• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    Propaganda, full stop.

    My cousin is one of these. The reporting on Palestine and Democrat support pushed him even more to the right because of Israel…

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      2 months ago

      I think some people have a flawed belief that one side is always correct. The Dem party is clearly handling isreal badly so to them the Republicans must be the good side.

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        2 months ago

        See also tankies - American government did tons of shady shit so obviously Stalin must have been a saint.

    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      My cousins are big Trumpers and their biggest reason for supporting him is his anti-immigrant stance. The kicker is that they’re half-Thai with a mother who immigrated from Thailand. They happen to look Mexican and were bullied for that growing up, but that experience didn’t exactly teach them empathy or anything.