• RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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      6 hours ago

      I’ll never understand why people shit on him for fictional things when there’s plenty of real things to shit on him for.

      I honestly think it helps him/MAGA, because it teaches them, their supporters, and impressionable others that people make stuff up about him to criticize, so they can safely ignore criticism of him.

      • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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        4 hours ago

        To a fascist, image is everything. Ruin their image for the sad, fucking weirdos that they are makes fascists weak.

      • webadict@lemmy.world
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        5 hours ago

        Because the only things that actual bother him are being called a fucking loser and weirdo. The actually shitty things he does, he would do a million times and feel nothing.

        And what you say can’t be true, or the millions of lies he told would matter more.

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        5 hours ago

        I think part of it is about making him into a joke to prevent him from gaining the cult following necessary to be another trump. I don’t think trump supporters would care about the valid criticisms, but the idea he has sex with couches is provocative and humorous, and seems to have become one of the only things a lot of people know about him.

        • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com
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          2 hours ago

          There’s plenty factual stuff to use that far right people hate though:

          • Being in the military with zero people skills means he was an ineffectual leader and a desk driving paper pusher

          • He wears eyeliner

          • He grew a beard to hide his weak chin

          • He’s a white nationalist with a minority wife who looks like she’s at gunpoint every time she’s on camera

          Again, inventing a lie to attack him with will just galvanize his supporters. Use what’s already true and very conflicting with far right ideology.

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        5 hours ago

        Your standards for MAGA cultists is way too high. They won’t ever know the difference between fact and lie, and they won’t care if they eventually learnt about it. Words and facts means nothing to them, it is all about “winning”.