• ExistingConsumingSpace@midwest.social
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    3 hours ago

    This is not shocking or surprising. Trump represents white America, and this is pure, unadulterated, white America. The internet has allowed white Americans to be their complete shit selves in relative anonymity to the point that they now realize the majority of their brethren are bathing in the same fecal pools, so that many are emboldened to go mask off. Ask any person of color what their experience is online, and they’ll tell you this is typical white behavior, including white women (we see you Stacey).

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    I’m okay going beyond just punching Nazis. We should string them up publicly like Mussolini and let them fry in the sun, while people throw things at them until they’re dead. Fucking tired of this dumbass country.

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      This was literally the guy who started his entire political career in earnest by calling in to Fox News and talking about how Obama wasn’t “American” because he’s black. Trump found his political fame because he advocated the “birther” conspiracy.

      It’s honestly crazy that anyone could be surprised. He’s been up front about his racism for fifteen years now.

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    I’m sure this stunt is his attempt to distract us from something. This guy has to be the best at being the “racist senile old man” I’ve ever seen. I don’t think he plans anything but he plays the media like a fiddle to get attention any time he wants while avoiding all accountability.

    I’ve never understood why anyone ever took him seriously and I’ve known people who thought he was intelligent which immediately made me question their judgement on everything.

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      I’d bet a loony it’s part of a larger attempt at provoking some kind of agressive response from the population so he can justify with his base to crank up the authoritarianism.

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      I love how everything Donnie does is a 4D strategy “to distract us” from the last shitty thing he did. No, it’s not a distraction, he’s just a piece of shit.

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      We get it, POTUS. You are a racist POS. Now how about the kids in concentration camps with shitty food and no health care or education.

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      yeah, kinda curious what was in the other 49 tweets he made that hour that might’ve needed distracting from.

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    the plausible deniability is getting thinner and thinner - this time it was that the whole video was jungle themed, so obviously it had nothing to do with racism!

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        I agree but it won’t happen. It’s interwoven deep with Tribalism. And unfortunately Tribalism is interlinked with culture… The human species is fatally flawed. Perhaps our tiny monkey brains aren’t up to the task physically. Let us all go extinct I say.

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          Social views that are based on “others” and tacitly exclude oneself are dangerous. If you can see the flaws of tribalism and capable of imagining what the right thing to do is, so is everyone else. It will take time, sure. It might take dacades, or even centuries, but defeatism and attributing all negative qualities of humanity to some “others” who just are incapable of thinking for themselves won’t help anyone. Culture is intergenerational accumulation of knowledge and it can change. It did change. It shapes human activity more than biology in many situations. And it evolves way faster than biology. This is not a dig at you. All I am trying to say is, if you can see the wrong and imagine the right, there are definitely many others like you, and we can change things. Not you and me specifically maybe (but also maybe you and me) but all the people with a conscience, in time.

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            the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.

            Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just…won’t.