• turnip@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    What actual proof do you have he’s with Russia?

    Maybe we shouldn’t be encouraging another crazy person without some kind of actual proof, this is some pizza gate level of insanity.

    Elections aren’t rigged, the bad economy decided Trumps election, blame the first past the post system. We got two years of this and the world won’t end.

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      6 days ago

      There is so much mental illness in America. You cant reason with them, they are trapped in a full on delusion and that delusion defines who they are. The scary part is that they used to be on the fringes of each party but now they are in the drivers seat and their numbers are growing. I worry for the future of America.

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      6 days ago

      It’s a foundational tenet of the American Civil Religion that America is, at it’s heart, ontologically good and exceptional. Therefore, any large scale problems can’t be the result of internal issues, they have to be the product of an outside evil corrupting the American Eden.

      It’s very much like the Christian doctrine that it descends from: all evil ultimately flowing from a single source, be it Satan or Putin.

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.worldOPM
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      5 days ago

      This reminds me of my dear old uncle, who died of lung cancer that the doctor told him was just a cough. “Go home, take some Robitussin, it’ll clear up.”