3mo ago

This member of the Klan wants you to join so you can be as smart as he is.

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Last weekend a friend told me that they're involved in an activist group that focuses on political education for people with learning disabilities and severe mental health issues. The activists' reasoning is that this group of people is very susceptible to fascist narratives, and prone to social isolation when they start adopting or simply repeating fascist world views.
Fascists of course have no trouble claiming that support as validation for their politics, and votes are votes, after all. One could even argue that fascist propaganda inherently targets people with reduced intellectual capabilities.
This post made me think of that.
- That's not just an argument, that's fact. Fascists and Republicans (yeah yeah, "same picture") both actively campaign to the unintelligent and/or uneducated. Fear is a primal emotion and they love to stoke it
  
  After he won the Nevada Republican caucuses in 2016, the current President crowed his victory. “We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.” Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) reflected on this comment as he asked Republicans to join Democrats in preserving the Department of Education.
  https://chicagocrusader.com/trump-loves-the-poorly-educated/
  
  No doubt that they do. I'm just not sure if it's productive to say that this is an inherent characteristic to fascist propaganda, or if that's trivializing the issue, since many intelligent and educated people are also drawn to it. Minor point of distinction though, I grant you that.
  
  they also try very hard to make sure people remain and become uneducated, hence why schools suck even worse in places that have been right wing for a long time
- Have you ever argued with a tired, hangry toddler? There's no getting through to them, it's all impulse and feeling, lashing out at everyone even if you're trying to help them. I don't know why that just came to my mind...
- There's a study that says conservatives are less intelligent over all, I'll try to find it.
  
  Was it this?

To be clear, he should be jailed for that massacre of the language alone. There's probably a lot of other charges that would stick as well.
- Yeah it's free speech not free "incoherent screeching"

That dude has used biker meth more often than deodorant.
- What's the difference between biker meth and regular meth?
  
  “Biker meth” is most if not all meth now. It uses phenyl-2-propanone as the starting point and produces a racemic mixture of dextromethamphetamine and levomethamphetamine.
  Traditional clandestine meth production using ephedrine produces pure dextromethamphetamine.
  d-methamphetamine is the euphoric feel good stuff. l-methamphetamine is the racing heart, more neurotoxic, nearly immediate psychosis stuff.
  TL;DR - “Biker meth” is most meth now. It’s much worse for you and less enjoyable.
  
  Based on my extensive knowledge of watching Breaking Bad, I'd say the answer is purity.

It's like they had caps lock on, and only when they tried to capitalize America did they realize it.

Comma splices and 'outher'? Definitely bigot. These people pluralize 'email' with an S, despite it being a mass noun. They're sick.
- You really think it’s correct to say “I sent three email today”???!

These people vote.
- A lot of them hate Trump this time around though.
  
  Uh what? Also trump cannot run again if any rules are respected

I always thought it was wild that the Klan is so vehemently against Jews, yet, they worship Christ, who was raised Jewish himself.
- One of the Christian Identity white supremacists has this awful podcast, and he has episodes titled "Why Jesus is not a Jew", and "Hitler was a Christian"
  
  Hitler was definitely a Christian

Most literate American.

dueling banjos plays

Those dang drug dellers! Slinging dupe to our chillins! Trying to get my to smoke wood coming out of the grocery store! I'm just trying to by some monistat cream for the missus so her nethers stop itching.
- Nethers ahahaha.

Not J jail! The humanity!

DRUG DELLER

Ouch.

I like people who can't spell. This guy seems legit. /s

Why are you spreading his message?
- I feel pretty confident nobody on Lemmy is interested in joining the Klan.
  
  It can be triggering for people on the receiving end of it. That said, it might be part of a long line of things thay convinces someone it's "normal"

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