Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @destiny.gg · 16/12/2024Can someone explain how MAGAts are able to simultaneously believe in so many diametrically opposed conspiracy theories? How was COVID-19 a Chinese bioweapon that leaked from a lab, but also supposedly harmless at the same time? 5497186
Destiny | Steven Bonnell II @destiny.gg · 16/12/2024How was Jan 6th an insurrection that was instigated by multiple feds on the ground, but also a peaceful protest where nothing happened? How was the election "too big to rig" in 2024 when less people voted than in 2020? 22678
Omnibus @omnibus09.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Many illiberal folks have a power balanced perspective. You can't be too powerful, because you lose your underdog status against "Concept X", but you can't be too weak because you lose your political cred and look like you have no backbone. 020
🟪 Pixel Radon (the silent killer) @pixelbismuth.ca · 16/12/2024Rationalization, compartmentalization and, of course, a resistance to cognitive dissonance. It’s not so much that they’re made that way, though, it’s more that they were trained to think that way from a young age in a lot of cases. 020
sunfolk.bsky.social @sunfolk.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I can explain it. It's because none of this stuff actually matters. What matters is that he hates the same people they do. 000
pr0faka @pr0faka.bsky.social · 16/12/2024People just love to hear that: a. It's not their fault (China did it) b. Nothing is expected from them (The best approach is to ignore the virus and carry on living as usual) 040
Sal @soulors.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Most baffling thing to me has been how they eagerly guzzle Russian propaganda. From an outsider’s perspective it feels so obvious that something is affiliated with the Russian state that I just don’t get it. 020
AoB_Motomasa🇨🇦 @aobmotomasa.bsky.social · 17/12/2024They don't connect dots - each story is a closed loop that they just accept at face value. After all, the "Do your own research" MAGAs: • didn't know how tariffs work • didn't know the ACA = Obamacare 040
angryanti-theist.bsky.social @angryanti-theist.bsky.social · 18/12/2024It's this really cool thing their brains do. It's called being- and I'm being clinical here- "Dumb as Shit." Super interesting phenomena. 010
Kansan Anarchism @kansananarchist.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Disdain for Intellectuals & the Arts Fascists tend to promote & tolerate open hostility to higher education, & academia. It is not uncommon for professors academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts 000
Tim @timburrr.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Common sense, logic, reason.... these are all things void and null to a magat. I think this is the problem, we have tried to convince them or educate them in normal ways and they just fundamentally aren't people like we are. Logic, reason, common sense wont ever work on them. 010
PippilyTheGongagaChicken @jenovapurplejuice.bsky.social · 16/12/2024I think they will say "we are just asking questions" Since they are all just questions there are no contradiction 🤡😏 000
red_ @redreddington.bsky.social · 16/12/2024To quote a woman who was trying to argue her point at a stand up concert... "...because Kamala had an affair when she was filing divorce papers and as a woman I don't think that's ethical". youtu.be/54mPaAJh6yk?...youtu.beNot a Heckler, but She Still Got Owned - Steve HofstetterYouTube video by Steve Hofstetter 020
jaucke.bsky.social @jaucke.bsky.social · 16/12/2024its like a buffet of beliefs where if you are a MAGAt you can choose to believe one or the other but not both simultaneously. but it would be totally possible for 2 MAGAts to have contradictory opinions but no one cares cause the only thing that matters in the end is that daddy trump can do no wrong 040
Lewis @lewisonline.bsky.social · 16/12/2024They have to contend with facts only as an absolute last resort, and rather than reflect that they might be wrong, they adjust the story so they don’t have to do any difficult thinking or change politics positions they like socially. 000
Toothy Fernsan @toothy.dev · 16/12/2024Because it's not the same people thinking those two lies. They all believe whichever things they want. But framing it like this isn't really right. 000
sassiestmuffin.bsky.social @sassiestmuffin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024You understand how Pandemic become in endemic, Covid is now endemic we have vaccines and know treatments, and its lifecycle has change from high infectious high morality to mid infectious low morality, Just like the flu, Yes people still die but for the general population its just a different flu 100
Bubblehead @bored5hitless.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Cognitive dissonance. And I think I'm being kind here... 110
thebitterliberal.bsky.social @thebitterliberal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025If you want to talk about conspiracies, maga apparently hates billionaires, but it's great for the richest man on earth to tell them they don't need a college education that the department of education should be gutted, so he can hire more immigrants at a cheaper rate. 100
KinoGizmo @kinogizmo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Because most of their news sources have their own narratives to push. So Daily Wire will have one story and Joe Rogan or Tucker Carlson will spout another line of bullshit. By the time they get their new story they've forgotten the other one because it wasn't based on any factual evidence. 010
Novowels @novowels.com · 16/12/2024Because they believe in whatever conspiracy helps them further their narrative about the world at any given point in time. 010
ostentatiousokapi.bsky.social @ostentatiousokapi.bsky.social · 16/12/2024The people who choose this side generally do so for reasons other than because it was the most logical conclusion to their principles. Many people do not make decisions based on logic. 000
Gogmagog @gogmagogs.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Always been this way. Remember, Nazis say that Jews are both viscous capitalists but also infecting the world with Marxism. 030
I have eaten foliage @ihaveeatenfoliage.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Why don't they hold God responsible for the shit Satan got up to? Same question. 000
jerzychuderski.bsky.social @jerzychuderski.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Because MAGA is a conservative organization—that is, one that defends the status quo.Because the status quo differs from other types of entities in that it can use violence and lie. That’s why, if you hit a police officer, you go to jail, but if a police officer hits you, it’s all fine. 100
daringsteel.bsky.social @daringsteel.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Because they live in a universe where facts are a function of what culture war narrative they're paying attention to at the time. They - aided by the other end of the horseshoe, which is subject to the same social pressures - have excised the concept of truth from public discourse. 020
Antypica @antypica.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Shallow thinking contrarianism. E.g. "Climate is too complicated to model" "It's the sun, stupid" Opposing every statement in a theory leads to nonsense, not a viable alternative theory. Cornering them on a particular contradiction fails because they'll just slither to a different statement. 1200
Jelly 🤍 @jellybrigade.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Because the enemy is both weak and strong, when it comes to a certain ideology :) 040
nocussing @nocussing.bsky.social · 16/12/2024they don't care. none of it matters to them. the only thing that actually matters is what trump says. 010
Andrés Amarilla Franco @tangobreakdown.bsky.social · 16/12/2024They are all different spins on an Elders of sion type of anti-semitic conspiracy theory. 000
Apathetic Zealot @apathetic-zealot.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Moron's Advocate: It was an incomplete bio weapon that escaped or released and its purpose was to disrupt rather than completely wipe out humanity. Deadly enough to kill off the old people weighing down society and justify lock downs to control everyone else - but not enough to wear PPE. 000
Memory @memoryee.bsky.social · 16/12/2024EZ (think like a MAGAt) - Covid came from China, but it’s not as bad as they say - Jan6 started by feds but ppl remained peaceful - more ppl “voted” in 2020 bc it was fraud 2024 God showed the way - NAFTA/USMCA? wtf is that prob needs cutting - Biden weaponized DOJ, it’s obvious just look at it 000
dirtismytrade.bsky.social @dirtismytrade.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Because their ass hats, trying to talk to them just tangles you in a godamn quagmire of rabbit holes and regurgitated talking points. 010
Cinzia Perrin @saneplanet.bsky.social · 19/12/2024👉👉👉As a CANADIAN, from here on in, I will refer to Trump as VICE PRESIDENT TRUMP 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 bsky.app/profile/char...Charlie Angus@charlieangus104.bsky.socialA message to Donald Trump from Canada. Turn up the sound to get the full northern hoser experience. 000
Shae Z @shaez.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Why is it, that if a man kills another man in battle, it's called heroic... yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder? 000
Samuel Fortin @nuclearsam4520.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Its not about what they believe but rather what they NEED to believe for their world view to make sense and their agenda to move foward. 000
Astromachine @astromachine.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Because the truth does not matter to them. MAGA has no principal they will stick to in tough times, no morals they will not bend, and no standards they will hold each other to. 1140
gobbagoolwhisperer.bsky.social @gobbagoolwhisperer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024How was the 2020 election rigged, but democrats lost the 2024 election by around 1.5%? We couldn't just magically launder an extra 1.6% if we cheated and won by a much larger margin in 2020? Are elections only rigged when you lose? 160
KlamorKitten (She/Her) @klamorkitten.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Reason and common sense aren't in a MAGAt's vocabulary. 010
JordanV8 @jordanv8.bsky.social · 25/12/2024The hypocrisy is part of the strategy. Straight out of Roy Cohn’s School of Management. 010
JordanV8 @jordanv8.bsky.social · 20/12/2024My boss, after many political arguments we have had, eventually conceded what I knew all along. He said, “I don’t give two shits if Trump is dishonest. He’s going to make America great again” There’s nothing I can say. He, of course, also thinks Pete Hegseth is a military genius. 000