• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    I’m not saying you’re “crazy/dumb”…I’m saying you’re demonstrating your own meme.

    How long has this story been out, now? How long has this guy been campaigning? How many interviews, speeches and rallies has he given? How many opportunities have you had to actually hear his side of this narrative?

    You claiming you need to do a little more “trust building”, is bullshit. He’s been out there for almost a year now, and you haven’t listened to anything he’s been saying that whole time. You heard exactly what they wanted you to hear, and then you simply ignored the rest. Even now, when people are trying to make you see the truth…you are actively rejecting it.

    No offense, man…but that’s exactly what programming looks like. It’s self-defeating, self-perpetuating, and no amount of convincing is going to break it.

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      6 hours ago

      Words are words. Again, could be legit, but he is campaigning for office! Trust is built with action. Someone with his history has kind of a deep hole to climb out of. Left-unity is not some excuse to uncritically support anyone that comes along saying nice-sounding things, particularly when that person has such very suss history.

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        6 hours ago

        What “history” are you talking about? Do you think he has a history with Naziism? That he’s been secretly going to Klan meetings?

        How are you not “uncritically” accepting the narrative that he’s a Nazi, without ignoring everything else that says he isn’t? Wouldn’t critical thinking involve looking at everything about him, not just the one detail that contradicts the rest?