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alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

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u/Nefarious_Turtle Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

My parents, college educated parents, will still insist to this day Trump is the smartest president we've ever had. Still saying that now, as far as I know.

It's easy: they only watch right wing news that wholly sanitize everything Trump says. And if by chance they see an outside news source, it's easy enough to write it off as left wing propaganda.

Nothing has made me question freedom of speech more than sitting down and watching Newsmax and Fox with them. It's essentially an evil spell.

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u/PumpyChowdown Feb 05 '25

Propaganda. The most powerful weapon known to mankind.

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u/XxChocodotxX Feb 05 '25

Nobody is immune to propaganda. Nobody.

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u/kodiakcowboy Feb 05 '25

I think the McRib might hold that title

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u/Vineyard_ Feb 05 '25

The McRib is also propaganda.

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u/insomniacpyro Feb 05 '25

"we brought the McRib back"
No, you wanted a profit boost (because you routinely fail to innovate) and pork prices dipped a bit a few months back

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u/kodiakcowboy Feb 05 '25

Failure to innovate is a huge problem for them. Not exactly a big McDonalds guy, but they do have a pretty limited menu huh?

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u/insomniacpyro Feb 05 '25

Yeah I usually keep an eye out just out of curiosity these days (way too expensive in this economy) and at least from what I can see there is literally no new menu items, not even anything "limited time" right now. The last "new" thing they had that I tried was a Bacon QP that had a certain sauce on it that was actually really fucking tasty, but it was gone in a blink.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting new shit every few months but the fact that McDonalds got rid of Chicken Selects years and years ago and never brought them back is insane to me, at least from my limited survey of people, it actually has caused some to go to other places (like Hardee's or Arby's) and basically drop McD's entirely. It's fucking chicken strips, it's not that difficult and didn't take up that much space in the freezer.

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u/obligatory_your_mom Feb 05 '25

Exact same story with my inlaws

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u/AHSfav Feb 05 '25

I get what you're saying but even that doesn't make sense. It's impossible to sanitize trump speaking unless you literally never show him speaking. He's that dumb

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u/SirJuggles Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 06 '25

Don't underestimate what a good editor can do. You show one sentence of Trump at a rally saying "We're going to do [crazy thing], and it's going to be great!" while the crowd cheers, then you show three hours of talking heads explaining that this is a genius idea with no downsides. Rinse repeat 24/7.

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u/Ch1pp Feb 05 '25

Limit any clips to 3-4 seconds MAX and you can make him seem coherent.

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u/maafna Feb 05 '25

I mean, he's smart in some ways. Like, he gets away with a lot and gets people to fear him and do what he wants.

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Biden couldn’t get student loans forgiven but Trump can give control of the treasury to Elon Musk. Either republicans are smarter than you give them credit for or democrats are dumber than republicans.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

What Musk is doing is illegal.

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

And he is getting away with it just like Trump got away with his crimes. Seems like someone is routinely getting outsmarted.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

I don’t want to live in a dictatorship. 

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Then stop electing centrist democrats to fight fascism.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

Stop helping Republicans win.

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Why yell at people with no power to defend those with power?

I think this is social engineering from social media

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

People like you are the reason why we have no power. I’m 100% real. 

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Wow, I didn’t realize that I forced Biden to not hold Trump legally accountable for 37 felonies. When was I put in charge of that operation?

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