• stoly@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s always symbolic. It’s why they kept complaining about Hilary long after she became irrelevant. Ultimately, they need someone to point at and complain so that their base can get in line behind them.

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      They have to keep their base angry because they’ve conditioned their brains to be addicted to anger dopamine. They’re hooked and if they don’t stay angry, they get harder to manipulate. Because of the addiction they want to be angry, that’s why they’re always angry at seemingly trivial shit.

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        8 days ago

        Funny you mention this - I’m watching MeidasTouch and he’s pointing out how Faux is getting their marks to get all butthurt about…fouls being called on some WNBA player? I mean…seriously, WTAF.

        How many people does this kind of stuff even affect?

        Imagine, sitting there all raged out over what happens on WNBA because of something something liberal trans Democrats did this to us.

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            I mean, 1/3 may be worked up about “men in women’s sports” by lying liars and demagogues like Faux News, but the outcome of a WNBA player having a foul called on her for supposedly speaking out about “men in women’s sports” is virtually nil and affects maybe entire dozens of people, LOL.

            Meanwhile, these people are having their health care ripped away and their air/water/soil polluted and the prices of everything going through the roof and jobs being killed by AI. And they are worried about a fucking GAME.