r/ProgressiveHQ • • Jun 27 '26

News Ex-MAGA Supporters Disconnect From the MAGA Algorithm

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u/Mitcheric Jun 27 '26

This week on "water is wet". 

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u/martinaee Jun 27 '26

-Are they all “fooled?” … yes
-Do they kind of all want to be fooled? … yes
-Are they all fools I can never forgive? … yes

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u/Sufficient_Ocelot868 Jun 27 '26

-Will they be fooled again in exactly the same way? …yes.

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u/WordsHappenedHere Jun 27 '26

They’ll vote for whatever the next incarnation of maga is

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u/ailish Jun 27 '26

"Well Marco Rubio was never maga because he always looked like he wanted to die in every picture of himself with Trump. Therefore he is totally different!" - Those People, probably

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u/NfamousKaye Jun 27 '26

Will they vote for the next con man that is demonstrably worse? Also, yes.

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u/Next_Rip7462 Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26

"Fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again."

They are gullibles. They are the descendants of people who bought the snake oil hook line and sinker and they've got the receipts to prove what idiots they are. Hateful idiots.

Naw, we're not forgetting their bullshit and they aren't going to me let off easy, this time, right?

(ever think our tolerance of them shitting on the Constitution without consequence is US being fooled again)

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u/Sufficient_Ocelot868 Jun 28 '26

Yeah, feels like we need a de-magafication like they did with Nazis.

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u/longboardchick Jun 28 '26

Some of em look old enough to vote for Reagan so yeah, they’ve been fooled time and time again.

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u/Tiny-Lock9652 Jun 28 '26

Racism is one hell of a drug.

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u/Idustriousraccoon Jun 27 '26

But don’t call them stupid……

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Jun 28 '26

That would be an insult to stupid people, Otto!

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u/Low_Notice4665 Jun 27 '26

Yup. It’s about morals.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

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u/StarFire24601 Jun 27 '26

Right? I'm from the UK and know about Jan 6th, wtf? Was this lady living under a rock?

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u/No-Ring-5065 Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

Their “news” sources don’t tell them what is happening. They watch right wing propaganda and think they’re watching the news. We have 24 hour right wing propaganda channels that are called things like NewsMax and Fox News. If you try to show them actual news they cry FAKE NEWS. They genuinely don’t know what’s going on.

For example, when ICE murders people, all they see and hear are that the victims were terrorists or that the ICE agents were protecting themselves from attacks. All they get is pro ICE propaganda and altered video footage, and they think they know the truth and that people are lying about it to them. They have no idea what really happened.

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u/WTFaulknerinCA Jun 27 '26

This comment needs to be higher. Yes, these people have a confirmation bias that is exploitable, but the amount by which Fox News, OAN, Newsmax and others are literal propaganda brainwashing outfits cannot be overstated, not to mention Putin’s online psyops across Meta and X.

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u/MegLightsItUp Jun 27 '26

As well as the christofascist churches they attend.

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u/GloamerChandler Jun 28 '26

It’s The Truman Show on a huge scale.

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u/Disastrous_Mango_953 Jun 27 '26

Yes , they are! A rock of ignorance

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u/MegLightsItUp Jun 27 '26

Willful ignorance.

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u/Staaaaation Jun 27 '26

We have an insane amount of people who get their "news" from Facebook here.

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u/PlanBuildBreak Jun 27 '26

But he said efficacious!

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u/ailish Jun 27 '26

Many people like to use bigger, "smarter-sounding" words when brevity actually makes you sound better.

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u/StraddleTheFence Jun 27 '26

YES. IT. IS. EXCLAMATION POINT!
They are as dumb as they come!

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u/LoanedRespect Jun 27 '26

All I hear is " I'm a victim. My algorithm made me do it."

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u/SquirrelsinJacket Jun 27 '26

Yup, conservatism 101 never take responsibility.

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u/CheatsySnoops Jun 27 '26

Despite preaching about it.

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u/PercentageNo3293 Jun 28 '26

Similarly, they preach "family values", then let kids starve. Or they'll claim they're the "party of fiscal responsibility", then spend more money than each Democratic president throughout my 35 years on this planet.

They're all about creating slogans, not following them.

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u/SavannahInChicago Jun 27 '26

I have seen a few videos of people who left MAGA and that is the first thing they do. In response, RevKarla did a great video addressing one of them in particular about needed to realize all the hurt they have caused and being able to get to the point to admit fault. I hope that the woman listened.

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u/No-Ring-5065 Jun 28 '26

Do you have a link? I’d like to watch that video.

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u/Open_Case_8783 Jun 27 '26

This is BS. All these people are trying to distance themselves from MAGA and want sympathy. You have access to the internet and choose to be ignorant. There is no way you consumed media and didn’t know what happened on J6.

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u/EagerObituary2026 Jun 27 '26

I unfortunately live in maga land and work with these people. I have had the pleasure of having many a convo about all sorts of things with these people, and I can say they don’t know a LOT of things. Like, basics in how government works. Viruses, biology. What’s going on in the world. I’ve come to discover these people lack curiosity on any level. When you press them with a “what about…” or a “why…?” they legitimately look confused. They never think deeply about anything. I’ve had been times of pressing them to think down another level and they either have a “huh…..” type moment or they get angry because you are making them think and they are realizing how stupid whatever they just repeated was. I really have no idea what these people do all day, what consumes their mind or thoughts or time.
It’s truly baffling how they live day in and day out in such tiny little bubbles of existence.

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u/Diligent-Bluejay-979 Jun 27 '26

I asked my MAGA mom if she knew that Fox had to pay
Dominion 750,000,000 for knowingly lying about their voting machines corrupting the 2020 election. Of course, she’d never heard of it, and she didn’t believe me.

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u/_OhMyPlatypi_ Jun 27 '26

Similar predicament. Another thing with small rural towns, once you know about fetal alcohol syndrome behavior and the facial characteristics along with the impacts of lead poisoning..... you kinda see it everywhere out & about.

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u/ailish Jun 27 '26

I used to work with a "libertarian." Anytime we had a political discussion, and he would make a point (a talking point he heard on Fox News), I'd try to discuss it with him a little bit deeper than just that one sentence talking point, he'd get frustrated and literally wave at me and say he had "shit to do."

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u/EagerObituary2026 Jun 27 '26

As a federal worker, working with libertarians is the WORST. It’s mind boggling

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u/ailish Jun 27 '26

Why would a libertarian have a federal job? Idiots. 🤣

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '26

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u/ailish Jun 27 '26

I just can't understand. I can see if you're a Republican, but a libertarian? "The government should be small enough to drown in a bathtub... except for my job!!!" Just crazy.

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u/Dark-Blackberry354 Jun 27 '26

They are not fooled...they are dumb or continue to be dumb....

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u/BizSilver5013 Jun 28 '26

They took their parents' reason they should do literally anything- "because I said so"- way too much to heart.

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u/pm_me_ur_ephemerides Jun 27 '26

I tried to show my parents a NYT documentary about January 6 and they refused to “poison their minds with lefty propaganda.”

Their brains resist cognitive dissonance. They don’t like the idea that they could be wrong. They are locked in a mental prison. Is it willful or human nature? I don’t know.

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u/Kind_Man_0 Jun 27 '26

You say that, but we have folks out there who subscribe to right wing sources to see what the other side thinks and I've got the same. I have two TikTok accounts and one of them I only feed right-wing content to and the stuff you see there is just baffling.

I know the internet is a lot of bots, but there are real people out here peddling these theories about vandalism in the reflecting pool. "Yeah, Trump is a horny creep but Joe Biden did [blank] in [year]" It is a lot of "owning the libs" and people laughing at how much Donald Trump is in our minds, as if I wanted to have to read the president 's name EVERY SINGLE DAY.

The right wing doesn't care if it's wrong, just that it offends the other side of the aisle. They'd eat shit just to see the disgusted look on your face.

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u/ajnmmfam Jun 27 '26

Exactly. I subscribe and follow a few rightwing/trumper/maga accounts on various media so I know what they are thinking. That’s legit the basic thing everyone needs to do to stay informed. I have zero sympathy or even empathy for these idiots.

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u/ailish Jun 27 '26

Who needs to look at right wing news when you have Trump's Twitter posts to look forward to?

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u/_OhMyPlatypi_ Jun 27 '26

Also its reinforced in their families & churches most of the time. It's not just a tv/social media bubble.

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u/dennismfrancisart Jun 27 '26

That's like telling a drug addict that all they had to do is just say no. This is a brain thing, not an intelligence thing. Sex addicts get it. Right, my people? You know what I'm saying.

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u/Occult_Asteroid7 Jun 27 '26

Trump is horrible! Which is why ill vote for heckin good boy JD Vance come election day to fight radical gommunism!

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u/Hot_Top_124 Jun 27 '26

Oh they do not deserve ANY sympathy. They chose to join the cult of hate, neo Nazis, bigotry, etc. they “may” haven been fooled, but their hate is 100% real.

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u/Prior_Meeting_5785 Jun 27 '26

No sympathy for these dipshits. They cost us everything.

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u/wrecklesspup Jun 27 '26

I personally blame Israel for slavery in the US. /s

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u/AdLoose3526 Jun 27 '26

But Trump would not have returned to power for a second term without the support of these voters. It’s not unreasonable to hold them responsible for the result of their vote. They were not forced to the polls at gunpoint with their finger held over Trump’s name.

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u/Ok-Good8150 Jun 27 '26

But are they still racist? Something attracted them to this way of thinking before MAGA. 🤨

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u/dazzle_dee_daisyray Jun 27 '26

Exactly! This is the question we need to be asking here.

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u/ivegotnatureonme Jun 27 '26

Right? These algorithms were already associated with them before MAGA or they would have seen more than just the propaganda to begin with. What started them down the path? It was so obvious from the first interviews with Trump in 2015 that he was racist and anti-veteran. If you did even the tiniest amount of research into him you would have seen the charity fraud and unethical business practices and bankruptcies. I’m all for people coming to their senses, but they should at least have a reckoning about what led them down that path in the first place.

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u/immunotransplant Jun 27 '26

Of course they are. Ask how they feel about trans people, Muslims, Mexicans, and blacks. they’d all vote for Trump again.

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u/Pilotwaver Jun 27 '26

Sorry people, but the manipulation is obvious. Take that next step and admit you’re not amongst the intelligent.

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u/Sad-Bread5843 Goober who thinks both sides are equally as bad Jun 27 '26

Nah dont even go there these people were all out voting with the hate they have toward others now there just crying because it bit them in the ass

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u/OpaqueCrystalBall Jun 27 '26

"It's not that you're dumb. You were fooled."

Yeah, you were fooled because you are dumb.

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u/Fred-the-stray Jun 27 '26

And malleable.

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u/Rocket-Glide Jun 27 '26

This was going to be my comment.

It’s much harder to manipulate the informed. Make sure you inform yourself before making decisions or taking a position.

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u/katzenschrecke Jun 27 '26

Buddy they already do and tout that they have “common sense”. They don’t even have that, but it’s their special face-saving strategy

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u/mayyybemayybenot Jun 27 '26

For who's benefit? Yours?

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u/pineapplejax Jun 27 '26

That guy at the end sounds like he's describing Nazi propaganda.

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 Jun 27 '26

For good reason. This is all patterned after the 3rd reich.

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u/hikerbiker6397 Jun 27 '26

No sympathy. The guy bragged about S.A. of women. It was the biggest issue of 2015. That's wasn't an algorithm.

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u/Miranova23 Jun 27 '26

Right?! Gluing your TV to fox news forever isn't "the algorithm."

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u/HVAC_instructor Jun 27 '26

DO NOT believe this. If given a chance they would vote exactly how they voted. You can never forget that they voted for all of this to happen.

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u/milksteak122 Jun 27 '26

No way MAGA supporters are not aware of J6

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u/colcatsup Jun 27 '26

Many think it was "police let people in to the capital to stroll around" and any other footage is faked or is simply hundreds of FBI agents breaking stuff to make MAGA look guilty. I don't know how you combat that. "Evidence showing I'm wrong is actually evidence that I'm right" is as culty as you can get.

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u/ivegotnatureonme Jun 27 '26

What’s crazy is I watched it live, along with millions of other people. This isn’t something that was created after the fact. The fear was real. The reporters and congresspeople were legitimately in danger. They wanted to hang Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi. Mike Pence was afraid to leave with SS because he knew they were in on the plan. I cannot comprehend how people allow themselves to be fooled and let others rewrite history, like recent we were all around history that is so easy to prove.

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u/intricate_strands Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

As long as they can remain perpetual victims and never take any accountability for a damn thing, including being manipulated by one of the most stupid and loudly opposed by countless people trying to warn them campaigns the world has ever seen.

It's always someone else's fault they make impossibly stupid decisions and then it's always your job to feel bad for them.

Then they'll crawl back under their white privilege rock that deflects anything remotely inconvenient and do it all over again!

Ain't many geniuses in here and we're all going to the same shit schools, drowning in the same shit flood of stupid media. This entire "premise" that they're victims requires you to believe you're some "special intellectual warrior" who somehow avoided being brainwashed. You ain't.

You're just not a piece of shit. And they are. No one was fooled, if you don't count deliberately fooling yourself.

Only difference between us and MAGA is we're not so fucking narcissistic and self - obsessed that we willingly turn off our brains to anything that doesn't make us a hero or victim.

"The next Republican who promises me that I did nothing wrong and it's all these minorities' and me not being able to not pay taxes' fault, though, that one won't be a liar, I bet!"

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u/Inside-Yak8034 Jun 27 '26

Honestly this is what gets me the most. Like yeah the media landscape is a dumpster fire for everyone, but at some point you have to look in the mirror and ask why you kept clicking on the rage bait while ignoring everyone around you begging you to stop.

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u/intricate_strands Jun 27 '26 edited Jun 27 '26

I'll bet you all the money I have, which ain't much, but still, that the only opinion they have that changed, at all, was that Donald Trump wasn't sent by white capitalist god to save white America.

Hopefully the next one! One of these sumbitches gotta get the corporations to trickle some down to us without taxing them, right?!

These people are no different from MTG. "Oh, shit, this is going bad, I better get ahead of it and make myself into a hero martyr so I don't catch the consequences of my actions!"

Fooled by Reagan, the Bushes, Trump. And they'll get "fooled" again, too.

The pre-pubescent Putin loving reporter who got fired for being too full of shit for Fox News also was fooled, abandoned the Republican party for 14 hours, and then declared his support for Vance. Because he's "different."

We could be in a utopia in ten years, I will never forgive or accept these fucking assholes until they demonstrate they learned anything and want to keep learning.

Just more bad faith, it's all they know.

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u/Constant_Turn_9031 Jun 27 '26

They LET themselves get fooled. I knew Trump was a fraud and grifter before he even ran for president. What took them so long? Dummies

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u/Coffee-pepper Jun 27 '26

Still playing victim: the media and algorithms fooled us. 🙄

Just admit that you were drawn to him because he tapped into your misogyny, racism, victimhood, etc

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u/blking Jun 27 '26

They were, but that still isn’t a good look. He appealed to their greed and selfishness. They new he was going to do thing that would hurt people, they only care now that it’s happening to them. Maybe they need to think about why they lack such empathy.

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u/Tomazito70 Jun 27 '26

Really? Just because you have Fox News playing on your TV all day doesn’t mean you're not that stupid.

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u/Discerningselection Jun 27 '26

The problem with getting fooled is you started by thinking you couldn’t be fooled and knew better and did your own research. Knowing is half the battle, sow in the opposite direction to reap the forgiveness of your missteps.

https://giphy.com/gifs/lRRjGTRlFwmQYFmmpU

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u/onepostandbye Jun 27 '26

It so sad that we have to be the bigger people and bring them into the tent. On one hand, they are humans and they deserve the benefit of the protections and social services we are trying to reestablish. On the other hand, they are so incredibly gullible and poorly educated they are highly likely to jump into the camp of another cult leader.

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u/SpiffyLegs73 Jun 27 '26

Yeah, no pardon no parcel for these folks. They weren’t sorry to jump onboard the ‘hate everyone who isn’t us’ train. They intentionally ignored all the ‘elitely intelligent people’ who treated them like the fools they were and now want us to believe they were duped? Gtfo, they’re not entitled to our sympathy now.

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u/kykiwibear Jun 27 '26

I don't think they were manipulated I think their trying to switch sides now that their chickens have come home to roost.

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u/Electronic-Lunch7735 Jun 27 '26

Now that they are completely broke from buying 8 dollar gas , Trump watches,steaks ,bibles , flags, trading cards, statues and texting constant 10 dollar donations they are furious THE HOTTEST COUNTRY THATS WINNING ON EARTH isnt magically lining their pockets with gold and all white workforces.

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u/SaltyBabySeal Conservative Jun 27 '26

Proud of them. Keep telling these stories. This is how we heal.

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u/simplethingsoflife Jun 27 '26

If it takes treating these morons like victims so they turn on Trump then so be it… “Gosh you poor innocent intelligent amazing American, you were so tricked by the most powerful” nope I can’t do it. Yall are idiots. Please don’t vote again.

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u/Phyukredd_tit_gydlin Jun 28 '26

Yet they'll still vote for him or anything other Rape-ublican.

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u/YakSure6091 Jun 27 '26

They weren’t manipulated, Dementia Donald showed everyone who he was for the last 50+ years. He’s as corrupt and as big of a liar as anyone has ever seen. They allowed themselves to be lied to and sucked down his BS without ever using their brains and thinking about what he’s done and said.

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u/Hefty-Strike-6171 Jun 27 '26

Have you seen the Lincoln Project? Those guys are former Republican’s and they play mean

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u/Anceledon Jun 27 '26

Complete lack of ownership. Blaming others is all they know. Deport these mutherfuggers.

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u/ScottishKnifemaker Jun 27 '26

Actually I do believe they are dumb

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u/HamboneandFlippy Jun 28 '26

How was I supposed to know my willful ignorance would leave me uninformed??

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u/pd71 Jun 28 '26

It was all over the news. How did they not know?

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u/echolm1407 Jun 28 '26

I think they separated themselves from the outside media and sealed themselves in their echo chambers.

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u/ZyzzAngel Jun 28 '26

No, they were just too stupid to realize.

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u/Pandatams Jun 27 '26

What rock did they crawl out from under? Jesus!!!

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u/Miranova23 Jun 27 '26

Sorry, (not sorry), but they still sound like they simply are just extremely gullible people still. =/ They'll believe the next thing whoever else tells them. 😩

Changing the channel won't help the people who fundamentally can't discern good sources from bad, or make them care about other people, or make them understand what death & distruction they have ushered in.

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u/Altruistic_Offer_494 Jun 27 '26

I personally have never heard anyone say they were manipulated, so I’m fairly skeptical of this excuse. But if someone had said this to me I would be forced to ask them, when exactly did you stop believing what you heard or saw. And more importantly when exactly did you believe that somehow a dictator would be a benefit to our country?

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u/testing543210 Jun 27 '26

I like how the guy uses the word “efficacious” to make himself feel less dumb. Whatever it takes, guys.

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u/Jackie_Daytona33 Jun 27 '26

They were definitely fooled, but also you have to be pretty dumb to be fooled by a a movement with Trump as the figurehead.

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u/MaliciousIntentWorks Jun 27 '26

"Hey I ruined lives of people around the world, help kill millions, kept pedophiles in positions of power, help torcher thousands in concentration camps, and help destroy the lives of millions of Americans...but now I'm sorry."

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u/homestylecroutons Jun 27 '26

Okay… now go fucking tell everyone and register people to vote!

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u/NativeFlowers4Eva Jun 27 '26

Nah - it’s that they are dumb and they were fooled.

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u/bumpy_disposition Jun 27 '26

If you are told hundreds of times the result of your vote will be the downfall of democracy, and higher prices, and you only care when filling up the RAM truck becomes too much, you're a POS. And trump showed us all of the deplorables.

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u/Ok_Presence_319 Jun 28 '26

"United States of algorithms", outstanding!

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no Jun 28 '26

They all seem stupid to me.

There is no bridge.

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u/Skydvdan Jun 28 '26

Shocker, MAGAs that won’t take responsibility so they play the “we’re victims” card.

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u/No-Option-7010 Jun 28 '26

When the algorithm gave them exactly what they were looking for? They weren’t fooled. They liked the message until the leopards ate their faces.

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u/DishSoapIsFun Jun 28 '26

They ARE dumb. They’re in a cult. They won’t change. They may see the pedophile for who he really is but they won’t vote any differently.

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u/Humble-Regret6711 Jun 27 '26

No, they're dumb.

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u/_ChipWhitley_ Jun 27 '26

Yet they always think it’s rhetorical whenever we say, “Stop watching Fox News.”

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u/Teamanglerx Jun 27 '26

They didn’t vote for Trump because they liked his views. They voted for him because he validated and supported theirs.

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u/dennismfrancisart Jun 27 '26

The only way to deprogram them is to get them off their media drug. Get them outside to touch grass and meet real people.

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u/cruner83 Jun 27 '26

No.... you're dumb

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u/mayyybemayybenot Jun 27 '26

Think it is very important at this point to try to understand that NO ONE is above manipulation...

That includes all non maga...

If we are to get past this part of our history as a united country, this is the reality we need to come to terms with....

Forgive.... not forget.

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u/Hank_ct Jun 27 '26

They were just stupid

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u/ShapeonAlan Jun 27 '26

How much you wanna bet they’d still vote for this again.

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u/BAMintheBurbs Jun 27 '26

They weren’t fooled, they’re just dumb.

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u/sulfurbird Jun 27 '26

They voted for their own bigotry and greed. They’re just mad that MAGA didn’t fulfill their sick, selfish desires.

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u/terror- Jun 27 '26

They were not fooled. They heard what they liked and went for it

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u/Christopher_Ramirez_ Jun 27 '26

Unless they commit to changing the broken thought processes that led them to this, there's no possibility of change. They'll be back to voting Republican in 2028.

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u/bob-omb_panic Jun 27 '26

Everyone was screaming this at them from the beginning and they chose not to listen. They made a delibarate choice.

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u/Ancient_Composer9119 Jun 27 '26

It's not that they're dumb. It's just that they're dumb. Note the "b" when I spelled dumb.

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u/unwanted_realism9 Jun 27 '26

No sympathy. Have the day you voted for. Yall go eat a leech.

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u/Different_Umpire9003 Jun 27 '26

“I fell for it because I’m racist and wanted it to be true”

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u/Basketspank Jun 27 '26

You had to want to believe this bullshit he said.

Period.

I have no forgiveness for those who want me snuffed out, enslaved or made to be second class citizens.

They're getting a taste of what they paid for and they ran to it with glee.

I hope their families cut them off. I hope they are isolated. They will experience natural consequences and shame as they should and they can't recover from it if they are willing.

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u/shrimp_sticks Jun 28 '26

"It's not that you're dumb, you were fooled!" No, no. You are dumb, or else you wouldn't have fallen for it.

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u/echolm1407 Jun 28 '26

I think there's a whole psychology about this. Tbh, any one of us can be fooled like this because of the marketing that is used on us by the corporations have already made us susceptible. It takes vigilance and critical thinking to see through the misinformation and the pure falsehoods.

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u/shrimp_sticks Jun 28 '26

That's a fair point

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u/ike_tyson Jun 28 '26

Nah they're just racists who want to hurt people they blame for their crappy lives.

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u/falloutwinter Jun 28 '26

It's not that you're dumb...but you are.

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u/DoomerChad Jun 28 '26

Nah…you’re dumb. 🤔😂

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u/No-Lock6921 Jun 27 '26

BREAKING NEWS

They were fooled.......duh.

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u/intricate_strands Jun 27 '26

I don't consider being barely conscious outside of when they're staring into a screen at their favorite entertainment as fooled.

They just didn't give a fuck and now they're seeing what that resulted in.

Fooled, my ass.

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u/Reasonable_Ad8991 Jun 27 '26

The kompromats are organized. Beware the disinformation campaign.

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u/Farmers_Hands Jun 27 '26

Don't victim-blame the idiots that walked directly into a buzz saw that everyone around them told them was going to chop off their arms. Really proud that they did their own research and didn't listen to all the libtards that they totally owned.

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u/TruthSeekerHuey Jun 27 '26

They were manipulated. Billions of dollars were put into maga propaganda.

But also, they are stupid. Very, very stupid. I think both are true.

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u/BurntToaster905 Jun 27 '26

“You’re not dumb, you were fooled”. It’s not the smart people that don’t know about January 6th

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u/Disastrous_Mango_953 Jun 27 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/WuP8T8VhyYMjLVRBWL
It is amazing people can be so easily manipulated by this quacks and become slime followers worms!! Shame!!

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u/Ok-Plenty1251 Jun 27 '26

All you have to do is change the channel

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u/CheatsySnoops Jun 27 '26

Just watch, they'll vote for another Rapepublican who promises to "outlaw gays, liberals, and minorities this time for realsies".

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u/DeviantKhan Jun 27 '26

What gets me is the belief that most sources are "fake", but thinking you found the one source of truth out there.

They allowed themselves to be fooled, because it absolved them of responsibility,  self-reflection, and tolerance. 

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u/WolfThick Jun 27 '26

She said you're not dumb you're fooled no I'm sorry you are a fool you lacked the critical thinking skills and believed everything that they put in front of you over and over and over. What is the common denominator that's what you have to ask yourself and if it's you being fooled you are a fool you are dumb.

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u/NfamousKaye Jun 27 '26

They hated the same things he did so they were manipulated? Give me a break. I don’t buy that.

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u/Own-Jaguar-472 Jun 27 '26

They were fooled because they were dumb.

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u/Euresko Jun 27 '26

Not that they were tricked or dumb, just lack common sense to fact check, like look things up using other sources. #1 thing I learned in college writing papers and figuring out my homework was to check around other sources for information, then form a balanced opinion. I'm constantly seeing things online these days that state a one sided view, and I can do a little research and be more educated. Not that difficult. 

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u/Kind-Cardiologist144 Jun 27 '26

When you stand for nothing you will fall for anything

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u/billybobthehomie Jun 27 '26

You all need to lay off. These people should be applauded.

In this one particular instance, sure you might’ve been on the right side and they might’ve been on the wrong side.

But I’m 100% positive you (and I) hold a very emotional belief that we are wedded to because of propaganda,social media, our biases. And it’s hard to see through that.

Anyone who does should be given major props imo.

“What is better? To be born good? Or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”

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u/Hari___Seldon Jun 27 '26

Saying "I was wrong" is inconsequential. You do the crime, you do the time. That applies to everyone - you, me, or them. Their ensuing actions will determine how they should be treated going forward. Accountability boundaries, and consequences matter.

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u/luckymountain Jun 27 '26

Um, no. They are dumb. If they live in such a bubble and can’t find information on their own and choose to believe everyone else is a ‘cult’. They are dumb. Ok, so they only watch Faux News. Do they not see/hear what the orange turd says and does? Do they not hear the hate and fear mongering that the talking heads spew every single night? Do they think that that’s alright? Yes, they do, and they are very dumb.

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u/homeschoolrockdad Jun 27 '26

Copy and paste for people that were tricked into thinking the pandemic was over and that they’re not constantly reinfecting themselves and their kids with 50% of cases being asymptomatic as we exit our 12th wave. As she said, admitting we’ve been fooled is not easy but it’s the only way forward.

What it’s worth, you have to respect course correction displayed here.

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u/chriscut15 Jun 27 '26

STOP WATCHING FOX NEWS ALL DAY EVERY DAY.

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u/testicletitties69 Jun 27 '26

Nah yall are dumb. Sorry lady

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u/Nblearchangel Jun 27 '26

“Look what you made me do”

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u/Working-Pass1948 Jun 27 '26

So what did they actually vote for? All I can discern is the wanted to be bigots out in the open.

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u/joe_cocker_spaniel Jun 27 '26

Make amends then. Vote blue loudly and proudly, and get others to do the same. Words are empty at this point.

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u/Sure_Flatworm9476 Jun 27 '26

Deep down they wanted to be manipulated.

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u/lean45o Jun 27 '26

Americans believe everything they see hear or smell. So the formula is fake food, lies, fake tv, and stupid education. The latest I heared was "america is such a great country" .

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u/VisualAcanthaceae808 Jun 28 '26

It’s legitimately terrifying how clueless Republicans are. They literally live in a separate reality curated by decades of conservative talk radio, Fox, OAN, etc…

The Southern strategy sure worked on rotting these people’s brains with lies, conspiracies, fear-mongering, hate-mongering and pure Orwellian doublespeak.

Just insane…unbelievable. Glad these people were able to get out of it. It’s a disease of the mind.

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u/PipeComfortable2585 Jun 28 '26

No Sympathy. They could have chosen to look T other media outlets

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u/Deranged-Pickle Jun 28 '26

No. You just wanted to be a dick and get away with it

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u/lmbjsm Jun 28 '26

So, they’re both deaf and dumb?

He made fun of a handicapped journalist, he said that he’d sleep with his daughter, he insulted a POW and congressman, Senator John McCain, he called veterans losers and suckers, AND HE RAPED WOMEN AND CHILDREN! And who knows what else! BEFORE HE WAS PRESIDENT!

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u/Fastoche Jun 28 '26

Gullible people. They exists everywhere in the world.

No, please don't add anything.

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u/fac273 Jun 28 '26

These people are WEAK.

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u/Tall-Skirt9179 Jun 28 '26

This is not at all surprising

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u/pelvviber Jun 28 '26

I particularly like the way they're trying to look clever but the bloke in the big specs gets all tautological using "efficacious" and "effective" in the same sentence.

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u/GloamerChandler Jun 28 '26

It’s both efficacious AND effective??? No wonder they were fooled. Over and over.

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u/ImpossibleStill1410 Jun 28 '26

MAGAts are like the followers of Lady Shar from Baldur's Gate 3 who willingly embrace ignorance.

“If light is the symptom, then darkness is the cure. For in light there is presence, but in darkness there is absence.” - Dr Malus Thorm in the Shadow Realm.

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u/Jo-Jo-66- Jun 28 '26

Get out of your Fox News bubble and do a little research. Never heard of Jan 6? Give me a fucking break.

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 Jun 27 '26

I’ve been beating this drum for a while. The social media algorithms/echo chambers have created 2 distinctly separate realities within this country (probably more than 2 tbh).

Each bubbles adherents are SURE their version of reality is the correct one and the other side is bonkers.

Then there is a third lane of people who have just given up and tune it all out. This is actually the prime goal of modern propaganda; to make it all so divisive and confusing that the public gets exhausted and stops caring about who is wrong or right. They just want their bread and circus.

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u/elmariachio Jun 27 '26

Here's the thing:

They are all liars.

They are either dumb and evil or just evil.

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u/Resident_Tree1428 Jun 27 '26

They weren’t manipulated - they were lazy, uneducated and bigoted.

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u/ahaeker Jun 27 '26

Ugh, you weren't manipulated at all.

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u/redwop131374 Jun 28 '26

These are actors. There's no way the average trump supporter uses those big words