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TAJ

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Oct 28, 2017
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A guy I used to work with leaned way left, but loved few things more than hearing about how awful the US was.
Russia Today, "RT", was music to his ears.
He kept trying to get me to watch it and I was like... "You know that's state propaganda, right?".
Stuff he saw there led him down some rabbit holes, with Russia Today as his baseline "truth" to compare them against.
Seven years later he's gone so far to the right that none of the video-based news companies are conservative enough for him. His brainwashing has been so thorough that any criticism of the US sends him into a violent rage.
 

Lulu

Saw the truth behind the copied door
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
26,680
Maga Twitter think Flynn is the Kraken. I like to pretend all these people are bots. Mostly, right? They gotta be.
 

Jive Turkey

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Oct 25, 2017
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This is pretty much the norm in any state that is dominated by its urban areas; the Republicans in rural counties always say that the city shouldn't "control" the rest of the state even though there are just more people there.

It happens in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and it's probably already happening in Georgia.
I don't doubt it but I lived most of my life in California and never saw it there despite living in some red counties. The Republicans I knew just accepted that the state would go blue despite their votes. It wasn't until I moved to Washington did I see this sentiment out in broad daylight.
 

Dekuman

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Oct 27, 2017
19,026
It's amazing that these MAGA types reacted way worse on their election loss than the left that they mocked in 2016. Disowning democracy, crying about their cult leader , and generally just showing that they were either absent or never learned anything from civics classes. It's a good argument against direct democracy .
 
Oct 25, 2017
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It's amazing that these MAGA types reacted way worse on their election loss than the left that they mocked in 2016. Disowning democracy, crying about their cult leader , and generally just showing that they were either absent or never learned anything from civics classes. It's a good argument against direct democracy .

For real.
The 2016 reactions were pretty nasty (hence a big rise in "SJWs owned/liberal tears compilations" on YouTube), but left-leaning people moved on and focused on their lives as well as other elections that could change the tides (which 2018 did and 2020 kind of did).
These people are way saltier and angrier, they may just give up on the political process period. Wouldn't be a huge loss since they'll stop trying to shoot themselves in the foot at least.
 

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Oct 25, 2017
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A guy I used to work with leaned way left, but loved few things more than hearing about how awful the US was.
Russia Today, "RT", was music to his ears.
He kept trying to get me to watch it and I was like... "You know that's state propaganda, right?".
Stuff he saw there led him down some rabbit holes, with Russia Today as his baseline "truth" to compare them against.
Seven years later he's gone so far to the right that none of the video-based news companies are conservative enough for him. His brainwashing has been so thorough that any criticism of the US sends him into a violent rage.
You know, people love to dismiss the horseshoe theory, but I've watched several people-- friends of friends-- on social media go from far left to brainwashed maga cultist from 2016 to now. I keep tabs on them out of a kind of sick fascination and I'm just flabbergasted that these formerly supposedly leftist folks are all in on right wing conspiracy theories, covid denialism and celebrating Trump. It's a thing and it's fucking horrifying.
 
Oct 28, 2017
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It's amazing that these MAGA types reacted way worse on their election loss than the left that they mocked in 2016. Disowning democracy, crying about their cult leader , and generally just showing that they were either absent or never learned anything from civics classes. It's a good argument against direct democracy .
Absolutely, but I'm not really surprised. These are the same dorks who go to rallies and drape themselves in Trump flags. They can't do anything normal, everything has to be cranked up to 11.
 

Reym

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Jul 15, 2019
2,655
Why...were people so convinced that CA would go red? Like, NY has a better chance of going red than CA. Where does it come from? Was it just a response to the chatter of TX purpling?
 

Dekuman

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Oct 27, 2017
19,026
Why...were people so convinced that CA would go red? Like, NY has a better chance of going red than CA. Where does it come from? Was it just a response to the chatter of TX purpling?
These people were gaging based on YouTube views, rally sizes and all that. This is why they were certain of a landslide.

They are melting down in part because the metrics they used proved to be unreliable and not believing in the polls in 2016 was a false positive
 

NihonTiger

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Oct 25, 2017
10,512
This is pretty much the norm in any state that is dominated by its urban areas; the Republicans in rural counties always say that the city shouldn't "control" the rest of the state even though there are just more people there.

It happens in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and it's probably already happening in Georgia.

Yep. Happens in Colorado with Denver and Boulder, Michigan with Detroit, Flint and Ann Arbor, Ohio with Columbus and Cleveland (and Toledo to a lesser regional extent). It's pretty common.
 

Cats

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Oct 27, 2017
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When I see this stuff, it just makes me think of the crazy bath salts Florida man meme. All of them remind me of that.
 

rockinreelin

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Oct 27, 2017
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Why...were people so convinced that CA would go red? Like, NY has a better chance of going red than CA. Where does it come from? Was it just a response to the chatter of TX purpling?

I think a lot of Cali Trumpers thought because it wasn't umcommon to see Trump car parades that most of the state was going to vote for Trump. It was really just a loud mouthed minority that hyped themselves up. It's over now thankfully.
 

Reym

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Jul 15, 2019
2,655
These people were gaging based on YouTube views, rally sizes and all that. This is why they were certain of a landslide.

They are melting down in part because the metrics they used proved to be unreliable and not believing in the polls in 2016 was a false positive
Because of all the empty land.
I think a lot of Cali Trumpers thought because it wasn't umcommon to see Trump car parades that most of the state was going to vote for Trump. It was really just a loud mouthed minority that hyped themselves up. It's over now thankfully.

This all makes sense. So it was just people stuck in an echo chamber and convincing themselves. Sadly, it's not hard to visualize.

...but man, looking at voting by population maps and CA is still shockingly blue. It ain't flipping.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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Part of me thinks Ben is drawing this crap with eyes full of angry tears. Muttering to himself how Trump was the real winner and cursing the Deep State and Democrats.
 

EdibleKnife

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Oct 29, 2017
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Part of me thinks Ben is drawing this crap with eyes full of angry tears. Muttering to himself how Trump was the real winner and cursing the Deep State and Democrats.
I genuinely have no idea what to make of this comic to start with. The Democratic donkey is a Turkey that Biden cooked in a swamp & it's talking-what? These cartoons were tenuous already but Garrison seems to be legit broken psychically after this loss if this is any indication.
 

Sully

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Oct 25, 2017
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All these white people who think their life will actually be any different with Biden. Pathetic
 

EdibleKnife

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Oct 29, 2017
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This is one of the most annoying elements of the Q/Trump cult. Why the fuck is Trump communicating in fucking numbers and cyphers if he's the leader of the free world? What exactly do these people think he's gained from making his election results an Ovaltine code? He still lost. History books aren't going to put in "But Trump got in the last word in the end because if you read his new phone number it says 'Trump actually has a big dick' after being converted using Katakana." Like how desperate do you have to be to be obsessing over this shit? Is this really what they want from their president? No policies just constant little codes he sends out into the world that translate into ego-stroking messages?
 

Danby

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Oct 7, 2020
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Part of me thinks Ben is drawing this crap with eyes full of angry tears. Muttering to himself how Trump was the real winner and cursing the Deep State and Democrats.
It's gonna be hard for him to not be able to show his perfect trump in boxing shorts for the next 4 years.
Garrison was never good, but lately he's playing like a broken record of delusion.
 

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Dec 17, 2019
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Imagine being the woman in the thumbnail of this video, you've been mocked for 4 years by maga cultists and now that he's out you think she could stop being used as a thumbnail but noooo, just put a maga hat on her (she was probably a Hillary supporter) and keep using her to mock the maga cultists instead.

Not saying the maga cultists don't deserve mockery but maybe people should use them as the thumbnails.
 

SolidSnakex

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Oct 25, 2017
23,349
Imagine being the woman in the thumbnail of this video, you've been mocked for 4 years by maga cultists and now that he's out you think she could stop being used as a thumbnail but noooo, just put a maga hat on her (she was probably a Hillary supporter) and keep using her to mock the maga cultists instead.

Not saying the maga cultists don't deserve mockery but maybe people should use them as the thumbnails.

A lot of the memeing that you're seeing from the left after this is taking those that the right have used in recent years and modifying them slightly to highlight how they were always exactly who they whined about. You can also see that with the art of Pepe hooked up on a copium tank.
 

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A lot of the memeing that you're seeing from the left after this is taking those that the right have used in recent years and modifying them slightly to highlight how they were always exactly who they whined about. You can also see that with the art of Pepe hooked up on a copium tank.
I know that but Pepe is not a real person so there's no harm there. That lady is real and afaik she's not a trumper so it sucks that she's used to mock the trumpers, ironically or not.
 

SolidSnakex

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Oct 25, 2017
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I know that but Pepe is not a real person so there's no harm there. That lady is real and afaik she's not a trumper so it sucks that she's used to mock the trumpers, ironically or not.

Sure, I actually think this guy would be a good substitute

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It's a shame that caller to Rush wasn't on video, because he'd perfect.
 

Dark Knight

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Oct 25, 2017
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It's gonna be hard for him to not be able to show his perfect trump in boxing shorts for the next 4 years.
Garrison was never good, but lately he's playing like a broken record of delusion.
In a way he's sort of like Trump himself, and the whole GOP. Constantly playing the greatest hits in socialist fearmongering. Even during Trump's reign it was the same crap on repeat from this hack.
 

RoaminRonin

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Nov 6, 2017
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The guy crying to Rush lololololol cry harder clown signed your fellow Georgian

That guy says he been to Steelers games and has not seen a crowd bigger than the million chud march, there was like 11k people that attended that loser rally, steelers stadium seats 64k. Literally lying to himself to make him feel better.