• commander@lemmings.world
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    10 hours ago

    I have never understood why the “average joe” ever identified with Trump

    A major reason for the vehement support the right receives is trying to control what people can say.

    The left has itself to blame for its overreaching censorship in online spaces for why so many people feel more comfortable being part of the right.

    You can’t just tell the “average joe” that a man is a woman and vice-versa, then ban him for saying otherwise and expect him to stay on your side.

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      6 hours ago

      I think you’re right but no one wants to hear it. Everyone’s extremely polarized and people seem to be happy to point the finger and say “you voted wrong” with smug arrogance. I bet a lot of Trump voters felt like they didn’t have a better choice.

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      9 hours ago

      Can you explain what you mean with “censorship in online spaces from the left”? As far as I know, most of our digital infrastructure is in the hand of MAGA right wing billionaires (X, Facebook, Instagram) and other people who are not really known as left (Reddit, TikTok, Google/YouTube). Most of our big social networks are not doing any left wing censorship. YouTube will demonitize you when you swear enough, because advertisers don’t like that. Musk will censor you when you disagree with his politics. Trump will fire you if you mention certain words. But that is right wing censorship. So where are those spaces where the left is censoring everything that are pushing people to vote for the right?

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        9 hours ago

        You can’t just tell the “average joe” that a man is a woman and vice-versa, then ban him for saying otherwise and expect him to stay on your side.

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          7 hours ago

          You think everyone is a transphobic bigot and that’s what swayed the vote?

          There’s no helping people like you.