When I was a kid I seriously thought that alt right politics was just a joke and people where just trolling
Turns out, people are actually that stupid
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@stux Many of them thought it was a joke and they were just trolling. Turns out you become what you pretend to be,.
Just prior to my own awakening in 2004 about underestimating the depth of right wing stupidity, I remember saying to someone, "There's no way people are going to be stupid enough to vote for Bush a second time!"
@stux I grew up in a not-quite-THAT-bad-politically area and the distance provided by time has given me so much to think about.
Like, yes, I used to be on the wrong side of a lot of stuff I shouldn't have been because that was the environment and I didn't know better, but now I see some people who used to be tolerable at worst, even by today's standards, deviating towards cartoon levels of evil, and it's sad in so many ways.
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Turns out Carlo Cipolla and Dietrich Bonhoeffer were right about stupid people being a bigger danger than evil people
@stux and those people are voting, so the rest of us (the sane ones) also need to vote.
The far right is a cultivated form of stupidity.
Billionaires spend enormous sums growing the stupidity.
Koch Network leverages racism to attack public education & health. It spent millions to sabotage women's unions like public services, teachers & nurses.
Trump wants to deprofessionalize nursing & teaching to remove access to student loans. The low wages in both jobs create severe labor shortages in schools & hospitals.
Algorithmic wage discrimination worsens the labor shortages.
@stux As a kid, I thought they were exaggerating. Like who would be insane enough to follow through, but God I was wrong
@stux they are also trolling.
@appassionato that ginger kid, yes thats 100% me
that Trumpet dollar however is not something i would ever touch
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@stux the 'ha ha, only kidding' is still a big part of the recruitment funnel - every 30-something that says "gas the ..." In a COD chatroom 'ironically' normalizes that shit to the 14 year olds watching.
@stux Disappointing ain't it?
@stux There's always someone willing to buy an aircastle or a bridge which doesn't exist...
@stux We don't think about on the surface much, but a lot of alt right is thriving from years of behind the scenes activities to manipulate the online discourse and internal government manipulations to weaken public education, since education outside of just technical training for jobs usually is what opens up a lot of people to thinking more broadly about things.