• Lussy [any, hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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    11 hours ago

    I think it’ll be really easy for them to recursively blame the other side for the shut down. ‘They want you to die from hunger just so the illegals will get out of jail’. It’s a willing populace, we are dumb as shit

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      13 hours ago

      The average American may be dumb but it’s almost always the party in charge that gets the blame when things are bad.

      The issue is they don’t carry that past the next election or connect the dots enough to realize the true cause of most of their issues is capitalism.

    • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      12 hours ago

      I think this week’s election results show that people aren’t really buying the bs right now. Mamdani centering class issues in his campaign instead of identity has forced both Democrats and republicans to react in a way that is likely to be electorally devastating to Republicans.