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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

How the fuck did democrats go from the party that hates misinformation to the party that believes implausible posts on a platform known to be full nonsense because it fits a cute narrative?

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Considering how Lemmy feels about democrats and how everyone claims to be a true leftist…

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 4 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (1 children)

Just because the Democrats are the most left leaning party available to Americans doesn't make the democratic party a left leaning party. If anything the Democrats are centerists because their ultimate objective is to maintain the status quo. Lemmy reaches to far more countries that just the United States, places that have left leaning parties. Even left-wing extremists parties, although they're definitely on the ropes lately.

The Democrats aren't a progressive party, they're a conservative party. It's just with MAGA in the room the scale has moved so far to the right that the center (conservative) seems progressive.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

I’m not really sure what you’re responding to here. I’m just saying this person is assuming the poster isn’t a leftist on a site that more dominated by leftists than true blue democrats.

It’s a classic “anyone who does something wrong must be on a different team.”

[–] MiniMoose4Free@lemm.ee 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Ah, the classic anything I don't agree with is fake news.

[–] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
  • On Twitter, the site known for random misinformation
  • OP knows their neighbor well enough to know where they work, despite that not being nearly as common these days and OP not seeming like the kind of guy that would befriend Trump supporters
  • OP's neighbor is one of the minority of federal workers who are probationary employees, because that's the only group Elon has been able to really fire right now
  • OP's neighbor simultaneously being a homeowner with a previously-stable job, but being in such dire financial straits that simply missing two paychecks results in a complete crashout.
  • OP's neighbor then selling the house instead of taking advantage of the large number of hardship programs that would be available for someone with issues paying their mortgage, at least temporarily.

Like is this possible? Yes. However it's highly implausible, and conveniently matches the whole "stupid Drunpf supporters regret their decision" narrative that both Lemmy and reddit absolutely adore. To take this at any sort of face value without any genuine shred of concrete evidence is insane.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 4 points 36 minutes ago

Everyone is assuming he lost the house. Maybe he got a better job and is moving to a new and better house, closer to the new job

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Ah, the classic “don’t believe everything you read on the internet” is more like it. That’s half the reason we’re in the mess.

ask any millenial what all our parents were telling us until they got on facebook.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

So anyways I started shit posting...