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[-] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 290 points 6 days ago

I got laughed at and called paranoid and alarmist before Trump was re-elected when I talked about project 2025 and how terrifying it was.

One day in the summer before the election I had an interaction at work with a member of the public. An older white gentleman from a conservative area that has a lot of racists. He started talking to me and bringing the conversation around to politics, and I was mentally bracing myself to grit my teeth and remain professional. He told me how he was a lifelong Christian and then he surprised the living fuck out of me. He actually teared up and asked if I had heard of Project 2025. When I told him I had he said that it scared him so badly, that they were laying out how they wanted to oppress and kill his fellow Americans just because they were different and he was terrified that it was going to be enacted and that he didn't believe in any of that and wanted to stand up against it and would not vote for it.

I think about him every once in awhile and wish we had more people like him in this country.

[-] Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 81 points 6 days ago

I wish more people understood that there are good Christians out there. I'm not christian myself but one of my best friends is. And not one of those who just say they are but don't follow any of it. He goes to church every week, waited until marriage and spent one year after high school studying theology full time. And he is one of the nicest people I know. One of his best friends is a trans woman who lives in a polycule and he has no problem with it.

The worst Christians are the ones who don't listen to their own scripture. It litteraly says right in the new testament, dozens of times, that you shouldn't judge. Judgment is a sin.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 48 points 6 days ago

being a decent human being and being religious are basically perpendicular axes. you can be both, or neither, or either or.

some people really go out of their way to make the lives of others miserable, religious beliefs notwithstanding. the local motorbike school recently had to move their training away from an emergency wartime airfield because a nearby farmer dumped like 40 tons of of earth on it. it's not his land, it's state-owned, and it's in the middle of the woods. nobody lives within several km. he just didn't want people there.

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[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

They're not good Christians

They're good people despite Christianity

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[-] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This is exactly what broke me. Idgaf about the world anymore. Clear as day plans to fuck everything up, destroy the planet, economically genocide the poor. Nobody in power did shit about it and voters elected them anyways. No amount of being right matters when people refuse to see the obvious. The only way to get people to act, wisely or not, is to manipulate them into it and so here we are. The most propagandized, misinformed and manipulated population in human history.

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[-] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 90 points 6 days ago

For a while there Donnie tried to play it off like he had no idea was 2025 was and hand no interest in it. For some reason some people actually bought it.

[-] AmyAye@nord.pub 20 points 6 days ago

Trump is just a puppet to distract from the Project 2025 and Techno Libertarian assholes behind the scenes. They put him on the ticket because the Idiot Cult is easy votes. He agreed because it meant staying out of jail.

The real tell, is if in Jan, they immidiately turn on him and install True Believer™ Vance as the new President. Then they can just manipulate everything to 10 years of perfrct Christo fascism.

Except the world economy will likely collapse before that.

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[-] Frettchen@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago

Hitler wrote what he is going to do. People didn't take him serious and everyone thought oh I get an advantage. Oh this doesn't happen to me. Later when it happened to them it was too late as the people who it didn't happen to didn't wanted to help because it didn't happened to them.

[-] BionicBeaver3000@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago

Conservatives (Germany ca. 1933): Hitler will only throw the enemies of the German people in jail, so I'm safe. Gestapo, some time later at their door: Hallo. Conservatives: Oh no, who could have seen this coming?

Moral of the story: The leopard bites every face.

[-] valkyre09@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

"You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth"

[-] BlindPenguin@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Conservatives (Germany 2026):

[-] andxz@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Churchill took him very seriously after having read it, and it served him well in the long run.

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 58 points 6 days ago
[-] Sibshops@feddit.cl 24 points 6 days ago

Old people are so easily manipulated to clips.

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[-] jama211@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago

Smart people didn't shrug, they voted against it. Idiots and republicans shrugged and let this happen.

[-] tmyakal@infosec.pub 20 points 5 days ago

My partner's parents when we explained some of Project 2025 to them:

Oh, Trump wouldn't do all that. You know, he used to be a Democrat.

[-] jama211@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Yep, that's the idiot segment.

[-] skunk@lemmy.zip 35 points 6 days ago

Really sucks that the us right wing has no opposition to speak of

[-] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Don't worry, they have the center right wing to keep them in check.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

Sure they do, there's the slightly more and slightly less right wing.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 32 points 6 days ago

Trump: We're going to do project 2025.

Trump: It's a good plan but we might have to workshop some things

Trump: I've never heard of it before in my life

Media: He's never heard of it before in his life.

[-] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 27 points 6 days ago

The only egregious part of the carnival is that people think the shit show will end once trump dies.

He is just a puppet mouthpiece and clown face of the hidden puppet masters who are hiding behind his megalomania.

Trump didn't win, he was put there because he was useful to the real people in power, even if he doesn't know it himself.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 37 points 6 days ago

That's why they destroy education. That's why they like the small-minded people. And that's why they like AI so much. They need something to do the thinking for them, but they can't afford it to be people...

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Trump: I love the poorly educated!

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[-] ArrantKnave@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago
[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 15 points 6 days ago

Agree to disagree - it's only depressing if you pay attention to reality! (/s)

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Worse still, the people with the most power to oppose it (the DNC leadership) are STILL functionally shrugging, when not actively going along with it!

The likes of Schumer and Jeffries are as useful as tits on a tractor and need to be deposed ASAP.

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[-] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 22 points 6 days ago

the good news is that none of this seems to matter at all somehow. people carry on with their lifes as if nothing bad is happening. what the actual fuck.

[-] spacegoat@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

Same with COVID. Millions dead and no one gives a fuck except to unjustly accuse Fauci

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[-] bedwyr@piefed.ca 20 points 6 days ago

Project 2025 was just the latest iteration whereby they redrafted their schemes.

This was all outlined back in 1971 at the Business Roundtable that made the long game to overthrow the republic in all but name that has led us here.

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[-] TheHound@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

The best part is these idiots are economically drowning and they're still just shrugging.

[-] Pulsar@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Kamala Harris stated that while she anticipated many of Donald Trump's presidential actions, she was deeply surprised by the widespread "capitulation" of institutions, lawmakers, and corporate leaders who failed to act as guardians of democracy.

[-] yuki_gassen@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Yup. Almost like corporate leaders were never guardians of democracy.

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[-] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

"if you read project 2025..."? The faq makes you think maga voters can read? How were they to know?

[-] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

There is a president that tried to overthrow the elected government, is a convicted criminal, is openly corrupt and don't get me started on what he did to children! And no one does something! It's insane.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

"But he said he didnt know about/disavowed Project 2025.. how can he be following it so closely?!" - Typical conservative voter, who will absolutely, despite their outrage, vote again on an illegal third term

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