I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your TV
Oh, I’m the cult of personalityI exploit you, still you love me
I tell you one and one makes three
Oh, I’m the cult of personalityDeep cut.
It’s a great song. I recently learned that they’re still performing. Would buy a ticket if they played here.
Great song and so damned relevant
He speaks to their “truths.” He feeds their hopes. He bolsters their fear of a diminishing relevance. He says things they want to hear in a way that they understand.
He’s the only one who holds a branch out to them and they clutch on to it like the trumpanzees they are.
Except it’s not a branch. It’s a clutching hand seeking their wallet, but they’re too fucking stupid to see it.
A fool and their money are soon parted.
It seems that the importance of…ahem, “telling it like it is” cannot be overstated. i.e., racism is an extremely powerful effect.
“telling it like it is” is just coded language to say “he says the shitty things that I think are true, so it makes me feel less shitty and empty inside”
“He’s making it so that I can say the shitty things I have always just thought.”
it is pretty powerful having your beliefs be broadcasted and repeated ad nauseum by a figure you consider of authority. like discovering the idea you thought you had originally being already out there said by someone you hold in respect. for trump followers him just being the nominee of their party of blind choice is already worthy of praise and admiration.
trump just loves their endless money pit, and will say just about anything to get it. they love that they have a former president with attention from the media to propagate their delusions.
“Instead of taking the time to reflect on why people call me an idiot I’ll try to get someone like me in power!”
“He hates those n-words just as much as I do!”
When you have nothing left but fear and hate…
you forgot stupidity
One could argue that stupidity is just a lack of intelligence, so it’s not really something you have.
No, that’s ignorance, which is not a moral failing. These people are stupid. Willfully-ignorant, head in the sand, turn their heads, keep others from bettering themselves, stupid.
Ignorance is not having knowledge, you can be both stupid and knowledgable or intelligent and ignorant. Not knowing how to wash your clothes is being ignorant, not being able to figure out how to wash your clothes is being stupid.
EDIT: Not to mention that someone can be stupid in one area and insanely intelligent in another. It’s not a direct personality trait, although people will probably categorize other people based on the categories in which they are one or the other.
if you weaponize lack of intelligence, you have stupidity
Nothing left but fear, hate… and also, if polls hold, the senate, the house, the presidency, and they already have scotus, state-level politics, and huge tranches of circuit courts.
Yes, they’re going to be crying so hard after they read all these dank, critical memes. That’ll show 'em!
You forgot stupidity
You can say that again…
You forgot stupidity
The racists want an idol to say it’s okay to be racist
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“You’re not the problem, it’s those other guys” is a very appealing and hence powerful message that people want to believe (in fact, the worse things are, the more they want to believe it) so it easilly bypasses rationality.
You might have noticed that in America it’s not just Trump using it or even just his party.
Well, that is what advertising and propaganda is.
Eh… At this point it’s more of a religion. People just believe what they want to believe. And that is the underdog who is the second coming of Jesus and will fix all problems that were created by immigrants.
At this point you have entire media silos filled with privatized propaganda, which is just ripe for this shit to happen. And this model is cropping up around the world.
We need to react to this somehow or we’ll be toast. If we can’t reclaim the media landscape for professional journalism for it’s own sake, we’re headed down a dark road indeed.
For a conspiracy or a cover up to be real in this day and age it needs to be small, otherwise it just involves too many people to stay secret.
Trump and his “believers” are a different story. They know it’s not real, instead they’ve all silently (and not so silently) agreed to reject reality and substitute in their false god’s reality.
I think the lumpenproletariat who support him so fervently are true believers. Granted, on that side of the political cube lies and honesty all get muddled together into mush.
It feels logical, clever and safe to say that, but it’s not remotely true.
It’s a lot easier to be dismissive than actually think about the topic, i know.
Oh the irony…
sad the fucker believes national governments can’t keep a secret, it’s too hard, despite all evidence to the contrary, like when they release the files thirty years later and it turns out they were and the crazy people, were not.
What crazy thing declassified did I miss, because I remember a ton about UFOs, Kennedy assassination, etc going to be declassified and I don’t remember any earth shattering stories
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How sad for them? I think @christophorious is projecting: how sad for the rest of us.
Insecure people want simple lies over complex truth.
Also worth mentioning this problem is decades in the making and it’s not just America. In Canada we have systematically destroyed our healthcare and education systems to the point where people and trusting them less and less. People, myself included, are not right wing and are checking out of a system that is not doing anything to protect me and mine.
I am NOT voting conservative but I can see the allure. People latch onto rhetoric when Maslow’s hierarchy of needs isn’t met. When you feel threatened your options disappear regardless of if they’re there or not. Stress impacts your ability to think properly.
As stated elsewhere we are heading down a dark path and few of us have flashlights and are scared AF at where the mob is going to lead us.
History is repeating itself because we stopped following history and the ones we used to trust we don’t anymore.
Never forget this “man” was convicted of sexual assault & bragged about grabbing women by their genitals.
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Well there are plenty of “journalists” over at fox that are dedicated to deceiving people.
Yeah Trump is all that, but so is everyone else. Everyone lies to convince everyone else their share should be bigger.
