• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Because they can’t understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative.

    Vance is Yale educated and the professor who set him up with his wife also got her SC clerkships… He and his wife were literally groomed to be a political power couple similar to the Clintons.

    Stop acting like hes stupid and uneducated.

    He 100% know what he’s saying is bullshit, hes a liar not an idiot. trump is an idiot, and believes it.

    That’s why Vance is so much more dangerous, it’s like comparing HW to Reagan. Both evil, but an evil elderly person with dementia does less damage than an evil intelligent person.

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        1 day ago

        Same with HW bush…

        Didn’t stop him from becoming president on Reagans coattails.

        And HW not only caused just as much damage as Reagan, he was smart about it so still gets a fraction of the blame. His name is almost never brought up anymore.

        People just talk about the idiot fall guys, because the whole reason they’re there is to be the lightning rod of criticism so no one looks at the ones calling the shots.

        It’s a shell game, but at least when it’s an idiot they’ll get caught and some things will be stopped, or at least noticed.

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          19 hours ago

          Mostly out of curiosity but what’d HW do? I think we can squarely put more of the war on drugs on his shoulders than Reagan’s but, outside of that, I can think of so many more concrete things Reagan did to worsen and destabilize America (even if the effects were much later) than I can for the 1-term HW (but that may just be unfamiliarity, on my part).

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      1 day ago

      Agreed. He’s probably trying to mainstream Curtis Yarvin style insanity. Thing is that “JD” “Vance” and Curtis are a lot more educated than the people they are pitching this shit to.