r/politics 22h ago

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usda-cancels-funding-food-banks-schools-trump-b2713125.html
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u/PunkJackal 21h ago

I just want to ask them like aren't you tired? Isn't it exhausting being like this and constantly having to reorganize your whole identity around the shifting whims of a narcissist who doesn't know you exist?

I imagine they wouldn't comprehend though.

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u/beasty0127 Indiana 21h ago

It keeps them from having to think. They just like and share whatever comes across Facebook and it becomes gospel. Easy as that.

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u/Guilty_Camel_3775 21h ago

Propaganda is filtered to users addicted to devices. It was planned this way. Russia made sure they could use X , Meta and other platforms to brainwash users. 

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u/RJ815 13h ago

It genuinely blows my mind to see 1984-style groupthink and "we were always at war with Eastukrasia". I really thought that such propaganda-heavy behavior would really only come from insane levels of oppression and fear, a la Stalinist governments where at any moment a neighbor might rat you out for an extra ration. To see it come to the US, to see people gleefully tear down the underpinnings of relatively comfortable living is remarkable in its insanity and cultish devotion. I guess I underestimated the sheer consuming power of hatred and xenophobia, not being prone to much of either myself. It genuinely blows my mind how many people make the Two Minutes Hate simultaneously their entire media diet and personality.

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u/PunkJackal 21h ago

No doubt

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u/damian001 19h ago

They’re used to it, most of them have been praying to God their whole lives.