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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

One of the lawyers that defended a handful of J6 insurrectionists said they would give them a reading list to help them understand on a general level what any of the legal charges they faced concerned or what the consequences could be, or just how government worked, and because this was ''you need to read this before trial so you can ACTUALLY have a chance of getting a plea deal or even a dismissal if you can actually convince a judge you now grasp what you did and how bad it was, and you're super duper sorry'' some actually read them. And they came out of it going ''oh... I've been lied to and manipulated into doing very illegal shit by a political party that knows it can no longer win elections and needs to do very illegal shit to retain any level of power'' and similar thoughts.

But yes. If they instead acquired a smidge of curiosity and interest in worthwhile pursuits they would probably stop being garbage ass people. Maybe we need to make reading cool? Possible dinosaurs reading on posters. That's what got me reading.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

Bring back the Pizza Hut reading club!

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 38 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

And the main reason they're not happy is that they got left behind by the evil fucks they keep voting for. It's beyond maddening.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 hours ago

I had an old lady get emotional over a government subsidy offered to help reduce some of her septic system expenses. It was the first time in a long time the government ever helped her she said. It felt good to help.

Then I had another old lady tell me she was going to die and it was going to be my fault and I deserved to go to hell because that same rebate program ended and there was no funding left.

One step forward one step back.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

But they have flags!. So many flags!

Plus, they love the Jesus!!

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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 18 points 8 hours ago

They don't like to read

I argue that's the issue right there.

Reading only headlines will get you there quickly. But headlines are click bait and insufficient.

I recall seeing a study on the demographics of who actually reads articles and MAGAs were among the most that did not read.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Weird shitheads.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

i appreciate that you held on to that naive but optimistic assumption, Vivian.

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