[Politics] Have phobia, will travel

This person chooses to support Donald Trump, and they're temporarily okay

We're still getting blamed often. I haven't in a month or two, but normally I listen to a podcast called Knowledge Fight which critically analyzes Alex Jones and a few similar grifters in a taking them in full context way(generally outlets miss the truly heinous stuff Jones says for quick soundbites, and he uses it as a defense to his audience).

Now you may think ol AJ isn't relevant, but you still see right wing talking points come either early on his show or he repeats them quickly. He keeps basically a "rogues gallery" of people to blame for whatever, and BLM, Jessie Smollet, Obama aren't always on the list, but at least one of them shows back up monthly, along with Antifa, Soros, Klaus Schwab, communism, Bill Gates, vaccines, trans people, gay people, China, etc

It's not that they stopped blaming black people (and never stopped blaming queer people), it's that they have so many buzz words to swap us out on rotation. They haven't forgotten though. They still hate us.

What about the satanic panic, dugs, teen STDs (ok that one is fine to be worried about), violent video games, rock music...

My parents listened to conservative talk radio non-stop when I was a kid. I still remember listening to Micheal Savage scream about small meatballs at the restaurant being a liberal conspiracy and knowing how full of shit he was. I was about 11.

This isn't even true though. They attacked Mexicans for marijuana usage back in the 30s, they blamed AIDS on gay people, etc.

The 24 hour hate cycle.

This is the true state of the union: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvGmOZ5T6_Y

What the FUCK is the problem?

They invent what they need to hate, then fox screams it. There doesn't need to be a real problem.

From the party that screams and whines about how everyone else is taking their freedoms, they sure do love to to take away everyone else's freedoms

There should be around 30,000 trans people in Utah based on general population.

Lack of exposure to trans people makes it easier not to see them as human.

we aren't "normal" so their little brains must listen to the propaganda machine and aid in our erasure

little do they know the revolution will be won in thigh highs

It's not just white people but I get what you mean. So much of politics is performative/culture wars. What always irks me is that behind closed doors some of them are gay or have had abortions privately or something else but they go on acting as though it's the end of the world publicly.

The secret ingredient is 24/7 propaganda.

I can probably make you hate basically anything I can come up with if I can get a 24/7 stream straight into your earcanal. You are just as susceptible as anyone else, and you likely hold beliefs right now that came from some of the very same outlets. Just as hard a time as you have seeing that this is the actual case, is just as hard as the people believing this fringe shit right here have.

Human psychology is fantastically malleable, and contrary to popular opinion, we have a very good grasp on how the mind works.

I've been thinking about it and it doesn't really qualify as a shitpost to me either, but I'm going to let it stay for now unless it turns into a complete clusterfuck. @GhostFence@lemmy.world, this isn't really in the spirit of this community. A list of people Conservatives have fearmongered with isn't especially amusing, which is kind of the point around here.

Issues at the border are only during presidential election year and it will never be for the whole year as the day after voting, conservatives stop mentioning it.

Please do not give them ideas.

Rachel Dolezal and Nuka Zeus would like to have a word with you..

Discovery was IMHO the most inferior Star Trek, but they nailed this idea when they described the Terran empire. This strong, incontrovertibly evil, imperial monster was born of, and lives on fear. A version of humanity that gave up on trust or hope and became the worst version of themselves.

And of things normal people can't associate with being scary. I think that's why everyone's struggling to guess what's next. What random thing will strike fear into them next? Birds? Greeks? Furniture that isn't wood? Children's book- oh, we had that one.

God, I remembered Asian hate. I remembered getting yelled at in Chinatown by a bunch of black people. Yo, we are sorta on the same team man. I didn't create covid. I'm just here trying to survive, just like you.

There's a kind of always a constant undercurrent of hatred for the lower class with them. I wonder how far the GOP can push that before their voters realize they're the butt of the joke.

What about 2024?

Phrasing? Are we still doing phrasing?

Heh pounded

Yeah whoever made this is young. The anti gay rhetoric was so much worse 1970-2000. Obama was against gay marriage in 2008.

Before 1970 it was barely controversial and everyone thought being gay was a literal mental disorder. Famous actor Rock Hudson had a sham marriage to a woman in 1955 because it couldn't publicly seem too likely he was gay or it would ruin his career. He later got AIDS and asked his friend Ronald Reagan to save his life in 1985 but was rejected because helping a dying gay friend survive was seen as too politically controversial.

Calling any year when gay marriage was legal nationwide the bad year for gay people is absurd.

Yeah, there's usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.

There's always an element of racism running as an undercurrent, so you can pick your Boogeyman du jour, be it Muslims/Arabs (they don't differentiate,) central/south American immigrants, black lives matter, CRT, DEI, etc.

Then you can add some kind baseless moral outrage on top. Trans people existing, gay people wanting to get married, satanic panic, etc.

It's really like a fear cake, I guess.

And that's another thing! (Climbing back up on the Tide XK soap box). I don't see migrants coming in doing horrible things like putting razor wire around OUR kids. Yes I know there are bad apples in every group, but by far the people doing the threatening and putting forth the hate are on OUR SIDE of the border. We're locked in here with the crazies!!!!

Have we forgotten they wanted to sacrifice the old people to save the economy during covid.

No, because they will get old.

More likely DEI. (Blacks, again.)

Nah, too many of their voters are old people.

It's already mexicans

Caravan of "thousands" of immigrants carrying organized gangs disguised as asylum seekers.

Or like fox entertainment likes to frame it: "the invasion of our southern border".

I didn't choose to be a scientist. I was born this wa-hay.

They hate... Racism? How terrible!

/s

So you're saying they hated hate?

In case you didn't know, political jokes are a thing and they're not that rare

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