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‘God, you’re hot’ Tennessee school board member says to student during board meeting (www.wsmv.com)
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[–] -4 points 7 months ago* (23 children)

the majority of people are not far right.

the issue is that people who are far right, are far more likely to run for office than moderate candidates are. and run better campaigns, and win more votes.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    If they're voting for the far right candidates then they are far right.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I would say they're heavily misled. What may seem obvious here is invisible on their Twitter feeds, on TV, in their communities, and even Google due to "search customisation".

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (13 children)

    I don't know. I ask because I cannot explain anyone even tolerating Trump's actions in any way unless they are far right. I still know people defending his actions... Anyone opposing him in any way, the rest of America thinks is "far left". So it's a weird time...

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  • [+] -14 points 7 months ago* (12 children)

    You are captured by the false media narrative that you are one thing or the other.

    The vast majority of voters are neither far right or far left. They are moderate. However, moderate people dont' get any airtime because the extremists here, and everywhere else, paint everyone as either FOR or AGAIN things.

    Moderate voters went for Trump because he offered them a better platform to vote for, especially economically. And Trump's tanking now that his policies are showing to be horrible. But he has 2.5 more years in office.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    They're not moderate, they're the people who will say "they just need to drop a bomb on that neighborhood" talking about the black neighborhood of course. They love acting moderate in public but they really want genocide against brown people and they want poor people without healthcare to be left in the street to die. Trump is doing exactly what they've been saying in private for decades.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    You're talking about the far right, not the moderates. You're just proving the other commenters point.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (8 children)

    Im really not, that's the average US voter. Idk yeah you can call them far right but then half the country is far right. And his point was that it's a false media narrative. Completely backwards, it's literally the mainstream media that works extremely hard to sell these "far right" positions as moderate.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    Yeah, you're absolutely buying into the propaganda. The average voter is not saying we should bomb black neighborhoods, the far right is. The far right is not half the country. You're being led to believe it is because the far right has captured mainstream media and are trying to lead you to believe that their position is the moderate one, but its all smoke and mirrors. You've bought their propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    No i dont watch mainstream media, i go to people's homes for dinner and that's what they say. They just wish trump was more prudent with saying those things out loud.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    Ah, so you're hanging out with the far right and assuming your anecdotes paint the whole picture.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (4 children)

    No, my anecdotes are supported by the fact trump got elected twice. Once you leave either coast, the whole interior of the country is majority far right. Maybe Minnesota is different, that's one state ive never been there myself.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    He won via a fraction of the voting population under very suspicious circumstances. That's not a compelling argument.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Okay well then dig into the details, like the anecdote in OP or by talking to people in the US and getting to know them.

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