• FirstCircle@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    earmarking $45 billion to detain 100,000 migrants

    $450K per migrant. I wonder which MAGA-sponsoring corporations are going to see that payday, and I wonder what % of it they’ll be kicking-back to Orange and Elmo? We’ve got a lot of citizens here. Kidnapping them at government expense will be extremely profitable, even at today’s rates.

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      5 days ago

      I call them the MAGA Nazis, because I want MAGA and Nazi tied together for all history. Historically, it’s important to differentiate between the German brand of Nazis and the American brand, just for accuracy.

      Also, yes, the Republican party is dead, replaced by the MAGA Nazi party.

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        Or are brainwashed with Republican owned media, which is most news networks and various things with news in the title. I’ve met and talked to people who are Republican and most are inadvertantly ignorant; they try and keep up with what’s happening but because of where they look they end up with misrepresenting and missing pieces. Left News is also missing pieces, so people tend to talk past each other, which doesn’t help either.

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          all of the MSM are owned by conservatives, is there even source of “left leaning news”, i never heard of one.

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          No.

          If you support harming others who have done nothing other than exist, you can’t blame brainwashing. You’re not a good person, full stop.

          The truth is that a large portion of humans are stupid, selfish, hateful, pieces of shit. It’s why brainwashing works on them; it’s just directing them, not actually changing them.

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            Right. But that’s why they’re fed the excuses “they broke the law coming into the country!” “they committed a crime!” “they had gang tattoos!” when they overstayed a visa or applied for asylum, were unjustly convicted, or had autism awareness tattoos. But they’re fed lies, so in their minds it’s justified.

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              “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

              This is why it is an individual’s responsibility to be critical of their own and others’ motivations, to attempt awareness of manipulations by others and our own self-deceptions.

              Even the best of my countrymen are not good at any of these things, but people that do not even make the attempt certainly seem to skew toward MAGA.

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                The Republican Party has been voting for defunding education every chance they can for over fifty years. They’ve also gotten away with being called conservatives when they aren’t socially conservative (voting for pervy Don) or fiscally conservative (in office for every economic downturn). The fools still calling them that might as well call them the angel kisses party of happiness.