on November 11, 2024, 3:38 pm, in reply to "see the thing is, nobody is really being patronised"
kids or given puberty blockers
Immigration was crazy high in America the last few ways.
I heard many of supporters justify things he said with that defence, i.e. dont take him so literally.
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all this stuff about sneering liberal elites is a fiction that the Trump campaign encouraged them to believe as a means of grabbing their vote.
It's the same with blaming the Biden government for the price of groceries and fuel when they have actually brought inflation down in a targeted way so that the problem of price hikes is less pronounced than in most other countries. But America showed last week that it doesn't care about that, or the fact that they have the strongest economy in the G7, record high levels of employment, enhanced union rights and so on.
Trump said everything was Biden's fault, talked utter shite about forced gender reassignment surgery for schoolchildren, Democrats approving abortion for babies after birth, immigrants eating dawgs and so on - and the voters rose up and decided all that all of this was true and that this wokery had to stop.
They won't tell me what to think! I'll show them I'm not stupid and gullible like they say by, er...voting for a batshit crazy criminal who spews out a constant stream of lies and who now has a licence to commit as many crimes as he pleases with impunity. Previous Message
its also only part of the picture, Trump and brexit didnt just happen because of social media, they happened because loads of people feel their lives arent improving, and that the "elite' or educated classes or whatever you want to call them, sneer and look down their noses at them and their concerns.
Like I said the other week, we thought everyone had or should have bought into our liberal view of the world, political correctness etc, when in reality at least half of us havent.
We have made it easy for them in some ways, last week I was something something where they were discussing the use of the words, nigger and faggot in popular music, they always s/ aid the f word or n word, thats just mental isnt it Then there is, coloured person being a phrase that will get you cancelled, but person of colour is totally acceptable. Mad shit like this has fuelled the fire.
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...seems to be quite a community building up on the latter.
I'd had a dormant account on bsky for a while, was waiting to see if it picked up.
Since the US election, I noticed lots of activity, new followers, posts, it's suddenly become lively, dare I say, viable even as an alternative. It seems a while bunch of people have taken the US election as the point at which it all has become too much.
Everton aside, lots of people who I followed on X, journos etc, are at least now also posting on bsky.
I'll very happily ditch X in the near future, it's just become a cesspit in many ways, with the owner the biggest troll of all!
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