• Engywook@lemm.ee
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    13 days ago

    I’ll actively try to avoid that. There’s been a time in which I thought it could have been interesting to visit that country, but the time has passed.

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        13 days ago

        Got to be really deranged to vote for a candidate that ran on a platform of revenge and hate, and there’s at the minimum 70 million of those types of Americans which outnumbers many individual countries. Americans suck and don’t seem nice. Too many bad apples.

        • liverbe@lemmy.world
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          13 days ago

          At this point, I just feel bad for them. Our education system failed them. These “deranged” people you are talking about are our friends, coworkers, and family who have been misled by a system that was built based on slavery. Keep your masses uneducated, and you can do what you want with them.

          Some of them woke up before the election (a friend of mine from Arkansas), some were killed by Covid (my coworker from Texas), and some will learn what the unintended consequences are of voting against their best interest (my aunt that used to work for the federal government in Ohio).

          But deranged, they are not. However, I do think Hillary was right. Some of them are deplorable, but I don’t know any deplorables.

              • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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                11 days ago

                Peer pressure to conform, toxic masculinity, homophobia, dirty jokes and failure to grasp dark humor, society failing to train boys to mature into men, propaganda news, obsession with team sports, lack of good education, lack of mentorship, etc.