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This Uncle Tom, Steven Candie, house n***** is a first degree motherf*cker

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 119 points 3 days ago (11 children)

man with career he would not have without civil rights, opposed to the concept of civil rights, also unable to stop watching porn at work

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The "fuck you I got mine" mentality which drives every conservative.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 22 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Every single value they claim to support is a hollow lie that exists for their own enrichment and power, and it's so starkly plain from every single policy they push when they have power I can't fathom how people don't see it. I especially cannot believe that even now we have people who cannot see it.

I feel like I'm in a world where 90% of people can't read and have never watched the news sometimes, because it's that blatantly obvious to me.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

On election day there were people googling whether Biden was running. The average reading level is 4-6th grade. Most people get their "news" from social media....

[–] triptrapper@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

To your first point, there was a story about the alarming number of searches for "did Biden drop out" but it didn't mention that this would have included searches like "when did Biden drop out" and "why did Biden drop out." So it was a half true and half clickbait.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

Regardless of exact phrasing it shows how disconnected those people feel they are from politics. Biden dropping and Kamala coming in was months before election day there was plenty of reporting across networks about it.

What an interesting misuse of semantics for cope purposes

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