Yes, I certainly feel bad that the guy who took an oath to defend the constitution and then betrayed that oath by voting in a traitor is having a hard time now because of that vote. I am so, so sympathetic.
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The media is addicted to centering the Trump voter. They ran plenty of stories about voters with buyers remorse in his first term, at this point its simply 'I told you so' porn. We're not learning anything new, especially not the Trump voters.
It's almost as if letting billionaires buy the media landscape has political consequences....
"no no no, hurt THOSE people" ~ that guy probably
“Everybody can admit that we need to look at efficiency. It’s been a problem for decades,” Muro said. “[But] when you’re dealing with veterans, you have to be more intentional with your actions. You have to be more surgical. … It’s almost like he’s trying to tear the VA down.”
When you're dealing with... anything... mate.
Yea, it's almost like he's trying to tear your whole government apart
It's like even now he's just bummed that it happened to him or people he knows but still doesn't see the big fucking picture.
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I served my country and didn't vote for trump. Write a fucking article about me. Fuck this dumbass.
Thank you for your service (the not voting for Trump part; my friends who were in the military just see it as a job and cringe when people thank them, so I won't do that).
I feel like we should all just start telling it to teachers instead.
Eh no one says it anymore after you take off the uniform. I appreciate it.
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It takes a special kind of stupid to vote for a convicted felon and serial rapist.
They only start caring when Trump’s decisions hurt them. Given he voted for Trump, I bet he couldn’t care less about all the people Trump has hurt in the last 8 years.
He literally ran on a platform of hurting people.
@MicroWave He served his country then betrayed his country. Now I have regrets and don't care about his.
Who can have foreseen this? Not I certainly
Haha not him either!
Just gonna keep putting this out there. All of us, by just being here aren't average or normal people. They are. And while it can be fun and cathartic to ridicule them. Local news papers everywhere have gone bust. Local television stations across the country were struggling and swept up like a lot of AM radio stations. Into a national propaganda sphere. Cocooning these people in a sealed misinformation bubble.
It doesn't matter that the facts are available on the internet. Lots of people still live their lives without it. Even then, there's just as much misinformation and confirmation bias on the internet. We desperately need to find some way of reaching these people and exposing them to the lying media they rely on. Plenty of them would be up in arms and outraged if they fully understood. We need to focus on outreach to groups like this more than ridicule. Their regret may be too little too late. But ultimately something is more than nothing. Fascist groups like Sinclair will get us all killed if we don't.
Were not going to find ways to reach this aging population. Short of bringing back all the small town news papers and removing Sinclair from local news station, nothing will help them. They let the world pass them by and now they will rage at how much their lives suck until they enter the next phase of the human lifecycle. You can't save them and frankly I think peoples efforts are better spent on literally anything else.
You certainly won't save any if you don't try. Personally I have saved a few. It's not easy. And there's definitely some work to put in. But moments of heavy cognitive dissonance like this. Are the perfect time to reach out and put in the work.
Personally I'm focused more on pulling young men out of the manosphere, I don't imagine most of these dinosaurs will make it to the next election cycle. If it's rewarding keep up the good work I guess.
Both are absolutely things worth doing. With a lot of overlap ironically. Though it's going to be some time till any other generation surpasses the boomers etc. Still another decade or two. Definitely a bit early to write them off.
I think two decades is generous, a lot of this cohort doesn't take care of themselves especially with the cuts in social security, medicaid, and general social services.
I've never had success changing the viewpoint of a boomer other than perhaps my parents
There is still silent generation out there kicking. Hell a lot of them are serving in federal government. You'd be surprised. And while they would be more than fine screwing over xers like myself. They will try to generally take care of their power base. Which has traditionally been the Boomers. They are the ones that fell Hook Line and Sinker for that morning in America bullshit.
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