on one hand, trump only got elected because the Russians used social media to spread fake news and misinformation to trick the naive public

on the other hand, all trump voters are irredeemably bad people and that makes it ok to not care whenever something bad happens in a state that voted for him

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    These aren't contradictions. Libs are often technocrats who want some kind of intelligence quotient based hierarchy with themselves at the top and whoever they deem as dum-dums at the bottom. For them, being "fooled" by Russia is an indicator of low IQ, which makes one intrinsically bad. I think this is part of the reason why libs believe reactionaries are simply natural and will always exist, becuase they tie it to some abstract notion of biological intelligence or cultural aptitude.