“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”
“Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe,” said Ritchson, who himself identifies as a follower of Jesus. “It is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do.”
I wish more Trump Supporters were media literate so that these words might reach them.
I wish more Trump Supporters were
medialiterate so that these words might reach them.Ha! Jokes on you, lib man, I caint reed.
Fuckin’ words n’ shit is socialism.
They allow you to share ideas, possibly without monetization! How is that not communism?!
Only word we both recognize there is communism! And that’s communism!
With the way I suddenly see people using the term “Media Literacy” everywhere, i start to wonder how “media literate” these people can be if they don’t know how obvious it is they learned that term last week.
Went to a family friend’s pool party and one of the guests was a full MAGA chud. She bounced between singing Trump’s praises as this immaculate saint figure and slapping shoulders because he was such a big swinging dick who loved snatching the poon.
The Trump crowd doesn’t even strictly disagree with Ritchson. They’re just mad at the phrasing. If he’d made some cavalier remark about how Trump can fuck any woman in America if he feels like it and you should be honored when he grabs your pussy, they’d be singing his praises. If he’s joked about how Trump can pull the wool over every one of those idiot liberals’ eyes cause he’s just so wily, they’d cheer.
The words do reach them. They don’t care. They have their iconic superhero of a President. He’s living the life they want, sexual assault and financial dirty tricks and all.
I don’t think that’s entirely true. He’s got an online following that is an extremely vocal minority, but that hardly accounts for the full 74.2 Million people who voted for him in 2020. Maybe the truth is somewhere in the middle.
It might be true that the ones you meet online are very vocal, but there are a lot of people in person who will sing his praises, put flags on their car, their house, and everything else they can reach. They’ll deride any ‘liberal’ and come up with every straw man they can to lampoon for the amusement of the circle around them. I see them when I visit family, when I converse with people at the local park, and even in casual conversations in the workplace. They are everywhere, and it’s crazy how comfortable they feel with being open about their vitriol.
What I’m saying is if those people, an incredibly too large demographic who put up flags and crosses next to pictures of Trump, actually knew more about what is going on in the world and in politics other than a shallow biased conservative media outlook, they probably wouldn’t support Trump. Only a small fraction actually know what he’s done and still support him.
Studies support this theory with more educated individuals leaning democrat than republican, the trend continuing as level of education increases, and additionally studies also show democrat voters are more capable of discerning fake news from real news on a wide variety of topics. Another recent poll showed Texas conservatives were unaware that their political party’s abortion ban held absolutely no exceptions.
That’s dubious. More people with college debt lean Democrat, but that’s largely thanks to age and population distribution. People with high incomes skew Republican, and plenty of them are in law or medicine or finance.
And even this tend isn’t reliable long term. The collapse of the Union movement combined with the right wing radio consolidation killed the blue collar Dem voter base. Hardly someone to brag about. Republicans were historically the intelligencia minority and took a hard right popular turn under Nixon/Reagan.
The Texas “liberal turn” has been confined to major metro areas and squelched by the same vote suppression tactics state officials employed in minority ghettos for decades. There’s very little reason to believe this state will turn blue any time soon.
Lmao wtf do you mean “collapse of the Union movement”? The railworkers got the paid sick leave they were striking for, UAW is making the GOP sweat and cry, the SCOTUS (compromised as they are) just made it easier for people to file discrimination suits when workers are forced to relocate or lose their job.
This is exactly the shit I’m talking about. More conservative mindsets like this are purely due to lack of awareness of events.
The share of U.S. workers who belong to a union has fallen since 1983, when 20.1% of American workers were union members. In 2023, 10.0% of U.S. workers were in a union.
This, while the size of the US labor force doubled.
Yes, but casual insults aside I do actually wish they were more aware of the things happening around them. A lot of them go through the day to day life barely catching a glimpse of news from Cable TV, and they think themselves the “normal ones”.