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Is fucking up the global price of oil solely for the desires of a foreign nation, which happens to be a genocidal apartheid ethnostate, not considered being a piece of shit?
Conservatives really are some of the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet.
The instinctual, impulse driven "in group/out group" prejudice is strong. Bad things happening to the out groups must mean good things for them. They don't know what, why, or how, but they know it's benefiting them. Somehow.
During Union membership drives I always wear a red hat. Because anyone smart enough to read will see its a blank red hat, and probably already will be in the Union. The maga guys see team colors and are more likely to listen to me. I shit you not that is all it takes.
If MAGA can manipulate them into going against their best interests, Progressives can manipulate them into supporting their best interests.
Maybe don't allow MAGAs to constantly steer the conversation towards Trans stuff, and keep it focused on how much MAGA is stealing from us. People don't like it when they get stolen from.
Remind them that they are being chumps for letting MAGA steal EVERYTHING from them.
Critical thinking and empathy are learned behaviours, these morons are never thought. To them it's like dunking a basketball, it's not going to happen.
The uneducated don't actually care the reasons. The only reason they are upset is that they see things directly affecting them.
There is a large portion of the electorate that needs to touch the stove to understand it's hot.
that's how most of us learn, from our own mistakes. Only the wisest of us are learning from the mistakes of others, the stupid never learn.
These are stupid people, that did not learn the first time around from that mistake and have to touch the stove again. Nit being educated doesn't make you stupid, it does mean you're ignorant.
As others point out the only concern is gas prices, doesn't matter the world is burning from climate change, there's wars, genocide, apartheid, all needing a world being closer together.
It's not "solely for the desires of a foreign nation." Although bribes and blackmail are surely factors, the other reason the US (and especially the Republican Party) does whatever helps Israel is to appease American evangelical Christians who want to fulfill a Biblical prophesy of Jews returning to the Holy Land to kick off the End Times so they can get Raptured.
It's literally an insane death cult controlling US foreign policy.
And also get the Trump-Epstein Files off the front page. The best plans have multiple objectives.