• III@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Issues at the border are only during presidential election year and it will never be for the whole year as the day after voting, conservatives stop mentioning it.

  • cygon@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 years ago

    While I’m in none of these groups, having survived the rock’n roll-, black mass- / satanic(1)-, killer videogame-, terrorism-, social justice- / SJW-, safe space-, socialism-/communism-, antifa-, cabal-, satanic(2)-, CRT- and woke-panic, I feel underrepresented.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    141·
    2 years ago

    Actually, 2020 was the Chinese and county clerks (who typically handle elections). 2023 was trans people and librarians.

    Turns out bigots can multitask.

    • jaschen@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 years ago

      God, I remembered Asian hate. I remembered getting yelled at in Chinatown by a bunch of black people. Yo, we are sorta on the same team man. I didn’t create covid. I’m just here trying to survive, just like you.

  • ComradeR@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 years ago

    2025 - People with disabilities (?)

    I don’t know let’s see in the next year.

      • Nelots@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        They don’t need them, I’m fairly certain the new thing to hate/fear is just taken from a raffle ticket out of a pile of different minority groups.

        Source

        • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Not really, they pay top dollah for thinktanks to come up with the perfect group du jour to persecute. It’s actually scary in a Mike Tyson first round knockout sense how effective they are. I mean we have a coin flip chance of electing a leader who calls upon our enemies to attack our allies. That’s a very, very good return on investment for whoever would stand to benefit from such a thing.

    • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      6·
      2 years ago

      There’s a kind of always a constant undercurrent of hatred for the lower class with them. I wonder how far the GOP can push that before their voters realize they’re the butt of the joke.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 years ago

    “To get elected, pick a marginalized group and blame them for your constituent’s problems.”

  • madcaesar@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    Gays got pounded even before 2016. W and his marry men of assholes were going after gays and gay marriage during his term.

    Actually now that I think about it I’m pretty sure Republicans were scapegoating gays as far back as Reagan.

    • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah whoever made this is young. The anti gay rhetoric was so much worse 1970-2000. Obama was against gay marriage in 2008.

      Before 1970 it was barely controversial and everyone thought being gay was a literal mental disorder. Famous actor Rock Hudson had a sham marriage to a woman in 1955 because it couldn’t publicly seem too likely he was gay or it would ruin his career. He later got AIDS and asked his friend Ronald Reagan to save his life in 1985 but was rejected because helping a dying gay friend survive was seen as too politically controversial.

      Calling any year when gay marriage was legal nationwide the bad year for gay people is absurd.

    • TurtleJoe@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, there’s usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.

      There’s always an element of racism running as an undercurrent, so you can pick your Boogeyman du jour, be it Muslims/Arabs (they don’t differentiate,) central/south American immigrants, black lives matter, CRT, DEI, etc.

      Then you can add some kind baseless moral outrage on top. Trans people existing, gay people wanting to get married, satanic panic, etc.

      It’s really like a fear cake, I guess.

      • GhostFence@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, there’s usually more than one of these going on at once. Makes it easier to pivot if they get called out for it being nonsense.

        Truer things were rarely said.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    Don’t forget the “small boats crisis”, that’s the conservatives in a nutshell right now :-(

  • tjsauce@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I missed out on any MS13 news, was there a specific incident that was focused on or just general fear?

    • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Caravan of “thousands” of immigrants carrying organized gangs disguised as asylum seekers.

      Or like fox entertainment likes to frame it: “the invasion of our southern border”.