They genuinely donât know better. They go home, watch game shows or reality shows, do crossword puzzles, and absorb whatever Facebook throws at them. If all they see is a bunch of bots saying âTrump will absolutely fix the economy the likes of which the world has never seen, America firstâ then that becomes their reality.
Some people just donât have that instinct. Some people also just donât have the time. Some people literally do nothing but wake up, go to work, come home, eat, go to sleep, then go to work again. Some people donât even get a weekend. And they still canât afford any level of luxury. And they get gaslit into thinking thatâs because of the democrats and immigrants, instead of the dirtbags who pay them in with spare change instead of a living wage.
I was gonna say this too #4. I donât know a single conservative that doesnât think k reality TV is sad and depressing and abhor it (as a conservative myself, I know mostly other conservatives)⊠ESPECIALLY young people. Youâd have to be insane to think conservatives are watching fucking Love Island đ
Youâre image of a conservative sounds like my 70 year old grandma who sits at home all day watching reality TV, sports, and spamming Facebook reposts from AOC, Nancy Pelosi, etc. that doesnât not accurately depict the majority of conservatives. Remember, a lot of our generation voted for Trump too, I promise you weâre not all just ignorant and misinformed đ
Yeah, I suppose itâs difficult for me to put myself in their shoes. I have a degree in political science, went to law school for a year, and work in the news currently, so I am constantly fact checking everything, even the things that donât seem like they matter. Itâs just something thatâs so ingrained in my thinking now that I canât imagine not doing it. But even before it was required of me for my job, Iâve always had the drive to understand everything as much as I can.
I also completely get being legitimately too busy to care or have the time to care. And unfortunately, a lot of people donât get the privilege of education, so everything ends up being taken at face value. I truly wish we could see through the facade of this manufactured right vs left war and realize 90% of us are getting fucked, regardless of party
People are starting to see. Thatâs why Mamdani won his election, and theyâre gonna swing even further left the more Trumpâs admin fucks them over to help billionaires. This new bill that got passed is going to piss a lot of people off, and they donât have anybody to hide behind now.
I sure hope so. I thought the tariffs would be that breaking point, but it hasnât seemed to sway Trump voters much :/ it also sucks that this seems to be the only way to help them realize heâs not only not helping the economy, but actively tanking it. A disturbing number of people will be very hurt by this all
No I havenât seen a twitter account that stans a reality TV show⊠Iâm familiar with the concept like people who are obsessed with Taylor Swift or Ariana Grande but Iâve never seen what youâre talking about. Also if twitter were an apt measuring stick for reality the US would already be Nazi Germany with the way people talk about minorities on there.
Yâall r eating me up. Iâm on the side of twitter that does, even for shows I donât watch. Iâve seen it for survivor, bb, the amazing race, the challenge, rip ails drag race, the traitors, the real housewives of _, etc but ur right that twitter doesnât rep the general public
Have you ever met any conservative who doesnât watch TV because a lot of us younger conservatives couldnât care less about The Price is Right or Fox Newsđ I actually didnât have a phone throughout high school so Iâm a lot more detached from media than a lot of people my age, and yet I ended up on the conservative sideâŠI wonder if thereâs a connection. Other homeboy was right, it is libs who get way caught up in the media these days
Hereâs just an example of something Iâve personally explained to someone that does regard a bit of financials politically. I am getting ready for work so sorry I canât come up with a whole nother issue off bat, but Iâm really just trying to create some common understanding within the parties because liberals tend to assume republicans do everything out of hatred instead of just having our own formed opinions the same as you. Weâre not âdumb brainwashed Handmaidsâ as Iâve been called by the left
yeah what you said just literally isnât true though? the BBB kicks off millions of qualified people and cuts hundreds of thousands of healthcare jobs. those cuts alone are economically devastating. how exactly are you building up the economy by stealing billions from taxpayers, throwing up your hands and saying âyeah the billionaires will figure it out for you, trustâ
regarding the handmaid thing, thatâs literally what you are. it doesnât matter what you believe, if youâre a woman (which you implied you are), the people who control the GOP want you in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant 24/7, they want your husband to decide who you vote for, they want to turn back the clock to 50 years ago when women couldnât even get their own bank accounts most of the time. the GOP is dominated by insane fundamentalist christians whose goal is a theocratic ethnorepublic
No oneâs going to force me to have babies, and I donât plan on it. Babies arenât something I see in my future, and I understand how to prevent that from happening. I think this is some heavyyyyy fear mongering that I do see a lot in social media which is why I try staying away from it as much as possible. From both sides, but especially from the left
how didnât i? you said nothing of substance, you literally just said âoh private companies will magically handle thisâ as though private insurance companies donât run AI death panels and ruin tens of thousands of lives annually. you also donât present and evidence of anything being done to encourage that expansion. saying âoh yeah this will happenâ with no plan or even process by which it would happen isnât an argument. youâre clearly demonstrating your lack of critical thinkingâŠ
Thatâs not at all what I said, I explained that having more private insurance companies will help wait times go down in the US if we invest into them, and we canât have Universal Healthcare like Sweden because we have way too big of a population. And things like getting rid of Medicaid is fear mongering that Trump has said heâs not going to do since day one
They are quite literally trying to do that because Americaâs birth rate is declining. Except they fail to realize itâs declining because there are hardly any resources for anyone to feasibly start a family, people are scared of suffering a miscarriage or needing a medical abortion and not being able to access it, the economy is in shambles, etc., not because no one wants to have kids. I know too many people who desperately wanted kids and that hope slowly died out over the years
How do private insurance companies reduce wait times? Theyâre literally the cause of all the problems in US healthcare. We have a bigger population. We also have a far bigger economy. A universal healthcare system would literally save us money, it would cost less per person than we currently spend on healthcare. The BBB literally gets rid of medicaid for millions of people. Itâs not fear mongering dude⊠he just lied. Like he has a thousand times before.
Weâll never have universal healthcare at this rate, considering one of our biggest contributing populations is being deported en masse. It would easily be realistic if we kept undocumented immigrants here who willingly contribute billions in taxes that they will never see any return on.
Having undocumented illegal immigrants in the country only adds onto the wait times and overpopulation we were experiencing the past 4 years with apartment rates skyrocketing. Personally my rate went up $200 in two years with Biden due to the amount of illegal migrants we were getting here. Like I was saying, thatâs why it doesnât work like Sweden. We have too many people. And really? Taxing the rich more? I believe in equality, and I think if youâre living the American dream making money then
The percentage of tax youâre said to pay should be about the same across the board. Billionaires spend a lot of fucking money in taxes each year but for some reason itâs never enough for you guys because you want us to be solely reliable on rich peoples money, even though itâd run out pretty quick seeing that it takes all of our help in taxes to keep us afloat. We canât just rely on 1% of people, and they do already pay a fuck ton
billionaires mostly pay no taxes⊠they pay less than you and I. they write the tax codes. no, everyone shouldnât pay the same, because frankly nobody should have a billion dollars, and in order to get a billion dollars you have to ruthlessly exploit others. as such, the least they can do is pay to undo some of the immense damage they do to society. your rent went up because your landlord is a greedy parasitic fuck, not because of immigrants.