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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
    78·
    6 months ago

    I could hear some guys in my neighborhood outside yesterday talking about how this won’t effect the election. One of them yelled out “Well at least the republicans are the ones with the guns!” Everyone just kinda got quiet and looked at him like he was an idiot.

    Remember he’s not the only dangerous one. Every vote counts, and all of them are voting red.

    • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
      35·
      6 months ago

      My maga friend told me to stock up on food come November. Dude is fucking brainwashed by beanie man Tim Poole

      • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
        38·
        6 months ago

        I worked with a guy who was appalled that I was buying go fast parts for my car instead of stocking up on guns and ammo for the upcoming war. He also had his neighborhood mapped out as to who are the democrats so he knows who to go after first. I asked him if he thought democrats don’t have guns too and he just stared at me. After a bit he just changed the subject to a racist rant about rap music.

        • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          27·
          6 months ago

          You should report him to the FBI and your work. The statement is enough to probably get him fired and with luck his gun horde will be illegal when the FBI comes knocking

        • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20·
          6 months ago

          For the longest time I thought this was solely a matter of education; but these days, I’m beginning to think such right-wing extremism is also a matter of mental illness.

          Things like poor parenting, brain injuries from football, lead exposure from guns and motorsports, substance abuse, shitty diets, etc. – all culminate in a banner of people who are… Not of sound mind.

          Saying this as a former rural Appalachian Republican from decades ago.

          Edit: added “solely” for some clarification.

          • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            6 months ago

            Its just people miserable with their lot in life and that hate themselves, and wanting to blame someone else for it.

          • InternetUser2012@midwest.social
            8·
            6 months ago

            I agree that a lot is mental illness but I think it’s more education. They fall for the lies and get in line and do what they’re told to do by sources like fox “news”. It’s scary how it’s changed, I had Republican friends that we could all hang out and even discuss politics with no problems. Now, we don’t talk at all, there is no discussion. I am the enemy and I don’t even care about politics, just be a good human. I don’t think you can be a good human and support the Republicans at this time, it’s gone off the rails.

            • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              6 months ago

              You’re likely right that education is still the prevailing issue, but I think we need to get more specific on what kind of education people receive in terms of safeguarding against false rhetoric. Drilling in the logical fallacies, teaching ethics, and even teaching common propaganda techniques so you can identify them. We need to step back and ask ourselves how we managed to escape the rabbit hole when others could not.

              The echo-chambers have become so ironclad that it’s so difficult to pierce through and drag someone out.

              • beeple@slrpnk.net
                3·
                6 months ago

                This is a great indicator that free will isn’t what we think. I’ve been chatting to maga family about free will through that “how we managed to escape the rabbit hole” lens. There’s often a lot of reasons we have different opinions and tracing the distributed causality is pretty fun because you can avoid the propoganda talking points but still make progress. I think it helps them question information or to be more guarded instead of immediately parroting fox news lines.

        • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
          4·
          6 months ago

          Wow, and what did the police say when you reported the guy with a kill list of his neighborhood?

      • ameancow@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        Every fuckin time there is any large political story that doesn’t involve Trump being fellated, Tim Pool makes war-provoking tweets.

        Which is wild because this is a dude who wouldn’t survive five minutes in a conflict.

    • ameancow@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 months ago

      One of them yelled out “Well at least the republicans are the ones with the guns!”

      Having grown up out in the boonies in a deeply conservative area and with deeply conservative parents, this kind of rhetoric is just like their fuckin bird calls to each other, they spout this machismo constantly about everything. If a redneck gets looked at weird for saying this, that’s a freak occurrence because these folks number in the millions.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        6 months ago

        Ey now lets not associate Rednecks as a whole with these usually white trash welps. Some of us use their stupidity to note who we can jack a gun from in a worst case scenario.

      • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
        5·
        6 months ago

        Are these those white ones I have around me? The ones that are out here tend to be pretty white around the head and neck, usually have a bright splash of red starting at the shoulders and moving down the back. I know mine can be big fuckers, some are pushing 300lbs. I have to get the tractor for those.

        Lucky they aren’t very fast, but you really got to carefully, they tend to run in packs.