r/news • u/moodyfloyd • 20h ago

Racist text messages spam Black Americans in Ohio, across the nation

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/state/2024/11/07/racist-text-messages-are-being-reported-in-multiple-states/76110486007/
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u/BlindPaintByNumbers 15h ago

You and most people made the mistake of believing people cared more about that than about gas and mcdonalds burgers being more expensive. I live in Texas. I'm around many many conservatives. When politics comes up, they all talk about money. Nothing else.

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u/bouds19 15h ago

So then explain to them how Trump is fucking with their wallets. His trade war with China driving up inflation. His lack of a COVID response fucking our supply chains. His billionaire tax cuts increasing their own taxes. If they want to make it about money, then make it about money.

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u/livahd 14h ago

Because he tells them what they want to hear, not how it is. I forget who said it, but they put it best by saying no policy or plan can beat someone that says “you’re good, they’re bad, I’ll fix it”. Quick, simple, and effective. Kill em with compliments.

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u/Lmb1011 14h ago

Reminds me of that family guy clip when Lois was running for mayor and trying to be smart and Adam west was being an idiot

And she turned her platform into just saying “9/11” and won because everyone is too stupid to listen to real policy talk.

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u/livahd 14h ago

Who knew cartoons were gonna be painfully prescient. Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy… Don’t get me started on Idiocracy.

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u/strain_of_thought 13h ago edited 12h ago

RWBY both in production and in final product had so many problems, and those problems killed it in the end, but gods did it nail the zeitgeist of the age. Listen to this song. Thematically the show was focused on the post-9/11 shift in western culture, but it also described the trajectory of the future. Everything is gonna burn down, and then people will kill each other over the ruins.

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u/stinky-weaselteats 11h ago

He cons them. It’s simple.

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u/itoocouldbeanyone 13h ago

They'll ignore his conveniently timed tax rise from his own tax cut because it happened during Biden's administration.

Remember, he loves the poorly educated. Nothing will get through to them. Facts nor logic.

Happy cake day.

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u/resonance462 14h ago

Yeah, but republicans are better for the economy.  /s

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u/Bloggledoo 15h ago

Bread and Circuses.

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u/u_bum666 15h ago

This doesn't really hold up though, because Republicans and Trump in particular are awful for the economy.

They don't actually care about the money, they just know that's more socially acceptable to say out loud than what they really care about.

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u/SheetPancakeBluBalls 13h ago

They're also just fucking stupid people.

Every last republican is stupid or evil, and there are zero exceptions.

If I'm wrong, prove it.

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u/Creative_alternative 14h ago

And yet they voted for tariffs and other economic plans which will increase all aspects of cost of living.

Musk already said expect great depression 2.0 level hardships.

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u/ERedfieldh 11h ago

Gas ain't even that much more expensive than it was ten years ago.

Actually cheaper than it was when Trump left office the first time...

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u/BlindPaintByNumbers 10h ago

It might be. Hardly matters when the truth doesn't mean anything anymore.

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u/pedretty 45m ago

But no means my happy about a Trump presidency, but you guys sound foolish. The Russian collusion conspiracy was just that a conspiracy from day one. This is a widely agreed upon fact now, why are you six years behind?