• Decq@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    This settles it for me. Democracy can never work when people as dumb as this can vote. And there are this many of them as it seems. I just can’t phantom how you can not have seen through his blatantly obvious lies. Especially in her case.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      22 days ago

      I’ve been very disillusioned for sure. I think the pointed term is that it depends on a “well-informed electorate”. Except, what if the electorate is willfully ignorant, lazy, resentful, and hateful? This isn’t being taken advantage of in only the US either. It’s a fundamental flaw.

  • Reygle@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    I… I have NO words. The words won’t form in my head.
    >After casting her vote for Donald Trump in 2024 in hopes that he would bring transparency around the Jeffrey Epstein case, Epstein survivor Jena Lisa Jones said in an interview this week that she now fears “we’re not going to get justice in all of this”.

    What would voting for Epstein’s best friend and accomplice achieve in getting “her day in court”?? Why would the biggest liar, cheat, fraud, and moron in the entire world NOT quash anything negative that has his name attached to it? WHAT IS THIS LOGIC? IS THIS LOGIC?

    I really don’t want to be the person who tells an Epstein survivor they’re an incomprehensible idiot… did I just do that? I guess maybe I did? I’m… sorry? I’m… NOT sorry? I don’t know what I am.

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      23 days ago

      Fox News destroyed a lot of people’s brains. Basically turned them into mush. So I’m not surprised a conservative could be this stupid.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      22 days ago

      Trump said repeatedly on the campaign trail that he would release the files. That he was the only one that could do it. Just like he says lots of bullshit.

      As it turns out stupid people are stupid.