r/MurderedByWords 1d ago

Sounds about right.

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u/liquidhell 1d ago

Nothing surprises me anymore.

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u/Beneficial-Sound-199 1d ago

I laughed so hard I scared the dog.

HOW? how do people believe this? I mean, seriously did they just break the knob off on the old black-and-white on the Fox channel?

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u/Vyzantinist 1d ago

how do people believe this?

A potent combination of feelings, magical thinking, and sheer ignorance.

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u/stevez_86 22h ago

They want to believe that whatever they say is true. They think, in their daily lives, that something is off because what they think is usually wrong. But Trump goes up there and does the same thing and to them everyone agrees with him. So they get to thinking that Trump must be them. That whatever they think Trump thinks and if Trump thinks it then it must be true.

I know many people that would say that they think the tariffs will drive prices down. It's a feel. And if people just said it, then it would be true.

They think Trump is magic and if Trump is magic and he's tuned into the same magic they were always trying to do but failed, then it must be because Trump hasn't said it yet. As soon as he says it, it will be real.

So what are they really waiting for him to say that they want to believe is true?

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u/FILTHBOT4000 22h ago

Some people learn best by listening, some by doing, some by making lots of notes.

And then there's people that only learn if they get hit square in mouth with the truth. They're the adult versions of kids that will never listen, and will only stop trying to grab something that's hot when they badly burn themselves.

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u/jackmusick 21h ago

That combined with, through the Internet, being exposed to more information that we realistic have time to evolve with. We’re in for a hard reset.