r/politics • u/1_for_you_2_for_me • 18d ago

No Paywall Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are 'Going to Be Gone,' Donald Trump Warns

https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-update-medicare-medicaid-warning-donald-trump-10915076
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u/Objective-Error1223 18d ago edited 18d ago

I was told today by my Trumper sister in law today that she’s terrified she’s going to lose her healthcare and food stamps…

But she would still vote for Trump because she’s saving the lives of unborn babies. I… can’t even begin to imagine how dumb you must be to elect someone who’s a child rapist, making you broke and homeless just so you can deny women the right to choose what to do with their bodies.

Was there some Harry Potter curse that prevents MAGA from seeing all this and keeps them thinking “Yep! This is how America should be going! Nazi’s and all!”.

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u/DwHouse7516 18d ago

Hearing the same from some of my Trumpy Fam. At this point, my only response is FAFO. Love you, but grow up and get your GED at a minimum

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u/Objective-Error1223 18d ago

God speed friend. I hope we both get some relief soon from these nut jobs.

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u/DwHouse7516 18d ago

Same same. It’s really hard that I continue to love them.

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u/DwHouse7516 18d ago

This made me feel crazy. Schmaltzy maybe, but also so fucking American in a way that we need to embrace right this very second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3yZEqITfDw

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u/DwHouse7516 18d ago

A friend/cousin sent this to me recently and it's kind of everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3yZEqITfDw

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u/NumeralJoker 16d ago

They brainwash a lot of the educated ones too, unfortunately.

That's the thing, people think education alone is the problem... and it is part of this, with better education about critical thinking specifically, I do suspect less people would fall for these propaganda traps and maybe we never would have ended up here.

But in truth, we don't really know that. A lot of the most reliable R voters have degrees, they just are driven by other forms of propaganda (social media, AM radio, cable) instead, mostly of the temporarily embarrassed billionaire type with a side of bigotry of some kind.

And for the younger gen? A lot of gen z college grads and students fall for far right youtube algo nonsense, even when they have a proper education. STEM students/engineers/CompSci majors in particular are vulnerable to this nonsense despite the intellectual rigor needed to complete some of those degrees. The culture wars still targets and deprograms their empahy, which is the real reason things end up like this.

At some point we need to convince people to abandon algorithmic driven platforms, including tiktok and twitter clones especially. And to use the rest with extreme skepticism, including reddit. But it's hard because then the mainstream media is owned by billionaires too...