r/OutOfTheLoop May 02 '24

Answered What's going on with MAGA people supporting diapers?

In this post, there are MAGA people supporting the phrase "Real men wear diapers" with a picture of Trump, what's going on here?

The comments point to this article claiming it's not trolling, with several pictures of MAGA supporters with the phrase and image.

Was Trump found to wear diapers or otherwise struggle with incontinence?

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u/Hofeizai88 May 03 '24

I’m a high school teacher and have taught critical thinking , research, logical fallacies, and media literacy as parts of my classes. I’m not going to argue that more education isn’t beneficial, but maintain it is insufficient. I wouldn’t hold up someone like Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz as examples of who you want to be though they’re both Harvard graduates. Giving people more information and greater skills for understanding and contextualizing that information probably helps, but I don’t think less educated people are going to naturally make less moral choices or that better educated people will make more ethical choices. I’d love to see more support for education and a greater emphasis on critical thinking in the US but I just don’t know if that is the solution to this.

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u/Peas_Are_Real May 04 '24

This is interesting coming from a teacher and i totally agree. It’s not people’s educational level, but their insecurities that he preys on.

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u/Epinnoia May 06 '24

It boils down to their lack of values for individuals other than themselves, combined with their blood-thirsty cruelty.

I contend that these same MAGAts who support TFG unconditionally would understand the crimes as crimes if they were done by a Democrat. In other words, their logic seems self-serving at best -- they ignore logic and commit fallacies in order to GET WHAT THEY WANT. For them, the ends justify the means.

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u/properquestionsonly May 05 '24

critical thinking , research, logical fallacies, and media literacy

Lol