Hanlon’s does tend to break down when one of the two political parties in your country have more or less devolved into theocratic fascists, though. Especially when they’ve got their plans published online, and they’re clearly quite evil, and they’re following said plans disturbingly closely.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The problem is, a lot of the people who support these people are just... Stupid

I have known many a coworker who talked about voting for trump and every time I engage them in conversation about it I realize all their genuine beliefs are against the GOPs policies entirely. They just are scared of things they don't understand and like them talking about how scary minorities are.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

if you can convince the poorest white man that they’re better than the richest colored man, he’ll give you the money out of his pocket

[–] beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wondering who that quote is from? Musk? Trump? Nixon?

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

LBJ

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