In the hours following former President Donald Trump’s election victory, Google searches related to 4B — a fringe South Korean feminist movement that made a name for itself in the mid to late 2010s — surged in the United States.

  • @Hackworth
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    813 days ago

    They thought Trump was going to save them from poverty? Did he save them from poverty last time?

    • @grue
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      211 days ago

      They thought Trump was going to save them from poverty?

      Yes.

      Did he save them from poverty last time?

      Of fucking course not, but that doesn’t stop them from believing the lie.

    • FlashMobOfOne
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      -613 days ago

      The poverty wasn’t this extreme last time. That’s the issue.

      • @michaelmrose
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        713 days ago

        Did you think that had anything to do with Trump?

        • FlashMobOfOne
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          -313 days ago

          I do, yes.

          It made me think of 2016, when three families on my parents’ block had lost their homes to foreclosure, and Hillary was trying to defend the status quo. Extrapolate that to every street in America and you have an unelectable Democrat.

          The same is true now, except it’s people working 2-3 jobs for the privilege of barely affording to live in the US. Trump lied about a lot of things, but he didn’t have to lie about how hard it’s become just to exist in this country.

          • @michaelmrose
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            913 days ago

            Trump instituted a tax cut for everyone that was set to expire and a perpetual one for companies. It’s hilarious that you think Trump made anyone prosperous he was running on the fumes of Obama’s economy before he helped crash it by totally bungling covid.

            • FlashMobOfOne
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              213 days ago

              I don’t think Trump made anyone prosperous.

              The problem here is that, under Biden, the majority of Americans experienced poverty as they never had before, and Harris’ campaign represented a status quo that most Americans are deeply dissatisfied with.