Former President Donald Trump’s supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    Well, yeah people call them stupid because they have the most access to facts out of all humans throughout history and yet work hardest to reject ALL of them except those they want to believe.

    And I don’t think most people were all that quick to dismiss these people’s pain at first, in fact a lot of us have felt it firsthand. It’s just really hard to feel sorry for people who are proudly bigoted, hateful, and willfully ignorant.

    You’re right, it’s not helpful to call them stupid and dismiss their views, but it’s honestly like we have no choice. How do you help and have empathy for people who would make your friends’ existence illegal? How can you take seriously someone who constantly screams about problems that don’t really exist, and are solely based on fearing people who have no interest in bothering them?

    Seriously? Real questions.

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      121 year ago

      I miss who my uncle used to be. No idea how he can do a complete 180. His father, who was an illegal immigrant must be rolling in his grave.

      How do you go from attending your friend’s gay wedding to telling that same friend they should get divorced and seek help?

      • Objectionist
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        11 year ago

        it makes me think that this constant recital of “people are waking up” is more like people have fallen for deceitful marketing. if he happily attended a gay wedding beforehand, then the only reason he speaks down upon it now is because he’s been programmed… played like a kazoo, if you will

        because playing a fiddle actually takes some semblance of knowledge, and god knows these guys don’t have that lmao

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          -31 year ago

          Doesn’t that go both ways though?

          On one end you are programmed to accept gays,

          On the other you are programmed to reject.

          And before all that, you are programmed to understand the concept of gay.

          It’s all programming. Now that social programming happens so quickly and such large scale… Humans weren’t meant to handle that much programming.

          Now, some people, at some point, start to question all programming. Those are the most resilient to direct programming from others, and the most able to program themselves based on judgement of all the programming going on.

          But for the rest it’s just a frustrating mess of self inconsistencies.