all done from there.

      Doesn’t work that way. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

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        The big mistake was believing him at all.

        He got plenty of it done, but his policies were oppressive and he fucking lied to us about it.

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            Must not have had to pay a mortgage, or interact with cops, or be a brown person in the wrong country, or a kid in a cage, or stuck in a torture chamber in Gitmo, or use health care, etc. etc. etc.

            It all happened. You just ignored it, same as with Genocide Joe.

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      I don’t think he can bring hope and change, overcoming the status quo is decades of work at muitiple levels of government supported continuously by voters.

      Cumo could make it worse though.

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      I’m hoping a democratic socialist outperforms a corporate Democrat. He’s going to face a lot of push back so it’s going to be a struggle.