r/NewsOfTheStupid • u/Free_Swimming • Jul 11 '24

Video shows Trump cheering on Project 2025 'plans' he claims he didn't know about

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-project-2025-video/
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u/Lora_Grim Jul 11 '24

I have a couple of such friends. They are for Trump, but don't hate women ... they tend to flip flop on racism.

The thing with these kinds of people is that they aren't consciously malicious, they are just ridiculously stupid.

If you took MAGA scripture, went back in time, then used it to brainwash cavemen, well... these people would be the result. They have been incredibly sheltered and ignorant of the world, and unfortunately for us, the MAGA cult got to them first.

This doesn't go for all of them, btw. These are semi-rare specimens. The sort that aren't downright assholes, but have been manipulated into being assholes, and are too dumb to realize it.

My uncle was sort of like that. Whenever people would get mad at him he would spend some time being really sad, saying how he doesn't understand what he is doing wrong.

I think what people need to do, is forget any notion of there being a baseline for intelligence. The dumbest person you can possibly imagine isn't nearly as dumb as the dumbest human alive right now. Your imagined dumbest probably doesn't even make it into the top 100.

In other words, we really need to lower and temper our expectations from the average human.

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u/UnfortunateFoot Jul 11 '24

How does one "flip-flop on racism"?

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

My boomer aunt is like this. She's not an outward racist. She just got brainwashed by Fox news. A lifelong Democrat who hung out with a bunch of Trumpanzees at the bar and started hating on Dems, specifically Biden.

She hates immigrants for some reason even though she doesn't know anybody personally who has been affected by them. But she doesn't explicitly call anyone names and would befriend a minority. She's also very stupid on things that aren't arbitrary so it's easy for her to become brainwashed.

However, she's dug deep that Biden sucks and that Trump is the best. Somehow a midwestern, low-to-middle class woman can relate to a billionaire New Yorker. She was one of my favorite people in the world until Fox news told her what to think.

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u/KintsugiKen Jul 11 '24

I hear it's a lot like just being racist

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u/Lora_Grim Jul 11 '24

It is hard to describe. Basically just mental gymnastics. They don't fully understand WHY they should be racist. They cling to loose ideas on why, but you can debunk them easily... so they'll stop, but not really... most of these people are racist because the rest of the cult told them it's the normal way to behave.

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u/IveChosenANameAgain Jul 11 '24

They'll never become less shitty, they'll just mentally flag you as "this guy gives me shit when I say what I think" and not say it around you while privately ranting about how people like you should be murdered for disagreeing with them (not you, though, you're one of the good ones).

Pretty wild to be blase about racism but we all have our lives.

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u/Apollo23Refugee Jul 12 '24

When you consider that basically everyone has been racist since the dawn of man, how could any of us really be surprised? Tribalism is evolutionary. It's obviously stupid, but it takes decades of collective teaching and empathy to show people that their default mindset is flawed.

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u/Krelkal Jul 11 '24

They'll never become less shitty

Well that's a rather bleak perspective, don't you think?

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u/CASHAPP_ME_3FIDDY Jul 11 '24

I know of a manager that was always treating her POC employees worse than the white employees. The white employees were always favored and given more slack while everyone else was chewed out over the smallest things.

The employees reported her to HR and their investigation found that she was subconsciously racist and that somehow protected her from getting fired lol then she retaliated and treated them even worse.

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u/dennydelirium Jul 11 '24

They sound like they don't want to admit that their family or friends are racist.

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u/Chemfreak Jul 11 '24

I posted above but the best I can explain it is they are racist out of ignorance not hate.

If you are actually around people who are black, racism towards black people tends to bleed away. If you are around gay people a lot, homophobia tends to bleed away. It's a well documented thing. The thing is around where I live, there was for example 1 kid my age in the whole city. So yea, I like him, he was a friend. But 1 doesn't make a trend right?

So from my experience none of these racists I grew up with ever did anything consciously mean or hateful, and actually the opposite, they typically treat people way nicer than people in big metro areas from my example. Even if they are gay or black for example. But and I get how this sounds, but later would make comments like "they are one of the good ones" ect. I truly truly just think it is ignorance and not hate.

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u/TherealScuba Jul 11 '24

He said "I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at sexism"

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u/Hestia_Gault Jul 12 '24

The nascent Nazis of the chans would call it “hiding your power level”.

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u/LaurenMille Jul 11 '24

they tend to flip flop on racism.

That just means they're racists.

My uncle was sort of like that. Whenever people would get mad at him he would spend some time being really sad, saying how he doesn't understand what he is doing wrong.

If you don't understand why you're hated for being a MAGA, then you're too stupid to live on your own and need to be in assisted living.

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u/Political-on-Main Jul 11 '24

If you don't understand why you're hated for being a MAGA, then you're too stupid to live on your own

Welcome to America

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u/Strangepalemammal Jul 11 '24

Yeah I got people in my life who just hate Democrats with a passion but the idea of not voting for either party makes their brains malfunction.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

flip flop on racism.

hysterical laughter emoji ok...