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      5 months ago

      Watch the 20 v 1 where Mehdi from Zeteo takes on a bunch of MAGA folk. They’re all 20-30 years old and it’s fucking crazy how many of them are blatantly racist and/or fascist. I’ll have to come back with the video link for you guys.

      Edit: here you go https://youtu.be/2S-WJN3L5eo

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          Thanks for this added perspective. I’m not surprised, but I did not know nor did it even occur to me that some of them may be paid shills.

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          Isn’t that usually inverted though? Where the 1 is generally the one with extreme views and the 20 are deliberately picked to be inarticulate and oafish, thus promoting the extreme view? Admittedly it’s likely impossible to find a MAGAt that isn’t inarticulate and oafish.

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      5 months ago

      or all the latinos that voted for Trump

      It’s like fire voting for water. It’s honestly hard to wrap your mind around.

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        I don’t know how true this is.

        I read recently that when Trump’s speeches have been translated for non-English speakers, they are wildly different than what he is actually saying.

        And when bilinguals translate for them directly, they aren’t believed because the literal translation is pants on the head crazy.

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          This was on a YouTube channel, so it was just some dude and not like an official news source, but back in 2020 I found a Trump speech with German subtitles. Specifically, it was the time Trump said to stop testing for COVID so that there wouldn’t be any cases.

          The exact quote is: “If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

          But the subtitles meant something like “We’ve done the tests and have very few cases.”

          So, it completely changed the statement from something utterly stupid and ridiculous to reporting that the US just didn’t have many COVID cases, which was obviously false.