• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 hours ago

    The people who voted for him got scammed. They’re stupid, but it’s not their fault either. They are spiritually invested in a scam.

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      9 hours ago

      but it’s not their fault either.

      IDK isn’t it? Good information is available, and they choose to ignore it. I know victims of scams can be so entangled with it, that they can’t see it, even when the police arrest the scammers, and show them the evidence they were being scammed.
      But at that point, isn’t that too their own fault that they choose to believe the scammer over police and evidence?

      I don’t think we shall give a pass based on “stupidity”, staying stupid is generally their own choice.

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        7 hours ago

        The people I know who voted for Trump do not know how to filter and grade the quality of the information that they are receiving. They don’t read very well and they absorb every click bait headline and Facebook meme that gets shown to them. They genuinely do not have a clue.

        They are easily manipulated by parties who do not have their interests or the interests of the world in mind. It’s a known problem that is discussed constantly.

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          7 hours ago

          That kind of people will always be there, but they are only a small percentage, and if they are stupid and don’t know what they are doing, they should statistically go 50/50 each way.
          But for some reason these “stupid” people, are malignant and voted for the oppression even persecution of minorities, they voted for a criminal, they voted for the obvious malignant narcissist.

          There is no reason to excuse them, because if they were simply stupid, their votes would have balanced out.