> The GOP have convinced scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people that all the government does is waste their hard earned money paying benefits to poo

> The GOP have convinced scared white, Christian, racist, xenophobic people that all the government does is waste their hard earned money paying benefits to poor, non-working, non-white, non-Christian, non-citizen, LGBTQ's. Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, but this feels a bit off to me. I mean, no doubt this is a popular meme, but is it actually true? And if so, how true? When you say GOP supporters consist of people with specific attributes (Christian, racist, etc), I am very unclear on the details of the representation of reality that your are projecting. For example, two obvious followup questions that immediately come to my mind are: - what percentage of GOP supporters possess all of these attributes? - what percentage of GOP supporters possess at least one of these attributes? If you could provide this level of detail (including a link to your data source), I think it might add a lot of clarity to the thread, in turn improving the quality of discourse. > I would say we were world class in our preparedness, but there is NO WAY that a business could be prepared for a real disaster. I had to fight tooth and nail for every penny I got, and every time I heard the same line from all the board members, "This is a waste of resources, for something that will probably never happen in our lifetime, if ever." Excuse me if I'm taking an excessively negative interpretation of your sentence, but to me this sounds something like "because you had an experience of difficulty securing sufficient funding for adequate disaster preparation, it therefore logically follows that all businesses will act in this same manner". Now, "surely" that can't be what you really mean (if we were conversing on, say, /r/politics, I'd likely just assume that it was meant literally - but we're not, we're on HN)....and yet, I see no other way to interpret the words that you have written. Or maybe you didn't mean it to be taken literally. Ok, fair enough, but if that's the case, then what meaning should I take from what you've said? That "some" (the specific number, be it 1% or 99%, matters not at all) GOP supporters are "racist"? Ummmm....ok? And? > A Business can't stockpile, cash, products, buildings, capacity, extra remote employees, etc. in order to sustain an event lasting 6-12 months, that MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN. This can't possibly be true, can it? I mean, take Google, Apple, Microsoft, any of the high flyers of the day. Are you actually saying that they couldn't survive for 12 months with zero revenue while maintaining current levels of expenses? My intuition informs me that these companies could survive for years. I guess I'd have to go check the actual financials to formally rebut you....but gosh, could my intuition really be that far off? I can't shake this feeling that something weird is going on here. Something....almost unearthly. It is getting harder every day for me to believe that we aren't living in a simulation of some kind. Everywhere I look I see insanity. Black is white (but while simultaneously also being black), up is down, everything is possible, but also nothing is possible. Am I the only one that feels like something very, very strange is going on right now? Like...you can almost feel it? Like....something is about to happen? I know "conspiracy theories" aren't popular around here, but this thread came up on /r/conspiracy the other day, and regardless of whether it's "true" (I'm not even sure what that means anymore), I for one found it to be quite interesting. I mean, when the mainstream narrative stops making any sense, perhaps turning to people who have vast expertise in that domain (and they do) isn't all that crazy. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/fld65g/feeling_something_off_about_reality_lately_heres/ https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/fld65g/feeling_... I consider myself a super logical person, but this TikTok from the thread legit gives me the creeps: https://www.tiktok.com/@zoesc00chiejuice/video/6803734042345884934 https://www.tiktok.com/@zoesc00chiejuice/video/6803734042345... I know it's almost certainly just some random edgy teenage girl (she has others that look similar: https://www.tiktok.com/@zoesc00chiejuice? https://www.tiktok.com/@zoesc00chiejuice?)...but in times like these, I'm not sure it's such a good idea to completely disregard the warnings one's intuition provides.