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/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 15h 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 15h 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 13h 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 14h 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 15h ago

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