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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 193 points 4 months ago

"They asked Nikki Haley supporters to line up in the middle of the auditorium and were booed and screamed at by the Trump supporters."

Uh excuse me what the fuck. This is some culty two minutes hate not-ok behavior.

[-] Confused_Emus@lemmy.world 73 points 4 months ago

They weren’t having them line up specifically to boo at them. At a caucus, you line up in groups depending on who you’re supporting.

[-] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah and the yelling and cajoling is generally part of the process. It's often a raucous affair.

[-] go_go_gadget@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Yep. People forget some of the 2016 and 2020 DNC primary caucuses didn't go much better.

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 39 points 4 months ago

I mean, when the dictator is in-office that's not usually what they do after they line up the dissidents. Those folks should feel lucky they just got the preview.

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago

Its pretty hilarious to be honest. Real Leopards eating faces moment.

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[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm starting to think Trump's base are a bunch of bloodthirsty fascists or something.

EDIT: OK no I thought of an even better one. Turns out the only politicians who get booed more than Trump are his rivals.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

Hey so the right also has their own struggle sessions

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 points 4 months ago

And yet also not in the slightest bit surprising.

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

Really more of a stockade at that point

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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 129 points 4 months ago

what's the problem? The MAGAs are behaving exactly as they've been trained. The GOP made sure that MAGA was welcome and safe within the party.

This is unfolding exactly how the GOP wants it to.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

I mean, not really. They're at the 'lunatics running the asylum' stage. They underestimated how much they had radicalized their base and completely lost control of them in 2016. Now, that radicalized base is starting to be elected into office and the old guard are too afraid to try to take control of the party back.

[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

I would argue Yes really. Doing nothing is most definitely an active decision. Near zero right wing money thrown at undermining support for Trump.

Exactly the way they want it.

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 127 points 4 months ago

None of them will learn anything from this.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 4 months ago

Which is why there is zero point for Democrats to try to appeal to Trump voters. They are a lost cause, stuck in a cult. When they decide to get out of that cult, sure, we'll welcome them back into sanity.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Welcome back. Please ignore the 10 foot pole.

[-] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 77 points 4 months ago

Wtf is up with the look on that ladies face in the thumbnail.

[-] GrymEdm@lemmy.world 49 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

She's probably shocked to her core that white Republicans had to suffer the consequences of cultivating MAGA extremist hatred. Violence is only supposed to happen to brown people and LGBTQ+.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 4 months ago

"They are hurting the wrong people."

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 42 points 4 months ago

She getting pussy grabbed

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 26 points 4 months ago

She's seeing a holy figure

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 4 months ago

OH MY GOD! HE'S SO FUCKIN ORANGE!!

[-] jballs@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago

Also what's with the girl next to her wearing an "Obama you're fired" shirt? Obama has been ineligible to run for president for a while now. I mean, so has Trump, but at least Obama isn't forcing a Supreme Court ruling about it.

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[-] Nativeridge@aussie.zone 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So this is insider outsiders?! If they win how will they treat everyone outside of the party.

Line them up and do what😬

Because I have lived/travelled to US numerous times now my 92 yr old mother-in-law continuously asks me "Why do Americans adore Trump?

Any help with providing an answer that will make sense would be greatly appreciated.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 50 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind

This explains the phenomena better than anything I ever read. I'm not being funny, I really mean it. I've seen both sides, this rings true. Rings LOUD and true.

[-] urist@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

I love this author. I hope people don’t write it off just because it’s on a comedy site - he’s very thoughtful. I read the monkey sphere a long time ago when cracked was popular and it really gave me a lot of perspective.

I didn’t realize David Wong was a pen name until your article. I recognized his style immediately.

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I've read that article. It does to city culture what it claims city culture does to rural culture, IMO. I had a slightly more nuanced objection the last time someone posted it, but I'm not going to take the time to read it again now. IIRC It's worth a read, but that man paints with as broad a brush as anyone he criticizes in that article, and folks should go in knowing that.

Edit -

By coincidence, here's an article about a book that takes an opposing view, and the current Lemmy discussion about it. As of this moment I've not yet read more than the first para of the article:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-rural-trump-supporters-are-a-threat-to-democracy

https://lemmy.ml/post/12666394?scrollToComments=true

In the popular imagination of many Americans, particularly those on the left side of the political spectrum, the typical MAGA supporter is a rural resident who hates Black and Brown people, loathes liberals, loves gods and guns, believes in myriad conspiracy theories, has little faith in democracy, and is willing to use violence to achieve their goals, as thousands did on Jan. 6.

According to a new book, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy, these aren’t hurtful, elitist stereotypes by Acela Corridor denizens and bubble-dwelling liberals… they’re facts.

The authors, Tom Schaller, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Paul Waldman, a former columnist at The Washington Post, persuasively argue that most of the negative stereotypes liberals hold about rural Americans are actually true.

They do not mince words about what this means for the future of democracy in America. “Rural voters—especially the White rural voters on whom Donald Trump heaps praise and upon which he built his Make America Great Movement—pose a growing threat to the world’s oldest constitutional democracy.”

And Schaller and Waldman bring receipts.

In a book filled with reams of data to back up their arguments, Schaller and Waldman show that rural whites “are the demographic group least likely to accept notions of pluralism and inclusion” and are far less likely to believe that diversity makes America stronger.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 4 months ago

It's 100% because of propaganda. These people wouldn't feel this way if right wing media outlets weren't all competing for the "building full of the worst scum on earth" award. They'd have the common gripes we all do about inflation and general life satisfaction, but they wouldn't be frothing at the mouth and wishing for a civil war so they can kill us.

I don't talk to him too often and while my dad hasn't done a full 180 yet, his amount of Democrat/liberal bashing and general anger has dropped quite a bit since he started a new hobby instead of going home and sitting down in front of the two minutes hate programming on Faux News.

Fox News, Newsmax, and the like are the true dangers to democracy. Without their legitimizing of Trump and their willingness to use him to their own benefit we wouldn't be in this situation where there's only ever increasing threats of political violence.

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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

There was a great article called The Sociology Of Brexit that discussed how Britain made the choice to leave the EU. The TLDR was that it was because for many years, despite some prosperity, there were large parts of the country, especially white, uneducated, working-class people that felt things weren't going well. A strong economy didn't translate to a better life for them, and all they saw was others in a totally different world prospering.

The reason I mention it is because it was written before Trump came to power, but it accurately predicted that Trump would beat Clinton. It said that there were similar groups in the US that felt the same, and that they are often a much larger demographic than you'd think. The main point of the article is that these people don't care if the radical in charge will fuck the economy, or do things "incorrectly", because those things are so detached from their life that it won't change anything. It's the political equivalent of giving yourself chemotherapy to get rid of a cold.

While many of these people are justifiably criticised for their extreme views and actions, they've been radicalised through inaction. If you ignore a problem like the racist assholes that moan about foreigners taking their jobs, in several years someone will combine those voices and have a platform to exploit.

Exploitation is the right word here, because what many conservatives are now finding is that the shift towards the right is often at odds with their parties core beliefs. In the UK, Boris Johnson gutted the party of anyone that disagreed with one of the core tenets of the party (unionism) to push Brexit along, and if that party loses the next election, they will arguably have no one left outside of right-wing nutjobs. The US will likely find the same, in that MAGA have replaced what their party stood for, with none of these leaders planning for the future. If you are a traditional conservative in the Republican party, you'll probably struggle for the next 5-10 years, and a presidential campaign is highly unlikely. If Trump loses to Biden, it might mean a generation of inaction and inability from the Republicans, in the same way that Conservatives around the world are being wiped out

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 40 points 4 months ago

Get fucked.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 29 points 4 months ago

great photo

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 24 points 4 months ago

Lol, said the scorpion

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 months ago

Something something leopards and faces.

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 17 points 4 months ago
[-] D61@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago

"The Scream" updated for modern times.

[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

Missouri Republican Caucus... Yeah, that tracks.

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

omg why would a bunch of commies expect to feel safe at a republican convention? (Commies are people who me and my buddies have an excuse to bully)

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