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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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[–] ExtremeDullard 110 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You voted for exactly this, you dumb fucks. Trump told you what he was gonna do in no uncertain terms.

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's part of the problem. They only heard what their news sources wanted them to hear and they never took it serious enough to look further into anything.

They're still partially to blame, but constant bombardment of right wing disinfo is a huge factor in all of this.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny how only some people are affected by such a bombardment. Whatever could be the difference between the people who are so influenced and the people who are not?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Social status, social groups, education. Don't lose all your empathy.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Conservatives in general are more susceptible to disinformation as they are in perpetual fear of outgroups and so have higher threat sensitivity. They are much more likely to believe content that is emotionally rather than factually driven.

The only cure to that is education. Unfortunately, neoliberalism has concentrated wealth amongst a global elite that want to make sure they have an easily manipulatable population that will continue to vote against their own interests when a little fear mongering is dangled in front of their faces.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just wanted to say thanks to @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com for posting the above pic here, so I could repost it elsewhere!

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I probably should help db0 and copy the link but that's harder to keep track of versus just uploading the pic I have on my phone.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Which is exactly why I just saved it to my phone to repost it....so I only had to copy the link to your comment 😎

[–] raoulduke85@lemm.ee 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So many lonely, shitty people think they are in a special club. Nope. FAFO.

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Part of the allure of Fascism is that it tells every prospective bootlicker the same lie: that when the dust settles, and all the undesirables are dealt with, that THEY, and ONLY THEM, will be the ones left standing, wearing The Boot.

And so, when consequences come a-knockin' like this, it's no surprise that these people scream "HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN TO ME?????"