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      That’s the little first domino in the meme, at least. Then it works up to something like allowing homosexuals to exist, and suffering the presence of their supporters for that matter, also makes you a homosexual.

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    It seems like a stupid statement that deserves to be made fun of, which it is, but it’s also indicative of one of the dark parts of the conservative mindset. There’s the bigotry of course, but there’s another layer on top of that. It’s like, since you are obviously one of the good true Americans (a straight white male, naturally), it is beneath you to submit to being ruled by one of those “others.”

    Submission to a weak inferior sub-human leader is a weak and cowardly act. It is also an insult to your fellow nobles, so you are betraying yourself and “your people” by voting for somebody who is clearly not the right type of person.

    Repeat and reinforce this shit over years and decades, make it part of your group identity, and you get things like “better a Russian/felon than a Democrat” (because democrats love being cucks for “diverse” people obviously) and a deep-seated visceral reaction to somebody who is an other in so many ways. A woman AND multiple nonwhite races, oh my!

    Source: am straight white male who grew up in religious conservative area and had to work to shed all the tribalism and anger and negativity. (It’s part of the wider problem of so many conservatives defining their identity by the things they hate)

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    Do it. Become women. Bring your cat and join the coven of our eternal sisterhood!

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      Hm

      Maybe

      It does sound specifically engineered to be dumb as shit in a way that people will get excitable about, and they will talk about the show

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        Yeah no, I don’t believe Jesse Watters is smart enough to engineer anything. He’s just this dumb. His entire career stemmed from one of those stupid interview people on the street shows where they edit it to make him look more intelligent and everyone else looks stupid. Which is honestly Pulitzer level work from his editing crew because that’s got to be a tough fucking sell.

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    “any man would vote Democrat,” claiming that it would have to be because of “mommy issues.”

    It’s really like sport teams in their heads ehh?

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    The pundit was making fun of a record-breaking “White Dudes for Harris” fundraising call on Tuesday’s episode of The Five when he questioned why “any man would vote Democrat,” claiming that it would have to be because of “mommy issues.”

    “It’s not the party of virtue, security — it’s not the party of strength — it’s definitely not the party of family. And to be a man and then vote for a woman just because she’s a woman is either childish — that person has mommy issues — or they are just trying to be accepted by other women,” Watters said. “I heard the scientists say the other day that when a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”

    I was thinking that that last line could be a joke, but I would need to hear the delivery. You never know

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      I wouldn’t call nonsensical vitrol a joke exactly, even though the socially accepted response to it is often laughter. It’s not funny, they’re just trying to successfully out-group with each other. Ape brain stuff. Smiles and laughter saying “yes we are in the same in-group.”

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    I’m running out of patience with this poison. It won’t end after the election. They’ll just keep doing it. There is no reasoning with them. There is no educating them. It’s endless. Utterly unending. I’m really not sure how much more of it I can take.

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      Yeah this is definitely a prelude to fellas, is it gay to be interested in intimate physical and emotional contact with a partner of the opposite sex

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      Oh, it depends who you’re nuts against. I bet it’s much easier to piss her off with rhetoric that targets what she considers to be her achievements specifically.