• Drusas@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    In the counties most reliant on transfer payments — where they account for more than 25% of all income — Trump won 63% of the vote.

    Emotional and easily manipulated idiots will vote against their own interests every time.

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    Took me a while to parse that title. A “that” between “spending” and “Musk” would have helped immensely.

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      The first time they elected him I felt bad for everyone. The second time though? Clearly things need to get super bad for some people just to wake them up. Though I doubt that’s even possible for most at this point, they are just too far gone.

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        Whole bunch of assholes don’t realize the prosperity of America in the 20th century was built on the back of the social programs of the New Deal.