2026-11-04 03:34 UTC
Replies (5)
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@luthis@lemmy.nz 2026-11-04 03:37
No, MAGA would have latched on to anything. This is just one of their scapegoats, MAGA always existed.
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@danc4498@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 03:49
Not gonna lie, I saw this meme and thought, “You’re learning the wrong lesson!”
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@cheers_queers@lemmy.zip 2026-11-04 04:07
dont take the responsibility away from maga please. trump is president BECAUSE he knows they want someone who hates the same people they do. trump is a symptom, not the cause.
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@sundray@lemmus.org 2026-11-04 04:18
I mean, mostly. The amount of right-wing fearmongering before Obama was elected was intense, and after he won, a large portion of the Republican party lost their goddamn minds, convinced it was the end of white people. This led to the Tea Party movement, which fed directly into MAGA. On a more personal level, Obama mercilessly roasted Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the notorious slumlord was so monumentally, volcanically pissed-off at being humiliated by a powerful Black man that he became determined to prove he was his better.
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@trojanbark@lemmy.world 2026-11-04 04:29
Not even close. Reactionary movements grow when standards of living drop while costs simultaneously rise, especially if the shift is significant. Much of this is usually attributed to weakening energy inputs (or at least a rise in their cost), as energy is foundational to post-industrial societies. Organized movements will latch onto cultural issues like “pronouns” in an attempt to divert blame for the deterioration in living towards an easy exploitable marginal group so that elites avoid things like guillotines. “Pronouns being in emails” is merely incidental and is not even close to how a movement like MAGA started or rose.