They’ve become so paranoid that they now accuse any opinion that doesn’t align with the MAGA movement as “liberal brigading”
It’s insane to ignore voices from what’s supposed to be your own camp because you’ve fallen so deep into delusional conspiracy that you refuse to open your eyes to anything other than what the glorious leader has to say.
I've known him for 30 something years. He wasn't weird back then, but after moving into the USA and getting involved in evangelical Christianity, he descended into weirdoness. He emailed me a couple years ago saying he's praying that I lose everything and suffer so I can "turn to God". Nowadays he's into MAGA and how God has chosen trump and is protecting him, and it's all according to revelations in the Bible.
He's a friend that needs to be rescued. Not sure how yet.
I wish you the best and hope you’re successful. It’s admirable to stick by someone such as that, but don’t let them do you or yours harm. Often, it can go that way pretty quickly when someone is wishing ill for you…
There’s certainly (in my view) a difference between Christians and evangelicals. Christians can genuinely believe and feel Christ’s mission, all the while seeking love and the best for everyone. Evangelicals seem to consistently be “my way or the highway to hell.” It’s a shitty division and many will never see the hate that they are ultimately wishing on people that Jesus would have never supported.
The way they dehumanize anyone who isn’t part of the cult, it’s gonna be really easy for trump to snap his fingers and have the actual non bots/foreign instigators start killing the people trump says are vermin. Iv started to arm myself because I’m surrounded by these types where I live and I don’t trust them not to come for my family when the order is given.
They are destroying my sipp (self invested) pension in the UK too. And my ISA. It's a a joke. How is one man allowed to cause this much chaos and damage. All the Trumptards were told mango Hitler would do project 2025 and it's happening. They said "he doesn't support it" in the run up to the election but he lies as easily as he breathe. Now a US and possibly world recession beckons and I don't know about you but I'm tired of living through "rare" black swan moments and crappy economic times. And the populace everywhere are beaten down by the cost of just existence. They are ill prepared to weather what is coming. I'm so tired of this own the libs at any cost attitude.
Trump is a troll who doesn't have values or policy. He is just built to get attention. He doesn't care how he achieves this. If crashing the stock market and increasing inflation gets people talking about him he's happy.
A red hat commented the other day that they're making fun of liberals for turning on elon. Why WOULDN'T we turn on elon if he's doing racist anti patriot shit?! They're making fun of us for not just following him blindly no matter what?
I think there was a brief period of time when most people who had heard of this guy but still didn’t know enough about him had a neutral-to-favorable opinion because it seemed like he was looking to use his immense wealth for innovative, forward-thinking projects which were vaguely in service to society.
Well, the mask came off, the true colors were proudly displayed. And, consequences followed.
If you don’t want the public forming an opinion of you, don’t accept a prominent, unelected role in the Federal Gov’t. If you don’t want to be thought of as an evil human being, do better. Especially when you have the means to do so.
If you insist on being in public service, whilst taking government money, and then wave a chainsaw around on national television as a metaphor for cutting our needed and necessary programs with absolute impunity, then the public can rightfully assume you understand there may be consequences ahead for you.
They would never turn on their dear leader no matter what he does. They simply cannot fathom what it means to not have blind allegiance and to be able to think critically
Well let’s be fair the one’s who turned aren’t criticizing liberals for turning on Elon. And from what I’m seeing there are still plenty of Magahats drinking the Kool-aid
Red hat: I thought all you libturds loved/hated (noun). But now you love/hate (noun).
They seem unable to comprehend that behaviors, actions, data and new information can and should lead you to at the very least rethink your opinion if not change your mind about (noun).
When you explain to them your logic or reasoning for changing your mind, it is usually met with some overly-aggressive comeback or belittling your ability to think critically. Which will never be the flex they want it to be.
It really seems to break down into they just want to be racist and are willing to overlook a bunch of stuff in the hopes of bringing back slavery or whatever racists hope for.
Or they know they aren't really knowledgeable about.... any of it. And they feel like since trump is dumb and has a following, then he must be for the dummies.
They literally give them the soundbites they need to sound smart. It's all lies. More and more straight-up lies. But at least they can join the conversation.
I also feel like the red hats give them a sense of community they don't otherwise have. More and more, the red hats really stand out as the type of people that rub people the wrong way, and they're probably not sure why.
So it really gives them a sense of being in the cool kids club even though they really aren't the cool kids. It's like joining a gang or a religion for them.
Idk, but I give up on them. I don't want them on my side. They can stay on the hateful, ignorant side, and I guess we'll just see what happens.
Someone said that the government is scared of making these people angry but they're not scared of making the Dem base angry. What I really want to see is the Dem base get angry.
There's a lot of intelligent and innovative people on this side. Surely we can come up with SOMETHING.
That’s how cults have to operate. If you allow free exchange of ideas and criticism the whole thing tumbles down. Just stick your fingers in your ears yelling “lalala trump is so great lalala” because basically all they care is that he’s hurting brown people and libs.
Modern politics has replaced religion for a lot of people. Looking back I would’ve rather they stayed Christian’s. Everyone knew how to deal with them.
That's a prerequisite to being a conservative. You have to ignore reality and vote against your own interests every time without question. It's the same reason why so many are religious. They're easy to train to do as they're told.
I mean, I hate to both sides it, but my God, they left can be just as bad.
I once jokingly pointed out if I was the Republicans I would be funding NPR with everything they could possibly want because nothing helps get a republican elected than those lunatics rambling on 24 hours a day about healthy at every size and the lack of minority dwarfs in Media.
Neither political party does really well the mirror nowadays. They both think of the fairest of them all. Meanwhile, all the Huntsman have to pay $10 for a dozen eggs.
To test out my theory post something vaguely critical regarding Palestine or transgender here on Reddit and take a look to see what happens extra points if you use science or logic.
Yeah look at all those liberal stories about transgender marxists and eco-friendly tampons for cats, such controversial content. Oh wait, it's actually just normal news stories.
Palestinians and trans people are mostly just innocent victims who want to be left alone. Not sure what there is to say that's "vaguely critical."
I am not saying they don't have real news but I am hardly alone in noting the change. They have always been progressive and intellectual. Too often nowadays they are progressive and anti-intellectual.
Its funny because they often talk about how liberals treat reddit as if its real life. Reading that sub and comparing to people I know who are unflinching R voters is pretty staggering.
Ig when you build a movement on shadowy figures making your life horrible its not surprising the whole "fellow conservative" thing is a problem over there. I'm convinced a lot of them are bots bc some accounts that frequently make comments about "liberals not having jobs" if you check their post history they post every 30 min - 1hr.
The questions and topics they post are so off topic from relevant situations. And half the comments have to do something with trump has a plan( even though they don't agree with anything he's doing). Lately they seem terrified tho with all the broken ally relationships. Anything to rule the libs. And they're constantly talking about how Democrats are bad and corrupt too. They don't understand that we want accountability for the government as a whole period. They are so divided they can't see themselves as "we the people". It's only left vs right. They know trump is corrupt but their argument is Democrats are corrupt too so Trump should be able to do what he wants.
Weird, the third post down is "egg prices plummet after Trump's five point plan." Everything is flared users only, so I didn't bother to click. As a consumer, I'm not noticing anything I would call a plummet.
It’s like the Sistine Chapel of MAGA conservatism, it’s a wonder to behold. Over a million people in a closed loop ego driven circle-jerk, that is constantly misinformed or uninformed. I glance at the “reasoning” happening there from time to time, and I feel like the first dinosaur bones discovered were probably treated with a similar awe and confusion—not quite knowing what you’re looking at, but realizing that it’s special.
I've actually seen some rather reasonable comments and debates in that sub, to give credit where it is due - a lot of them are disagreeing with his recent actions
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u/SterlingVII 7d ago
They’ve been real quiet these past weeks.