• mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’m gonna give him credit here.

    It’s the first truthful AND self-aware thing he’s said his entire term.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    Oh I think plenty of smart people “like” Trump. They know that they can manipulate him with ease. One thing he has always been good at is conning the ones who want to believe him. I don’t know if they are actually dumb or just want to believe their worldview no matter how much fact disputes it. Trump is a new breed of politician that will not only stretch the truth but will flat out lie that the sky is yellow, the sun purple and any facts, like your own sight, to the contrary, are fake. It’s easy to dismiss everyone who follows him as ignorant however I know many people who previously seemed sane and rational that somehow have taken leave of their senses to follow him.

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    Correct. Intelligent and knowledgeable people do not like Trump. It is the most ignorant among us that believe his lies and worship him like a god while he steps on them, and they thank him for the privilege of being his floorboards.

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    Nobody likes you.

    Anyone who is friendly to you is just looking to use you for their own benefit. No one would willingly be around your ugly stupid stank ass if you were penniless.

    Your parents didn’t like you. Most of the US don’t like you. Most of the world don’t like you. You are cancer.

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    I want to say ‘never has truer words been spoken’, but sadly, I don’t think that’s the case. Empathetic compassionate people don’t like him. And they seem to be in a minority right now because everyone is being crushed to the point that they can only look after themselves, and fear for themselves means nothing left to spare for others.

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    As… ridiculously fucking stupid as this sounds, it is what his base wants to hear.

    They don’t see “smart people” and think “people with an above average IQ” (and they sure as fuck don’t understand what “average” means). They see “intellectuals” and “college students” and “pink haired people”. Or, simply put, “people who think I am wrong”. Which is exactly what they want to hate.

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      This is one of the best summations of stupidity I’ve seen lol. It hits so many of the hot points

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      They desperate for the world to be simple so that their simple, “elegant” solution and “clean, traditional living” or whatever the hell else they got going on is justified. But also they’ll ignore any times that indigineous are right about things like caring for the environment in simple, clean ways.

      Put it short, they just want to be validated without putting any work in. Saw too many movies they thought were documentaries.

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        They desperate for the world to be simple so that their simple, “elegant” solution…

        Tbh, that’s most people, most of the time.

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    No one actually likes you. The people ‘pretending’ to like you, are only using you because you are a useful idiot.

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      Afterwards, in a speech to supporters, Trump touted how many different demographic groups he won in Nevada, declaring that “We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated,” before exclaiming “I love the poorly educated!”:
      -source