• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    They don’t even pay attention. They will literally tell canvassers that they will decide who they are voting for based on what the paper says.

    I had a conversation with my dad recently about it. he’s been a life long republican. In any case I had to remind him that I told him in 2016 that Trump was quoting hitler almost-verbatim. The only difference was that a) it was a more or less direct translation into english, and b) ‘jews’ were exchanged for ‘muslims’.

    he also kept demanding sources and I’m like ‘the source is trump speaking. trump said that himself. this is a direct quote’. (for example the ‘Dictator on day one’ comment.) same goes for political violence. same goes for everything in the 2025;

    like fucking hell, it’s exhausting. I tossed in the source on Fox being a right-wing propaganda rag for good measure.

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      26 days ago

      When a conservative asks you for sources, they do so in bad faith. They don’t care about engaging with reality. It’s a deflection tactic.

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        26 days ago

        Yup. That’s exactly why he’s voting for Harris this time around. All those bad faith arguments.

        No, but it took a while to get him off Fox News. He didn’t vote in the 2020 presidential election either (or maybe he voted for some other republican jackass. I forget.)

        He grew up thoroughly republican. It’s taken a while to break the brainwashing, but it can be done.

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        25 days ago

        They will never even look at the source. It goes beyond simple lack of curiosity, their brain has created a sort of defense mechanism that will prevent them from ever actually comprehending that they could be wrong about something. So they will do everything to avoid being in a situation that could lead to them learning something new.

        Because nothing is more important than never being wrong about anything, ever.