That’s a lot of racists
Even if you disregard the Hitler aspect of the quote (which is a big if), there’s no way to view that with any magnanimity.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said. “They’re not sending you…They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists."
Not just racists. Nazis.
Any number in this context is too high, but you’re talking about a percentage of a percentage of a percentage… And all of that in Iowa where, like in all of America, empty land doesn’t vote.
- people that are actually registered to vote in the sparsely populated state of Iowa > that declare for the gop officially > that weren’t disqualified for insurrection felonies > that responded to this poll on landlines in the middle of the workday most likely > even then, less than half of those remaining people
“The poll, conducted between Dec. 2 and 7, features responses from 502 likely Republican Iowa caucusgoers and has a maximum margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.”
These “polls” are not representative of large sentiment nationally, but don’t rely on that! Register to vote, get others to register and everybody vote please!
Only about 30% of Germans in the 1930s agreed with Naziism. Only about 30% of Italians agreed with Mussolini. That’s all it ever takes for fascism to win, because there’s also always about 30% who will passively let it happen because ‘you’re being alarmist’ and ‘it’s not that bad’ and ‘the economy is doing well’ and whatever other excuse.
That last 30% is why German civilians were made to walk through the liberated camps and witness the indescribable atrocities committed against their neighbours. They were just as culpable as those who actively participated, and that point needed to be driven home for all the world to see. eta: And many nations swiftly moved to show that lesson to children in classrooms for decades, to ensure it wouldn’t be forgotten.
If you’re seeing double-digits of fascists, you must at least double that number to approximate the real threat.
These “polls” are not representative of large sentiment nationally, but don’t rely on that!
True…I bet the national average is higher than 40% of Republicans.
42% of Iowa Republicans are Nazis. Good to know.
And the remaining 58% are having dinner at the same table as them.
And will still vote with them, which is the bigger issue that has real impacts on others.
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Republicans are nazis. Republicans are nazis who run on nazi platforms using nazi language.
There is no hiding behind policy for Republican voters in 2024. If you vote Republican you are knowingly and willingly voting nazi. If you vote Republican “against Biden,” you are knowingly and willingly voting nazi. If you vote for their “fiscal policy,” you’re voting nazi.
And that makes you… a Nazi.
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This is for “likely Iowa caucusgoers”. In other words, these are the most partisan Republican voters in Iowa.
In the not too distant past, something like this might have turned off moderates in the GOP. But now, it feels like there aren’t any moderate Republicans anymore.
Republicans are either “Strong MAGA” or “Nervous MAGA”. The party does not tolerate other perspectives.
That’s the fear that’s baked into fascism, and it’s why a large portion of fascists can’t admit they’re fascists. It makes them dangerous, too.
I hate Iowa nazis.
Gruppenfuehrer!
- Yes, sir! Get that car’s license plate number.
I’ll thank Donald for one thing: uniting severe cases of mental illness that impacts perception of reality and morality leading to greed and bigotry under one banner.
Edit: My apologies for speaking for your own personal struggles of mental illness. Perhaps I’m better off just saying assholes. But then I’ll get people saying, “I’m an asshole but not associated with them.”
I have a mental illness, don’t lump me in with these jerkoffs
The severity of illness that comes to mind surpasses that which you possess to such an extent it impacts your perception of reality and morality, but my apologies for casting you a part of this group.
I love your wording
What does mental illness have to do with supporting donald trump? Very little if you ask me. The two things are not mutually exclusive, not even a little bit.
I think Lennybird may have worded that in an unfortunate way, but there is a point, the MAGAt crap is designed to exploit mental illness and nurodivergence. The thought process it takes to believe the junk that comes from them is truly magical, and that level of mental gymnastics requires an amount of breakdown of skill or deep religious belief, and while that is not All mental illness I can see where someone on the outside could look into that camp and see only mentally ill people and just put together a very very bad and frankly hurtful phrase.
It’s worded worse than “in an unfortunate way”. The phrase used was “all the mental illness”. If Lennybird wants to be less prejudice, they can rephrase it themself.
I agree, but have hope that with the olive branch education can begin, at that may bring understanding.
Right, and it seems lennybird has edited the comment. I still don’t like it, but it’s not as ick.
I agree again, but the attempt was good, and the recognition of wrong doing is even better. I am in a good mood today and am exhilarated to see people given the chance to grow.
I have to say on a different day I may have had a much different response to this. I guess such is mental illness and developmental disability.
I typically get so angry to see myself placed with the likes to trump and his crowd of pathetics.
Hey, can you read my thread with lennybird? I was in a good mood too. I was hoping to get them to clearly say they understood they (inadvertently) vilified mental illness and that it was wrong. I failed. thread
I’m pretty sure most people, as the user who responded to you could see, could understand the intent behind the words. Admittedly it was hyperbole and mental illness in itself shouldn’t be mocked; however it’s not necessarily a good sign that an ideology has a woeful concentration thereof. After all, it is an illness that can impact normalized behavior, which if that is the foundation that fuels a particular ideology… We should be concerned.
Key to note I didn’t say neurodivergent. And if you have a mental illness and aren’t under the trump banner then that perhaps speaks more to the severity of those who are.
I’m happy you edited you comment. I think you can just leave mental illness out. Why bring it up without anyway to address it? When we talk about guns, mental health (with no policy action mentioned) gets brought up, and it’s worthless. It’s worse than worthless. It’s a distraction.
I’m particularly glad you lost the phrase “all mental illness and bigots”. It had a clear “homosexuals and pedophiles” ring to it when it falls on my ears. Thank you.
Despite editing my comment to reflect fair points, I do believe mental illness absolutely needs to be discussed more. There is clearly a crisis going on and there’s an intersect of (but not limited to):
- Exposure (Lead, brain injuries from football, etc.)
- Drug Abuse (pharmaceutical or street that alters state of mind)
- Genetic conditions
… And these people are being taken advantage of for an ulterior motive they do not understand. Whether I say all or not, the fact remains that there is a deeper issue of mental illness that resides within the Republican ranks. And why is this important to raise? It helps explain why it’s so impossible to reach these people by logic or compassion. Anyone who’s seen it first-hand in a hospital understands exactly what I’m saying here.
Even in the firearm debate, mental illness is a necessary talking-point that should help fuel change: Increased access to healthcare (Single-payer, therapy, etc.), and an explanation as to how people who perceive themselves to be the “good guys with the guns” can very radically shift to being anything but.
That being said, I am going to come down hard on any Trump supporter. There is no excuse; no justification to continue supporting Trump or even the broader Republican party at this point without singling one’s self out as being a combination of deeply bigoted, ignorant, or selfish.
Ok, I’m trying to give you benefit of the doubt here, but you’re really digging in your heels here.
I do believe mental illness absolutely needs to be discussed more
Then you should* have done that. Your comment “well I’m glad we can see all the mental illness and bigots together” (paraphased since I can’t access the original) is simply bigoted. It is not a discussion of mental illness or mental illness policy. It’s worthless and hurtful. After posting such trash, trying to have a thoughtful conversation after being called out is disingenuous.
Edit: I missed a word, but while I’m here, I’ll add:
That being said, I am going to come down hard on any Trump supporter. There is no excuse
^This is exactly why there is push back. Paired with the original comment, this sounds like “I’m going to come down hard on any Trump supporter, the bigots, all mental illness havers, there is no excuse.” It sounds just like the hate preachers deliberately tacking “and homosexuals” to any phrase that includes pedophiles.
I’m hearing a lot of words from you, but besides the fact you changed your wording, you seem to show little remorse for your actions. I don’t understand. I don’t think you’re a troll. So either defend the phrase “all mental illness and bigots” or apologize for it. I don’t want to discuss mental health with you.
the venn diagram of those with a mental illness and people who support trump is just a circle containing a smaller circle.
That sort of argument only works if you define being fascist as a form of mental illness. But that’s not true: being evil is not the same thing as being mentally ill. Specifically, evil people are culpable and deserve punishment in a way that mentally ill people are not and do not.
Fascists deserve to be ostracized, imprisoned, or executed (depending on how heinously they behave), not treated for mental illness.
That depends entirely on how you define evil: Are you using biblical evil? That is unscientific. Are you using “Evil” in the sense of psychopathy, scoiopathy, and a range of mental disorders that makes them deviant to mainline society? Then I believe most cases of evil can be summed up as such: a predisposition to doing something perceived by most as wrong in lieu of a mixture of nature & nurture and its impact on the physiological and mental state of the brain.
We’ve seen evil acts committed by shooters who after autopsy have large brain tumors impacting their state of mind. We’ve seen evil acts commited by people under the influence of strong drugs. We’ve seen evil committed by people who themselves were abused as children (survivorship bias fallacy aside).
After all, we can identify parts of the brain that deal with behavioral inhibitions; we can identify other areas of the brain associated with empathy.
I do believe that if we looked at evil as a predominantly mental disorder we’d probably be able to identify and address “evil” before it becomes enabled and acts.
People aren’t born fascist. There is no such thing as biblical evil. There exists simply broken minds.
Wouldn’t mutually exclusive mean that no one with a mental illness supports Trump?
I think they probably meant “mutually inclusive.”
The real tragedy is knowing some of the kindest and most educated people I’ve met are still willing to vote for this monster. I can’t tell if they have some ulterior motives or they’re just willing to play dumb over loving a dictator because they believe in some fantasy that Trump’s not a bad person deep down.
Very true. We’ve all witnessed this. I’ve thought about this a good bit, especially coming from a former Republican household decades ago.
1/3 are people who who may be educated or hard workers but are duped easily by propaganda because they’re short on free time or not educated specifically in how to critically-think and analyze sources. They get home from a hard day’s work and flip on fox news because they were roped in by sports and now stay for the pretty news anchors or the angry men telling them their paychecks are being stolen etc etc. Some of these people may be reachable if you could sit down with them for hours and hours at a time and lay it all out.
1/3 are the greedy socio/psychopaths who are aware enough to know the game being played and move the pieces accordingly to grift the gullible. (Bannon comes to mind)
1/3 are the world-burner outcasts who don’t care or are simply too stupid to understand the long-term consequences of their actions. (Typical 4channers or Trump rally groupies).
The documentary, The Brainwashing of my Dad delves into this: How can kind, smart people be duped into this?
1/3 are the world-burner outcasts who don’t care or are simply too stupid to understand the longterm consequences of their actions.
This group concerns me. I saw them in 2016 saying that they were voting for Trump in the hopes that the chaos he brought would change the system. Maybe you could have been fooled once into thinking this, but one would think seeing the result would make people realize that Trump’s chaos wouldn’t bring positive change.
Unfortunately, I’m now seeing people saying they’ll vote for Trump in 2024 in order to somehow change the Democratic party. A vote for Trump won’t change the Democratic party to make them better, though.
If Trump gets elected, he’ll target the heads of the Democratic party and imprison them. He might allow the Democrats to continue to exist as an “other” to blame all bad things on. (Why did the economy just crash? It’s those Democrats again!) But Trump won’t allow the Democratic party to be an actual threat to his power, though.
It will be like opposition parties in Russia. They exist, but if they gain any traction, their leaders are suddenly arrested or have “accidents.”
Voting for Trump in 2024 won’t mean you get better options from the Democrats in 2028. It would mean you don’t get any options but Vote Trump Again or Prison.
Well said. I’ve seen the same. Here’s my hope that diminishing returns means Trump’s rhetoric is losing its power. Here’s hoping that at least this election will be run from the perspective of Trump NOT being in the White House to try to influence the outcome . Now we know the game being played. Now we have investigators watching.
And here’s the thing: Those who are Trump supporters are and have always been. The cult is saturated while at the same time boomers continue to die off and a new generation is taking over. With Taylor Swift’s push to turn out voter registration for the youth and the good signs coming out of the last midterm no less, I feel eerily-confident we should be able to avert fascism. Especially if economic trends persist (not saying economy is perfect in reality, but by all metrics that Republicans typically hit Obama or Biden on).
The mistake is an understandable one, this man and his minions are greatly and rightfully hated. Many of us have grown up with mental illness as a boogieman myself included and still regularly hear it bandied around as an adjictive. You heard from many, correct as you saw fit and apologized. That took courage and wisdom. Thank you.
That’s far too broad of a brush to paint with. Don’t do that.
Also, that sword has two edges: the Nazis aren’t afraid of the rest of us anymore because they’ve realized there’s actually a decent number of latent Nazis around the country, and now they’re coordinating with each other, and that’s a problem.
In other news: the Republican Party is full of Republicans.
It’s crazy the modern GOP is so beholden to a terrorist minority in their ranks that those people are the ones calling the shots in both the electorate and in congress.
They are the party that has branded themselves tough on crime and usually the loudest about not negotiating with terrorists, but when they end up with terrorists in their own ranks they fully capitulate, roll over, goose step, bark like a dog, fall in line and cede complete control to the whims of their worst and most reactive members. A full display of weakness and lack of principle for everyone to see, yet they still take themselves with grave sincerity. If Monty Python had done it, it would have been too over the top, just facetious, but here we are.
I’m officially compassion fatigued. 8 years… Your comment broke the camel’s back. No. They aren’t beholden to anything. They ARE terrorists. We need to start being real. They’re making their moves now.
Yeah I fully consider the Republican party a domestic terrorist organization. That’s precisely what they are.
The ones who aren’t actively trying to overthrow the current govt and install a theocratic leader are 100% on-board with letting others do the dirty work.
They’re the trashy mafia with better marketing
There was a time when you could make this argument.
In 2024, these are nazis voting for nazis who are running on nazi platforms using nazi language.
There is no compassion to be had for nazis. There is no “durr they say the same about you durr.” a vote for Trump is a vote for somebody whose key rally talking point is now that I must be eliminated for disagreeing with him. I never said that about them - and I still don’t - but I AM aware that they are voting for the elimination of those they disagree with and will feel no remorse for defending myself against those who wish to eliminate me. It is NOT extremist or “radical” to expect or prepare for the people who can’t shut up about killing me to try to kill me.
It’s the majority in their ranks.
They could either lose elections or move towards the middle, or court far right extremists. They chose the latter and I have no pity for them. The House shows pretty clearly the party is falling apart.
It’s not a minority these days. This is the mainstream Republican party.
You can’t swing a cat in Iowa without hitting a bigot.
I’d like to invest in your bigot detecting cats, please and thank you.
I wish I could say you were wrong, but there’s a reason I left that shit hole state.
Disgusting fucking losers in the GOP.
Sounds like our blood is already poisoned and we need some new blood.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Hey they call themselves ‘patriots’ too… so technically…
If you’re racist and you know it, clap your hands!
In other news, 58% of GOP caucusgoers are liars.
They would have absolutely loved this Hitler guy.
I guess dog whistles are a thing of the past? People can just go around saying whatever they want and not have to worry about being shamed for being openly racist. Like internet comment sections have spilled out into real life.
We don’t use dog whistles because we aren’t racist pieces of shit.
They don’t use dog whistles because they prefer to be honest about their racism.
They are not the same.
Shamed by who? Yeah we’re there because people have silo’d their lives to be with others like them, both online and offline. Used to be you didn’t talk about those things, regardless of how you felt, now it’s taken over a lot of people’s lives.
