I wondersomething similar whenever i see a big truck flying Trump flags. I wonder what they did before 2016? Because now its their 24/7 personality, but what was going on the first 30 or 40 years of their life?

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Tea Party, Glenn Beck, O'Reilly, George W Bush, Rush Limbaugh, etc...

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Quite a few of them were "centrist" and "nonpolitical" until their treats felt too "politically correct/SJW/woke," too. freeze-gamer

[–] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

but what was going on the first 30 or 40 years of their life?

If it's anything like the MAGAts of my own biological relatives, what was going on was a lot of self-loathing, hatred, and blaming dehumanized "others" for their own frustrations and shortcomings, from losing jobs to criminal records.

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yup, the same people who are wearing trump shit, (and the equivalent in kanada) were the ones calling people with empathy "bleeding hearts" 10 to 20 years ago. They've always been this way.

[–] HexbearGPT@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

gulag

[–] AndJusticeForAll@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Nothing. Boring-ass conservatives like this literally don't have personalities or so anything other than work, maybe date or marry someone, watch basic movies and TV, play basic video games on easy mode (maaaaaybe). It's why advertising and propaganda work so well on them and they care so much about ads, store merchandise, blockbuster movie protagonists, black & white media-fascist understanding of the world, etc.