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[–] 80 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Nah, they bitch and moan but they all vote the same. Don’t get your hopes up.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I'll believe MAGA is eating itself. They're very much at each others throats trying to figure out how to maneuver to be the next king.

    But the people will still vote for the R after a name no matter what, so it doesn't really matter that MAGA is eating itself. Trump hasn't done a quarter of the damage to the country that the party has done for decades, he's just the newest phase of the cancer.

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  • [+] 39 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago

    There are two broad headline classes out there: headlines that rile up the rabid maga base, and headlines that promise hope/solace to progressives. The latter is like the op’s post, and also includes such chestnuts as “trump’s rating just sunk to a new low”. I’ve noticed that these hopium/copium headlines spoon fed to progressives are no less targeted and manipulative than right wing headlines. Even after years of disappointment, I still see friends clinging to these such headlines “SuReLy NoW sOMeOnE wiLL do SoMeThInG AbOuT tHE sHiTsHoW OuR CoUnTrY hAS bEcOme!!!”, and “FiNaLLy! He/ThEy WiLL be heLD aCcOunTaBLe !!!”. I’d be a liar if I didn’t admit even I get a small hit of optimism at sone of these headlines. But I quickly think back to Smith and Mueller and everything else that’s happened over the years and realise that not only anger can be manipulated to get clicks but hope can to. I pressed a friend hard why he keeps sharing these hopium headlines and after some deep discussion it came out that without hope he would spiral into depression.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    Yeah sure, sure. Let me know if anything actually happens instead of all this click bait dontchafeelgoodnow BS.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Press (x) for doubt

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    They will always show up for Trump. The leader, whose power is based on factionalism and grievance, is the only uniting force between the factions at his command.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    They are fighting, one group wants to be even shitter than Trump, the other group wants to be even more shitter than they.

    At the end of the day and they'll all vote in lockstep for Hitler if he had an R next to his name

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    but according to the media, it's DeMs In DiSsArAy!!!!!¡!!eleven!!!!

    they do that because they know that republicans are a good story since they cannot govern but democrats do govern but are boring as hell, so they have to inflate public party discussions as a major fucking incident.

    if it weren't for a very partisan media, partisan towards access and lazy journalism than actual investigative work and doing some basic journalistic work, the infighting between republicans in the era of trump would be a lot more well known and widespread than any of the relatively minor things democrats argue about.

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