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I like going into stores with my Pro Trump shirts and hats. I get a lot of positive attention for doing so. I tell people how it is and I love it. Some people stare at me in disgust, mask free but I always get a good laugh.
I don’t give a fuck about your political opinions. Running around annoying the fuck out of people is why people hate trump supporters and liberals alike. Jackass.
Yep. I can't wait til these phony new age "conservatives" finally come to the realization that their side has become the SJW snowflakes, and switch back to being the liberals they were pre-2016, before the internet told them that "trump supporter" was a personality.
You do you mate. I perfer not to disturb people shopping but if you are just wearing shit keeping to yourself and people are quing up conversations.
People who do shit like that are nothing more than pathetic attention-starved losers who just want to be noticed.
Anyone who follows politics is a brainwashed slave. Listen to political arguments and it's literally just people regurgitating the same arguments they hear in the news.
The government lies about literally everything, and then they create pre-approved arguments to give people to distract them from thinking too hard about it.
The sad thing is the government has no need to do that. It’s just natural selection. The US is filled with lazy people with short attention spans and/or people with no interest in the news who just want to be told what they want to hear and told what to think. The channels that do that best get the viewers, the ratings, the advertising money, and stay in business. The government doesn’t have to lift a finger.
What the government does do, however, is make sure that people stay uniformed and/or uninterested in the news. You keep them uninformed by having a shit education system, which is easy to do when you prevent people from wanting to be teachers by not paying them anything and not investing any money in supplies and allowing the environment to be as toxic and unsafe as possible. And you keep them uninterested by making them work two jobs to scrape by paycheck to paycheck to pay off their massive student debt and pay for the childcare for the kids they didn’t want but didn’t know how to avoid because they were taught abstinence only and didn’t know anything about contraceptive and had to carry the fetus to term because they couldn’t afford an abortion(or couldn’t afford to take the time off work to drive two states away multiple times to get one) because it’s not covered by the shitty healthcare plan that they can’t afford anyway.
America is failing so many people in so many ways every single day and it’s all by design. The richest country in the world is becoming more and more like a 3rd world country for 99% of its population so the lucky(and it is all luck, they do nothing to earn it) 1% have more money than their great grear grandchildren could ever need.
Woah we agree on something.
Lots of people are uninterested in the news, but lots of people are. They like to think of themselves as really informed. I know people like this. What I'm saying is the news only gives you the points they WANT you to hear, on issues they WANT you to argue about. Real police reform kinda took a back seat to "what things are racist?" Look at facebook politics, people are just sharing things other people say and calling it their opinion. No need for independent critical thinking, just pick an opinion you like! We have a whole bunch of establishment approved opinions ready to go, just click the Share button!
School is the same thing, it's not about educating anyone. The whole point of the US education system is to condition you to a 9 to 5 Monday through Friday work schedule and then put you in a bunch of debt so you have to go get a job.
It's definitely by design. Kids graduating college with no concept of independent thought is definitely by design.
You’d probably be surprised how much we agree on.
It’s absolutely by design, and it’s one of the oldest tricks in the book. Did you know that the United States is the only country known to have ever had actual anti-literacy laws on the books? It was literally illegal in several states for a black person to learn how to read and write. White people literally went to jail for teaching black people how to read and write. I bet you can guess which states. Even in the rest of the country, black people were barred from school. Women were similarly discriminated against, legally until 1972 and in less obvious ways since.
It’s a pretty well known phenomenon that the dumber a person is, the smarter they think they are, and vice versa. A person could not watch a second of news and consider themselves much more informed than people they disagree with, simply on the basis that those people disagree with them. A guy I work with back in 2017 constantly ridiculed people who dared speak ill of Dear Leader’s wonderful tax cuts, claiming they hadn’t read the bill itself and were only reading the parts that the media told them to read and thus they didn’t know as much as he did and had no right to disagree with him. So one day I asked him how long it took him to read the entire tax bill. “Oh I didn’t read it all.” How does he know what it says? “I read parts of it that (insert conservative media member here) posted on Twitter and Facebook.” I really don’t know if the irony ever clicked with him...I doubt it. (Same guy hates Eminem and Green Day because of their political outspokenness and believes that “every” celebrity on both sides should keep their politics to themselves, and then two minutes later talks about how much he loves Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.)
Politicians definitely do manipulate the media to their advantage, but it’s generally all out in the open. Anytime a bad story about Trump is about to come out, he’ll say or do something ridiculous to draw attention away from it. “Sir, people are mad that you didn’t say anything to Putin about the bounty program.” “Gimme my phone, I’m going to tweet that we should delay the election LOL.”
Yeah the people who are big news fans tend to be on a certain side of the dunning kreuger bell curve.
Part of the problem I think is people are scared not to have an opinion. Politics is important, and people are afraid if they dont have anything to a political conversation that they're going to look ignorant. Luckily, there are tons of pre-packaged system-approved opinions you could have on literally any useless topic that they can keep people arguing about. Abortion and Gay Marriage are huge issues around election time, because they're issues that don't affect the elite at all but are extremely polarizing to certain parts of the population.
It always comes down to absolute A or B issues with zero possibility of gray area. Gay people either can get married or they can't, abortion is either legal or it's not, there's no third option. Makes it easy to just put each opposing argument on seperate news channels and let people regurgitate all the talking points to each other. It keeps people having the arguments that the system WANTS them to have so they don't start discussing things they don't want people thinking too hard about.
You nailed it. And this isn’t even just politics, I stopped listening to sports talk radio because one particular host one day was actually calling people cowards for not having an opinion or not making a prediction about something. A guy I work with was badgering me to give a firm opinion on Joe Biden’s selection of Kamala Harris just yesterday. I don’t care! I’m not the one making the decision, it doesn’t matter what I think of the choice.
Another problem is that media has decided they need to frame EVERYTHING as a debate. Everything is subjective, everything is worth arguing about. The vast majority of people in the US, in every political party, want stricter gun control laws. The vast majority of people in the US, in every political party, don’t want to take away everyone’s guns. Most people want the same thing, with perhaps slight differences on the margins about how to get there. Of course, the media would make it sound like everybody is either on one extreme end or the other and debate these strawman arguments than discuss why the government isn’t doing what everybody wants them to do. NRA money(be it in the form of campaign donations or advertising) is a hell of a drug.
You’ll also notice that the partisan channels love to bring people on to theoretically represent the other side, but they always make sure that person is either incredibly stupid or just has no idea how to adequately express their views, so that the hosts(and, by extension, the viewers) can feel superior. And on the rare occasion that doesn’t work, they just yell over them and cut them off and end the conversation. It’s especially bad on the radio, they’ll beg people to call in to take the other side “if you believe(whatever extremist view they want their listeners to think the other side believes) then call in and tell me why” as if anybody listening to their show would actually believe it, let alone be stupid enough to call in and talk to them about it. I’m convinced most of the callers on these shows are plants, family members of people who work on the show, pretending to be on the other side. It’s so easy to tell when you’re talking to somebody who listens to these shows because they always parrot the strawman arguments they believe exist on the other side.
And you can tell it’s all natural selection because the exact same thing happens on sports channels. All the highest rated shows are “debate” shows with loud, obnoxious, opinionated hosts that have no idea what they’re talking about but say everything with conviction and make people want to argue with them. For whatever reason, that’s what people want to see and hear today. All the government has to do is count their money.
I don't use arguments from the news. I use arguments from the internet. Also ones I make up.
My stupid, narcissistic ex-boyfriend would say that bullshit to people, and it was really embarrassing. He would be flapping his gums, and I'd be thinking, "shut the fuck up".
Yeah especially that fake ass rocket and those thousands of fake ass people on the ground watching it take off of the fake ass earth. It cost even more fake ass money to fake the fake ass moon landing than to do it for real, so they should get some credit for that fake ass effort.
Rockets are real dude. You can go to your local 8th grade school and watch the scientists over there shoot them off.
There's proof that rockets exist as one way things you can shoot off but Id love to see you try to steer or land one like spaceX does... Only the real super smart people can do that and nobodys allowed to see.
I don't understand why people case whether or not they faked the moon landing.
Here's a page with news you'll probably like:
https://www.facebook.com/ALLODSatire/
I don't care what kinda hat you wear, but you really need to be wearing a mask.
I'm contemplating on getting an old military grade gas mask.
Not cause I'm scared of the virus, in the end I think everyone will get it at some point...
I just wanna get one to freak out all the sheeple at supermarkets.
I might even apply a thin piece of transparent, red plastic to the eye glass, so I look like a terminator with a gas mask XD
Idk when yall are gonna realize that all the people at the top work against us to keep us from working together. If nobody voted or supported these people they would still pick someone they wanted. Voting is just there to make us feel like we’re doing something, like we have a choice but in truth we dont. You’re all asleep and dont see the bigger picture.
It’s good to question people with opposing views and have a proper debate about it.
you're boring and annoying that's literally the only thing going on for you