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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by rayiner on Saturday April 12, 2025 @08:40AM (#43663867)
> Most of the political perspectives in my life are completely unrepresented in the opinion columns, which generally tend to pander upwards rather than downwards.

My political perspectives are completely mainstream--according to David Shor, my mom and I are the median naturalized citizens (Biden won that group in 2020, Trump narrowly won them in 2024). But if my family members where white instead of brown, the New York Times editors would call us "deplorables."

Covering up Biden's decline was the last straw. The press has become an organ of one ideological segment of society.

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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by woooooo on Saturday April 12, 2025 @10:14AM (#43664573)
Worth considering if this is what you voted for. Was the moment of pique worth it?
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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by rayiner on Saturday April 12, 2025 @03:30PM (#43667291)
I’d rather have JD than Trump, but otherwise I’m thrilled. I don’t know what you mean by “moment of pique.” Ross Perot got like 20% of the vote. MAGA basically realigns the GOP to absorb the Ross Perot Democrats and Buchanan Republicans while pushing out the neocons. It’s not a new set of political beliefs.
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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by woooooo on Sunday April 13, 2025 @10:19AM (#43672999)
By "pique", I mean that the motivating factor I've heard from most Trump people, and that I'm reading from your posts, is "make the libs cry".

First term was fine, he was mostly harmless and made the libs cry every day with fake culture war stuff.

In 2024 I get the impression people were voting for a repeat of that, not some crazy reconfiguration of the entire economy. Trump ran on "they're making your kids trans and the Somalis are eating dogs", not "we will end global trade and deport anyone who criticizes Israel".

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Re:Leaked Meta data reveals campaign to remove pro-Palestine... by rayiner on Sunday April 13, 2025 @03:20PM (#43675168)
It’s the same ideology being pushed by the same people. In particular, mass immigration and free trade are two sides of the same globalization coin.

And stopping outsourcing was #5 on Trump’s platform: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform

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