• kyle@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Honestly this is insane to me given the Trump crowd skews much older.

    Literally the generation growing up in the Cold War, having evil Soviets ingrained in them from childhood, and now Russia being happy with our policies doesn’t raise a red flag for them? Our President being pals with the ex-KGB Putin doesn’t mean anything to them? Hello??

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      1 month ago

      It blows my mind. My family is all military in one branch or another, so they not only heard all the propaganda of the red scare but actually trained to fight Ivan…now they’re voting R and saying Moscow is right. Wtf happened to this timeline‽

    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      The Republican brain just always does what it’s told, believes what it’s told, etc. It accepts whatever witches it’s told to hate and hunt and it requires fear to operate. It doesn’t care what it’s afraid of or whether its targets are logical or coherent. It just operates on orders.

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      1 month ago

      I feel like the number of old boomer types to young white ‘alpha’ males is a little bit more balanced now in his fan base. Rogan-raised boys don’t understand or care about history.

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      They grew up with the red scare and maybe they miss it. Sorta like after the fall of the USSR a lot of the older Russians missed the way things were under the old rulers.