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It’s maddening to think an entire group of young men are dumb enough to think a rich douchecanoe who is by any account far from being a besoin of ethical business would be one to “drain the swamp” (to say nothing of his overall complete lack of morality). This was obvious basic populism from the start.
What happens when you elect the alligator to drain the swamp it lives in? Such a mystery. 🤔
Anecdotal, but living in a very conservative area as an engineer, most coworkers (especially my age) are very left leaning. It’s the technicians and old farts close to retiring that still gargle trump’s balls.
My fellow Gen Z are dumbasses everywhere
Did they not think to ask why the swamp wasn’t drained during the first 4 years Trump was in office?
He was all talk about draining the swamp and building the wall in 2016 lol
Most of us were too young to understand what was happening in 2016.
But if they voted in 2024, they could understand by then.
these are gen z voters. they’re simple and have short attention spans.
you know. idiots.
Ok boomer
ok.
Do they not think for themselves? Can they not see how trump performed historically? Why did they think he would suddenly be different this time?
Older gen Z guy here. A lot of gen Z guys are dumber than bricks and have been specifically propagandized to since middle school or younger. I was part of the first wave during gamer gate and the only reason I broke free is because I have the perfect mix of autism, superiority complex, and inferiority complex which fully kicked in circa 2015 and overrid the propaganda hard. Basically I looked at Trump and came to the conclusion that I am better than him in every way even with my perpetual fuck up status and thusly anyone who supports him inherently are less than him and thusly less than me.
I broke away on a fluke of batshit insane psychology, most of these younger guys especially have to touch the stove to know it’s hot.
I will correct you. A lot of people are dumber than bricks. At least gen z got the internet access when their brains were still free of junk that govs showed on tv 24/7. From my observations it is the older population think that god exists, and stupid fakes on tik tok are reliable source of information. What gen z lack is manners, cause their parents didnt give a shit and just ipaded their way out of parenting
Guess I can’t talk. Gen X was one of the biggest trump supporters, but knowing my cohort I just assumed they were all a bunch of leftover homophobes and racists like a lot of our parents were. I was mostly the same but I also have AuDHD and have an incredibly difficult time with hypocrisy and injustice, so things like religion or anyone claiming superiority over others, regardless of reason, while being an absolute tool themselves really turned me off to the whole racist and homophobic social standards of the day. Took a few years to get away from the casual, unthinking racism - not actually being hard core racist, but the casual kind where you told racist jokes and made sweeping judgements about a group while still maybe going to school with them them and getting along just fine.
Release the Epstein files
We all know that Trump is … mentally not the giant he thinks he is. He said “Draining the Swamp”, but he really meant “Swamping the Drain”.
Wow so rebellious and edgy to rage for the machine that is destroying us all. What a bunch of bootlicking simps….embarrassing
Mr. Thompson, what you’ve just said… is one of the most insanely idiotic things I’ve ever heard. At no point in your rambling incoherent response, were you close to anything, that could considered a rational thought, everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
Why are people so stupid, we’re in the information age ffs!
Because of people like Zuck, Musk, and whoever is twisting the YouTube algorithm these days. People are manipulable and they used their considerable power to manipulate young men without futures.
40+ years of Right wing propaganda and a hollowing out of our education system?
That’s pretty much the nail on the head.
Also in the misinformation age
Disinformation even.
Of course, it usually takes me a whole 30 seconds to verify news, I guess that’s too much to ask of people.
The average person on Lemmy works at a far higher level than the average person in the public. Remember that they have to tell you not to line your baby’s crib with plastic film. They have to tell you that the surface of an oven is hot. It’s all about statistics. Take 10,000 people and some of them are going to do terribly stupid things.
The human attention span has been eroding ever since the invention of the radio.
I bet the ancient Greeks said the same thing about the invention of paper.
I have no clue how historically accurate that is, but my point is that humans have been stupid with short attention spans for a very long time
Not the ancient Greeks, but that’s probably because they had parchment and not paper
Actually in the late 1800s people did actually complain about people not being able to use slate anymore since paper was now so much cheaper.
A bit of due diligence may have been helpful in their decision making. Nothing of substance about Trump was not known before the election.
I don’t want to excuse their decision, but want to point out some context. Right-wing media is really effective at throwing out a ton of bullshit to obfuscate reality. The right-wing bubble throws out shit like Democrats having underground pedophile rings being run in DC pizza restaurants. Meanwhile Trump was found to have committed rape by a court.
Many conservative voters either:
- Don’t hear about the second one
- Or hear about both and decide that all news is mostly made up trash like the National Inquirer
its called firehose of falsehood, create many false narratives to the point your opponents dont know how to respond to it, this also doubles internal propaganda the target base wouldnt know what is true or not. and yes its russian strategy, and fox works with putin closely with the propaganda.
another one was pretty much gaza muslims, refuse to vote for biden, eventhough it had no statistical different on the voting numbers before the election.
But then how would they vote by feels when their gut knows the truth & detects fake news a mile away?
They haven’t felt duped enough.
Duped out of gray matter since conception
Duped out of an education that prioritises critical thinking skills by decades of vested interests.
I used to think that “the best way to have a controlled population is to have poor education” was a bit of a conspiracy theory in the 20th century. The 21st has corrected me on that one.
I agree. It sounded very conspiratorial in the beginning, but many of these people have expressed their preference for uneducated people now.
