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  • CPMSPtoBluesky@lemmy.worldPerhaps...
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    18 days ago

    That’s why people in deep red states think the government is filled with waste, fraud, and abuse - they don’t realize that crumbling infrastructure, a lack of social services and societal blight aren’t the norm.

    They just see other poor people getting help from the government in blue states and wonder “well where’s my handout?” Without realizing they are in fact voting against those measures every election.

    The cons keep telling those voters that the government is broken - so they re-elect them to prove it.


  • Or the sudden realization that shared media experiences actually ties us together as a society

    When you’re growling along to a song on the radio and the dude in the next car is ripping an air guitar solo - you both look over and give ‘the horns’ -? Don’t lie, that’s almost spiritual

    Hard to do when most people are plugged into their personal streams everywhere these days…