This was how Brexit went, right—slightly less than half the population, encouraged by blanket lies and frightened by nonsense, voting for something they don't really believe can literally happen because voting that way makes them feel bold and special
total ironic detachment from reality. donald trump could be holding a gun to their children and they would still say he’s kidding and it is just an act
When the former president endorses violence and proposes using the government to attack his enemies, many of his supporters assume it’s just an act.
Using the same playbook written by the same people (Bannon/Durgin).
yes but why the second time arrrrgh
Decadent, unserious assholes so personally insulated from consequences/detached from reality they treat politics like a game.
The only fix is more brexit
The book The Quiet Damage points to people who, sometimes simply for reasons of their current life stage, lost the feeling or conviction that "they matter" as one group that's susceptible to the QAnon cult.
I always assumed it's how Trump became president in the first place.
Ah yes Zuck’s Facebook shenanigans across the pond gave us Trump and Brexit.
the minute they get their way and their starbucks and dunks orders take longer than 20 minutes theyll be screaming to the press about laziness
As someone elsewhere described them, good Germans.