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Horrible behaviour, yet his supporters still support him.
by msie 9mo ago
Horrible behaviour, yet his supporters still support him.
- mindslight 9mo agoI think it's just a small segment of terminally online people that are still hardcore supporters. Shamelessly killing an American citizen in retaliation for protesting and overtly alienating our long-time allies means it takes a much stronger firehose of rationalizations to keep fooling yourself that these things are about "immigration enforcement" or "national security". My direct observation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642922 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642922 Not that I expect the latent supporters to ever really own up to their mistake (I mean, who even supported that Iraq War anyway? Must have been some liberal conspiracy). And of course the main question is still how do we actually immobilize and evict this piece of shit from the White House.
- jacquesm 9mo ago> I think it's just a small segment of terminally online people that are still hardcore supporters. On HN alone there are thousands of Trump supporters. It's completely insane because you'd think that they have zero excuses but it does not make any difference at all. Six months ago they most likely couldn't point out Greenland or Denmark on a map and now they have many opinions and all of them are informed by the same crazy reasonings.
- mindslight 9mo agoMy "small segment" was in the context of everyday people in the offline world, as opposed to the terminally online which HN clearly has a higher percentage of. And yes, we had all hoped that more access to information would help people reason better. But it mostly seems to help them rationalize more.