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Is he? MAGA doesn’t care. I just talked to a MAGA today. It’s press sensationalism and bullshit, to them. I reliably get the parrot of the main byline in play from that MAGA, and that was the word today. They don’t care.
This reads more like the commondreams, dailybeast, newrepublic, HuffPost headline echo chamber filler that always tell you what you want or expect to hear.
A sample size of one isn't something you draw conclusions from. That's just bad science. Now if you said you work somewhere that everyone is a Trump supporter, 50-200 people, and they're all saying this, then yeah, I'd believe you. But, a sample size of one, come on man.
Fair. But it fits the trend. We’ll see how it goes with others this week.
I can get no one to admit any iota of criticism towards trump in any conversation. The only thing I’ve heard from the MAGAs is “his social media should be better”, and that’s it. It’s a wall of unity and parroted statements.
Even the insurrection wasn’t an insurrection, but a few bad players or, my favorite, paid performers, that went too far.
I’ve yet to hear any MAGA in alignment with these commondreams, newrepublic, dailybeast, HuffPost headlines that try to grab onto what the left wants, or even needs, to hear, since 2016.
Read the Tweets the article is quoting. Do you see a single one criticizing Trump directly, not an underling?
I think we have seen that MAGA isn’t one body, that there were the tech-bro MAGA Doge edgelords, and the MAGA who opposed them.
This is the point in every “successful” movements story where they have won the struggle for power, and start receiving the bounty. And realise that the leadership idea of bounty doesn’t match their expectations.
Just like a soldier who goes hard for the recruiter’s promises of glory and honour, but realises it’s a life of being an utter bastard, and dying in a pool of their own blood and shit and their friends body parts.
Gizmodo isn't bad, but they're also kinda known for this among the tech press.
It's why they're still alive I guess...
The part that makes things feel doomed in a Google search engine enshittification kind of way is when the articles with similar vein headlines read almost verbatim to one another, like everyone is scraping from everyone else instead of doing their own organic work on it.
But if you only ever doom scroll headlines, which some individuals do, you’ll never catch that pattern.
How many people are actually maga? MAGA and r’s share some beleifs and the r’s are starting to realize that their pastry has been taken over by the alt right.
Maybe it’s just my people but it’s die hard republicans who’ve now transferred their affiliation to MAGA because that’s what’s Republican. These are people who parroted all the bylines from Limbaugh when he was alive, and now they do the same with the new pundits.
Sure, you run into people who were Republican, and now can’t stand the party, but they were moderate already, at least in my experience.
Republicans are very good at staying tight and repeating the sanctioned dialogue like a chorus line of parrots. None of the transfer to MAGA surprises me.