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• Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Too much fox news.

  It happened to my dad too. He got hurt and was basically sitting in front of the TV all day being brainwashed to hate “the left.”

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  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My parents were always a bit right but they still could function. Could have a normal conversation or do an activity with them. 2010 thanksgiving was the last time I saw them and fox killed whatever was left in them.

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I knew a guy who was a philosophy major and his friend group was a bunch of atheist skeptics, so he knew all about logical fallacies and so on. He took a hard right turn into Pizzagate territory once Trump took office and now believes everything short of Flat Earth. (And maybe that, too. We haven’t talked in a loooooong time.)

  The only way it makes sense to me is to think that if you have no moral compass, you’ll go whichever way the wind blows. Humans like to think that we’re rational, logical beings (even if nobody else is), but the truth is that we’re all driven by emotion. Strong values, such as a love of truth and hatred of bigotry, are what keep people from descending into this nonsense, not mere logic.

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• the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  My guess is Dad was waiting for the right person to validate some very prejudice beliefs.

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  • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    What you are saying is this:

    Couldn’t hear the endless barrage of republican dog whistles. Too subtle for his mind to capture.
    Heard the shrill, blunt whistle loud and clear.

    Because everything this orange asshole is saying directly, is what most previous republicans have been implying for decades.

    They’ve been incredibly successful when they’ve been subtle, too.
    For example - calling the war on minorities “the war on drugs” and filling it with “refer madness” propaganda. They’ve gotten the taxpayer to foot the gigantic bill for decades now.

    Social media broke peoples’ brains, that fucking algorithm is tuned to keep users anxious for unnaturally prolonged periods of time.
    They were warned they were the product, not the customer. They didn’t listen, they were too busy paying attention to what the algorithm was throwing their way.

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    • the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      This feels like you’ve hit the nail on the head!! I just can’t believe I didn’t see the signs growing up. 😮‍💨 But there’s nothing i could do anyway. So hopefully i am better off without him in my life (10 yrs so far).

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