• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Republicans want to hate so badly, they’ll literally create fiction to manifest it and be the victims…

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      5 months ago

      Always have. Most of them have never met the people they’ve been taught to hate. Or believe for some reason that the few they know are some sort of exception. The token “good ones”.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    The phrase “I voted for this” has become a common thing for far-right supporters of Trump to say when something particularly brutal has happened to their political opponents.

    I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it, If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. – Lyndon B. Johnson, attributed by Bill Moyers